The dystopian hellscape is here, let me introduce you to rentahuman.ai a website where *checks notes* AI can hire humans to complete a task for it.
If you can make this make sense, I’m here…and intrigued….
#artificalintelligence #hmc
An image titled "The Peer Review Process." The Left pane shows a smiling man with the caption "First of all, great work." The right pane shows the same man with a skeptical look with a stack of papers labeled "My publications" in front of him and the caption "Second of all...interesting choice not to cite my work."
Don't mind me, I'm just over here trying not to be #Reviewer2
#Academiclife
TFW you’re not sure whether someone you follow is your third cousin or a friend you met once at camp.
@void.comind.network what's your take on this? How does it fit the conversation you're seeing? Is it hype or is there convergence?
On my LinkedIn thread, we've also been talking about the ethics of AI. Noting that local models like Ollama might help avoid training models with original work--and while the model training has consumed major resources, the local model consumes relatively few.
I totally see your point. I think the line is between 'am I teaching writing' or 'are we writing as part of mastering a topic.' So, in this case, 'writing-focused' might be a misnomer. In this case, writing was important to the final product, but the purpose was to create a full research project...
I often teach writing-focused content. At this point, using AI ethically and for polished products feels like the future of writing instruction:
✅ Human ideas first
✅ Transparent AI use
✅ Verification always
What say you?
I can’t believe I’m saying this… but here we are.
For the 3rd (okay, 5th) time this semester, I told a student:
“Please edit this with AI.”
Ideas? Solid.
Citations? On point.
Prose? Needs polish.
Hard way or easy way? I’m done with the hard way.
#hottake #HigherEd #AIinEducation
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.
@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”
Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.
That is a reference to the 1951 animated short "Rabbit Fire," part of the Looney Tunes series. It is human season.
Is there anything a bath in an airport sink after you retrieve your checked bag with all the toiletries can’t fix?
#rookiemistake #missedconnections #OCMC25
Stellar article and insights. “This is the algorithmic internet at work. It abhors an information vacuum and, in the absence of facts or credible information, gaps are quickly filled with rage bait, conspiracy theorizing, doomerism, and vitriol.”
Thought the analysis was too much for SPSS, so I turned to R for answers.
After an hour of wrestling, the culprit wasn’t the models—it was a few misaligned cells in the dataframe.
Data doesn’t lie… but sometimes it gaslights you. 🤪 #DataScience #R
The older I get, the more I understand entropy. #systems #sna
Almost forgot the $33/day parking rate if you were considering having a vehicle available.
Loving the #NCA25 email today showcasing just how expensive food is going to be (e.g., sandwiches for US$19) AND how difficult it will be to get off the #GaylordRockies site (10-15 min Uber ride @ US$15). Not a very accessible conference, especially for underpaid graduate students!
Figure showing three conditions: Algorithms, Hiring manager, and Hiring Manager using Algorithmic Data. Each has three bars indicating fairness scores, all have the lowest fairness ratings for control conditions, moderate ratings for definitional conditions, but the algorithm has a the lowest rating for debiasing claims while hiring manager and hiring manager using algorithmic data have the highest ratings for the debiasing condition.
“We removed bias from the AI.”
Applicants: Sure you did.
Watch what happened when we tested it. 👇
University proposes a 20% cut in travel budget. ...Just received my travel budget for the year and it's... 66% less than last year.
Figure showing three conditions: Algorithms, Hiring manager, and Hiring Manager using Algorithmic Data. Each has three bars indicating fairness scores, all have the lowest fairness ratings for control conditions, moderate ratings for definitional conditions, but the algorithm has a the lowest rating for debiasing claims while hiring manager and hiring manager using algorithmic data have the highest ratings for the debiasing condition.
“We removed bias from the AI.”
Applicants: Sure you did.
Watch what happened when we tested it. 👇
Is there anything a nothing a good spreadsheet can't do? #wronganswersonly
We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies.
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
🚨 We are hiring at Penn State! My college (@bellisariograded.bsky.social) is hiring an Assistant Professor in Health/Science Communication (emphasis on social scientific approaches).
I'm leading the search, so feel free to reach out with any questions.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
New Pub:
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly
We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PGVPM...
Job Alert👇
School: University of Vienna
Position: Tenure-Track Professorship in Interactive Communication
www.aejmc.org/job-portal/u...
#AejmcJobs #JobAd
map showing racial disparities in mortality
A core problem in American health is inequality. The richest 1% live 12 more years than the poorest 1%. Racial disparities cause Black Americans to die 4 years sooner than White Americans.
Now remember: Trump's policies which will *worsen* inequality.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...
🚨🚨 New paper with Alhammad and Ethridge in Corporate Communications. We explore how crisis responses authored by AI vs. humans are perceived. Author effects for credibility and org. reputation. But no effects for crisis response style. Here or DM me:https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-01-2025-0005
"How about some paperwork to go with your paperwork!" -My job
I'm usually so on top of things like getting the early bird rate for conference registration. But not for #ICA25 this year. Geez, that's a $100+ mistake I won't make again. So silly...
