🧵 1/ In Borges’s Library of Babel, every sentence ever written exists. But in our Spanish classrooms, we start with just a handful. How do those ‘starter shelves’ stack up? 📚✨ Our new article unpacks the linguistic complexity of Spanish graded readers vs. literary works.

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

I cannot believe the number of "academics" I've seen bitching about the 1-year ban on arXiv for publishing hallucinated references. Are you shitting me? You're mad that your research papers are expected to be factual? You couldn't be bothered to check your references?

it's gonna blow your mind when you find out about the academic disciplines where people are capable of reading an ENTIRE paper. I've even heard rumours of a handful of incredibly talented thinkers who can make it through an entire book

it’s funny how many college students seem to think that their instructors have no idea how college students try to trick their instructors. do they think i’m teaching college classes at 23 because i have no idea what i’m doing

Academia is cruel because it selects for people obsessively interested in a narrow topic, but what’s actually rewarded is the ability to pivot fluidly to whatever’s new and fundable.

En tiempos de IA, cuanto se agradece encontrar trabajos en los que se escucha la propia voz de los/as alumnos/as. Jamás pensé que abrazaría tanto sus imperfecciones, sus párrafos eternos y las subordinadas de subordinadas de subordinadas.

Molta gent em pregunta per què segueixo editant la @Viquipedia ara que tothom fa servir Gemini, GPT o similars. Jo ho veig així: la IA és com un barri ple de llibreries maques. Són elegants, maques i convenients, però poden tancar en qualsevol moment, convertir-se en espais de pagament o canviar el seu model de negoci d'un dia per l'altre. La Viquipèdia és com la biblioteca pública del barri. És l'escala universal cap al coneixement i la garantia que l'accés a la informació continuarà sent lliure i gratuït per a tothom, independentment de la seva butxaca i la seva potència de càlcul. I ho serà en el seu idioma i amb el seu context cultural. L'IA pot ser la interfície, però nosaltres en som l'ànima. Si no documentem el nostre món en la nostra llengua, qui ho farà? ✍️🌍 Som-hi

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

Reasons to use an em dash: 1) reclaim it from the machines 2) you don't know what a semicolon is for 3) it has incredible vibes

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700 subscribers (link below).

AI cheating has gotten so bad that I now feel genuine affection for horrifically bad essays clearly written by the student

Esos baremos "objetivos" donde publicas un MDPI con dos colegas y os ponéis los tres corresponding cuenta 0.5 puntos mientras que un Science como tercer autor con 30 autores, donde se descubre un nuevo elemento, por ejemplo, cuenta 0.3. @OIntegridadEsp @ANECAinfo @deleg_USO_CSIC

i hope this email kills us both instantly

que ho preguntin als seus predocs i postdocs aiam si opinen igual

when I graduated with my stats degree I walked across the stage and shook the crusty old department chair’s hand. he pulled me in close and whispered in my ear “correlation is causation a lot of the time”

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

La universidad es maravillosa, está el profesor explicando una diapositiva del año 2004, a tu derecha un señor de 40 años tomando apuntes, a tu izquierda un chaval de 20 jugando al clash of clans. El profesor dice "dudas?" Y sonríe a la clase que levanta la cabeza del móvil únicamente cuando escucha una pregunta (como si no fuera obvio que llevan 60 minutos de reloj mirando reels de Instagram) y se forma un silencio de 10 segundos que solo se interrumpe cuando el profesor desiste y se dispone a explicar la siguiente diapositiva del año 2004. Todo esto a las 9 de la mañana, que el aula parece la sala de espera de un casting para hacer de zombie en the walking dead.

Motion to replace 'et al.' with 'gang'. So like “Tsitati and gang (2026)”.

🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.