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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 15d

🌱 Mine and Güneş's new paper calls for DH practices that prioritise environmental accountability, decolonial perspectives, and ethical collaboration.

Read here: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000...

#DigitalHumanities #Sustainability #EcologicalCare #EnvironmentalJustice

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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 16d

I and @photini.bsky.social have a new publication The article reconceptualises London as ‘A Learnt City’, a dynamic learning ecosystem shaped through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practices.

Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

#DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies

www.mdpi.com

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · May 2

ARt-Z: Unlock the Unseen
1–23 May UCL East
Zeyu Zhao's exhibition, supported by IAS Octagon fund, presents 10 digitised paintings from the V&A’s Chinese Export Watercolours Collection. By integrating augmented reality it offers new ways to experience historical artworks
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Bethany Johnstone @bljohnstone.bsky.social · May 1

Delighted to be included in UCL’s 2025 Student Choice Awards Roll of Honour—I’m honoured to be listed alongside fantastic colleagues Lucy Brownson, @alisonhicks0.bsky.social , @photini.bsky.social, Ahmad Goheer & Daniel Onah! What a way to end year! 🥳

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Apr 20

Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 9

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Apr 1

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/...

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

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · Apr 1

ICYMI: King’s College London is hiring 20 open-ended posts at L/SL level (Asst/Assoc Prof level) in AI + any subject. (Yes, that includes critical studies.) It’s 3 years of 80% “protected” research time, then 2 years to the standard requirements for an open-ended post. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Apr 1

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/...

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

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Mar 1

"It’s worse than you think because by the time the courts catch up the damage will already have been done. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn"

www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

www.wired.com

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · Feb 25

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · Feb 25

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 25

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Feb 19

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · Feb 18

Cribbed from LinkedIn.

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · Feb 11

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · Feb 11

While more tech companies race to the bottom to kiss Trump's ass, they manage to finally show the public what us internet scholars have been shouting for years - that technology is never neutral or objective and is motivated by political and mainly capitalistic motives.

Pop Base @popbase.tv · Feb 10

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:

• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Feb 9

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

advait.org

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · Feb 5

“In response to the shocking news predicting up to 10,000 imminent job losses across the UK higher education sector, we write to flag up a fact that the article largely misses: the degree to which arts and humanities subjects are bearing the brunt of these cuts.” ⮛ #academicsky

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Teramis Christian 🌈 🎲 🇺🇦 @teramis.bsky.social · Jan 26

Heritage Foundation has always worked to influence and control media communications, to favor conservatives.
NOW they're starting to do the same with *information resources*, putting Wikipedia editors in the crosshairs for purported left-leaning bias re anti-semitism

forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

forward.com

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · Jan 30

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jan 30

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio

"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

www.404media.co

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Jan 29

When it is darkest, an angel will appear, rotating a gyro

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jan 29

it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Jan 29

Can’t make this shit up.

You can't steal everyone else's IP to train your models and then claim someone took it from you.

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Jan 26

Κάτι έχει αλλά εν τόσο περίπλοκοι που γελάει ο κόσμος.

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Jan 26

Το φκιολι τους.

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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · Jan 26

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jan 20

Can’t be repeated often enough

‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’
on.ft.com/42hzVmL

The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding

Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds

on.ft.com

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