Christina Bergmann
Cognitive Science, #ManyBabies, Transparent Science, Networking, Communication, and a big helping from the Open Science Buffet
Cargo biker, Fairphoner, Parent
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- Reposted by Christina BergmannStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by Christina BergmannThe consequences of developmental aid cuts by countries like the USA, UK and the Netherlands: millions of unnecessary deaths, including the deaths of young children. This resonates for me especially today, while prepping for teaching on the social determinants of developmental disabilities
- Published today in The Lancet Global Health: A modelling study on current worldwide trends in humanitarian and developmental assistance finds that cuts up to 2030 are projected to cause up to 22.6m additional deaths, inc. 5.4m children u5. Available Open Access - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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- Well shit
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- Reposted by Christina Bergmann🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
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- I love this metaphor for having AI take over key tasks like writing summaries, doing literature reviews, etc... Yes, please have your LLM buddy lift weights for you. You are now a gym nut
- Office is dead... But my documents are still all messed up when someone accidentally opens them 'the wrong way's (i.e. in the app instead of the browser...) Can we fix this before we make anything "smarter"?
- Reposted by Christina BergmannWho are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!
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- Reposted by Christina BergmannNominate someone for the 2026 edition of The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience! #OpenResearch Open to all, though a demonstration of contribution within the RDA @researchdataall.bsky.social community is of great importance.
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- Aber denkt dran, Schnee nicht schaufeln sondern nur schiebende transportieren
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- Nein.
- Reposted by Christina BergmannThis paper is batshit insane. It also (of course) has A TON of bullshit references that do not exist. Hey @springernature.com retract this AI slop and fire the editor that let it pass. There is evidently no review or quality assurance process in place at this journal.
- Reposted by Christina BergmannHey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
- WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke? www.nature.com/articles/s41... A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
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- Reposted by Christina BergmannConsonant neutralization and vowel space area in Tashlhiyt Berber’s infant-directed speech. New publication by Abdellah Elouatiq, @chbergma.bsky.social , Evan Kidd, and @carorowland.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/0142...
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- ...und in der Fluten, Ernteausfälle, Waldsterben, etcetc ja quasi schon dazugehören... Wir können es uns nicht leisten, das Klima nicht zu schützen. Das ist keine Ideologie, das ist Mathe
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- Reposted by Christina BergmannDa ab morgen wieder Böller verkauft werden, teile ich mal wieder meinen inzwischen 3 Jahre alten wissenschaftlichen Artikel zu den Gefahren des Feuerwerks und wie die Böllerindustrie sie mit Rechenfehlern und latentem Ableismus verharmlost. Lasst es einfach… wochenendrebell.de/silvester-bo...
- -ai bei der Suche eingeben, Freunde.
- Psycholinguists know that negations are easy to drop and the best example is Google going from "Don't be evil" to ... this
- Reposted by Christina Bergmann"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
- Finally out: a really cool paper led by Abdel Elouatiq @mpi-nl.bsky.social on what parents do when they have to teach their infants a language that doesn't need vowels to form words (Tashlhiyt Berber, spoken in Morocco) doi.org/10.1177/0142... Invite Abdel for a talk, he's got so much more data!
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- Reposted by Christina BergmannMIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
- And even then we need to be ready for pandemics, sudden funding cuts , and generally institutions protecting those who make our lives hell...
- An academic of my generation would have send Gandalf away for max. 3 years, because that’s how long academics can plan these days. #academicchatter
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- Happy kiddo is hyper because there will be presents tomorrow day to those who celebrate

- Reposted by Christina Bergmann📢 PsyArXiv 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🧑🎄 🎁 PsyArXiv moderators will be taking a holiday break from Dec 24 to Jan 4. Please avoid uploading work to the archive during this time to prevent a backlog, and expect some delays in moderation. We aim to clear any holiday backlog by Jan 16. Happy Holidays!
- Reposted by Christina BergmannNews! #PsyTeachR is now on Bluesky. Find us for links to our Open Educational Resources, software and news about what we're up to. @psyteachr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina BergmannCall-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:
- And that's just one of the reasons we came up with the idea of community augmented meta-analyses (cama): The absurd amount of work should not have to be done twice when new evidence emerges or new questions can be answered with the same dataset. metalab.stanford.edu is one instance of a cama
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- Happy winter solstice to those who celebrate
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