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Damn, that’s wild—Harvard stuck 24 office workers in the same room for 6 days, secretly tweaking the air quality (ventilation, CO2, and VOCs from typical office stuff), and their cognitive scores doubled in the cleaner “green+” conditions vs. standard stale setups. Better decision-making, strategy, crisis response—all crushed by poor indoor air we breathe 90% of the time. Open windows, crank ventilation, cut the junk emitters. Your brain’s paying the price right now. Fix the air, sharpen the mind.

Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build go.nature.com/4bmCOaa

I’m not ‘white’, I’m Eastern European. My immediate family survived the horrors of Two World Wars, the Holocaust and Stalinism. You flew to Montreal on a first class jet from Abu Dhabi and lecture people you know nothing about on privilege. Unlike you, I don’t reduce complex history to black and white ‘identity politics.’ I also don’t make it the core of my personality. These performative fake ‘leftists’ disgust me. Maybe start with class if you really care about ‘praxis’ so much 🙄

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

@perealvaro @perisllorca L'edatisme que no falte. 😅

@perisllorca és que no són versos, jo crec que te un telèfon vell amb la pantalla menudeta i les lletres molt grans perquè és un uelo i quan arriba a final de pantalla fa ENTER per a fer canvi de línia com les màquines d'escriure mecàniques

Però quina fractura social Abelard per l'amor de Déu explica'ns quina factura social hi havia abans de que VOX arribés al poder i tu et jubilares i t'avorrires a ta casa tot el puto dia mirant la tele sense fer res sense alumnes sense salses a la uni Abelard parla'ns Abelard

I hate hate hate this kind of lazy analysis which is becoming increasingly common. Now those of us who have been using because of X, Y and Not X but Y for decades before AI will be treated as suspect because we have learnt through hard work, and years of practice how to write clean, well considered sentences. Now, people who do not read widely enough, people who have not made a habit of reading great, clean sentences will immediately look for these and call it AI. I teach "the sentence" as the first module when I teach creative writing. I teach many of these so called tell tale signs of AI, many of which are actually useful ways of making a sentence clear. Writing does not have to be messy. It does not have to contain errors. It does not have to be sloppy to be human. You want a writer who respects the reader enough to think deeply about the sentence. Are more people using AI? Absolutely. Is that writing formulaic and soulless? Very often, yes. But these weird conclusive declarations of how to spot AI are useless and only harm writers who actually pay attention to craft, to voice, to clarity. Worse for me are when academics, who are notorious for completely soulless, opaque writing that no one has been able to read for the past 50 years complain about AI. Most academics write worse than AI. And maybe they might even find lessons there on how to make research clear and accessible. Lazy or incompetent editors, in news and academia, who cannot tell good writing from bad if it slapped them in the face are now up in arms about AI as if the old human slop they have been churning out was any better, as if there was some great age of human writing that was being lost. Before AI, journalists and academics have been producing, dead, formulaic work, impressive only to the in-group, all on their own. It is getting boring.

@adrian_arnau @RTVECatalunya @cris_villanueva @isabelojedam Ho has fet súper bé 🫶🏽

Nací en Sevilla, jamás estudié valenciano y lo que chapurreo proviene del afán de mi padre por evitar que perdiera el idioma de mis abuelos. Él siempre dice que tener tantas lenguas nos engrandece. Yo he intentado estar a la altura en 'El Segon Cafè' de @RTVECatalunya Gràcies 🤍

Cada artículo en MDPI o Frontiers en el currículum, 0.5 puntos menos en la evaluación de la producción científica. Y se acababa el problema ya.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-des…

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

I recently learned that the novelist, Cormac McCarthy, spent several years at the Santa Fe Institute helping scientists write papers. His advice was condensed into a brief Nature column. The first three points, and some of the final points, are really good. (h/t @eryney_ok)

@KirkegaardEmil Ha, yes, as mysterious as Michaela School in London with mostly Black & Asian students, getting top exam results in the UK.

It's a mystery.

@TheGreenParty Dope 🔥

Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

Broaden your horizon and you will see that the #Sudan conflict is also causing immense suffering, with war crimes ongoing at a horrific scale, little or no attention from Europe media, and close to zero broad solidarity with a population that has gone and continues to go through so much, including famine.

‘Well, no, you don’t have to have children’: what African women over the age of 60 have learned about life theguardian.com/global-develop…

Soy universitario, tengo más de 60 y me he ido de Erasmus elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-07…

Rising demand from an ageing population, coupled with relative resilience to automation, appears thus far to be making healthcare a steady ship in choppy water. Perhaps “learn to care” could replace “learn to code” as the go-to career advice for the next generation.

Print proofs!!!

Cosas que inventó la gente de África independientemente: las primeras herramientas, el arte, la agricultura, la cerámica, la metalurgia, el vidrio, la moneda, la ciudad, la democracia asamblearia y la justicia restaurativa. Hilo de 10 tuits y pasamos de racistas una temporada:->