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PhD student @University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
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djdermee.bsky.social
Good point, but that’s a very Western view of education. In many Asian cultures, learning values guidance and respect for experience. The best way is probably to balance independent thinking with the professor’s direction.
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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drelsje.bsky.social
👉Behaviour genetics infographics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉ADHD, dyslexia & dyscalculia doi.org/10.1177/0956...
👉ADHD runs in families doi.org/10.1017/S003...
👉Education runs in families osf.io/preprints/ps...
Hosted warmly at @citystgeorges.bsky.social by Ansgar Endress & Katrina May Dulay 🙏
Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions - npj Science of Learning
npj Science of Learning - Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
"Participants needed only think a sentence they wanted to say & it would appear on-screen in real time. They could draw from a dictionary of 125,000 words, & communicate at a comfortable conversational rate of 120-150 words a minute." Nice explainer by @dodecalemma.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social:
This Brain Implant Can Read Out Your Inner Monologue
A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate fast and comfortably
www.scientificamerican.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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annmemmott.bsky.social
We are loved fellow human beings.
Autistic people generally do not want a cure. We couldn't be clearer about this, in endless polls, surveys and research (exceptions apply). For example autisticnotweird.com/autismsurvey/
Autistic people want research that improves our current lives, thanks/
Results and Analysis of the Autistic Not Weird 2022 Autism Survey - Autistic Not Weird
Is it ‘autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? How many autistic people are also LGBT+? Has ABA improved in recent years? Do parents of autistic people wish for a cure? Do autistic people feel empathy or not?   With a subject as broad (and historically misunderstood) as autism, it’s important to build an accurate and meaningful consensus about important topics. With this in mind, I ran a survey which intended to establish current attitudes towards a variety of autism-related issues, […]
autisticnotweird.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
This by @nerdpro.bsky.social and colleagues is good direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
The Limitations of Large Language Models for Understanding Human Language and Cognition
Abstract. Researchers have recently argued that the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide new insights into longstanding debates about the role of learning and/or innateness in the ...
direct.mit.edu
July 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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! ☺️🙏

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
• 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