Vedran Zerjav
@vzerj.bsky.social
Project Management prof at NTNU. Knows a few things about projects. Interested in too many things. Loves good ideas. Views mine.
Does this not look like something that should have been breaking news internationally.
Rather than in the margins under the ‘meanwhile in the crazy balkans’ subsection.
Also looks like there was a few more there than the 325000.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rather than in the margins under the ‘meanwhile in the crazy balkans’ subsection.
Also looks like there was a few more there than the 325000.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Serbia's largest-ever rally sees 325,000 protest against government
The collapse of a station canopy that killed 15 people has galvanised anger towards the government.
www.bbc.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Does this not look like something that should have been breaking news internationally.
Rather than in the margins under the ‘meanwhile in the crazy balkans’ subsection.
Also looks like there was a few more there than the 325000.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rather than in the margins under the ‘meanwhile in the crazy balkans’ subsection.
Also looks like there was a few more there than the 325000.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth
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This is from October, so before the election. But this article by Elisabeth Zerofsky is good. This quote from Paxton is chilling: "The Trump phenomenon looks like it has a much more solid social base,' Paxton said. 'Which neither Hitler nor Mussolini would have had."
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/m...
Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is from October, so before the election. But this article by Elisabeth Zerofsky is good. This quote from Paxton is chilling: "The Trump phenomenon looks like it has a much more solid social base,' Paxton said. 'Which neither Hitler nor Mussolini would have had."
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/m...
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The hidden history of women in European intelligence blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
The hidden history of women in European intelligence - EUROPP
The popular image of female spies as glamorous femmes fatales obscures a far more interesting history, writes Helen Fry.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The hidden history of women in European intelligence blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants"
What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries?
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
March 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants"
One author of 12 academic papers with 144 citations and an h-index of 12 is Larry the cat.
💥New: Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting
#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting
Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens?
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
One author of 12 academic papers with 144 citations and an h-index of 12 is Larry the cat.
old friend inheritocracy is back.
This is excellent...
This week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson reviews what's about to happen with the great boomer wealth transfer – and why it will destroy the social mobility power of HE
March 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
old friend inheritocracy is back.
Do people really use this system? I hope not but I suspect some do.
This is a really really bad idea.
Using your model to generate the data you use to train your model is the academic equivalent of giving a speech at a wedding by raising a toast and then sticking the microphone into the loud speaker.
Using your model to generate the data you use to train your model is the academic equivalent of giving a speech at a wedding by raising a toast and then sticking the microphone into the loud speaker.
Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review.
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
March 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Do people really use this system? I hope not but I suspect some do.
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Forgive me for being unimaginative, but I just want an LLM that handles my email
OpenAI wants to charge $20,000/month for PhD-level research
Just hire a PhD researcher for that money + give them access to open-access AI and I bet they will vastly outperform OpenAI.
Plus you'll have the advangage of a humen with real expertise to oversee the work! techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/o...
Just hire a PhD researcher for that money + give them access to open-access AI and I bet they will vastly outperform OpenAI.
Plus you'll have the advangage of a humen with real expertise to oversee the work! techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/o...
March 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Forgive me for being unimaginative, but I just want an LLM that handles my email
this is an excellent overview of what's happening in Serbia now
Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt.
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
Inside the student blockades in Serbia
Over the past two months, students in Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. The protests hav...
wonkhe.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
this is an excellent overview of what's happening in Serbia now
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Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt.
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝
#students #highered #Serbia
Inside the student blockades in Serbia
Over the past two months, students in Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. The protests hav...
wonkhe.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Great piece in this letter, real shame it won't be read, or understood.
Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement, joined with former Polish political prisoners to send an impassioned letter to President Trump voicing "horror and disgust" at his scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week.
Lech Walesa and Polish Political Prisoners Voice ‘Horror’ at Trump’s Scolding of Zelensky
He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with bull...
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great piece in this letter, real shame it won't be read, or understood.
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Last night in Niš, #students proclaimed Students' Edict, comprising 8 articles: Freedom, State, Justice, Dignity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Future.
After 18-hour city blockade, students cleaned up after themselves and left.
The fight continues, until demads are met.
Next stop: Belgrade, March 15
After 18-hour city blockade, students cleaned up after themselves and left.
The fight continues, until demads are met.
Next stop: Belgrade, March 15
March 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Last night in Niš, #students proclaimed Students' Edict, comprising 8 articles: Freedom, State, Justice, Dignity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Future.
After 18-hour city blockade, students cleaned up after themselves and left.
The fight continues, until demads are met.
Next stop: Belgrade, March 15
After 18-hour city blockade, students cleaned up after themselves and left.
The fight continues, until demads are met.
Next stop: Belgrade, March 15
To achieve the rigor of specificity, more Americans—from elected officials to university administrators to citizens debating on social media—should “taboo” DEI, as well as diversity and equity and inclusion. Doing so would force us to better understand our own claims and to make them more legible.
“Americans have developed a bad habit of deploying ‘DEI’ as if it has a clear meaning,” writes Conor Friedersdorf. “Instead they could use more particular language to describe their positions”:
It’s Time to Ditch the Term DEI
We can’t debate its merits when we don’t agree on what it means.
www.theatlantic.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
To achieve the rigor of specificity, more Americans—from elected officials to university administrators to citizens debating on social media—should “taboo” DEI, as well as diversity and equity and inclusion. Doing so would force us to better understand our own claims and to make them more legible.
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I always wanted to be a true hero and winner just like Professor Sackker so I was saddened to learn from this article that he doesn't exist.
OMG I know this guy!
This can't be fiction, it's all true.
This can't be fiction, it's all true.
March 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I always wanted to be a true hero and winner just like Professor Sackker so I was saddened to learn from this article that he doesn't exist.
Anyone who's ever been bullied will find this a disturbing watch - even completely disregarding the context of the meeting. The pattern is exactly the one that Kevin described only I would use other words than nice to for it. Despicable would be a better one.
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
March 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Anyone who's ever been bullied will find this a disturbing watch - even completely disregarding the context of the meeting. The pattern is exactly the one that Kevin described only I would use other words than nice to for it. Despicable would be a better one.