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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Oct 18

Welcome new followers! You may find me posting about linguistics, language technology, "AI", open research, epistemic injustice, home computing, and whatever captures my fancy. I blog at ideophone.org (since 2007) and my academic site —with PDFs of papers etc.— is markdingemanse.net

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 5d

Uitstekend stuk Gerrit!

Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 6d

Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason has a sophisticated take on technology that starts not with calculators but clocks, highly recommended

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 7d

Since you ask: we don't need tools that reduce the art of academic writing to average authorless output.
Find your own voice: ideophone.org/find-your-ow...

Also, the efficiency frame is suspect. We don't need more papers, faster; we need slow science. osf.io/preprints/os...

Find your own voice: against LLM slop in academic writing – The Ideophone

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Steven Bird 🍉 @steven-bird.bsky.social · Mar 19

ACL terminology:
"Paper" = anything with lots of tables with numbers.
"Position paper" = anything critical or just deeper.

I propose:
"Paper" = intellectual contribution.
"Engineering paper" = anything purely technocratic.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 16d

quelle surprise that the same shitty company is now taking all rights to turn your academic content and likeness into AI sludge in your name, unless you opt out

Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jun 26

quelle surprise that academia dot edu now offers AI slopcasts
they were a garbage flattery service ten years ago, and they have turned up the enshittification a few notches ideophone.org/academia-edu...

How Academia.edu promotes poor metadata and plays to our vanity – The Ideophone

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 17d

unions picked their battles and this wasn't one, or didn't quite know how to respond; at least they were unable to stop the AI boosting from appearing in the agreement (I've been told the opening move from management was even more pro-AI 🙄 and that the call for research was the unions' main answer)

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 17d

FYI I have now added a TL;DR for English readers to that post

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 17d

@westbynoreaster.bsky.social long story short, unions negotiated with UNL, which represents universities' top management levels but/and/so is very pro-ai, leading to some dreadful technosolutionist AI talking points in a collective labour agreement, which may or may not be walked back or diluted

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe this? ideophone.org/find-your-ow... (there's more under the generative AI tag on my blog ideophone.org/tag/generati...)

Find your own voice: against LLM slop in academic writing – The Ideophone

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 23d

recognisable — see e.g. 'Allround is the new excellent' from a while back www.ru.nl/en/staff/new... (part of a series of blog posts a bunch of us wrote from inside the continental European system)

Blog 1: All-round is the new excellent | Radboud University

Recent years have seen a lot of buzz around Recognition & Rewards. Everyone welcomes improvement in how we recognize and reward scholars, but we rarely hear about one of the most palpable side effects...

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 23d

Seems Routledge is copying the Frontiers or MDPI playbook. This works as long as enough people feel contributing a handbook chapter is an honour (or a box they need to tick). Today, paywalled handbooks make scholarship unaccessible and we should make mindful choices about what & who to write for

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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 25d

This is a fantastic document
I can honestly say that LLMs have made me a better writer, because I see its dreck and write better out of spite
For that reason I think they can be handy in a fear of a blank page way, in that I see the output and the impostor syndrome is gone! I can do better than that

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25d

See e.g. also @dingemansemark.bsky.social ‘s Generative AI and Research Integrity osf.io/preprints/os...

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 28d

Lucy Suchman! Plenty of relevant work in the past decade, here is just one example www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Building upon generative intersections of critical security studies and science and technology studies (STS), I argue that the promotion of automated data analysis under the sign of artificial intelligence can only serve to exacerbate military operations that are at once discriminatory and indiscriminate in their targeting, while remaining politically and legally unaccountable.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · 29d

happy to be a lazy luddite if it means I don't have to listen to fake conversations no actual human could be bothered to have

Brett Morris @brettmorris.bsky.social · 29d

"Lazy"!

Hollywood Reporter article about Wondery exec Jeanine Wright starting an AI generated podcast slop factory

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 8

simplest solution is to no longer have conversations

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Sep 6

The unis that insulate students from bad AI will outperform those that embed AI in curricula; the unis that go full luddite, invest in depts that do One Thing Well and hire the world's best scholars of that Thing will outperform this sort of MBA-fueled garbage thinking

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 5

Exactly! All universities needed was a solid infrastructure for publication metadata (+PDFs), along with an API to put those lists wherever needed — but Elsevier sold middle management a full "solution" with fancy profiles, maps, word clouds, SDGs, and surveillance and productivity policing to boot

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 5

My rant from a few years back about the cursed little histograms isn't about this but of course it is a side-effect. ideophone.org/a-rant-about... Elsevier benefits from the SEO juice of uni domains and gives nothing back, enshittifying pages with fluffy management-bait like SDGs & Fingerprint

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incredible to see that universities using Elsevier's Pure all obediently link to Pure profiles for "research output" but Pure never links back, making the uni's own profile pages useless and unfindable and Pure profiles the premier web presence of their researchers 1/2

A rant about Elsevier Pure – The Ideophone

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 1

We have updated our post. Will you update your marketing materials to tone down the open-washing? osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr... #OpenWashing

Update September 1

Proton's Lumo account on BlueSky has responded to this post saying "Lumo isn't a model; it uses open models, including the model listed as the best for openness in this piece. You can find the models Lumo uses in our privacy policy". That page repeats the open source claim:

Lumo’s code is open source, meaning anyone can see it’s secure and does what it claims to. We’re constantly improving Lumo with the latest models that give the best user experience.

The only open source code we have found is for the Lumo mobile and web apps. Proton calling the Lumo AI assistant open source based on that is a bit like Microsoft calling Windows open source just because there's a github repository for Windows Terminal.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Sep 1

We will be able to add this clarification to our post. Will you correct your PR materials to avoid the 'open source' claim? Using OLMo for some queries doesn't magically make your whole product open source.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Aug 31

Not unaware. @proton.me knows privacy and FOSS concerns are key to its userbase; their users have pointed out the wrong claims from day 1, yet Proton has doubled down, saying (astonishingly) the statement merely reflects a "long-term intention" 😂 discuss.privacyguides.net/t/proton-mar...

Naturally, I wanted to check out the code. When I couldn’t find it, I reached out to support to ask for a link. After some back and forth, this was the official response I received:

"The statement on our website reflects our long-term intention and the values we stand for, not necessarily the instantaneous state upon launch.”

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