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Danya Glabau

@allergyphd.bsky.social

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STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

*taps the sign*

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

No we are talking about deskilling and firing people, the AI industry default setting

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Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social · 4h

This is why modern biometric privacy laws must not exclude employee data.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

“Internal communications reviewed by the Financial Times and The Guardian confirm that JPMorgan employees assigned to the new building have been told they must enroll their fingerprints or undergo an eye scan to access the premises.”

JP Morgan’s biometric mandate signals new era of workplace surveillance in finance | Biometric Update

JPMorgan says the system is part of a modern security program designed to protect workers and streamline access but it has sparked growing concern over privacy.

www.biometricupdate.com

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 6h

The rest of my Friday afternoon (and all I have the energy left to do)

Gray and white cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 8h

Ah yeah, good point! Computer scientists are being asked to justify their existence in universities for the first time in generations, too, and I think it sets up the conditions to be overly credulous when someone offers you a solution

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12h

You have to really *try* to convince a 20-year-old that it’s not worth asking what justice or freedom or social good is. They don’t come by that incuriosity naturally.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11h

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12h

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 11h

Treat tools like people so you can treat people like tools

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11h

Meta executives are telling their workers they must use AI to "go 5x faster" and expect a "5x leap in productivity"

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Paul Zimmerman @paulczimmerman.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re an archaeologist and have never done Skype A Scientist, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lot of fun!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

Sending my completely normal morning emails about intentional failure, queer theory, and exorcisms, Friday lfg

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 14h

I've seen an interesting split in computer science colleagues: some like you who are frustrated and concerned about skills, and some just interested in turning out workers who can say they "have experience programming with AI"

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

So many takes on this man and his various escapades that entirely miss the point of why it is all bad, it's exhausting!

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

As a feminist STS anthropologist, I fully endorse this take

D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1d

*sighs in philosopher of science*

Looking for confirmatory evidence is an entirely normal part of science. The primary problem here is the eugenics and the fascism, not the lies to children about "the scientific method."

One Bluesky account is quoting another. Inner post has a video of RFK Jr., some person I don't recognize (Tylenol and autism guy, maybe?), Marco Rubio (I think), and Trump. Post text: "RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: 'It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Outer post text: "We're doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)"

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

"In Defense of Science Illiteracy" is a section header in this book, Bluesky would hate it SO much

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

I encountered this in one of my NYU newsletters; includes lots of zoom events!

NYU Detention and Deportation event series; use QR code to access full info

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

Still haunted by this formulation

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 2d

”Drawing on analyses of failure (Halberstam 2011) and willfulness (Ahmed 2014), I suggest a re-evaluation of “success” and “failure” in doing “real” science.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · Aug 27

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy and Decolonization: From Pessimism to Emancipation | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/uUlUR2K

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

The number of times I've heard that what education is has to change because AI! When people say this to me now, I just say, "no." Usually they stop talking for ten seconds because no one is ever telling them no, and that's the whole problem

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

If you're at NYU, join us next Thursday, it's via Zoom! And more along these lines in the works for next year, too

events.nyu.edu/event/367270...

Starting Conversations About Generative AI in the Classroom

In this TeachTalk, we share a process for starting conversations about generative AI in the classroom that programs, departments, and research team...

events.nyu.edu

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what my talk on LLMs in the classroom next week is about.

In fact, the last line of my slides is, in bold: "At the end of the day, FACULTY control the curriculum."

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching a PhD seminar to 1/3 social scientists and 2/3 computer/data scientists has really clarified for me what social theory is and what a social explanation does, how it makes an argument

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

Emphasis on the "now"

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes for sure, these studies triggered the concern. And a lot of folks have been pointing them out. But in terms of, why is it a political issue now, that's a different question that I (maybe unfairly?) read into your and other comments, and that's more what I was thinking about in my posts

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 1d

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

I actually don't think there is a top-down conspiracy here, and nor do you need one when your entire medical system is based on refusing patients access to basic care and then treating them like garbage three months later when they finally book time with a provider