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

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

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

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

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

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

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.

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

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

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 https://www.devontechnologies.com/promotions/backtoschool

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 https://www.devontechnologies.com/promotions/backtoschool

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 https://www.devontechnologies.com/promotions/backtoschool

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 https://www.devontechnologies.com/promotions/backtoschool

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 https://www.devontechnologies.com/promotions/backtoschool

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100338

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

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100338

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

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100338

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

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100338

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

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2023.100338

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

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

UConn’s Alex Karaban named to NABC Honors Court

UConn men’s basketball redshirt senior Alex Karaban has earned a spot on the National Association of Basketba…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NCAABasketball #academics #AlexKaraban #Basketball #collegebasketball #Connecticut #ctnews #economics #gpa #hartfordcourant #HonorsCourt #huskies #localnews #major #NABC #NCAA #Sports #student #studentathlete #uconn #uconnmen&#039;sbasketball
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/16901/

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

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4095/

#quote #quotes #quotation #academia #academics #clarity #jargon #logorrhea #obscurity #school #writing #thesis #assignment #termpaper #wordiness #miscommunication

🔴 Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island

"In terms of similarities, genomic studies reveal that the ancestors of the Asian clade migrated from Africa through India, entering Australia around 48,000 years ago (Sasikumar, 2023). Subsequent sub-clades, such as M31, migrated to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands around 37,000 years ago (Palanichamy et al., 2006; Barik et al., 2008), showing genetic affinity with the Burmese populace (Sasikumar, 2023)."

Paul, S., Justin, A. & Chatterjee, S. Sentinelese contacts: anthropologically revisiting the most reclusive masters of the terra incognita North Sentinel Island. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1512 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03994-3

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Athropology #NorthSentinelIsland #Sentinelese #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology

Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

“The Arabian Peninsula was the initial site of the out-of-Africa migrations that occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 yr ago, leading to the hypothesis that the first Eurasian populations were established on the Peninsula and that contemporary indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of these ancient peoples.”

Rodriguez-Flores, J.L. et al. (2016) ‘Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations,’ Genome Research, 26(2), pp. 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.191478.115.

#OpenAccess #OA #Reserach #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Ancient #DNA #Arab #Arabs #MiddleEast #Asia #Eurasia #Eurasian #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

“The Arabian Peninsula was the initial site of the out-of-Africa migrations that occurred between 125,000 and 60,000 yr ago, leading to the hypothesis that the first Eurasian populations were established on the Peninsula and that contemporary indigenous Arabs are direct descendants of these ancient peoples.”

Rodriguez-Flores, J.L. et al. (2016) ‘Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations,’ Genome Research, 26(2), pp. 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.191478.115.

#OpenAccess #OA #Reserach #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Ancient #DNA #Arab #Arabs #MiddleEast #Asia #Eurasia #Eurasian #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."

by a former student: https://www.972mag.com/nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israeli-academia/ @israel @academicchatter

#faculty #academia #academic #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #war #israel #israelGazaWar #higherEd #education #academicFreedom #citizenship #democracy #police #repression #socialMedia #972mag #research #dissent #fragility #JewishFragility #science #institutionsDeceive #indigeneity #settlers #colonialism #Zionism #antiZionism #October7 #ashlaa #torture #research #childhood #university #academics #harassment #incitment #warEffort #nationalism #citizenship #ShalhoubKevorkian #theocracy #JewishState #freeSpeech #OngoingNakba #indoctrination #brainwashing #campus #raceMaking #Jerusalem #campuses #education

Aspernäs, J., Erlandsson, A., & Nilsson, A. (2023). Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation. Journal of Research in Personality, 104394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BehaviouralSciences #Learning #Education #Truth #Culture #Misinformation #Conspiracy #ConspiracyTheories #Theories
#Bullshit #Subjectivism #PostTruth #Relativism #Thinking #Academia #Academic #Academics

Bea Szeifert and others, Tracing genetic connections of ancient Hungarians to the 6th–14th century populations of the Volga-Ural region, Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 31, Issue 19, 1 October 2022, Pages 3266–3280, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac106 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Archaeogenomics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Antiquity #Language #Languages #Population #Genetics #Genomics #Biology #Europe #Hungary #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology @antiquidons

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Kuitems, M., Wallace, B.L., Lindsay, C. et al. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021. Nature 601, 388–391 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #European #Americas #Newfoundland #Canada #Viking #Vikings #Spectrometry #Plants #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

Intellectual prejudice regarding pre-colonial native tribes and #Mesoamerican cultures, in particular, is one of the greatest tragedies of modern academia. I can not understand how any educated person acting in good faith can believe that native tribes and cultures were anything less than the beautiful, vibrant, and industrious people that they were. The number of times I have seen archeological finds dismissed as 'not being possible' or because 'there must have been other factors at play' is wretched. I refuse to acknowledge these claims to be anything other than purposefully demeaning as it betrays the underlying thought that pre-colonial natives were nothing but savage cave people, which only strengthens colonial ideology...

#History #Academics #Archaology