Dr Ola Michalec
@olamichalec.bsky.social
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
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Dr Ola Michalec
@olamichalec.bsky.social
· Apr 11
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🌳 My first solo article is out! Check out "Models vs infrastructures? On the role of digital twins’ hype in anticipating the governance of the UK energy industry", now out in Environmental Science and Policy
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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We're hiring!👀👀
The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract)
More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025
Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.
The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract)
More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025
Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.
4S Digital Website Coordinator
4sonline.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We're hiring!👀👀
The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract)
More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025
Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.
The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract)
More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025
Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.
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Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
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CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025
This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025
This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.
October 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025
This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025
This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.
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Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.
Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.
Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.
Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.
Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.
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🚨New job: Journals Coordinator.
This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list.
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025:
This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list.
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025:
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September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨New job: Journals Coordinator.
This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list.
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025:
This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list.
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025:
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This is disastrous, quite frankly.
September 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is disastrous, quite frankly.
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We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate at the new Bennett School of Public Policy in the
www.cam.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this?
Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.
Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this?
Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.
Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.
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👀 I'm hiring two roles for a new initiative launching soon (watch this space!) 👀
A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2
A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2
September 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
👀 I'm hiring two roles for a new initiative launching soon (watch this space!) 👀
A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2
A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2
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One week left to apply 📅
We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher.
Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research?
Apply here: www.jrf.org.uk/careers.
We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher.
Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research?
Apply here: www.jrf.org.uk/careers.
Careers
Do you want to help build a fairer future, free from poverty? Join us and use your skills to make a real difference.
www.jrf.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
One week left to apply 📅
We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher.
Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research?
Apply here: www.jrf.org.uk/careers.
We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher.
Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research?
Apply here: www.jrf.org.uk/careers.
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@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
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Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving
Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏
September 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏
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So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this
BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China’s System For Detaining Muslims
BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry.
www.buzzfeednews.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this
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@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!
September 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!
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I wish I was here;
We’re excited to share the final programme for the first Hype Studies Conference: (Don’t) Believe the Hype?!
📅 10–12 September 2025
📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
🌐 Fully hybrid & free
👉 Full schedule:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
👉 All speakers & abstracts:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
📅 10–12 September 2025
📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
🌐 Fully hybrid & free
👉 Full schedule:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
👉 All speakers & abstracts:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
September 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I wish I was here;
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Suuuuuper HYPED!
Final preparations for our conference! 🎩
We are tremendously excited to welcome all participants in-person and online tomorrow for the first conference on Hype Studies! The time has come 😊😊
Wishing safe travels to all those who are joining us from afar!
We are tremendously excited to welcome all participants in-person and online tomorrow for the first conference on Hype Studies! The time has come 😊😊
Wishing safe travels to all those who are joining us from afar!
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Suuuuuper HYPED!
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Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions:
Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions
Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST
hypestudies.org/conference/c...
Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions
Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST
hypestudies.org/conference/c...
September 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions:
Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions
Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST
hypestudies.org/conference/c...
Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions
Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST
hypestudies.org/conference/c...
@hypestudies.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow, choo choo! I'm very excited to share our preprint with @cianooo.bsky.social and Joshua Moon: "Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach" . zenodo.org/records/1699...
Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach
Over the past few decades, the increasing pressures on water, energy and food have widened social inequalities and furthered environmental damage. The scholarship on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEF N...
zenodo.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
@hypestudies.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow, choo choo! I'm very excited to share our preprint with @cianooo.bsky.social and Joshua Moon: "Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach" . zenodo.org/records/1699...
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We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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The best job I've ever had was at Demos. They're hiring people to work on AI and digital things. demos.co.uk/researcher-d... and demos.co.uk/lead-researc...
Researcher (Digital Policy Team)
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The best job I've ever had was at Demos. They're hiring people to work on AI and digital things. demos.co.uk/researcher-d... and demos.co.uk/lead-researc...
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I can strongly recommend diving into this reading list. More than honoured to see my work being in great company and that the resources collected and curated by the @hypestudies.bsky.social are already finding good homes.
Final reading list for my AI course follows, week by week. UC summer sessions are 5 weeks, compressed from the 10 week regular quarter (already short). So, teaching Comm/Media undergrads an upper division class on this, during the summer of the constantly moving AI needle was… a challenge. Still:
Pinned 🧵 -- a Critical AI reading list I'm building in conjuction with a course I'm teaching this summer. I'll be adding to this during the summer, both scholarly works and non-academic public writings, beginning with the Brian Merchant article in the post below:
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I can strongly recommend diving into this reading list. More than honoured to see my work being in great company and that the resources collected and curated by the @hypestudies.bsky.social are already finding good homes.
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I'm gearing up for next week's Hype Studies conference in Barcelona, so I'm thinking about this stuff a lot. @davekarpf.bsky.social makes some great points here, but there's a 'Yes and...'
Tesla's Roadmap to Nowhere
I'll give him this: Elon Musk has a solid grasp of futurity-as-PR.
davekarpf.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'm gearing up for next week's Hype Studies conference in Barcelona, so I'm thinking about this stuff a lot. @davekarpf.bsky.social makes some great points here, but there's a 'Yes and...'
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Preparations are almost complete.
The countdown is on!
aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...
The countdown is on!
aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...
We’re excited to share the final programme for the first Hype Studies Conference: (Don’t) Believe the Hype?!
📅 10–12 September 2025
📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
🌐 Fully hybrid & free
👉 Full schedule:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
👉 All speakers & abstracts:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
📅 10–12 September 2025
📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
🌐 Fully hybrid & free
👉 Full schedule:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
👉 All speakers & abstracts:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
September 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Preparations are almost complete.
The countdown is on!
aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...
The countdown is on!
aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...