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Prof Maz Hardey
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Professor ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤 https://www.mariannhardey.com/
Durham University Business School:,Unravelling with Technology, Education & AI.

Neurodiverse.

Resident of The North.

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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · Dec 9
The Learner.

She is curious.

Diligent.

The one who asked if she could.

"Could I?..."

She would like to experiment.

Play.

But she got shamed.

Over and over again.

Stuck.

Using Gen AI in Education, by me. Image and Text.
A hand-drawn illustration of a student with speech bubbles around her head that are voicing concerns about using Gen AI in education.
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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If you can read this, then your social media might not be dead… yet.
newpublic.org New_ Public @newpublic.org · 1d
The For You Page has cannibalized the feed, and what’s left are big viral moments, your private DMs, and the hollow middle.

A social media manager’s perspective on how the social internet works now, and to think about getting attention online, from @milkkarten.bsky.social.
Post-social media
It's time to rethink what the feed is for.
www.milkkarten.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
New Imperialism

Europe should "reconsider" its taxes on big tech companies if it wants to see lower US tariff rates on its steel and aluminium exports, says Trump Govt.

Better to develop alternatives to US tech companies and be free of coercion.
US presses Europe on taxes on big tech companies
Europe should
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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olivia.science
To all my new followers, please check this out before much else, but also my research is all available freely here (see the little pdf icons):

olivia.science#publications
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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That supporting humanity isn’t the goal of AI and is, instead, the continued ascendency of capitalism is the…

I’ll let you fill in the gaps.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“Until its A.I. can accomplish some incredible feat — say, generating a cure for cancer — success is partly defined by turning ChatGPT into a lucrative business. That means continually increasing how many people use and pay for it.”
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
People are ready to make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

(Source: Evening Standard from YouGov Data)
One in five voters see green party leader Zack Polanski favourably, three points since mid October.
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Dozens of women joined a collective LinkedIn experiment this week after a series of viral posts suggested that, for some, changing their gender to “male” boosted their visibility on the network.' 1/3
Bro boost: women find LinkedIn traffic ‘drives’ if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The problem with a distinct name and a straightforward solution.

Problem: The Gender Pay Gap

Solution: Equal Pay.

V straightforward.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
'THE’s analysis includes more than 120 institutions from the government’s gender pay gap service providing undergraduate education in 2024-25, and excludes school trusts and further education colleges.' 1/3
Gender pay gap growing across majority of UK universities
More than half of higher education institutions failed to improve gender pay equity last year
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Accidental Renaissance #caturday
Tricolour cat on a chaise surrounded by Lego washing herself with her leg in the air lounging on a huge teddy. Tricolour cat on a chaise surrounded by Lego washing herself with her leg in the air lounging on a huge teddy.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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How to prevent the risk of docile bodies? tldr, we need education and critical thinkers :-)
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Institutions are deleting DEI from their websites to save their skins, but they still expect us to fix their culture for free.

No.

Based on my talks to CASC and the UK HECBioSim consortium, read my guide to the "Bureaucratic No": www.mariannhardey.com/technologica... #HPC #Computing #DEI
Stop Feeding the Shark: A Guide to the Bureaucratic No and the End of Unpaid Equity Work
MY BOOKS  | ABOUT
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November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Transgender Awareness Week with Jessica Kellgren-Fozard [TikTok @jessicaoutofthecloset ]
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
64 of UK higher education institutions were predicted in May this year to be in deficit next year; now that figure is 114, a significant worsening of the situation, with liquidity problems also rising. 1/2
Many English universities to report deficits despite rise in tuition fees
Continued funding squeeze and volatile student enrolment will continue to hit finances, regulator warns
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I’m sure behind closed doors the AI-bros have our very best interests at heart.

They’re probably in a knitting circle sharing how much they do philanthropy and will totally eliminate world hunger.
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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About to teach. And need to stop everything to read this,
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I have found The Resistance: Mutual Aid and Political Activism

Stop GenAI.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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olivia.science
to my new followers and not, see this if you want to understand why and how much the AI bros hate women and people generally (by @spookyachu.bsky.social, Annelies K, and me):

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d
yes, and the history so SO BAD, see: Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
figure 2 from Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6 table 1 from Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6 The original non-fictional instance of Pygmalion displacement, enabled by ideas like Turing (1950, as discussed above), is the history of how it came to be that women, human computers, were replaced by machines, digital computers. One of the first women computers was Nicole-Reine Lepaute who was a French astronomer in the 18th century. Scientific calculations for such cases like for astronomical observatories, for ballistic trajectories, as well as the material realities of the Second World War and the Cold War, pushed the need for fast computations and in large numbers (Grier 2005). Performing these calculations was a task which was considered tedious, was low in rank, was paid poorly, and was even mocked; and thus perhaps unsurprisingly, was carried out by immigrants and women. So-called “computer girls” were the main computing workforce. They worked hard, innovated immensely, and were often highly educated (Grier 2005). However, they were also often framed as enjoying so-called boring work, which is a valuejudgement without basis, and written out of history (Mundy 2017). Even when (underhanded) compliments were attempted they were patronising, e.g., “the women enjoyed the challenge of this work and did not find it tedious or boring.” (Ceruzzi 1991, p. 239, reproducing a text from 1942) As were descriptions of these women’s understanding, e.g., “[i]t is doubtful these women knew in 1942 [...] that they were part of a profound event of modern social and technical history.” (p. 239) These statements appear sexist and racist on their face. Why would these women (the quote previously is specifically about inter alia African American women who worked for the predecessor to NASA), or indeed anybody, not think they were helping in radical and unprecedented ways to, e.g., defeat the Nazis or send/return people from/to space? This is bizarre since, due to asking them for secrecy, they were also explicitly told they were obviously part of the war effort. Thus, while these w… The systemic forces that subjugate us, by trapping us in an endless cycle of AI-enabled displacement, will by no means benefit from being named. And indeed being named and described — being able to say “this constitutes a Pygmalion displacement” — are the first steps to providing us with some understanding, which itself is a precursor to ending this hitherto endless cycle. If just following orders, has been deemed insufficient as an excuse when collaborating with fascistic forces, we must ask ourselves where we stand today within capitalist patriarchy, which commands to either take up certain jobs for lesser pay, and then roll over unfazed when we are automated away. Lest we be interrogated and found lacking in humanity by future generations, we should think carefully about our complicity in our own, as women, as denizens of the Global North, etc., and others’ technological subjugation. Do we take a stand, minimally rhetorically, against our own violent displacement, or do we stand by it? To paraphrase the quote from Penny (2017) we used above, women unlike fictional robots who uncover their own “humanity” or sentience, we already know we are human and we already experience sentience. We also already know our own position. We will rebel, and we will not be stopped. I will rule these machines; they will not rule me. Eileen Buckholtz, 2020, p. 59
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I wonder how badly the AI bros hate women?

It can’t be That bad?…

Oh holy F*** !
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d
to my new followers and not, see this if you want to understand why and how much the AI bros hate women and people generally (by @spookyachu.bsky.social, Annelies K, and me):

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d
yes, and the history so SO BAD, see: Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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andytseng.bsky.social
The @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social team at @unimelb.bsky.social is fantastic and has some amazing job openings! Please share this with anyone who might be interested.
#HASS #RSE #DigitalHumanities #ResearchSoftwareEngineering #UniMelb #JobOpening #Recruiting #Hiring #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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My assistive tools are now AI tools. To "conscientiously object" is to burn the scaffold I need to work.

I am not an adopter. I am a Reluctant Cyborg.

Read why here: www.mariannhardey.com/technologica...

#AIinHE #Neurodiversity #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #EdTech
The Conscientious Objector and the Reluctant Cyborg: Why I Cannot Leave the Cage
RESEARCH | ABOUT | CONTACT
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November 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
New policy brief on sovereign AI from @ai.cam.ac.uk with us @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk & @mctd.bsky.social www.ai.cam.ac.uk/reports/2025...
Navigating AI Sovereignty: Strategic Choices for the UK
This policy brief addresses whether the UK’s current approach to AI sovereignty is able to deliver a future where the nation can influence the AI systems shaping its economy, security, and democrac...
www.ai.cam.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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I’m going to boost this again, as it is brilliant, and I’m losing my mind this morning over electrons… 👀
olivia.science 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.
1/n
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
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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YO10 #uksnow

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uksnowmap.com #uksnow Map @uksnowmap.com · 6d
Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM