This thread highlights some of my work on a Marsden-funded project on the politics of deep-sea mining in the Pacific, including research I’ve supervised during the project.
An experimental microblog unplugged from social media.
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I’m currently working on a paper on issues arising from data collection on the project and I’ve recently presented this as a work-in-progress at UC. More on that soon …
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I’ve released an AI reading list for students focused on known issues with LLMs / gen AI. It’s released on Github. I’ll queue up some relevant things to add to it from time to time using this thread …
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Here’s an interesting project to watch that is training LLMs on historic texts: History LLMs. They’ve indicated that data and models other outputs will be released at some point. The project trains LLMs on texts authored before specific dates (e.g. 1913), demonstrating that LLMs (even those trained on modern texts) are time-bound “compressed representations” of training texts.
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Talking research …
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From Overton meta-data to scraped policy corpus - UC Library Workshop, 10am, April 1, 2026
Visit the link above for details and registration.
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This thread highlights postgraduate projects I’ve supervised over the past few years.
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In 2024/2025, I supervised Chanvicheka Korng from the Master of Applied Data Science programme on a project to annotate digitised New Zealand parliamentary debates.
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I’m thinking of this microblog as an experiment in anti-social media. Why “anti-social media”?
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