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  1. What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

    This talk serves to demystify and redefine AI in radical ways, as well as highlight how it can harm. We will touch on historical examples — and we will explore critical lenses, which can help us be thoughtful and careful in understanding what AI is and can do. Finally, some ways forwards will be discussed such that we can move towards a better present.

  2. I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

    #LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

    The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

    #bioinformatics

    instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86

  3. I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

    #LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

    The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

    #bioinformatics

    instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86

  4. I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

    #LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

    The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

    #bioinformatics

    instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86

  5. I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

    #LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

    The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

    #bioinformatics

    instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86

  6. I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

    #LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

    The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

    #bioinformatics

    instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86

  7. The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos 🎒 New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. Our apps help you getting organized. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until Sep 20th, 2026. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #devonagent #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown #pressrelease devontechnologies.com/promotio

  8. The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos 🎒 New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. Our apps help you getting organized. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until Sep 20th, 2026. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #devonagent #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown #pressrelease devontechnologies.com/promotio

  9. The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos 🎒 New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. Our apps help you getting organized. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until Sep 20th, 2026. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #devonagent #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown #pressrelease devontechnologies.com/promotio

  10. The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos 🎒 New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. Our apps help you getting organized. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until Sep 20th, 2026. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #devonagent #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown #pressrelease devontechnologies.com/promotio

  11. The semester’s back, and so is that particular kind of chaos 🎒 New notebooks, forgotten passwords, syllabi that already feel three weeks behind. Our apps help you getting organized. For a relaxed start into the new term, here’s a 40 percent discount, only until Sep 20th, 2026. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #devonagent #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown #pressrelease devontechnologies.com/promotio

  12. Edit: I have been helped! Librarians are amazing.

    If any academics or librarians have full-text access to the following article, I'd be grateful for a copy to read! Please reply to this post and I can drop my work email. (I'm a Texas-based academic librarian.) <3

    Delhalle, M., & Blavier, A. (2023, September). The influence of a child's intellectual abilities on psychological trauma: The mediation role of resilience. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(3), 100338, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.10

    #libraries #librarians #academia #academics #scholarship #research #psychology #trauma #dissociation #ChildPsychology #ScholarlyPaper #FulltextAccess

  13. Edit: I have been helped! Librarians are amazing.

    If any academics or librarians have full-text access to the following article, I'd be grateful for a copy to read! Please reply to this post and I can drop my work email. (I'm a Texas-based academic librarian.) <3

    Delhalle, M., & Blavier, A. (2023, September). The influence of a child's intellectual abilities on psychological trauma: The mediation role of resilience. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(3), 100338, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.10

    #libraries #librarians #academia #academics #scholarship #research #psychology #trauma #dissociation #ChildPsychology #ScholarlyPaper #FulltextAccess

  14. Edit: I have been helped! Librarians are amazing.

    If any academics or librarians have full-text access to the following article, I'd be grateful for a copy to read! Please reply to this post and I can drop my work email. (I'm a Texas-based academic librarian.) <3

    Delhalle, M., & Blavier, A. (2023, September). The influence of a child's intellectual abilities on psychological trauma: The mediation role of resilience. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(3), 100338, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.10

    #libraries #librarians #academia #academics #scholarship #research #psychology #trauma #dissociation #ChildPsychology #ScholarlyPaper #FulltextAccess

  15. Edit: I have been helped! Librarians are amazing.

    If any academics or librarians have full-text access to the following article, I'd be grateful for a copy to read! Please reply to this post and I can drop my work email. (I'm a Texas-based academic librarian.) <3

    Delhalle, M., & Blavier, A. (2023, September). The influence of a child's intellectual abilities on psychological trauma: The mediation role of resilience. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(3), 100338, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.10

  16. Edit: I have been helped! Librarians are amazing.

    If any academics or librarians have full-text access to the following article, I'd be grateful for a copy to read! Please reply to this post and I can drop my work email. (I'm a Texas-based academic librarian.) <3

    Delhalle, M., & Blavier, A. (2023, September). The influence of a child's intellectual abilities on psychological trauma: The mediation role of resilience. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7(3), 100338, doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.10

    #libraries #librarians #academia #academics #scholarship #research #psychology #trauma #dissociation #ChildPsychology #ScholarlyPaper #FulltextAccess

  17. #HigherEd figures from #Duke, #Harvard , #UCLA & #Yale reveàled as chums amongst #EpsteinFiles in latest doc drop.

    #DOJ released a new batch of 3 million pages from #JeffreyEpstein case, revealing correspondence with prominent figures at top tier schools even after his 2008 conviction with name-drops including figures from #Kinsey Institute having lunch with Epstein and a former Israeli PM.

    Latest doc dump includes over a half dozen top #academics in trove, prompting some #Edu institutional embarrassment.

    Amongst those shown to have years of sporadic contacts are a prominent #Connecticut school's computer science professor David Gelernter, who was infamously injured after being targeted by #Unabomber Ted Kacynski, but later in life crafted correspondence casually chatting with the convicted sex offender regarding female students on campus he had working for him.

    A controversial Duke "behavioral economics" professor named David Ariely who wrote an advice column in #WSJ for a decade is mentioned 636x, although he had previously confirmed only two meetings with Epstein, despite documents that now show at least seven personal interactions.

    Others newly named include some top Harvard donors and academics along with those previously mentioned such as former #SocialSciences dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, "Evolution Center" director Martin Nowak and #LarrySummers.

    #Florida police first began investigating #Epstein in March 2005 after a 14-year-old girl reported being molested at his home not far from Mar-A-Lago. Eventuallly arrested after a probe in 2006, he pleaded guilty to lesser prostitution charges through a non-prosecution agreement arranged by future #Drumpf admin official Alex Acosta in June 2008. By mid 2019, under add'l media scrutiny, #Epstein himself was found dead in a detention cell in #Federal custody while awaiting trial on new sex #trafficking charges.

    insidehighered.com/news/facult

    chronicle.com/article/heres-wh

    yaledailynews.com/articles/yal

    dukechronicle.com/article/duke

    ipm.org/news/2026-02-02/epstei

  18. It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
    I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
    In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.

    I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!

    I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
    The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.

    Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.

    I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
    I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.

    I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
    I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.

    #Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.

    #PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack

  19. A lawsuit filed in NH late Friday aims to present a sweeping legal challenge to the #Trump administration’s campaign targeting #international #students & #academics.

    Lawyers asked a federal judge to certify a lawsuit brought by foreign students whose #visas were canceled as a class action.

    The suit aims to to stop similar #detentions & #deportation efforts for students in NH, ME, MA, RI & Puerto Rico. It also asks the court to reinstate the student #visas that have been terminated.

    #law

  20. This is a long shot, but any #academics or #lawprofs have a textbook on public law (statutes, regulations, and interpretation) they like?

    Even more of a long shot, one they think could be used for an undergraduate class?

    FWIW I'm currently looking at this: westacademic.com/Eskridge-Gluc

  21. The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh

    This article discusses how the Marduk Prophecy was read and re-interpreted in Nineveh at that time. Between the Marduk Prophecy and the royal literature during the reign of Ashurbanipal, the following common themes can be recognized: (1) reconstruction of the Babylonian temples, above all Esagil; (2) conquest of Elam; and (3) fulfillment of divine prophecies. On the basis of these, the author proposes that in the seventh-century Nineveh the Marduk Prophecy was regarded as an authentic prophecy predicting the achievements of Ashurbanipal, and that this is the main reason why this text was read at his court.

    Takuma SUGIE, The Reception of the Marduk Prophecy in Seventh-Century B.C. Nineveh, Orient, 2014, Volume 49, Pages 107-113, Released on J-STAGE April 03, 2017, Online ISSN 1884-1392, Print ISSN 0473-3851, doi.org/10.5356/orient.49.107.

    #FreeAccess #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Antiquidons #Orient #MiddleEast #NearEast #Marduk #Nebuchadnezzar #Ashurbanipal #Nineveh #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @antiquidons

  22. Are there any #academics out there who have had to reapply for the same job they were currently doing in order for a line to go from temp to permanent? Struggling with finding the right tone/approach for a hiring committee made of people I know and who are at least somewhat familiar with my work at the institution.

    #Academia #Job #CoverLetter

  23. Building on that boost of @BethanyBlack .

    Took Economics at A-level, aced the course. Surprised my teachers by not pursuing it at uni.

    In part because I could already see - just from the first year of the course - how economics was a pisspoor model of human behaviour.

    Nothing has changed in the years since.
    #economics #DismalScience #academics

  24. Faculty members from across the country dismayed over investigation of Texas A&M professor - “I write on behalf of the Academic Freedom Alliance to express our firm view that the university’s actions represent an egregious violation of the principles of academic freedom and the university’s responsibilities under the First Amendment.” #Academia #Academics #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Texas #TexasPolitics #TexasAandM #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Universities #Colleges kbtx.com/2023/07/31/faculty-me