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Dr Naomi Jacobs

@ladylark.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking based at @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. @blackarchive.co.uk author. She/her. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · Nov 11

If you're here off an academic pack, I do share research stuff, but I'm an interdisciplinary magpie so it's all over the place. And you might just get food pictures, or in fact Doctor Who (or other geekiness).

Also, I curate my follows quite tightly so nothing personal if I don't follow back!

Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · Nov 10

I believe I'm on a Doctor Who related starter pack, so if you're here for that be aware that while I did co-write two Black Archive books about the show (and an academic paper about livestreaming of classic episodes) it's not a topic I post about a lot. I won't be offended if you decide to unfollow!

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 4h

Just seen Jane Weaver play a fantastic gig to around 100 people, in a room that's probably over 800 years old, in a castle, 5 minutes walk from my house. Lancaster's pretty cool sometimes.

Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 1d

I fear it may be 'the second dark age'. Due to digital decay leading to a lack of (reliable) sources. No other reason, honest...

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 1d

It's true!! Our #FSNNA2025 virtual #FanStudies conference program is LIVE! (subject to possible minor changes)

▫️Program 🔗 fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/

And if you haven't registered yet to attend, there's still time!
▫️Registration 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/fanst...

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Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social · 2d

Cleanse your timeline

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

When parakeets cosplay

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the heads up, I bought a ticket!

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 3d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 3d

Who is it? I might be free on Saturday.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoying that this photo includes a row of tulips

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just learned that John Searle, whose Chinese Room thought experiment is often used to challenge ideas of “understanding” in LLMs, died at age 93 on Sunday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

www.theguardian.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3d

I just don't think there are that many people going "Well I wasn't going to vote for them before, but this policy of driving people out of studying the arts and humanities has changed my mind".

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 4d

One of the worst bits of screen media I've seen in recent years (and that's saying something)

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 4d

This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 4d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 5d

Do you find yourself at the intersection of performance, games, and design? Do you want to work with world class artists in research, pedagogy, and games? Then maybe apply to work with me at UCSC! We're hiring a Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games

recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01998

Assistant Professor of Interactive Art, Performance & Games (Initial Review Date 11/14/25)

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 7d

You've already had lots of folks offer the correct answer that there are multiple definitions of species (and biologists often argue about which one to use) but did you hear about the ant species recently discovered where the queen sometimes gives birth to males of an entirely different species?

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 7d

A wonderful thread involving secret compartments, secret treasures, care and kindness.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 7d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 8d

Watch this, she's just reading a poem but you won't have seen it read so well

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKTv...

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you!

Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 8d

Don't suppose you've got a link to that statement handy? I'm planning to mention it in my teaching. (I can probably find it myself but i'm being lazy)

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 9d

No intelligence is general, as the term refers (indirectly & vaguely) to a cluster of distinct capabilities in a given active organism, which vary according to ecological niche, embodiment, cultural valuation and individual variation. We’d get better science by decomposing and testing for these. 3/3

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 10d

Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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