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Senior Research Fellow Institute of Educational Technology The Open University (UK) Co-Editor, https://jime.open.ac.uk/ Co-Director, http://go-gn.net/ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j3-x3WwAAAAJ&hl=en (No DMs)
Women's History Month is the perfect time to listen to this series I designed about the overlooked and underrated contributions of women in philosophy.
From Hypatia to Hildegard, Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Midgley, learn about philosophy's unsung heroines!
#WomensHistoryMonth #Philosophy #PhilSky
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Well this made for interesting reading...
Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you - Owen Jones
Ethics is a field of contestation and debate for philosophers... you could never encode this satisfactorily. An ethics of AI is another matter.
Also, philosophical ethics is highly analytic for the most part. It's not the anything-goes-blue-sky of speculative philosophy.
They chose who to hire...
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Donald J. Trump → @realDonaldTrump X.com
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Time to move on from #chapgpt
📆Call for papers for a special issue in @jimejournal.bsky.social
AI, Curriculum Futures and Human-Centred Student Support
account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up...
#AIED
Easily one of the top charts of all time
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#Meta #AIEthics #Ireland
A Latin document displaying continuous script.
As many of you may know, the word 'intelligence' comes from the Latin 'intelligentia'. Something that is not so well known is that the word is a transformation of 'inter' (between) and 'legere' (choose, pick out, read). There were no spaces in old texts (scriptio continua);
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Drikanis @drikanis@mstdn.ca @ludicity For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers. Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance. After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension. It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
mstdn.ca/@drikanis/11...
Interesting initiative!
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
The double-edged sword: Open educational resources in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
If you're interested in #AI and #oer check out this new publication:
Tlili, A., Farrow, R., Bozkurt, A., Amiel, T., Wiley, D. & Downes, S. (2026). The Double-Edged Sword: Open Education's tension in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence, JALT 9(1) jalt.open-publishing.org/index.php/ja...
Nearly 10,000 *online* and *open access* collections of radical, labour and anti-colonial historical documents are now listed.
But always looking for more!
If you know of any collections not listed, please get in touch.
#history #archives
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
But it does it quickly and congratulates you for asking
Main Responsibilities Operational and Financial Administration: • Coordinate the day-to-day operational and administrative activities of the AI Accountability Lab. • Oversee lab budgets and financial planning for research grants and cost centres; monitor expenditure and prepare financial reports for the PI and Faculty Finance Office. • Ensure adherence to Trinity and funder financial policies and procurement procedures. • Maintain internal administrative systems, documentation, and records to support efficient project delivery. • Liaise with central Finance, the Research Development Office, and external funding bodies on budgetary and governance matters. • Coordinate HR administrative processes for the lab, including recruitment, onboarding, contract administration, and research staff extensions in liaison with central HR and the Research Office. • Create and maintain shared resources, calendars, and internal documentation. • Coordinate relationships and collaboration with other research centres, government bodies, policy makers, civil society partners, and media as required by the research team. • Plan and schedule internal lab meetings, reading groups, invited speakers, collaborative work sessions, and other events as required.
Research Coordination and Governance: • Track project timelines, deliverables, reporting schedules, and ethical compliance across multiple funded projects. • Ensure research activities meet Trinity and funder governance requirements (e.g., ethics, data management, GDPR, and reporting). • Coordinate workshops, seminars, and collaborative events with research centres and external partners as required. • Maintain shared documentation and project records to support effective collaboration. • Ensure that research outputs comply with ethical and scientific standards and satisfy the terms and conditions of relevant funding bodies.
Communications and External Engagement • Coordinate internal and external communications for the lab, including its website, newsletters, and social media presence. • Liaise with policy makers, media, and stakeholder organisations on behalf of the lab, in consultation with the PI. • Support the dissemination of research outputs, such as academic publications, policy briefs, and public events in collaboration with ADAPT’s and TCD’s communications staff. • Work with Trinity Communications to prepare press releases and highlight lab achievements. • Representing the lab externally with media if required. Planning and Cross-Centre Coordination • Support the PI in delivering AIAL’s annual operational plan and reporting on progress against objectives. • Coordinate activities across multiple projects and partnerships to ensure consistency and alignment with institutional priorities. • Contribute to process improvements that strengthen the lab’s administrative and operational framework. • Act as a key contact for internal governance reviews, audits, and funder compliance checks. Any other duties or responsibilities as assigned by the PI or their delegate in support of the effective operation of the AI Accountability Lab and its objectives.
I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie
- Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE)
- Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata)
- Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Main Responsibilities👇🏾
Essex University, Southend campus closure:
800 students and staff afected.
"but it will also have a huge impact on a city that has come to depend on the university in many ways."
#HigherEd #AcademicSky
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Leading PhD programs are not admitting students. International applicants are turning to other counties. PhD staff are fleeing federal agencies in droves. Efforts to bring more minority students into the fold are under attack. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK universities face rising deficits as levy looms
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CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI