The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon [Official HD Remastered Video] YouTube video by Chrysalis Records

Can I propose an alternative soundtrack?
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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

loyalty to the family is everything . Alt: Marlon Brando as the Godfather stroking his moustache, with the caption "loyalty to the family is everything".

In Wales (which may interest @plashingvole.bsky.social) these HE governance positions must be advertised externally.

Of course, this doesn't prevent VCs ultimately handpicking the same unqualified cronies they would without that step, but at least it gives a veneer of transparency and opportunity.

Image of the front cover of the ICES Journal of Marine Science which states "Celebrating 100 years of marine science publishing".

"Celebrating 100 years of marine science publishing [by remaining firmly but hopelessly in the past]"

Poetic!

Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle (Official Video) YouTube video by BozScaggsVEVO

The only people who shuffle harder than Lido are Boz and Jeff.

(But Bernard shuffles best, maybe just not quite as hard as Jeff. 🥁)
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Ooooh, a new Proopcast has dropped!
You make us wait too long between them these days, @gregproops.bsky.social. I have to ration the Film Clubs to keep me going.
Particularly looking forward to some more of the bestest Scaggs' stories.
www.gregproops.com/blog/

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

www.ft.com/content/5032...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

It's intelligence, Jim. But not as we know it.

where hallucinated refs don't appear as plagiarised text, but genuine refs do. (I use this method when checking student reports.)
I think there's a shelf-life on this approach, though, as gen-AI learns not to hallucinate, or repeats published hallucinations ☹️

I sympathise with that view: journals (which charge to make papers readable) should not ask expert volunteers (handling eds or reviewers) to perform menial tasks. This is basic quality control and must be checked before reaching volunteers.
Can currently be done with plagiarism detection software 1/

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I thought this was an April Fool’s joke but seems to be the genuine Microsoft ‘Terms of Use’ for Copilot. Many thanks to @lifewinning.com for finding this.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

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Today I'm teaching about responsible AI usage in my Computer Science capstone class. I regularly emphasize the need to understand code and to cite anything AI generated. But how can I make the point that AI is reducing depth of understanding because students no longer have to dig for answers? (1/6)

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Petition to rename internet videos rapidly gaining massive popularity

"Jumping onboard the Angine de Poi-train"

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Next piece of exciting news coming soon from the #ResponseDiversityNetwork !

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My institution has stopped even bothering with their internal staff survery.
It's like middle-aged lefties reading the Guardian: they/we know what the story says before we start to read it 🤣

Labelled illustration of a very rich, dense hedgerow featuring white dead nettle, violets, Primrose, ferns and sallow willow

“Find a hedgerow on a bank and examine just one yard of it. Then make a list of all the different plants you can find in that yard. You will be astonished at the variety” (1965)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Writer: Richard Bowood

Screenshot of Google Scholar article titied "Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives"

You have questions?
I want to know what these extra pair mates are driving?
Stick? EVs? 3 woods? (Is a titleist a type of German chickadee?)

Good stuff. Spot won't have to listen to me grumbling this evening then!

I'm marking 3rd year dissertations right now (pretty sure 3/4 are extensively using gen-AI, unacknowledged).
I am one of the not nobodies who cares. Is it going to trigger me?
(I really enjoyed the Ron Johnson stuff)

The Sugarcubes - Hit YouTube video by björk

I must have missed this one's 30th birthday during COVID.
It remains an absolute banger, though!
Completely humanised Iceland as a place/concept for me at the time, too.
Before this, it was just the færie folk, Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, and volcanos we still had to learn about.

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I used to be you-ler until Finns taught be another pronunciation, that I'm now stuck with ("oiler").
Now I'm going to have to look up that meme guy on Oy! Tube.

which is typically driven by the (typically younger) people who have the drive, ambition, determination (and lack of admin) to crack the really tough problems, and the inevitable inflation of pointless middle management.
P.S. You've just talked yourself into a manuscript review invitation!

That's the thing, for me, though. People who can already code (or do whatever the technical thing we're substituting with LLMs) can check and tweak/correct/develop the output (which is still ~30% wrong).
People who can't code/etc can't evaluate the output. It's going to be the death of progress...

There's a cohort of students who don't want to use it & don't like it when they see classmates misusing it without consequences.
But there's also a cohort of staff who are miles away from understanding how it works/gets misused. And a massive institutional shoulder shrug when we ask for support.

a group of people standing in front of a sign that says dano on it ALT: a group of people standing in front of a sign that says dano on it

Just because I'm worried I'm becoming an AI-conspiracy theorist ("it's everywhere, man! Look through the chemtrails!"), I've even just checked that the software they used to create the file (which adds watermarks to images) uses that filename as default.

It. Does. Not.