4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

yes! www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

Pause on Generative AI in BC Schools We demand that the Ministry of Education and Child Care enact a two-year pause (moratorium) on AI usage in classrooms in British Columbia. This means that for two years, in schools in BC: - Students...

Generative AI should not be available in schools.

Tools like ChatGPT and Copilot are being put into classrooms, but they lead to worse learning outcomes and worse mental health.

Sign our petition to demand a two-year pause on AI in schools in BC, Canada

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

Josselyn Van Tyne Memorial Library The Wilson Ornithological Society’s library was founded in 1930.

Did you know that we have our very own library and members can request to borrow books, journal articles, etc free of charge? Details here! -->

I wish to share our package monitoraSom which is now published in Bioacoustics, and provides a flexible workflow for detecting, validating, and analyzing acoustic events in sound recordings.
#PAM #Ecoacoustics #OpenScience

Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived The Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces…

This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.

"The process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose."

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse 🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded ...

This is an essential read, and the closing on credentialing versus engagement and "centering the people for whom the stakes are highest" in particular. (H/T @peachfleurr.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com)

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Decolonising AI: Being Human Once More: Some reflections on decolonisation and GenAI Since the recent rise in popularity in the use of generative AI, a number of scholars have tried to conceive of ways in which it could be beneficial to decol…

My essay on Decolonisation and AI has been published by @biltonline.bsky.social

In it I explore some of the incongruence between AI and decolonisation. Specifically, the logics of dehumanisation that decolonisation should combat underpin a lot of the push to use AI.

bilt.online/decolonising...

To everyone who cheerleaded Carney's faux speech in Davos & posturing as independent middle power -

His atrocious statement today backing US-Israeli attacks on Iran make clear that he & Canada are firmly aligned with dominant imperial interests.

And he did so while shaking hands with Modi in India

Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived The Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces…

This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.

I asked it how to uninstall it. First it said I could turn it off by going to a specific menu item in Whatsapp. When I wrote that I didn't have that menu item, it said ...Actually, you can't turn off meta AI. I'm here to help you.

“ These people came along and decided that they wanna build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor in that process.”
- @timnitgebru.bsky.social

Thinking Through...The AI Con & Deconstructing the Hype YouTube video by Thinking Through Podcast

Worth waiting for! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I did a LOT of podcast guesting last spring & summer and this one, one of my favorites, is finally available:

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

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Also, 3 additional negatives I didn't see on your list. (1) Deskilling. (2) Work is pushed from novices (who naively believe "AI" output) to experts (who hopefully catch the mistakes). (3) Tends to produce over-generalizations (when not outright wrong).

Thanks for pulling this all together SK! You asked for feedback, so: maybe I would avoid the word 'learn'. It doesn't actually 'learn' in the sense of knowing/understanding, it's just outputting plausible word strings, which is why it generates completely non existent (yet plausible) citations.

I just stayed up most of the night watching these 7 fantastic videos. The data and concepts helped me understand my "AI" struggles as a human, scientist, student mentor, coauthor, friend, journal editor, and parent. Highly recommend this series!

Not tragic at all. In writing or making something coherent for others you have to figure out what you want to say or ask, and how it all fits together. Figuring that out advances your own understanding and clarity of thought. Sounds like time very well spent.

Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...

Generative AI has no place in Vancouver schools: Please join me and sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

Patrice Lumumba: May Africa breathe the air of freedom Prime Minister of Congo June-Sept 1960 (Assasinated)

In what is often described as the most significant assassination of the 20th century, the execution of Patrice Lumumba of Congo possibly occurred on 17 January 1961. I wrote about him and the global participation in his horrific execution
folukeafrica.com/patrice-lumu...

The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

Symposia Symposia Each symposium will include a set of talks organized around the same central theme. While we expect a diversity of ornithological topics throughout the scientific program, we are happy to …

The call for symposium proposals for #AFOWOS2026 is open until January 18! A symposium is a set of talks organized a central theme and may be either a half or full day.

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎

graphic with bird photo, WOS logo, and text "Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant Applications Due February 1!"

There's just one month left to apply for a Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant from the WOS! This is a great opportunity for anyone who works with undergraduates in #ornithology. wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-b...

In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity

Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.

breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

Howard University AI Panel YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.

Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.

#Critical_AI_Literacy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...