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silvia

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Linguist (syntax, multilingualism) @UniUtrecht, face-maker, chatterbox, tennis-lover, gaeilgeoir-wannabe

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Iris van Rooij 💭

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

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• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

June 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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WOinActie.bsky.social

@woinactie.bsky.social

Please sign this petition - student sports should not be subject to ‘market prices’.
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Houd sporten betaalbaar voor studenten!

Toegankelijke en betaalbare sportvoorzieningen voor studenten zijn cruciaal voor de mentale en fysieke gezondheid, de ontwikkeling, en sociale contacten van studenten. Studenten maken hier vrienden en...

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May 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Roberta D'Alessandro

@robertadal.bsky.social

A brand-new special issue on #Isogloss: Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory, edited by Michela Russo and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn.
This is a really cool collection, as usual in full Open Access.
A great read for your weekend, enjoy!
revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index