Dr Christine Cuskley
Lead Consultant, https://cogknit.uk Researcher/teacher/learner and person who does internet things. Communication, social cognition, perception and evolution therof. https://ccuskley.github.io
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyIncandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
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- There's a lot of bad shit going on right now, but god help me, this automatically generated pie chart from google forms might be the proverbial straw for me
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyIt’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.
- Reposted by Dr Christine Cuskleyare you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost
- This was a cowardly subtweet of this mess, dissected at length here: bsky.app/profile/mehr...
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
- I keep coming across this idea that AI can be used to generate research ideas..where did this come from? I know a lot of people who are burnt out and have trouble moving forward with or engaging with new ideas, but I have never met anyone who's like "welp I got to the end of ideas I guess"
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyLet's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
- Why is Trump always doing interviews on Air Force one looking like he just got caught by reporters wiggling out of the bathroom on an easyJet flight
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
- In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyDeep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyAll research is exploratory if you’re confused enough
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyAn issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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- The future is finally here. Either they harvest your attention and sell it to someone else, or they harvest it and sell it back to you
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyHey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today. Thank you.
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyThis is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
- ⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater. The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable. interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
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- Reposted by Dr Christine Cuskley**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)
- Reposted by Dr Christine Cuskley"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyNew in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: 'Earth system engineers' and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time 🔓 #ecoevo #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 🧵:
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyPlease boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Imagine it's 1997. There's a Real World marathon on. You're randomly offered one factual sentence from 2025 as a glimpse into the future and it's this:
- What's the drawback though
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
- Marched myself out of the house this morning to take in fresh air and just heard a guy say "this mouse pissed in my fuckin mouth last night" so I think everything is gonna be alright 🌈
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- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyJust a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyI considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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- Anyone in #sociolinguistics working on (or know someone working on) machine/AI "translation" between different varieties of English?
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... - Reposted by Dr Christine Cuskley[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Dr Christine CuskleyRace Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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