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Garjan Sterk
@garjan.bsky.social
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Too much going on in the world to quietly introvert.

NOT an ambassador of Radboud University!

Pronouns: she/her
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owenjones.bsky.social
Let this be a lesson for us all.
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
garjan.bsky.social
Israeli scholasticide exported to Europe: Dutch and British uni terminate positions of Palestinian PhDs, de facto deporting them, for standing with their people.
Shame on you @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

London case: 2025newsnow.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/k...
October 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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apache.be
Prominente professoren en onderzoekers luiden de alarmbel over AI in het hoger onderwijs. Ze verzetten zich tegen wat ze “de AI-hype” noemen en waarschuwen voor het verlies van kritisch denken, een kunst die vooral niet uitbesteed kan worden aan “best guess machines”.

apache.be/2025/10/23/a...
Als AI-wetenschappers zich verzetten tegen AI in het hoger onderwijs
Deze wetenschappers en filosofen roepen op tot kritisch denken over AI.
apache.be
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025
YouTube video by Iris van Rooij
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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olivia.science
unequivocal support for and unending pride towards our students last night and always www.voxweb.nl/en/pro-pales...
Pro-Palestine activists occupy Goudsmitpaviljoen: ‘We are not going to allow research to be done in this building’ - Vox magazine
Pro-Palestine activists occupied the Goudsmitpaviljoen behind the Huygens building this morning. They have locked the building from the inside and a number of activists are also at the door, secured t...
www.voxweb.nl
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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mervaala.bsky.social
Tästä oli @helsus.bsky.social -mediaryhmässä tänään puhe!!
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 23
Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊
Poster of the Open Letter: Stop the uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia, with QR code
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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arnoldlubbers.bsky.social
Dit is toch behoorlijk verontrustend.
scienceguide.bsky.social ScienceGuide @scienceguide.bsky.social · Sep 24
De PVV, VVD en BBB hebben minister Moes opgeroepen om in te grijpen bij de Radboud Universiteit na een reeks controversiële uitlatingen van universitair docent Harry Pettit. De minister hield aanvankelijk vol dat hij zich niet wil mengen in het personeelsbeleid, maar maakte een opvallende draai.
Rechtse partijen openen jacht op Radboud-docent Pettit, minister biedt verzet maar zwicht - ScienceGuide
De PVV, VVD en BBB hebben minister Moes opgeroepen om in te grijpen bij de Radboud Universiteit.
www.scienceguide.nl
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
garjan.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
youtube.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
garjan.bsky.social
"... dan weet een taalmodel halverwege een zin over asielzoekers simpelweg niet of daar VVD of PVV bij moet staan. De kans op een van beide mogelijkheden is ongeveer even groot."

Atta boy!

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Column | ChatGPT verheft de middelmaat
ChatGPT voedt de zesjescultuur aan universiteiten. Peter Kuipers Munneke verwacht van studenten meer dan middelmatige teksten.
www.nrc.nl
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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lizamugge.bsky.social
🔎✒️ How can we keep research teams and ourselves safe when studying politically sensitive topics? @britanlar.bsky.social and I present a new framework for protection and support drawing on feminist care ethics. The report is now available on the @men4dem.bsky.social website 👇
men4dem.bsky.social men4dem.bsky.social @men4dem.bsky.social · Sep 18
MEN4DEM releases a report introducing the Safe Research Ethics Framework. The framework, grounded in Feminist Care Ethics, offers practical tools to protect scholars working on politically sensitive topics.

Read more at men4dem.eu/news-events-...

#MEN4DEM
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
garjan.bsky.social
Wel helder nu: de partijen die tegen antifa - wat geen organisatie is maar een standpunt - stemden, hebben zichzelf geopenbaard als fascisten.

Wij, antifa, wisten dit al, maar misschien beseffen de redelijke VVD-ers nu ook dat ze, onder Yesilgöz, niet langer 'liberaal' genoemd kunnen worden.
laurensdassen.voltnederland.org Laurens Dassen @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org · Sep 18
We verbazen ons over Trump, maar nog geen 24 uur later volgt Nederland. Zojuist stemt de Kamer voor het aanmerken van Antifa als terroristische organisatie.

Met steun van de VVD worden ook hier inmiddels onwelgevallige meningen met een pennenstreek verboden.
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten [AI] zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van achttien wetenschappers, onder leiding van onderzoekers van de Radboud Universiteit.”

www.scienceguide.nl/2025/09/ai-s... 1/🧵
AI schaadt wetenschappelijke integriteit en vergroot kansenongelijkheid, waarschuwen wetenschappers - ScienceGuide
De wetenschappelijke integriteit staat op het spel nu universiteiten kunstmatige intelligentie zonder kritische bezinning omarmen. Dat is de waarschuwing van een internationale groep van zestien weten...
www.scienceguide.nl
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
In Gaza vechten kinderen voor hun leven. Ziekenhuizen liggen in puin, zorg is bijna onmogelijk. Nederland weigert ieder verzoek om te helpen, terwijl de ziekenhuizen klaarstaan. Dat is onverteerbaar.

✍️ Teken de petitie: laat zieke kinderen uit Gaza toe!

groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
September 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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aljazeera.com
Among those listed is feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who likened the move to a ‘practice from the McCarthy era’.
UC Berkeley shares information on 160 staff, students with US government
Among those listed is feminist philosopher Judith Butler, who likened the move to a ‘practice from the McCarthy era’.
bit.ly
September 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: 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 collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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dropsitenews.com
⛓️ NEW | On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club warned that Israel is committing this crime on a mass scale against thousands from Gaza — including women and children.
August 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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courtneymilan.com
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
garjan.bsky.social
Opgepoetste versie van het verleden, "extreem vereenvoudigd, heel helder leesbaar, geen enkele ambivalentie": noemden we dit niet sociaal-realisme toen communistisch China, de USSR en Noord-Korea dit soort beelden verspreidden?

Oude wijn door nieuwe zakken!

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Vier redenen waarom AI-beeld populair is bij uiterst rechts
Artificiële intelligentie: Radicaal-rechtse partijen in Europa omarmen AI – zoals ook PVV-leider Wilders met de afbeelding van een boze moslimvrouw. Wat maakt AI voor deze partijen zo aantrekkelijk?
www.nrc.nl
August 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
garjan.bsky.social
Look what just arrived: Drag Vistas and Visions. Drag in a Changing Scene - the third volume of a series on drag.

I wrote a chapter on Drag in the Netherlands.
It was a pleasure working with editors Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier
Cover of the third volume in a series on drag, titled Drag Vistas and Vision. Drag in a Chamging Scene. The cover shows a drawn portrait of a drag queen in purple tints.
August 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Heartening to see that every day more people are signing our Open Letter "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia". We are now at ~900 signatories. Consider reading and signing as well and/or sharing. Help us get to the 1000! openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
July 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
garjan.bsky.social
Guess what colour the Netherlands has? Despite a majority of the people wanting sanctions, state decisions are built on guilt, a colonial mindset, Christian ideas about the promised land, and a merchand's attitude. The biggest European investor is complying with a genocidal regime. Again.
August 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM