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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

even with the -ai trick and scrolling down past the first several results, google still hides automatically generated misinformation on every page. it’s unusable. can’t wait for this bubble to burst

Every time I sit down to write a piece I feel certain that I would rather die than actually write it and yet somehow I would rather die ten times harder before I ever let the word machine write for me.

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

“I watched Snow White when I was a kid but I ain’t give a bitch a poison apple yet” is just an objectively great line. 😂

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

Savi, Ryan, and Tessa smiling. Savi and Tessa have matching black rompers. Ryan has a blue tanktop that reads “Carol & Farrell & Karen & Sharon & Rachel”.

Ryan looking at his computer while presenting to an audience. His dissertation committee members are sitting in the front row.

10 years ago this month, i defended my dissertation. i scrounged up two pictures from the day. linguistics is an odd, sometimes challenging field, but i’ve been incredibly privileged to learn and travel with great advisors, colleagues, and friends along the way 😌😌

ChatGPT will apologize for anything ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.

OK so I LOLed at the dinosaurs in Central Park

www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.

“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Sunk-cost fallacy and cheating students are the only things keeping AI in business at this point.

Just look at how usage of ChatGPT plummets as soon as the semester ends.

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

i love reading old ASL syntax papers. everything is so straightforward. a star for this, a checkmark for that, no need to know what the signs even are or what the context was… 🫠🫠🫠

Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills

love this journey 🙏

finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR!
Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

Really infuriating stuff. There's no place for AI in the classroom. AFT needs to follow the lead of @aaup.org and understand that these technologies are part of the increasing move to corporatize the classroom.

“there’s a … woman? and she gives her… daughter? a … … what is that, a towel? and why is everyone barefoot?” - the perfect SVO sentence

a cartoon of tweety in a cage and sylvester ALT: a cartoon of tweety in a cage and sylvester

“and, you guessed it, we used alleycat row again!”

Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race.

“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI

and the second (5) copy is the one with all my notes

don’t forget to redownload copies of pdfs you have already downloaded twice!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second:

one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable

that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

like, I’m eviting it as hard as i possibly can let me live

At our faculty we have guidelines on Generative AI and research integrity: osf.io/preprints/os... . Another example: ERA Living Guidelines european-research-area.ec.europa.eu/news/living-...
I'm looking for other examples of guidelines like that, aimed at researchers. Hit me!

I appreciated Julie Ann Dawson, former publisher of Bards and Sages, on this point.

www.404media.co/bards-and-sa...

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences."

The ROLE Collective ROLE: Reframing Our Language Experience

looking forward to catching parts of the 2nd ROLE collective symposium today! the short (captioned) presentations are already online, and Dr. Anna Lim is delivering the invited keynote at noon (EDT)! www.rolecollective.org #linguistics

time for my annual frantic google: “how to wear academic regalia -ai”

Screenshot of Zoom windows of all LIN faculty - Miako, Julie, Deanna, Deb, Pamela, Joseph, Ryan, Paul. Gaurav not included (on sabbatical!)

Love my department 😍 From our last faculty meeting of the academic year. My fourteenth year as full-time faculty at Gallaudet 😮

#GallaudetLinguistics #SignedLanguageLinguistics