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@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy@Edent plus ca change
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyInteresting (funded) PhD position : How do you turn an exhibition into a behaviour change intervention that can reduce pollution? […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy#Sheffield! @pluralistic is coming to town
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-doctorow-in-conversation
25 November, 6:30pm
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@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyA bruhahah over re-granting of devolved funds forces UKRI to clarify their policy : AI may *not* be used in grant proposal review
Also has some general lessons on deploying AI […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyPairs well with this thoughtful journal editorial https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2026.0628
We must have clearer focus on judging the distinctive human (quality) voice of academic work AND an immediate cap on submissions, argues Dirk Lindebaum
Is the new stable state going to be […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyA bruhahah over re-granting of devolved funds forces UKRI to clarify their policy : AI may *not* be used in grant proposal review
Also has some general lessons on deploying AI […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy@drjennings.bsky.social strong levels of certainty
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy@drjennings.bsky.social fair enough
the bit you quoted seems appropriately hedged imo. "would affect" != "will vote based on"
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy@drjennings.bsky.social you've lost me. What's your point?
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyRelated: a conversation yesterday with an academic friend who was outraged that the University was using a paper he has authored in a benchmarking exercise: "but that's *my* paper!" The sense of a right to exclusivity seems similar, and highlights the emotional, it not sacred, aspects of […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyGraeber & Wengrow argue that indigenous societies often *only* have property relations in the domain of the sacred, and that these typically come with a duty of care (not just a right to exclusivity and destruction).
It makes me wonder how we might […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyTwo Fault Lines: Latent Polarity Geometry in X Community Notes
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21496
"Refitting the base model these scorers share on the full public data (212.9M ratings, 2.33M notes, 1.07M raters), we find that one axis is too few. The space is at least two- dimensional. The first […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyanarchist trade union marching songs, in Finnish
https://open.qobuz.com/album/syqx2h2mt55hc
Solidaarisuutta aina!
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyFascinating how, as LLMs notionally become more capable, they run into problems of cognitive architecture which have analogues in the human mind
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-how-to-fix-them.html
(article is about various problems which having a long context […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyThe inimitable Nihar Shah has a suggestion (co-authored with colleagues)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/preprints/greCAPTCHA.pdf
Authors must verify they understand work they are submitting. The team also propose a way to scale this verification
Although this seems like an obvious minimal bar […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyAcademy of Management Learning & Education introduces submission cap
https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2026.0628
click link for thoughtful reflection by outgoing editor in chief Dirk Lindebaum
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy@pozorvlak strong risk, especially since the evidence is that NLP researchers will do this in large numbers even when expressly told not to https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/117319404915199810
You presume ACL have thought about this....
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyACL conference moving to requiring you provide reviews if you want to submit
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-sustainable-reviewing-policy
Signalling theory take: AI lowered the cost of submission, so already creaking peer review commons fell over. Requiring reviews introduces a new […]
@tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyA conference with 17,000 reviewers randomised the permissions on AI use (none vs some). Decisions didn't change, but the permissive group turned in longer reviews. There was, however, "substantial noncompliance", with reviewers in both groups using LLMs for reviews in ways they were expressly […]
