Sarah Abel
@drsarahabel.bsky.social
Philosopher and anthropologist of science, works on racism and sexism in genomics/visual culture/AI. She/her.
https://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/sarah-abel
https://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/sarah-abel
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This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood.
I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
July 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood.
I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
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🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
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🗣️ #Entrevista a la filósofa @carissaveliz.bsky.social: "No debemos caer en el error de poner toda la responsabilidad sobre los hombros de los individuos".
Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad”
La profesora hispano-mexicana-británica de filosofía y ética, especialista en los dilemas éticos que plantea la economía de datos, confía en los más jóvenes para crear tecnologías más respetuosas y éticas que hagan del mundo un lugar mejor.
theconversation.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🗣️ #Entrevista a la filósofa @carissaveliz.bsky.social: "No debemos caer en el error de poner toda la responsabilidad sobre los hombros de los individuos".
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Again I stand by what I said.
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
www.rollingstone.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Again I stand by what I said.
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A great new series by @datasociety.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social cutting through the bullshit of #AI hype and its implications for #democracy and #governance in the #US
🚨NEW SERIES ALERT🚨 My incredible @datasociety.bsky.social team with @techpolicypress.bsky.social just launched a series on "Tech Power and Democratic Crisis" (aka technofascism). The 1st piece by Jake Metcalf & Meg Young is out now: www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...
www.techpolicy.press
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A great new series by @datasociety.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social cutting through the bullshit of #AI hype and its implications for #democracy and #governance in the #US
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The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
🧵 1/26
drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
January 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪
🧵 1/26
drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
🧵 1/26
drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
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"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
🌟📖🧐 Last week @johnbenjamins.bsky.social published A Comparative Literary History of Modern #Slavery Vol. II: Slavery, #Memory, and Literature, inc. my chapter with Gísli Pálsson, "Bio-graphies in the Broad Sense: Narrating the Lives and #Genomes of the Enslaved"
www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...
www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🌟📖🧐 Last week @johnbenjamins.bsky.social published A Comparative Literary History of Modern #Slavery Vol. II: Slavery, #Memory, and Literature, inc. my chapter with Gísli Pálsson, "Bio-graphies in the Broad Sense: Narrating the Lives and #Genomes of the Enslaved"
www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...
www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...
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🗞️ [NEWS]
Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️♀️
More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈
@drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS
Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️♀️
More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈
@drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS
May 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🗞️ [NEWS]
Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️♀️
More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈
@drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS
Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️♀️
More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈
@drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS
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Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
“It is as if suddenly no one were able to account for all the inhabitants of Arizona — only to learn they had been shipped off to #ElSalvador ’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT in Spanish.” 😦 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/22/t...
The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.
theintercept.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“It is as if suddenly no one were able to account for all the inhabitants of Arizona — only to learn they had been shipped off to #ElSalvador ’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT in Spanish.” 😦 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/22/t...
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Flattering nod to “Because of You” here from @milenaivanova.bsky.social — may not sound like praise but definitely is, in context: “The value derived from BECAUSE OF YOU is possible because of the moral flaws of the ingredients it is constructed with.“ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
AI, art and morality - AI and Ethics
After ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ won a prize in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition in 2022 there was a very strong outcry in the media that this signified the ‘end of art’. Allen himself ...
link.springer.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Flattering nod to “Because of You” here from @milenaivanova.bsky.social — may not sound like praise but definitely is, in context: “The value derived from BECAUSE OF YOU is possible because of the moral flaws of the ingredients it is constructed with.“ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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It has been a year. And quite a year! The piece continues to be controversial, relevant and educational, and we’re looking for an in-person home for it! 👀
“Because of You” was created last year with @evijit.io and won a top prize at the @cvprconference.bsky.social Art Gallery (curated by @elluba.bsky.social). More info here: www.cyberneticforests.com/news/because...
Because of You (2024) — Cybernetic Forests.
Exploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.
www.cyberneticforests.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It has been a year. And quite a year! The piece continues to be controversial, relevant and educational, and we’re looking for an in-person home for it! 👀
“By rooting misogyny in women’s ‘shared biology’, rather than our shared oppression under #patriarchy, the #SupremeCourt relies on incredibly conservative ideas about gender as a naturalised phenomenon”
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-court-rules-that-trans-women-arent-women-under-the-equality-act-2010/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-court-rules-that-trans-women-arent-women-under-the-equality-act-2010/
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“By rooting misogyny in women’s ‘shared biology’, rather than our shared oppression under #patriarchy, the #SupremeCourt relies on incredibly conservative ideas about gender as a naturalised phenomenon”
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Come from the important and damning reporting. Stay for the revelation that Palantir management refers to their workers as hobbits.
April 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Come from the important and damning reporting. Stay for the revelation that Palantir management refers to their workers as hobbits.
No se pierdan este conversatorio 👇 conversaciones en torno a la traducción de debates sobre "raza" y mestizaje entre México y EEUU, con una presentación del excelente libro Beyond Mestizaje. 21 de abril a las 11am CDMX
ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...
ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
No se pierdan este conversatorio 👇 conversaciones en torno a la traducción de debates sobre "raza" y mestizaje entre México y EEUU, con una presentación del excelente libro Beyond Mestizaje. 21 de abril a las 11am CDMX
ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...
ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...
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We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL.
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Closing date 12th April: 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
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL.
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
April 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??
God, we are fucked.
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Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press
To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
buff.ly
March 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms
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This must be someone’s dream job Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Curator of Living Cultures:Manchester Museum
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This must be someone’s dream job Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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¿Cómo transforma la IA nuestra cultura visual? 🧵👇
March 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
¿Cómo transforma la IA nuestra cultura visual? 🧵👇
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Sandra Harding (1935–2025) questioned whose perspectives shape Western science & STS. She pushed for Global South voices, co-founding Tapuya in 2016. Her vision & tenacity live on—she will be deeply missed.
March 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sandra Harding (1935–2025) questioned whose perspectives shape Western science & STS. She pushed for Global South voices, co-founding Tapuya in 2016. Her vision & tenacity live on—she will be deeply missed.