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Yes, I know things are quite shit at the moment, with little immediate prospect of deshittification. But here's Marlon Williams and Lorde's new duet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLej...

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#nzpol Anyone in the National-led government listening? Very good column ⬇️ 5 years on, COVID remains NZ’s most important infectious disease – it still demands a strong response www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Our very own @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social in the Spinoff today writing about why evidence-based counter disinformation programmes matter for New Zealand.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Me: I just want to paint pictures and make pots and be a smol bean who nobody ever notices Also me:

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Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

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RNZ's Maia Ingoe looks at new research highlighting a circular pattern in submissions on road spending: we must spend more $ on roads because people don't have good alternatives to driving, we must also not spend $ on alternatives bc we need it to upgrade+maintain roads www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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As a recap for people outside academia: it was announced last year there would be a big review of universities along with the science sector, also led by Sir Peter Gluckman. So far the University Advisory Group has asked for 3 rounds of feedback and put out zero (0) reports publicly.

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Welp. If we were hoping for any different from Reti. He or his office are uninterested enough in the university sector to not know his predecessor cancelled the current PBRF round. This level of incompetence would be comical if it wasn't so serious. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/disrespec...

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Chinese gave live fire warning with planes 'literally flying across the Tasman' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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The more I’ve dug into certain COVID conspiracy theories, the more I’ve realised that some of them are being inadvertently fuelled by perhaps well-meaning but flawed ideas about covid immunity in wider coverage. New post: kucharski.substack.com/p/a-zombie-s...

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This is SO not cool. Te Tairāwhiti is treasured whenua and should not be the launch point for assistance to the US military industrial complex. Profiting from weapons proliferation while so many live in war/poverty is, frankly, evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/542...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

US knobbles NZ New Zealand-run disinformation course for Pacific journalists after refusing to give them student lists and class materials – From @marcdaalder.bsky.social at @newsroom.co.nz Subscribers only at the moment (should be open later) newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I argued yesterday with both a head of a law department who'd written a book on AI accountability and a young PhD student, neither of whom really understood how or when to use generative AI. Please consider this a draft and give me feedback or other links. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...

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I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)

submitted 45 days ago • 28 comments

At this point we have to be asking if a social scientist ever kicked Judith Collins' dog or something similar

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

How very dare someone use the term "Aotearoa" as a te reo reference to the country called "New Zealand" in English?

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It's often claimed that developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will increase the chance that someone goes on to believe other conspiracy theories... perhaps leading them down a rabbit hole of conspiracist beliefs. But does that really happen? doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

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Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...

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New Zealand: the US's new order on research worries local science collaborators (subscriber content): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-new-...

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This looks super topical in the world of cycle lane and ‘Golden Mile’ paranoid urbanism in NZ:

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HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

Trust in science, and the status of science as a public good, has relied on public institutions as a foundation for providing resources and infrastructure and for adopting policies that promote research integrity. The last few weeks suggest that we could lose some of that foundation in the US. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Give yourself a break! Knowing when and how to take a break from mundane or repetitive tasks (i.e., metacognition of attention) improves performance. https://buff.ly/4b0iwRS

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We really need to reckon with how badly the "Just focus on STEM" crowd damaged democracy. The general population would be falling for a lot less propaganda if they actually had to sit down and understand Fahrenheit 451 and To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Apparently, OpenAI is already aligning its LLM to the expectations of the new fascist government – racism, lies, and conspiracy theories will now be sold as «multiple perspectives on controversial subjects» techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/o...

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Leaked information from a tertiary sector budget briefing shows a 4% “lifeline” funding boost won’t be renewed. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Why replace teachers with AI when you can just cut out the middleman and replace students with AI?

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

saw Casablanca at local cinema. It’s not only stood the test of time, it’s got renewed relevance with the theme of war in Europe, fascism, concentration camps and corruption

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The silliness of using AI to prevent students from cheating with AI (from tinyurl.com/3fr88n7z). And my own, longer (pre-AI) take on what really underlies academic cheating: www.alfiekohn.org/article/whos...

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Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

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I am delighted to share this new paper on AI collaboration in Chinese news organisations, led by @qingxiaohci.bsky.social‬, which has just been accepted at #CHI25. https://buff.ly/4gCc7hb

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Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual advice or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Highly recommended history of pseudo intellectual right wing attacks on academia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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Does cultural experience shape visual perception? New research finds "profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa." Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This is truly nauseating www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Apropos of other conversations, went and looked at statistics on road deaths today and in 1990 over a hundred pedestrians a year were being killed in AoNZ, when the population was about 60% of what it is now. But we're asked to pretend the past was better and safety measures are bad!

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