AI & cognitive deskilling

See what you think

Reason Commons | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

What's the point of a note-taking app?

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed

Logial Thinking Process (LTP) / Issue Tree App and Exploration - Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Own the source. Compose with anything. - The Way of Markdown

"... our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place, or thing that introduces it…

Capturing our Attention

www.sebastianwatzl.com

It's getting harder to focus every day

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom

Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action

Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds

Hyperactive–impulsive ADHD traits predict higher curiosity in adults: evidence from a cross-sectional study

Understanding the influence of digital technology on human cognitive functions: A narrative review

How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays

The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together

Where Should Science Go Next

Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social)

Update: The external AppView is stable again, so W has switched back. All AT Protocol users are now visible again. Our own AppView worked…

Some W users experienced problems today because W was relying on Bluesky’s AppView. When their AppView went down, parts of W went down with…

W — Trust your feed

Even as @wsocial.eu onboards more and more users, they can’t seem to get them to talk to each other 🤐 This atrocious engagement rate (~9…

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

We have exciting news: the 🇪🇺 State of the Union speech will be broadcast live on W. And there’s more coming around live video on W. …

Mamdani Issues AI Moratorium In NYC Schools

Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X

Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and educati…

Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X

as we get further into the end of days, I'm reminded about how much of research taste, values and judgment is bound up in the taste, values…

Chris Olah on Twitter / X

The release of #ClaudeDesign left me wondering what a tool like this could look like for academics (rather than designers) I then used Claud…

What if paper reading and reviewing was interactive and visual? Tools today assume a very passive way of engaging with a paper: you open a…

Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons

Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance | David Bollier

Reclaiming the Computing Commons

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol

ATProto Isn't What You Think

Here's my two minute explainer of atproto: it is in essence a water cycle. - Clouds hold water. - They precipitate water over mountains…

What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

The Atmosphere, Explained - Erlend’s notes

Thinking about atproto as an identity and data *substrate* of the web. RSS couldn't go all the way because it built within the boundaries of…

Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André

Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an…

Dan Singleton 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter / X

Is the map of global bat distribution in this paper (Nov 2025, ‘Sustainability’ journal) AI nonsense? Comments from experts on LinkedIn are…

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

AI Use Disclosure resources

Genspace

How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research

Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science

Practical recommendations from a multi-perspective needs and challenges assessment of citizen science games

Citing Less Critically: LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of Scientific Citation

Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

AI Research Evaluation: Negative Findings and Failure Modes | Arvind Narayanan posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work…

The new way we’ll do science

Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment

Curvenote Reader brings a better reading experience to half a million openRxiv preprints

Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv

Universal Scientific Protocols, Inc.

The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations