🚨 "On the role of technology in human-dog relationships" now open access in @IEEESSIT's Transactions on Technology and Society! Want to read some critically informed work on where tech for pet dogs should (not) be going? Check it out — small 🧵 below https://t.co/ujtsoW2MDQ

Metadata for reproducibility with #Lego today as part of @NorthumbriaUni #PGR conference with @dirkvdlinden and @SamGowlandDev

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KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

Good Lord what is happening in there!?

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Bro please come to the conference. Registration fee $1000 ($950 early bird), flights & accommodation $3000. You'll present for 6 minutes and get roasted. You can't present virtually because...look you just can't ok. There's a yoga session. You'll get a point on your CV bro please

We are watching the internet die, anodyne business nonsense responded to with generative anodyne business nonsense to train models to create more anodyne business nonsense, an endless loop of inbreeding creating digital Hapsburgs everywhere

The Song Dynasty poet Lu You wrote these in the 12th century AD.

Visitor: When will you tell us where you keep the unicorns? 🦄 Us: As soon as visitors stop feeding squirrels and taking dangerous selfies with bison, we'll let you know where the horses with giant spikes on their heads roam.

In 1631, a Dutch guy published a book about his travels to SE Asia and it brought the word "orangutan" into Western languages. Its description of orangutans is amazing

I quit as a Frontiers editor and refuse to review papers for them because of how difficult the journal makes rejecting a paper. You essentially can’t, you can only get stuck in endless reviewing loops. Still shame on everyone involved, but this is what the Frontiers system allows

oh you’re work-emailing me after 5pm? nice try bozo. see you in the morning

Reminder that we don't know the original European word for bear-the original name has been lost, as people stopped saying it out of fear that it would summon bears to kill them. Bear was one of many nicknames that people started referring to them as to avoid the lost name

I will NOT eat bugs. (expression of stony resolve softening, warm smile spreading across face) Ah what the hell. Pass me a bug, brother

The @guardian hitting the nail on the head with this piece saying that the integrity of the scientific archive is under serious pressure. @deevybee also makes a good point: "People are building careers on the back of this tidal wave of fraudulent science" You should read this