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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Apr 14

The next round of R:ETRO seminars starts soon! Register now for 4 fascinating talks on AI at work, the institutional structure of business ethics, corporate responsibility in the Anthropocene, and AI and moral agency: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/cen...

R:ETRO webinars - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford | Saïd Business School

Information about upcoming R:ETRO webinars and links to recordings and abstracts from past webinars. To be added to the mailing list, email [email protected].

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Mar 24

Junior Business Ethics scholar? How cool would it be if you could be mentored by one of your academic idols? ✨ Learn about & express your interest in the SBE DEI Committee’s Icons mentorship programme:
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Deadline is Sunday, 6th April, so submit your response now!

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Mar 18

I keep coming back to this card today.

[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Mar 8

No vull flors, vull igualtat.

(I don’t want flowers, I want equality.)

#8M #8MBarcelona #IWD

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Mar 8

Here’s a nice list of words to inspire new paper titles.

(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

www.nytimes.com

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Mar 5

How do you think about the trade-off between efficiency gains from using AI for teaching prep (e.g., creating slides) and protecting your intellectual property (and/or donating your knowledge and creativity to the tech companies that then train their models using your input)?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 27

Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Feb 27

People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. *Should* she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this

Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 27

I’m so excited that I forgot to say it’s next Thursday, 6th March, at 4pm GMT. 🫠

Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 27

We’re closing this term’s R:ETRO seminars with the wonderful Tanusree Jain from CBS: “Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms.” This is a necessary and urgent conversation. Don’t forget to register!
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...

R:ETRO seminar with Tanusree Jain

The last of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 25

“You don’t promote growth in a garden by allowing all the pests to feast on the fruit and flowers, and you don’t promote growth in an economy by allowing all the AIs to feast on the fruits of our creators.”
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

www.theguardian.com

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 20

Bonus points if we include a quote from a book or a song by an author from one of the groups being erased.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 20

Challenge to all of us who still have academic freedom: let’s include at least 3 of these words in our next published article.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 20

“We have been handed a huge list of words that may lead to a grant being pulled, including advocacy, biased, gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), diversity, inclusion, marginalised, and underserved.”

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system

People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

www.bmj.com

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wanna learn more about what constitutes the wrong of exploitation? Join us on Thursday for a R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey from The Wharton School. So looking forward to it!
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R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey

The third of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 13

Macklemore strikes again. (We need more protest songs.)

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MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)

YouTube video by Macklemore

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 6

Without even thinking, I asked if I could have pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) in a restaurant in Mexico that didn’t have many vegan options. The addiction is real. 🍅 #paambtomaquet #catalanfood

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Feb 6

So excited about tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson! Don’t forget to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...

R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson

The second of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Jan 22

So looking forward to tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro (IESE Business School): “Still standing tall in the face of adversity: the formation of organizational character”. Register below to join us!

#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars

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R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro

The first of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · Jan 20

When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Jan 21

I don’t have the words to express all my anger (at least not yet, not without being rude). So let me share Thandii’s new album, which is the slightly sorrowful musical hug I needed.

open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...

Halo

Thandii · Album · 2025 · 10 songs

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 8

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · Dec 21

A lovely compilation of indie covers, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. 🍉
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
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