Marek

“Being able to detect & counteract all these 3 together comprises the bedrock of skills in research methods in a time when AI is used uncritically (see Table 1). The inverse: not noticing these are at play, or even promoting them, could be seen as engaging in questionable research practises (QRPs)”

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I get it. Similar thoughts inspired me to write a book. I began pessimistic, like this author, but I came out on the other side with renewed optimism.

As a counterpoint to the blog below, this podcast could be titled, "Why Nicole Rust stayed"

www.fchampalimaud.org/news/episode...

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

Encrypted Drive CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

Make a document on here and you'll have a similar experience cryptpad.fr/drive/

I used this more than surf tbh

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

Again: Marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the spread of "AI" because the people who use it are essentially being trained to think the machine is "like us" & can speak "for us," even as it simultaneously pressures you to disbelieve *Actual Us* when we tell you "it's not & it cant."

This is the most amazing bit of cross-cultural mythmaking ever. I wonder if this was inspired by myths of Talos? Anyhow, I am very sorry that the secretive guild of ancient Roman robot engineers never existed, though pleased they were appropriately unionized.

Beyond "innate versus learned"
Amazing thread 🧵

guess one has big buxx behind it I GUESS just guessing

The front of the march on a bright day on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Banners and Palestinian flags visible.

In the March, looking south along O’Connell Street.

The crowd coming over O’Connell Bridge. Palestinian and INTO union flags.

Making the turn past Trinity college onto College Green.

Another huge crowd out in Dublin today to protest against Israel’s genocide. We had young kids with us, and as ever, it was a peaceful, well organized and good-natured crowd. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow #SpeirGorm

This needs to be said a million more times

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments "How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

Not gonna lie, this is me purely being taken in by advertising - I have never seen or used this, nor do I make music.

But this looks freakin' deadly. Put it in the hands of a teenager with any interest, and just imagine what would come out...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

Holding up a sign that says "human nature is contingent" and all the tech bros and evo psych clowns hiss like vampires seeing a cross.

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Have I mentioned that this ebook is FREE for the next five days?

I know that the web is littered with free books, but this one normally costs money.

#PucaFestival #Halloween #Samhain #SpeirGorm #Octocon2025

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at Cambridge University on December 3rd for an in-depth discussion …

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head

Register now for our in-person event in Cambridge on December 3rd co-organised by the Open Research team at Cambridge and @coar-repositories.bsky.social. Full programme to follow!

"Our cognitive biases are the strongest when we're trying to interpret evidence alone"; building community can help us think better. - @grimalkina.bsky.social @ #monktoberfest

i think it's important to acknowledge how impressive generative AI is as a demo. So many advocates were one-shotted by seeing one success.

but the story of AI since 1955 is impressive demos that can't be turned into a product and the DoD cuts off funding

Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010 Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Time correction for our upcoming ENSO Seminar!

SNAFU on the announced time. The panel discussion on "Challenges to Enactive Cognitive Science" will take place at 18.00 UTC @ 2nd Oct

Stream link is here: youtube.com/live/w1Jc5Cd...
Seminar details here: ensoseminars.com/presentation...

Since you ask: we don't need tools that reduce the art of academic writing to average authorless output.
Find your own voice: ideophone.org/find-your-ow...

Also, the efficiency frame is suspect. We don't need more papers, faster; we need slow science. osf.io/preprints/os...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

A screenshot of an Amazon.ie page showing The First Fire of Halloween at No.1 for YA Fairy Tales and Folklore, priced at €11.45. The front cover features a púca, the mythical Irish shape-changer, as a muscular human figure with a goat's head. He's standing in a field in darkness, with a fire blazing in front of him. Inset in the dark sky above and behind him are a pair of yellow goat's eyes. The title is in orange against the sky, and my name is in black against the fire.

A screenshot of an Amazon.ie page showing The First Fire of Halloween at No.1 for YA Horror, priced at €11.45. The front cover features a púca, the mythical Irish shape-changer, as a muscular human figure with a goat's head. He's standing in a field in darkness, with a fire blazing in front of him. Inset in the dark sky above and behind him are a pair of yellow goat's eyes. The title is in orange against the sky, and my name is in black against the fire.

A screenshot of an Amazon.ie page showing The First Fire of Halloween at No.1 for YA Myths and Legends, priced at €11.45. The front cover features a púca, the mythical Irish shape-changer, as a muscular human figure with a goat's head. He's standing in a field in darkness, with a fire blazing in front of him. Inset in the dark sky above and behind him are a pair of yellow goat's eyes. The title is in orange against the sky, and my name is in black against the fire.

Screenshot of the book's ranks: #265 in Books overall. #1 in Horror for Young Adults #1 in Myths and Legends for Young Adults #1 in Fairy Tales and Folklore for Young Adults

The First Fire of Halloween is currently ranked on Amazon.ie.:
No.1 for YA Horror
No.1 for YA Fairy Tales and Folklore
No.1 for YA Myths and Legends
Thanks to everyone who's already bought a copy, and for all the reposts, it all helps!

www.amazon.ie/First-Fire-H...

#Halloween #Samhain #SpeirGorm

crazy beautiful sunrise this morning, luminous

@gerrydalyart.bsky.social's stormy artwork in the new Puffling book is beyond gorgeous 🌟🎨🌟

Find Puffling and the Stormy Sea in your local bookshop from tomorrow!

This only happens to you once