Jude Dineley

How Big AI Developers are Skirting a Mandate for Training Data Transparency We need better visibility into what data AI developers are using to train their models, write Dick Blankvoort, Harshvardhan Pandit, and Maximilian Gahntz.

There is a battle raging over the lack of visibility into AI training data, write Dick Blankvoort, Harshvardhan Pandit, and Maximilian Gahntz. A neglected provision in the European Union’s AI Act may prove to be the biggest break in securing more transparency from AI developers to date.

💭We need more research that focuses on aspects beyond accuracy, especially in multilingual AI.

👉Help us explore the importance of culture in building and testing AI, with a few minutes of your time.

Happy to have a chat as well with anyone who's interested in that space!

#TwinPeaks #LogLady Intro quote:
Complications set in. How many times have we heard: 'it's simple'. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again

Important thread

Eating Disorders, Ethnicity and Culture YouTube video by EDIFY research

Eating disorders can affect anybody, from any age, sex, gender, and background. Yet limiting stereotypes still exist about who can be affected by eating disorders.
#eatingdisordersawarenessweek #EDAW

youtu.be/JBmOI8xKAc8?...

Looking good! (if a little unsettling how warm it was yesterday 😅)

Tune in to the latest episode of the On the ARC podcast - Carving a New Path: Lived Experience In Research.

Cat Morgan interviews McPin's Tanya Mackay, about the power of lived experience involvement in research and her career.

Apple: https://ow.ly/WGYB50YlMGb

Spotify https://ow.ly/GTh650YlMGa

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

sign with lots of angry wugs protesting cuts

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals

the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts

join us in the fight against these cuts!

Stunning! Much needed in this weather.

calling L1 speakers of British English, please help out my student Emilia on her dissertation study! 🐦🐦

it's a short (<20 min) and fun one on voice recognition, please share! lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Good to know, thank you. You can never have too many local café recommendations :)

'Powerful message': Courthouse purchases art by Aboriginal inmates With each paint stroke and dot placement, art gives John the opportunity to express his culture, with some of his fellow Aboriginal inmates joining him in creating artworks while incarcerated.

Beautiful paintings of magpies, turtles and other #wildAus

“…people sometimes think that these offerings are a privilege, but my view is that Aboriginal artwork in prison is not a privilege, it's a prevention,"

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Persistence of the Deficit Model in Communication Authored By: Jibran KhanArt By: Carla HuThe deficit model of communication assumes that public pushback against scientific knowledge stems from a lack of understanding and that providing more informat...

Reminds me of the (flawed) deficit model of science communication www.cornellhealthcarereview.org/post/the-per...

Buddhist monks and their dog captivate Americans while walking for peace A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C.

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C.

That’s great, welcome :-) Moving country is hard

Or an electric guitar 🙋‍♀️

Help improve psychosis services!

We're looking for people with experience of Early Intervention in Psychosis services - or have supported a close friend/family member with them - to join our Service User & Carer Reference Group.

Find out more & apply here by 29 Jan 5pm 👉 tinyurl.com/5h3hcjfx

Similar for me, but I think I’m getting better at it. I think it’s a long term project 😅

"Depression is associated with trait X" - but does depression cause it, or the other way round? 🤔

This study used genetics as a natural experiment to test potential causal relationships with 137 traits.

#MentalHealth #Depression #Genetics #MendelianRandomisation

🧵 THREAD

The Institute of Physics (@iop.org), its publishing arm @ioppublishing.bsky.social, and its flagship magazine @physicsworld.bsky.social (which I work for) figured this out a long time ago. If you’re a physicist/astronomer/science teacher/something else relevant, follow them & show them some love!

Cheers, OpenAi, but that’s a firm no.

Who the hell would even consider this?

The must-read paper on LLMs, language, and thought that I reference here:

Dissociating language and thought in large language models
arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627
by @kmahowald.bsky.social @neuranna.bsky.social Idan Blank @nancykanwisher.bsky.social @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social

Oof. Bless you. I’m on 2 too, but daily symptoms of varying severity, though far fewer severe days than before I started Ajovy.

I’m not surprised - that sounds awful. Is there any way for you to see a doc to talk about preventative options? Strength to you.

HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.

The publisher is teaming with a company that claims its proprietary AI can ‘provide 2 to 3 times higher quality translations’ than other large language models.

Bless you, similar here. Better times will come. I’m trying my best to do all the right things.

Thank you 🙏🏻 Yes! Yesterday was great, a mild day. Yay for stable high pressure :)

My experience living in Bavaria was that it were very organised in Germany with gritters, ploughs🤞🏻Much better at driving in cold conditions too!

Yeah - political centres that are also perceived to have better services, infrastructure in general, health included. I grew up in NW England so… 😅