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easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 2d

Academics! Sign the Uppsala declaration of conscientious objection. More than 3000 signatures, organizers are trying to reach 10000 before the next European Commission meeting:
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine.

uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/#stat...

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration

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Antonio Aretxabala @aaretx.bsky.social · 4d

Los grandes medios españoles, de radio, televisión y prensa, están muy preocupados por las #FakeNews tras dos años llamando «conflicto» al asesinato indiscriminado de inocentes.

Solo cuando han visto que la población está mejor informada que ellos se han decidido a decir #Genocidio
Son lamentables.

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Mauro Entrialgo @tyrexito.bsky.social · 7d

Para @elsaltodiario.com.

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16d

Page project for More-than-human Aquatic Relations and Algal Blooms (MARBLOOM) just went up on the website of @cssmicrobes.bsky.social Project is still a baby (22 days old) but we'll get up to some really cool stuffy soon.

www.socialmicrobes.org/projects/mar...

More-than-human Aquatic Relations and Algal Blooms

MARBLOOM analyses from a social scientific perspective the changing relationship between humans and the environment in connection to algal blooms, a growing global phenomenon that is altering marine a...

www.socialmicrobes.org

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16d

yep, I was already reading about the refusal to deal with hate speech. Thanks for the heads up, will keep my distance.

Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16d

Wow, really? It came into my radar because of some people I really respect writing there, including Margaret Atwood and Sara Ahmed. Will definitely do some research on the platform before giving it time.

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16d

He eliminat comptes de meta a Facebook i Instagram, WhatsApp encara no impossible. Molt trist renunciar a tants records i converses en aquestes plataformes, però ja tocava. La majoria d'amigues encara no són aquí, però ho havia de dir en algun lloc. Pensant també en substack. Algú ho fa servir?

Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 16d

I just deleted my meta account for facebook and instagram (whatsapp not doable yet). Sad to give up on so many memories, conversations in those platforms, buy it was long due. Most friends are not here yet, but had to mention it somewhere. Thinking about turning to substack too. Any experiences?

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 19d

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Jobs

www.sts.sot.tum.de

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Candela en la Luna (biónica-nitinol en mi ❤️) @candelaenlaluna.bsky.social · 19d

URGENT‼️ CENSURA: L'Ajuntament de Palma ha denegat a Mallorca per Palestina l'autorització per organitzar i desevolupar els actes de la "Nit de l'Art per Palestina" a la Pça Frederic Chopin (Palma).

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 19d

Massive Attack retira su música de Spotify por las inversiones de su CEO en empresas militares israelíes www.eldiario.es/cultura/musi...

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DaniBordas @danibordas.bsky.social · 20d

No olvidemos que a Romeu se lo cargaron de El País por esta viñeta después de más de tres décadas publicando. Año 2009.

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CTXT @ctxt.es · 19d

“Gaza arde”, dijo un ministro israelí. Un informe para la ONU concluye que Israel ha cometido al menos 4 de los 5 actos que definen el crimen de genocidio. El exterminio ya no es hipótesis: está ocurriendo.

Lo cuenta @gorkacastillo.bsky.social

La consagración penal del genocidio palestino

Un demoledor informe encargado por la ONU concluye que Israel ha cometido al menos cuatro de los cinco delitos contemplados en el “crimen de genocidio”

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 20d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 23d

Y ahora el baloncesto: la Euroliga suma en 2025 un segundo equipo de Israel en plena ola de protestas por el genocidio

Empiezan a crecer ya las voces para evitar la participación de Maccabi y Hapoel de Tel Aviv. En Vitoria, las quejas por la situación de Palestina se remontan a abril de 2002

www.eldiario.es

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CTXT @ctxt.es · 23d

¡No pasaron, gente! LO CONSEGUIMOS💪

Se suspende la Vuelta en esta última etapa

¡POR LA HERMANA PALESTINA!🇵🇸
📷: CTXT

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Eduardo @edubardo.bsky.social · Sep 3

No tengo palabras.

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Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social · Aug 8

It may not be a good technical argument, but 🫐 is an excellent example to discuss the other tiny #AI issues: constant errors, the tricks to get you engaged anyway, monopolies, excessive data extraction, energy excess, poor products sold to management that users dislike, basically the con itself.

Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · Aug 8

the letter counting thing is not really worth getting bent out of shape about. it's an artifact of it operating on tokens not the input text directly. it's a bad argument against the core capabilities of LLMs! there are good arguments against them, but this isn't it!

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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 8

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Al Overview
Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988).

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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have seen teams of PhD level experts fail at almost everything imaginable, including, but not limited to: agreeing on a place to have lunch, making coffee and finding a bus stop. And I have been on all those teams.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · Aug 6

🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟
The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations?

New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky

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Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

ABSTRACT
A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and promoting a more convivial coexistence. In releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes, project proponents presented their strategy as a solution for disease control that harnessed “nature,” instead of working against it. By juxtaposing historical accounts and ethnographic research in Rio with descriptions of biological processes, this article investigates how the microbe-mosquito dyad was turned into a biotechnology of epidemic control. Proponents of the Wolbachia project hoped that a change within multispecies relations—the novel human-bacterium-mosquito relationship—would change other multispecies relations—the historically constituted human-virus-mosquito relationships in Rio and beyond. This shift, which I term “multispecies transmutation,” highlights how relational alterations in both biologies and socialities created a new life-form (“Wolbachia mosquitoes”) and a new form of life (of multispecies coexistence). By tracing the more-than-human biopolitical arrangements put forward by the project, this article explores the recalibration of technoscientific solutions to global environmental health concerns. Multispecies transmutation offers a new framework for understanding the management of multispecies relations, showing how techniques of governance can target not individuals or populations per se, but rather interspecies connections.

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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · Aug 5

Out now! With Salla Sariola and Matthäus Rest we argue for a more situated social analysis of microbes in our introduction to a thematic collection @estsjournal.bsky.social with fantastic contributions by @anthrobite.bsky.social @heymayahey.bsky.social A.Butcher, R.Soncco. L.Whiteley, V.Koski-Karell

Situating Microbes Within Complex Ecologies | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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