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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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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 · 20d

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jul 11

here's the blogpost as promised

aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · Jul 9

Epá, que artigo absolutamente extraordinário. É raro ler algo que muda ou solidifica de imediato o meu ponto de vista sobre um assunto. Este é um desses casos.

Jon Pincince @jonpincince.bsky.social · Jul 9

Very well said www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

www.nytimes.com

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Jul 9

Same.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 8

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.

No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.

Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.

But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?

No.

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yes, you have to create a profile in Google Scholar to have their h-index. Scopus and Web of Science do it automatically, whether you want it or not.

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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · Jul 1

O projeto de investigação "Inovações Democráticas em Portugal", coordenado no ICS-ULisboa pelo investigador @robertofalanga.bsky.social esteve recentemente em destaque na RTP Notícias.

Para ler na íntegra: tinyurl.com/mvpb5xr4

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Jun 30

Useful.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Jun 6

New article from our IoT project. The first version was submitted a year and a half ago. Much improved by several rounds of revision. Slow science.
doi.org/10.1332/2046...

Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a range of technologies through which mundane objects are connected to the internet, collecting data about their environment and being able to be remotely operated. In ...

doi.org

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Jun 3

So well said!!! The people making these cuts just want to live in a fantasy world.

John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · May 29

"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful…”🫥

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 28

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"

"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation

Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · May 29

Technology vs humans.

‘We’re losing eyes on the coast’: death of Canadian lightkeeper casts doubt on future of shoreside guardians

The keeper’s death led to questions over safety, rattled the tightly knit group of sentinels and renewed de-staffing fears

www.theguardian.com

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