Petar Milin
@petarmilin.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology of Language and Language Learning @artsatbham / @unibirmingham. #OOOMinder with @ooominds. Quantophiliac and worryingly OCD.
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"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
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October 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."
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“As true believers are playing at their game of appearing serious, the real harms of generative AI continue to grow.”
disconnect.blog/generative-a...
Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
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October 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“As true believers are playing at their game of appearing serious, the real harms of generative AI continue to grow.”
disconnect.blog/generative-a...
Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social
disconnect.blog/generative-a...
Thanks to @garymarcus.bsky.social
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My paper, with Kareem Khalifa, "Does Functional Connectivity Explain?" is accepted for publication in Synthese!
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social
@danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social
@danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
My paper, with Kareem Khalifa, "Does Functional Connectivity Explain?" is accepted for publication in Synthese!
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social
@danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social
@philsci.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @natneuro.nature.com @nunetsi.bsky.social
@danisbassett.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @hoposjournal.bsky.social @ishpssb.bsky.social
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PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work!
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :)
#PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
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And now the plenary I have been really looking forward to: @dagmardivjak.bsky.social and @petarmilin.bsky.social on "Top-down wisdom vs. bottom-up noise: Can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?" A collaborative keynote from the heads of outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/about/ #SLE2025
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
And now the plenary I have been really looking forward to: @dagmardivjak.bsky.social and @petarmilin.bsky.social on "Top-down wisdom vs. bottom-up noise: Can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?" A collaborative keynote from the heads of outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/about/ #SLE2025
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This Friday (02 May), 5-7 PM (Hong Kong time), I'll be giving a talk 'Do Functional Connectivity Models Explain?' in the Philosophy of Science Lecture Series at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This is a joint work with Kareem Khalifa: www.shanyafeng.com/hkust-psl#ga...
HKUST PSL - Yafeng Shan
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April 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This Friday (02 May), 5-7 PM (Hong Kong time), I'll be giving a talk 'Do Functional Connectivity Models Explain?' in the Philosophy of Science Lecture Series at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This is a joint work with Kareem Khalifa: www.shanyafeng.com/hkust-psl#ga...
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Despite all opinions to the contrary and disagreements with his views, his lucidity is something I dearly miss in today's neuro/cognitive scientists.
Happy birthday, BF Skinner! (1904-1990)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
March 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Despite all opinions to the contrary and disagreements with his views, his lucidity is something I dearly miss in today's neuro/cognitive scientists.
Good news @dagmardivjak.bsky.social! Our article received enough citations to be a Top Cited Article in #LanguageLearning @wiley.com
:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle
:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle
March 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Good news @dagmardivjak.bsky.social! Our article received enough citations to be a Top Cited Article in #LanguageLearning @wiley.com
:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle
:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lang.12569 #TopCitedArticle
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🎓 Want to level up? Join Mike Croucher from MathWorks for an in-person workshop:
- When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00)
- Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB
- What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization
- Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...
- When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00)
- Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB
- What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization
- Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...
High Performance Computing with MATLAB
Learn how to supercharge your computing skills with MATLAB at our in-person event on high performance computing!
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January 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🎓 Want to level up? Join Mike Croucher from MathWorks for an in-person workshop:
- When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00)
- Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB
- What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization
- Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...
- When: Tuesday 11 February (13:00-16:00)
- Where: Murray Learning Centre, UoB
- What: Master MATLAB's parallel superpowers, CPU & GPU optimization
- Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-perfo...
Between a rock and a hard place
Linguistics seems to be a common target because it gets dunked on by people from both the hard sciences and the humanities 😀
December 27, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Between a rock and a hard place
Fellow academics, share your thoughts — I’d love to hear how you'd navigate an odd editorial saga. #PeerReview
December 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Fellow academics, share your thoughts — I’d love to hear how you'd navigate an odd editorial saga. #PeerReview
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Work with @petarmilin.bsky.social and @huisunsh.bsky.social, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social, carried out @lcuob.bsky.social @artsatbham.bsky.social with OA provided by the UoB library
December 12, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Work with @petarmilin.bsky.social and @huisunsh.bsky.social, funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social, carried out @lcuob.bsky.social @artsatbham.bsky.social with OA provided by the UoB library
🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains.
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
December 8, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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If you’re looking for a great linguistics read I recommend Communicative Efficiency by Natalia Levshina (CUP 2022). Seriously folks this is so good. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Communicative Efficiency
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Communicative Efficiency
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November 30, 2024 at 3:31 PM
If you’re looking for a great linguistics read I recommend Communicative Efficiency by Natalia Levshina (CUP 2022). Seriously folks this is so good. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Busy PG Open Day @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @artsatbham.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Busy PG Open Day @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @artsatbham.bsky.social
The past few days have been heavy. Following the tragic events in Spain, I learned yesterday that a roof collapse at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, claimed 14 lives. Heartbreaking news for so many communities. 💔
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Serbian railway station roof collapse in Novi Sad leaves 14 dead
Rescue workers scoured piles of concrete and twisted metal for survivors on Friday after a roof collapsed at the entrance of a railway station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, killing 14 people.
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November 2, 2024 at 9:29 AM
The past few days have been heavy. Following the tragic events in Spain, I learned yesterday that a roof collapse at the train station in Novi Sad, Serbia, claimed 14 lives. Heartbreaking news for so many communities. 💔
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Special Issue of Language Teaching Research Quarterly in Honour of Brian MacWhinney now out. Tribute to Brian's profoundly inspiring influence not just on lang dev research in general but on so many of us personally. Thanks to Ed Wen & Hassan Mohebbi for editorial effort.
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September 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Special Issue of Language Teaching Research Quarterly in Honour of Brian MacWhinney now out. Tribute to Brian's profoundly inspiring influence not just on lang dev research in general but on so many of us personally. Thanks to Ed Wen & Hassan Mohebbi for editorial effort.
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eurokd.com/journal/jdwo...
I like this one so much. Not sure what cheers me up more, the title (The Cow With The Subtle Nose) or the painting itself, by Jean Dubuffet
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September 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM
I like this one so much. Not sure what cheers me up more, the title (The Cow With The Subtle Nose) or the painting itself, by Jean Dubuffet
www.wikiart.org/en/jean-dubu...
www.wikiart.org/en/jean-dubu...
The Economist: “[…] many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics”, and “for some, it is almost “a badge of honour’.” apple.news/AOGiOKTRuSVS...
The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
And shown that many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics
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August 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The Economist: “[…] many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics”, and “for some, it is almost “a badge of honour’.” apple.news/AOGiOKTRuSVS...
Ready to demystify the magic behind GenAI? 🌟 Let me break down what LLMs are and how they power up your favourite AI tool in simple, snackable bits! #AIexplained #Simple
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May 22, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Ready to demystify the magic behind GenAI? 🌟 Let me break down what LLMs are and how they power up your favourite AI tool in simple, snackable bits! #AIexplained #Simple
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Congrats
I am absolutely delighted!
New #AvHProfessor|s selected ✨! 4 top international researchers to receive Germany's most valuable research award.
They were nominated by Bielefeld University, @unifau.bsky.social, TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.
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They were nominated by Bielefeld University, @unifau.bsky.social, TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.
www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/n...
November 23, 2023 at 9:46 PM
Congrats