Mikkel Willum Johansen
@mikkelwillum.bsky.social
Philosophy of science and mathematics
‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip
Internal emails from 2021 reveal tensions among researchers hunting for elusive Majorana particle
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May 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
‘Data manipulations’ alleged in study that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum chip | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
What a nice world economy you have. It would be a shame if something happened to it ...
April 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What a nice world economy you have. It would be a shame if something happened to it ...
Woit: "On campus, lots and lots of Columbia security staff, at the gates NYPD and news cameras. Down the street, reports of marked ICE vehicles, unknown number of unmarked ones. There's a reason the place is quiet: most people are terrified of what will happen to them if they say the wrong thing.."
March 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Woit: "On campus, lots and lots of Columbia security staff, at the gates NYPD and news cameras. Down the street, reports of marked ICE vehicles, unknown number of unmarked ones. There's a reason the place is quiet: most people are terrified of what will happen to them if they say the wrong thing.."
So, World Athletics just decided to rule out DSD women apparently based on no or at best severely flawed, perhaps fraudulent, scientific evidence www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
World Athletics mandates cheek swabs to ‘doggedly protect female category’
World Athletics has approved the introduction of cheek swabbing to determine if an athlete is biologically female, Sebastian Coe has announced
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March 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
So, World Athletics just decided to rule out DSD women apparently based on no or at best severely flawed, perhaps fraudulent, scientific evidence www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
For anyone who's interested in epistemic values of mathematical proofs (and who's not?), I can highly recommend reading this Master's thesis: www.ind.ku.dk/publikatione...
Epistemic Value Pluralism in the Practice of Stochastic Analysis
Nr. 127, Mads Fencker, 2025, Speciale - Kandidat i Forsikrings Matematik
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February 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For anyone who's interested in epistemic values of mathematical proofs (and who's not?), I can highly recommend reading this Master's thesis: www.ind.ku.dk/publikatione...
Reposted by Mikkel Willum Johansen
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Funny how OpenAI suddenly cares about IP. Apparently things look different when it's your own stuff getting stolen: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI ‘reviewing’ allegations that its AI models were used to make DeepSeek
ChatGPT creator warns Chinese startups are ‘constantly’ using its technology to develop competing products
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January 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Funny how OpenAI suddenly cares about IP. Apparently things look different when it's your own stuff getting stolen: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In case you want to train your German, here's an interview I gave to Süddeutsche Zeitung about our new paper "The dark side of text-matching software" www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/studi...
Hälfte der Studierenden haben Angst vor Text-Matching-Software
Eine Studie zeigt: Viele Studierende befürchten, zu Unrecht des Plagiats beschuldigt zu werden. Sie zitieren aus Angst übermäßig viel oder versuchen, die Software auszutricksen. Text-Matching-Software...
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December 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
In case you want to train your German, here's an interview I gave to Süddeutsche Zeitung about our new paper "The dark side of text-matching software" www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/studi...
Do you want to know more about the dark side of text-matching software? Here's the press-release in English: science.ku.dk/english/pres...
Half of all students worry about plagiarism detection software
In a new study around half of the high school and university students from seven European countries are concerned about the use of plagiarism detection software in education. Their concerns lead to co...
science.ku.dk
December 19, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Do you want to know more about the dark side of text-matching software? Here's the press-release in English: science.ku.dk/english/pres...
Students worry about automated plagiarism checks, even when they are not 're not cheating. Not a good way to build safe learning spaces: science.ku.dk/presse/nyhed...
Hver anden studerende bekymrer sig over brugen af plagiatsoftware
I en ny undersøgelse fra Københavns Universitet bekymrer over halvdelen af de deltagende studerende fra danske gymnasier og universiteter sig over brugen af software der skal afsløre plagiat. Bekymrin...
science.ku.dk
December 4, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Students worry about automated plagiarism checks, even when they are not 're not cheating. Not a good way to build safe learning spaces: science.ku.dk/presse/nyhed...
Just found a new favorite advent calendar: papermills.tilda.ws/advent
Advent Calendar 2024
Find any issues with journals or papers? New case every day
papermills.tilda.ws
December 3, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Just found a new favorite advent calendar: papermills.tilda.ws/advent
Can't wait to meet our new AI Gods in 2026-27: www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/2...
Line go up.
Anthropic co-founder Darius Amodei said on Lex Fridman’s podcast yesterday that, “if you believe the straight-line extrapolation,” we’ll have artificial general intelligence “in 2026 or 2027.” He also...
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November 26, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Can't wait to meet our new AI Gods in 2026-27: www.theverge.com/2024/11/12/2...