Jacqueline Alderson
@jacqalderson.bsky.social
🦴 Professor of Biomechanics
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adjunct Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Visting Fellow, RegNet, ANU
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adjunct Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Visting Fellow, RegNet, ANU
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
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It's turning out to be bad that almost no one understands what actual research is. Like, too many people have no idea how *hard* it is to produce new knowledge.
(I've said this before. I'm going to keep saying it.)
(I've said this before. I'm going to keep saying it.)
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's turning out to be bad that almost no one understands what actual research is. Like, too many people have no idea how *hard* it is to produce new knowledge.
(I've said this before. I'm going to keep saying it.)
(I've said this before. I'm going to keep saying it.)
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As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”
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December 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”
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Recently, A.I. passed a kind of Turing test for the eye: the images and videos that it can produce are now sometimes indistinguishable from real ones. @chaykak writes about how 2025 became the year of “slop.”
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The Year in Slop
This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Recently, A.I. passed a kind of Turing test for the eye: the images and videos that it can produce are now sometimes indistinguishable from real ones. @chaykak writes about how 2025 became the year of “slop.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7WY9vv
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7WY9vv
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Ahh the NOUS group. Destroying Australia's best Universities and then exporting exactly the same playbook to the world ....
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ahh the NOUS group. Destroying Australia's best Universities and then exporting exactly the same playbook to the world ....
Truffle is overrated.
No returns.
No returns.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Truffle is overrated.
No returns.
No returns.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Important public service announcement. 👇
IT'S TIME.
Gifts For People You Hate, 2025: Boycott-Friendly Edition.
naomikritzer.com/2025/12/11/g...
Gifts For People You Hate, 2025: Boycott-Friendly Edition.
naomikritzer.com/2025/12/11/g...
Gifts for People You Hate 2025: Boycott Friendly Edition
Once again, I started working on this before Thanksgiving and once again it’s now well into December and I still haven’t gotten this up. Look, it’s been a busy couple of weeks tha…
naomikritzer.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Important public service announcement. 👇
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This paper should be required reading for any scientists purporting to test hypotheses:
In my paper Sample Size Justification I discuss 6 approaches to justifying sample sizes. The focus of the paper is to teach people the tools they need to be honest when they explain where their sample size comes from. I know, so radical ;) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This paper should be required reading for any scientists purporting to test hypotheses:
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Black women told you this in 2018.
Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Black women told you this in 2018.
The Arts. Yrs we need them.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Arts. Yrs we need them.
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More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
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It’s a year since Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI employee who spoke out on copyright, died.
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s a year since Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI employee who spoke out on copyright, died.
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
👇🙏
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
👇🙏
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
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November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
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Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.
Hit for six: why India’s Women’s Cricket World Cup win is victory for equality
Sacrifices made to reach final – defying social stigma, lack of resources and juggling jobs between training – makes victory still more extraordinary
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.
Feel like we all need this currently ...
These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Feel like we all need this currently ...
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
Harry - "yeah this feels familiar, back home Freddie F was always hitting it over the fence to close out the game against one of the colonies"
IYKYK
IYKYK
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Harry - "yeah this feels familiar, back home Freddie F was always hitting it over the fence to close out the game against one of the colonies"
IYKYK
IYKYK
Why tech concentration is bad for us 101. Cheers for the free public upskilling @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Why tech concentration is bad for us 101. Cheers for the free public upskilling @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
I don't believe Walter Herzog is on BlueSky but this feels very him ... + @jonasrubenson.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social!
#biomechsky
#biomechsky
We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I don't believe Walter Herzog is on BlueSky but this feels very him ... + @jonasrubenson.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social!
#biomechsky
#biomechsky
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The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
I'm not sure there's a more perfect aptronym example than this wonderful conservationist and educator. Thank you, and go well Dr Jane Goodall 🙏.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I'm not sure there's a more perfect aptronym example than this wonderful conservationist and educator. Thank you, and go well Dr Jane Goodall 🙏.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
I don't have dentist anxiety but would fake it to attend this dentist!
This is Annie. She is a dental therapy dog. Her job is to help patients experiencing anxiety by providing emotional support. While dentists go through years of schooling to treat patients Annie is able to lower their blood pressure and reduce anxiety just by being there. 14/10 (TT: funny.bunny9215)
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I don't have dentist anxiety but would fake it to attend this dentist!