It’s disheartening that doctors and scientists often become proxy targets for broader distrust and resentment toward institutions that have very real problems.

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Communications Psychology The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptiv...

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Opinion | OpenAI Is Making the Mistakes Facebook Made. I Quit.

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Degenerative AI. Where have I been.

Long live academic startups with PPP-sensitivity.

So far so good. #UKIGF2025

Good morning and kind reminder.

Academic research taught me how to build confidence amidst (self) doubts. Policy research taught me how to doubt the confidents.

Why?????

www.cloudflarestatus.com

EU’s Democracy Shield Prioritizes Coordination with Tech Firms Over Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press The European Commission on Wednesday launched its ‘Democracy Shield’ with much fanfare but limited firepower, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

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Presented something at #DigiMeet2025. Got loads and loads of helpful feedback. Thank you!

After all, isn't the core work of research and comedy essentially similar: highlighting irony?

Academic articles can benefit from more puns and wordplay.

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Do online scammers ever experience imposter syndrome?

How MAGA Killed Foreign Influence Research, But Now Demands Social Media Stop Foreign Influence Campaigns

It's fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe's on the other foot. For years, we've been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign…

My music library and taste only expands to the extent of new movie/series by @jamesgunn.bsky.social.

From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.

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Today's achievement. Can't say the same for my inbox but small win matters.

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.

“We already see a lot of actors — based on this monetization of platforms like X — that are using AI to produce content that just seeks to maximize attention…So misinformation, often highly polarized information — as AI models become more powerful, that content is going to take over."

History explains why global content moderation cannot work | Brookings The global speech standards authored by online platforms are not the first time that tech innovators have tried to write global rules for speech. Unfortunately, the history of attempts to write such r...

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What the experience trained me to be:

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI

CDT’s @aliyabhatia.bsky.social in @theguardian.com: “Replacing people tasked with ensuring that platforms are safe and rights-respecting for all users, including minors, is going to lead to more mistakes and more harmful experiences.”

Studies on 🇮🇩 policies (on any sectors and angles imaginable), quite appropriately, often arrive at an "old wine in a new bottle" conclusion. To the point that the expression itself become an old wine in an old bottle.

My literature review journey so far.

Anyone experienced/experiencing a "scarcity of plenty" moment?

2025/55 “From Principles to Protocols: Embedding Partnerships into Content Moderation Technologies Against Mis/Disinformation” by Beltsazar Krisetya Despite growing calls for collaboration, the technological core of content moderation remains largely a black box.

I wrote this note at @iseas-singapore.bsky.social to complement the ongoing notion that content moderation partnership sometimes is just a "borrowed legitimacy".

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‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite New study of long-standing problem takes novel approach, asking cited authors to evaluate accuracy

‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...