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. […]
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u do realise now jill that i’m tempted to n.corp [ie steal] the instant poll format in2 my art.wurks;)
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jrxblue
Snap Preview is cool!!
chris
I like it! It’s very helpful.
Anonymous
it seems to help me preview a link before i have to commit to click, and that helps
Esther
To be honest I think all websites will be using it as a default soon. although I don’t want to, think of the advertising potential of it (shudders a bit)
letizia jaccheri
good morning I was here again this morning. I am trying to sup up together with a friend, our experience with http://www.researcherblog.blogspot.com/
we started in 2004 when we knew little about blogs. but we had a feeling that we had to use a blog to share what interests us each time. even if our career is based on papers we wrote 5 years ago and where published 2 years ago and we register on frida now.
for an Italian-Norwegian like me your texts are complex, I struggle a bit, but I enjoy your blog. keep up good work. and visit me in Trondheim sometimes!
Letizia
Jill
So there’s a clear majority in favour of keeping it – I’ll keep it. And you CAN turn it off – I had an email from one of the developers (and I can’t FIND the email now, how weird!!) saying if you click the little ? in the upper right corner it lets you set it up so that you never again see it – it uses cookies to do that I guess, but it’s nice the option’s there.
Sorry I forgot your name and lost your email, kind developer :/
Karin
I received that mail too, as I’m sure everyone who’s signed up for it has. Anyway, it’s quite easy to customize this thing to suit your “needs”; turn off the searchbox, and to disable the whole thing when that seems like a good idea, and more. FAQ at their site gives you what you need. (Doesn’t it always?)
Jill
Oh good! I also see they’re implementing the thing on ALL wordpress.com blogs now!