Nicki Clarkson

I love this so much, and not once did I fall in a pit and die!

I pulled the lever! (my cackling spirit said “just go ahead now”)

Please have a play. You are a raven. A creature of myth and legend... or just a big bird, your choice.
Eat the gods!
Dance with a Dracula!
Take Edgar Allan Poe to Alton Towers!
Ruin a Zumba class!
Drive the M4 w a mythic princess!
Get very lost & end up in the wrong game!
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Open laptop with the title slide for my Copilot Cats presentation showing, and badges featuring cartoon cats artistically displayed on the keyboard.

Sabine, a mostly white cat with ginger and black patches, looking at another cat off camera

Tiger, a tabby cat, looking at the camera and thinking about Dreamies

Snips, a black and white teenage kitten next to the open laptop, looking like he’s plotting something.

Badge-making for the AI Arts Festival, supervised by my true overlords Snips (black & white), Tiger (tabby) and Sabine (calico)

Some ai recommendation feature that says “I prepared some key words you will like” and then it says what I said in the post

I’ve always wanted my TV to Tell me game situations in the Sports

Sometimes the metaphors are just a bit too on the nose

‘She did kill. There’s no grey area there’: Labour MP Naz Shah on the day she and her mother were arrested for murder The politician was 18 when she and her mum were hauled off to a police station for the killing of the man she’d considered an uncle. What happened next would shape her future. She talks Labour’s woes,...

What a life! Another brilliant interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social

Trump saying “I was surprised because...I mean, l read the paragraphs, I read very well. Great comprehension. I read everything there is to read and I said, can't lose this case.”

me when I get negative feedback on a draft

Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

OOOOH

Researchfish

Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠

help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".

Happy 6th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary to those who celebrate! #Geology ⚒️

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.

This whole🧵

Reduce online noise by replacing the meaningless term 'artificial intelligence' w/ the actual analytical approach(s) used + any design,dev & application info needed for a useful conversation.

Alternatively, rather than solutionising describe the task/activity/procedure to be automated.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Me, a middle aged white woman, wearing a Santa hat and holding a toy lizard who is also wearing a Santa hat. I am wearing a necklace that says “Die Hard is a Christmas movie”

Final comedy gig of the year and the audience agreed with me that Die Hard IS a Christmas movie 🎄

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Infographic officially generated by AI and full of weird spellings as follows: AI-EMPOWERED LIBERAIAN: A Guide to FUTURE SKILLS & TOOLS CORE SKILLS INFO LITERACY 2.0 PROMPT ENGINEERING HALLUCINATION VERIFICATION Crafting effective queries New Boulean Logic New Boulean Logic Fixing bad Al answers You: Human-in-the-loop ALGORTHMIC BIAS TOOL FLUENCY Perpxlexy (Cited Ansiwers) (Lit Raviews) Elicit (Lit Reviews) Consesus (Science) Spotting stereyptes Critical evaligane Workshops YOU are the *Al-Literate Information Professional Teach Patrons to Think Critically ETHICS & LAW PRACTICAL WINS COPYRIGHT & IP CATALOGING Clean Metddata Transcribe Archives (Transkribus) MARKETING DATA PRIVACY Al content not cophiyated Social Media Captions ACCESBILITY No sensitive data in public Al Protecting user info Video Transcripts Speech-to-Text Be the Trust Agent ~Gatekeeper~

Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!

Selfie of me, a middle aged white woman, wearing a large necklace that reads “Die Hard is a Christmas movie”

Dressed very formally for a networking event

a man in a lab coat with a stethoscope around his neck is screaming . Alt: Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf putting his fist in his mouth in embarrassment

Happy Gazpacho Soup Day to all who celebrate

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Laughed then cried

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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The UK Reproducibility Network

The UK Reproducibility Network: OER for Open Research oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn

@ukrepro.bsky.social @oercommons.bsky.social

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…

"If Grokipedia is getting things about me wrong, what else is it getting wrong in other articles, where I do not have the same level of domain knowledge?" - @scalzi.com

That is a most excellent squeak!

New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities ‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced

'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3

Laptop sticker reading “you wouldn’t steal a sticker”

This is my favourite laptop sticker and I have no idea why I like it so much (I paid £1 for it at Southampton Pride)

A metal sign on a wall reading “When alarm sounds stand well clear of trap door”

Where do I work? Oh, just a totally normal university library