Do you enjoy working in an international and interdisciplinary environment? Do you value inclusive education, and do you want to foster academic integrity and critical thinking in students? This position may be for you! In this (temporary, 1 year) position you will be responsible for coordinating and teaching a new Academic Skills course for Bachelor [...]
Marcela Suarez, Olivia Guest and I co-organise a Summer School Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming, June 22-26, 2026, at Radboud University, in The Netherlands. The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices [...]
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16905560 This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at the moment. To my surprise and dismay, I hit upon [...]
Perhaps one of the most persistent myths in science—one that also pervades public perception of science—is that it provides a value-free method to arrive at objective Truth, with a big ‘T’. This myth is so persistent that we seldom question it within science. Perhaps it is even taboo to question it. This is illustrated, for [...]
