What happens when AI searches the web for you?
Our own Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system.
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026.
www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t...
#AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
The inevitable result of attacks on the freedom to teach and learn.
#BrainDrain
We wish you the best, Dr. Peterson.
Why global databases are not enough, and why national scholarly infrastructures matter more than we think. The solution is not to replace global systems, but to connect national ones into a network of interoperable, open infrastructures. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #OpenScience #Bibliometrics
Literally every word of this article. These bastards are largely responsible for the job cuts and all the other atrocities. Management consultancies should have no role in the running of universities, or any public-sector institution for that matter. It’s basically privatisation by stealth.
Sadly, not an April Fool & also not surprising. “An analysis conducted by @nature.com in collaboration with Grounded AI suggests that at least tens of thousands of 2025 publications, including journal papers, books, & conference proceedings, probably contain invalid references generated by AI.” 🧪
New move in academic publishing:
The @ec.europa.eu is launching Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes.
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...
Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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There's no singular "scientific method", but rather a collection of different methods that might or might not share the same underlying assumptions about the world.
Pro tip: regardless of the field you want to major in or do graduate work in, favor universities with good humanities and arts. I can give you the long explanation, but you can think of them as hard to fake signals of many things that are important in unis that are hard to evaluate from the outside.
Two good publishing opportunities if you are working on #AI and the environment.
Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>
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I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit.
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Anyone having issues with SageOpen? My article has been waiting for 3 months since proofs because of issues with their payment system and I'm receiving no answers. Wondering if anyone in the same boat? @academic-chatter.bsky.social #Sage #SageOpen #academia
"There are signs that the Bayes Factor is increasingly taking on a role analogous to that of the p-value, serving as a device for the automation of decisions rather than as a tool for substantive inference."
Excellent new preprint by Carol Ting on the rise of NHST.
#Methodology #stats
“Drastic” cuts to UK humanities departments risk the loss of a new generation of academic talent similar to the brain drain seen in the 1980s, according to the new winner of the Holberg Prize, writes @jgro-the.bsky.social #AcademicSky #braindrain #HolbergPrize
https://ow.ly/Zh3N50YuM11
fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo...
I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study
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COMMENT 02 February 2026 Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
Nature published another pile of trash
i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields
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US researchers are advising students not to enter academia.
"More than two-thirds of the researchers in Massachusetts... who responded to a survey conducted by The Boston Globe recommend their students consider careers outside academia."
#AcademicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-rese...
Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
💥New | Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed?
✍️Ulf Sandström
#AcademicSky #GenderBias
👀ICYMI: "It has evolved into a platform-oriented business model that systematically captures students precisely when they are likely to feel uncertain or anxious"
@gengyantang.bsky.social, @saraheaton.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ResearchMisconduct #HigherEducation
People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”
Flyer for event on Defending Democracy in the Stacks, free virtual event on 3/4
📚 🗃️ Super excited for this FREE Wed. 3/4 virtual event, when I’ll be in conversation with Tamela Chambers, Colleen Shogan, and Laura McEnaney on #libraries, #archives, & freedoms. Join us for “Defending Democracy in the Stacks” Register here: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
US citizen researching in New Zealand (hoping to stay after my studies 🤞🏽).
One of the things I value about this space is its international reach.
If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️
One of the things I value about this space is its international reach.
If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️
”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”
