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Ana Delicado

@anadelicado.bsky.social

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STS scholar, cat lover, epicurist. Researcher at the University of Lisbon.

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 2d

Science is always political.

Mário André Macedo @marioamacedo.bsky.social · 2d

Capa forte da Lancet

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Mário André Macedo @marioamacedo.bsky.social · 2d

Capa forte da Lancet

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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · 16d

Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno

open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

open.substack.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 27d

THIS is what’s happening in Gaza:
- Destroying homes
- Cutting off aid
- Taking children’s lives
- Starving an entire population

Yet in Europe, Israel is still welcomed to play football, as if nothing is happening. Italy and other countries are preparing to host them for the World Cup qualifiers.

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 28d

Worth a reading: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Sep 6

o que querem é destruir os prédios que nasceram ali à volta para construir a escadaria. e desalojar os moradores

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Sep 6

I do miss in person conferences, but there are a 1001 reasons why travelling to the US is not a good idea.

Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Sep 6

At a conference half a world away (online). Yesterday @jussararowland.bsky.social took my place in presenting about our current CCS projects very late in the evening, today it's my turn to replace her on a presentation on AI and governance.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Sep 4

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

www.irishtimes.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Aug 29

Since the majority of academics don't want to limit their privilege of conference tourism to protect the planet, the warming planet will force them to do it.

"We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism..."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heatwaves, wildfires and the hot summers that could change how we holiday

With rising temperatures causing chaos worldwide, what does it mean to be a tourist in a world on fire?

www.theguardian.com

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ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Call for Papers 📢

RN24 Midterm Conference call for papers: Technology in the face of global challenges

RN24/SSTNET invites submissions on the role of technology in addressing today’s global challenges, with a special focus on Europe

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 19 Sept 2025
🗓️ Conference: 26–27 Nov 2025

drive.google.com

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Rita Maestre @ritamaestre.bsky.social · Aug 20

La plaza del Ayuntamiento de París se ha transformado por completo. Árboles, sombras y un espacio mucho sano para sus vecinas y vecinos.

Claro que es posible no tener plazas que se conviertan en una sartén durante el verano, solo hace falta querer hacerlo.

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · Aug 17

People love it

The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Nov 20

Remarkably insightful review of Spectacles of Waste (@politybooks.bsky.social 2024) in @tapuyalasts.bsky.social, open access. Reframing the book in relation to Latin America opens up all sorts of paths, some of which I should have imagined myself!
#STS #HistSTM #histsci #medhum

Epistemología de mierda

Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 26

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

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Lior Steinberg @liorsteinberg.bsky.social · Dec 17

A fun game to play while riding the Amsterdam tram.
No AI, no applications, just a low-tech "augmented reality" game.

Designed by Daniel Disselkoen for GVB: danieldisselkoen.nl/man-eater

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Dec 18

We desperately need more men in caregiving roles, as @jessgrose.bsky.social argues. And I'd add--to get there, we have to start early, encouraging boys to fill caregiving roles that too often default to girls. Take, for example, a story from my kids' school... 1/ 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...

Opinion | Men in Caring Jobs Will Make Society More Equal

Less stigma against male caregivers is all to the good.

www.nytimes.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Dec 20

In my latest piece for @science.org, I ask how we should think about experiments that take place outside the lab. It begins here, in St Ives, Cornwall. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it

ALT: a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it

media.tenor.com

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · Jan 16

This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco

A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · Jan 20

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. @ursulakleguin.com

www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal

Ursula K. Le Guin — National Book Foundation Medal: Ursula's Acceptance Speech

www.ursulakleguin.com

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · Jan 26

A search engine without links to sources, that can't access information it hasn't been fed. A dubious technology, solving no existing problem except labour, being forced down our throats by the worst people in the world.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 26

Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Nov 15

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Nov 15

There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · Feb 12

Oh my God, this whole piece is 🔥

"The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’ [Its] aesthetic project is to flood the zone...to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

newsocialist.org.uk

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · Feb 14

Must read by @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com about organized attacks on faculty research. @bletiecq.bsky.social quoted: “We are totally under attack...we’re like sitting ducks.” We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics

The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color

www.theguardian.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 21

The fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent in Vermont. The stabbing death of a landlord in California. An elderly couple murdered in Pennsylvania. Who are the so-called Zizians, the group allegedly linked to all these killings? buff.ly/3ENqfa5

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians

A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 26

Canadian artist Howie Tsui redesigned an old pinball machine into a simulation of a musket-ball rattling around a soldier's guts for an exhibition on the War of 1812. It's meant to demonstrate the way that repetition and concentration can inure a person to the horrors of war.

A pinball machine designed to look like the internal organs of a human being.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · Mar 19

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

www.lemonde.fr

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