profprof.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

This is the third story I've read in a month about how AI chatbots are leading people into psychological crises. Gift link

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

“‘You think you are talking to an objective confidant or guide, but actually what you are looking into is some kind of distorted mirror — that mirrors back to your own beliefs,’ said Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and researcher in neuroscience and AI at Oxford university.”

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Yuck. Meta apps listen on localhost on Android so that tracking scripts can talk to apps, and Meta can monitor your browsing and tie it to identity. Why is that allowed? www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/m...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

submitted 3 days ago • 232 comments

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

For some perspective, the federal government funds over half of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 9 days ago • 643 comments

the @concept.country zine has arrived and it has all the scattered opening-of-age energy of a Mondo 2000. The only thing I don't like is that this needs to be in the hands of 14 year old weirdos not 50 year old ones. All the things I expected to be covered are.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

remember this morning? that was one month ago

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

This is a hell of a thing to read.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

Scoop: Internal documents show Meta is replacing human reviewers with automation for assessing potential real-world risks in 90% of its products with @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

ICYMI - Research has shown that alfalfa and other cattle-feed crops consume 46% of the water that is diverted from the Colorado River www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

Honestly anyone who wants to get away with LLM use and not get caught should just insert random typos.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

People keep plugging AI "Co-Scientists," so what happens when you ask them to do an important task like finding errors in papers? We built SPOT, a dataset of STEM manuscripts across 10 fields annotated with real errors to find out. (tl;dr not even close to usable) #NLProc arxiv.org/abs/2505.11855

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.

submitted 22 days ago • 136 comments

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

I always mispronounce it as “Rothko’s Basilisk” which is, of course, a very different thing to worry about.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The Veo 3 generated videos are absolutely incredible! So good a part of me wants to think it's fake because.. holy shit. @fofr.ai is posting them on twitter. Drop what you're doing and go look right now.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 28 days ago • 162 comments

Nice commons you’ve got here, really would be a tragedy if something happened to it.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 25 days ago • 794 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 32 days ago • 485 comments

NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

submitted 31 days ago • 32 comments

Journal of Ambiguous Findings

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers, according to a new study.

submitted 33 days ago • 382 comments

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by ~57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector (Jessica Mathews/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

I think about this comic at least once a week

submitted 36 days ago • 300 comments

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

Google is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbots

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

New OA book. Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

We just released a new report on AI trust and knowledge in America: naiom.net/reports/ We examine trust in AI, the companies that use it, and the content it generates. We also measure how much people know about it. (🧵1 of 6)

submitted 125 days ago • 5 comments

Help? I’m looking for good writing on privacy risks of using AI. Specifically, I’d appreciate articles that gently explain how anything uploaded to a publicly-hosted AI become part of the training data. I get it! & the friend believes me, but wants to learn more as they aren’t Terminally Online.

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

submitted 75 days ago • 19 comments

🖨️ I've had the pleasure of responding to an insightful article in Dialogues on Digital Society that considers the role of algorithms in public opinion formation. The journal actively invites scholarly commentary on its articles – a somewhat unusual format for me. journals.sagepub.com...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment