@monika-dryburgh.bsky.social
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Leopards, faces, etc.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Leopards, faces, etc.
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I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
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Transcripts used to be done by people who were in the room (or in a booth attached to the room). They prided themselves on being as accurate as possible and would interact with parties to make sure little things, like name spelling and the word for a particular legal principle, were correct.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Transcripts used to be done by people who were in the room (or in a booth attached to the room). They prided themselves on being as accurate as possible and would interact with parties to make sure little things, like name spelling and the word for a particular legal principle, were correct.
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This is the kind of story you get downstream of public service cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'I'm deeply troubled': Lawyers call out erroneous court transcripts
Obtaining court transcripts can cost thousands of dollars for a single day of proceedings, but the documents can contain errors, missing text, and even wrong attribution, frustrating legal practitione...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is the kind of story you get downstream of public service cuts www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
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Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
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OpenAI today said that though Raine’s death is tragic, they’re not liable because he said he had suicidal ideation for years before using ChatGPT, and he also sought info on suicide from other online resources
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
OpenAI today said that though Raine’s death is tragic, they’re not liable because he said he had suicidal ideation for years before using ChatGPT, and he also sought info on suicide from other online resources
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Raine’s family alleges that ChatGPT coached Adam to take his own life and encouraged him to hide his self-harm and plans from his family. BG: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen user’s death by suicide
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it will add parental controls that can detect “acute distress,” after a lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a teen’s death by suicide.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Raine’s family alleges that ChatGPT coached Adam to take his own life and encouraged him to hide his self-harm and plans from his family. BG: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hey folks! We're running a big repliCATS workshop in Melbourne on 16 Dec, evaluating of replicability of published papers.
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
🐈 metascience, psych, med, health, education, sociol, quant methods, stats ECRs welcome
💰 AU$200
🎫 + travel subsidies
ℹ️ forms.gle/9JvoRBKCzYyY...
Re-posts appreciated 🌈
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I wrote recently about my experience with post-exertional malaise #PEM. Last year, I tried graded exercise therapy and it put me into a #PEMCrash that lasted for months. The physical therapist that “has worked with many #LongCovid #MECFS patients” had this mindset.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I wrote recently about my experience with post-exertional malaise #PEM. Last year, I tried graded exercise therapy and it put me into a #PEMCrash that lasted for months. The physical therapist that “has worked with many #LongCovid #MECFS patients” had this mindset.
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
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With luck we'll never find out, because this week brings us Netchoice v Miyares, in which Netchoice once again picks a fight and invites us along for the ride.
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067 - CourtListener.com
Docket for NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
www.courtlistener.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
With luck we'll never find out, because this week brings us Netchoice v Miyares, in which Netchoice once again picks a fight and invites us along for the ride.
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
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So, the fun hypothetical: Given that you don't have an app, that someone can open a tab and walk off without being present in front of the screen, and that posts to your site can be the length of an average novel and take hours to read, how much horrifying surveillance would it take to comply?
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
So, the fun hypothetical: Given that you don't have an app, that someone can open a tab and walk off without being present in front of the screen, and that posts to your site can be the length of an average novel and take hours to read, how much horrifying surveillance would it take to comply?
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I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
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Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.
BOM's new website and $96.5m cost-blowout under renewed scrutiny by minister
Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.
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We're at crisis point @jacintaallen. You have ministers for racing & casinos in the inner cabinet & outside, the Minister for 'Creative Industries', Colin Brooks. We need you to step up now. The #StateLibrary, an internationally known cultural jewel, is being crunched in the jaws of incompetence.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We're at crisis point @jacintaallen. You have ministers for racing & casinos in the inner cabinet & outside, the Minister for 'Creative Industries', Colin Brooks. We need you to step up now. The #StateLibrary, an internationally known cultural jewel, is being crunched in the jaws of incompetence.
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Scandal after scandal at the #StateLibrary of Victoria. Exhibitions interfered with & cancelled by people who've never worked at a library, museum, or institution with public requirements, hired without scrutiny. Contempt for staff knowledge. Researchers discouraged from expert staff consultation.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Scandal after scandal at the #StateLibrary of Victoria. Exhibitions interfered with & cancelled by people who've never worked at a library, museum, or institution with public requirements, hired without scrutiny. Contempt for staff knowledge. Researchers discouraged from expert staff consultation.
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The crisis at the Victorian State Library has caused exhibition and whole floor closures, huge reduction in public access to info & services, decimation of expert staff. Many top-level managers literally don't even know what they're in charge of. Where is the Arts minister? Where is the inquiry?!
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The crisis at the Victorian State Library has caused exhibition and whole floor closures, huge reduction in public access to info & services, decimation of expert staff. Many top-level managers literally don't even know what they're in charge of. Where is the Arts minister? Where is the inquiry?!
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#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
State Library proposes major cuts to staff and services
The library plans halve the number of reference librarians it employs and reduce the number of computers available for public use in a move that has outraged staff.
www.theage.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#Victorians! Our State Library is being trashed by a series of executives with no experience or understanding of public collections. Many hired as 'temps' without full process, who then caused scandals & exodus of specialist & librarian staff: a full wreck looms. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Uncertainties of living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: barriers to treatment and its consequences
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Uncertainties of living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: barriers to treatment and its consequences
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
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Said it before, but there’s a start-up business waiting to happen in human fact checking that’s the result of the rise of use of LLMs: “Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says
Stephen Gageler warns the speed of AI’s development could be outstripping people’s ability to ‘comprehend its potential risks and rewards’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Said it before, but there’s a start-up business waiting to happen in human fact checking that’s the result of the rise of use of LLMs: “Judges have become ‘human filters’ as AI in Australian courts reaches ‘unsustainable phase’, chief justice says” www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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So at almost the last moment, Twitch has been added to the list of age-restricted social media platforms for Australia's #SocialMediaBan for under16s, which is officially active in less than three weeks.
I believe the expression is: 'building the plane while it's flying'.
I believe the expression is: 'building the plane while it's flying'.
We’ve informed Twitch that we consider it an age-restricted social media platform in accordance with Australia’s social media minimum age legislation.
Following its own self-assessment, we assessed… | eSafety Commissioner
We’ve informed Twitch that we consider it an age-restricted social media platform in accordance with Australia’s social media minimum age legislation.
Following its own self-assessment, we assessed Twitch as meeting the criteria for an age-restricted social media platform. This is because it has a sole or significant purpose of online social interaction with features designed to encourage user interaction, including through livestreaming content.
Twitch is a platform most commonly used for livestreaming or posting content that enables users, including Australian children, to interact with others in relation to the content posted.
From 10 December age-restricted social media platforms will be required to take reasonable steps to prevent under 16s from having accounts on their platform.
We’ve published our views on whether some platforms will be age-restricted social media platforms to provide additional certainty for Australian families and industry.
But we expect all online platforms that operate in Australia to assess their obligations under Australian law. We’ve provided an assessment tool to help them understand if they’re required to comply with the social media minimum age and remain in ongoing discussions with industry about compliance obligations.
Learn more about the upcoming social media age restrictions on our website: https://lnkd.in/gtn4aE_c
www.linkedin.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
So at almost the last moment, Twitch has been added to the list of age-restricted social media platforms for Australia's #SocialMediaBan for under16s, which is officially active in less than three weeks.
I believe the expression is: 'building the plane while it's flying'.
I believe the expression is: 'building the plane while it's flying'.
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.