I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen (a philosopher who completed her PhD in 2025 on AI and ethics, including discussions of art and working life), Knut Ørke (Norwegian as a second language), and Holger Pötzsch (a professor of media studies with many years of research on digital media, video games, disruption, and working life, among other topics). This is not about preventing researchers from exploring AI methods in their research. It is about not uncritically accepting the hype that everyone must use AI everywhere without critical reflection. It is about not introducing Copilot as the default option in word processors, or training PhD candidates to believe they will fall behind if they do not use AI when writing articles, without proper academic discussion. Changes like these should be knowledge-based and discussed academically, not merely decided administratively, because they alter the epistemological foundations of research. Maria wrote to me a couple of months ago because she had read my opinion piece in Aftenposten in which I called for a strong brake on the use of language models in knowledge work. She was part of a committee tasked with developing UiT’s AI strategy and was concerned because there was so much hype and so few members of the committee with actual expertise in AI. I fully support the petition. There are probably some good uses for AI in research, but the uncritical, hype-driven insistence that we must simply adopt it everywhere is highly risky. There are many researchers in Norway with strong expertise in AI, language, ethics, working life, and culture. We must make use of this expertise. This is also partly about respect for research in the humanities, social sciences, psychology, and law. Introducing AI at universities and university colleges is not merely a technical issue, and perhaps not even primarily a technical one. It concerns much more: philosophy of science, methodological reflection, epistemology, writing, publishing, the working environment, and more. […]
jonty
I think it’s a good idea to shift over. Although I love Tinderbox I’ve been watching MoveableType sites for a while and really like them, especially because of the TrackBack feature.
My own reservation about shifting over to MT has to do with my lack of techie knowlege. I wouldn’t know how to install it on a .Mac account.
Does this mean you are not using Tinderbox at all to write your posts now or are you composing in Tbox and publishing with MT?
Hope the transition is smooth!
Christian
Bra at du gÂr over til movable type. Jeg har lenge stusset over at bloggsiden din har vÊrt veldig treg  laste. S er det et poeng at man b¯r leve som man lÊrer/underviser.
Christian
Kult at kommentarene kommer opp her p siden. Dette skal jeg nok f snappet opp fra deg, kodebitem altsÂ, hehe
Jill
Wow, cool, comments and a trackback already! I need to change the comments code so the WHOLE of each comments doesn’t show up in the right hand column… Still, it’s fun to see how it works. And I obviously don’t have to rebuilt for it to work. It’s kind of like magic, really 🙂
Jonty, I thought of blogging in Tinderbox and uploading to MoveableType but I don’t think that’ll be particularly useful really. I’ll keep taking notes and jotting things down in Tinderbox and some of those will probably become blogged but not in any consistent way I don’t think. We’ll see.
And yes, Christian, my site’s been VERY slow, and it’s mostly because of the externally hosted comments… This’ll speed it up. Oh, and I’ll be posting the codes for showing trackbacks and comments and stuff soon 🙂 Of course 🙂
meredith
Looks good to me- and the site loads much quicker at my end, too. You’re in a great position now to compare and contrast the various tools available to webloggers.
Looking forward to another year of Jill/txt.
Jill
Thanks, Meredith!
Seb
Speaking of facilitating networking, in Movable Type you can associate TrackBack Ping URLs with categories and automatically cross-post elsewhere, for instance to (existing or new) TopicExchange channels – http://topicexchange.com
Jason
That’s awesome!!! I’m a huge moveable type fan myself. 😀
Robert
Nice… though in Mozilla some page elements overlap (like “jill/txt” is written over the top of the most recent entry).
JIll
Thanks, Robert – Liz Lawley just emailed me that bug too. Gotta fix it…
Det perfekta tomrummet
Fler kˆr trackbacks
Jill Walker byter till MT och kan d‰rmed gˆra n‰tverket som knyter samman bloggar synligare, med hj‰lp av bland annat