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Ana Delicado
@anadelicado.bsky.social
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STS scholar, cat lover, epicurist.
Researcher at the University of Lisbon.

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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · Oct 16
📣 Add your name to demand the EU suspend trade with Israel.
Because every euro traded means more weapons, more suffering, more lives lost.

👉 Sign the petition: go.wemove.eu/NoDealWithIs...
No EU Business with War Criminals
They call this a “peace deal.” We call it a cover-up for crimes no ceasefire can erase. Call on the EU to suspend its trade deal with Israel, stop arms exports, and sanction perpetrators of human…
go.wemove.eu

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Oct 14
New publication (in Portuguese) with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens, the final article of the CONCISE project. It's part of a thematic issue we organised on science communication. revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocia...

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Oct 13
Next week we will be talking about social acceptability of a low TRL technology. Come and give us feedback: 748dd9f9.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAL...

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Oct 7
Science is always political.
marioamacedo.bsky.social Mário André Macedo @marioamacedo.bsky.social · Oct 7
Capa forte da Lancet

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Mário André Macedo @marioamacedo.bsky.social · Oct 7
Capa forte da Lancet

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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · Sep 23
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 · Sep 18
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 · Sep 12
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 · Sep 11
Worth a reading: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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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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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.
1/n
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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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.

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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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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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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Nov 20
Remarkably insightful review of Spectacles of Waste (@politybooks.bsky.social 2024) in @tapuyalasts.bsky.social, open access. Reframing the book in relation to Latin America opens up all sorts of paths, some of which I should have imagined myself!
#STS #HistSTM #histsci #medhum
Epistemología de mierda
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 26
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

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Lior Steinberg @liorsteinberg.bsky.social · Dec 17
A fun game to play while riding the Amsterdam tram.
No AI, no applications, just a low-tech "augmented reality" game.

Designed by Daniel Disselkoen for GVB: danieldisselkoen.nl/man-eater

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Dec 18
We desperately need more men in caregiving roles, as @jessgrose.bsky.social argues. And I'd add--to get there, we have to start early, encouraging boys to fill caregiving roles that too often default to girls. Take, for example, a story from my kids' school... 1/ 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/o...
Opinion | Men in Caring Jobs Will Make Society More Equal
Less stigma against male caregivers is all to the good.
www.nytimes.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Dec 20
In my latest piece for @science.org, I ask how we should think about experiments that take place outside the lab. It begins here, in St Ives, Cornwall. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it
ALT: a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it
media.tenor.com

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · Jan 16
This is such a satisfying @austincarr.bsky.social story about a niche disaster that has fascinated me for years: The Walgreens video cooler door fiasco. A true retail cautionary tale. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco
A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.
www.bloomberg.com

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Amy-Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · Jan 20
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. @ursulakleguin.com

www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal
Ursula K. Le Guin — National Book Foundation Medal: Ursula's Acceptance Speech
www.ursulakleguin.com

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · Jan 26
A search engine without links to sources, that can't access information it hasn't been fed. A dubious technology, solving no existing problem except labour, being forced down our throats by the worst people in the world.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 26
Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Nov 15
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Nov 15
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · Feb 12
Oh my God, this whole piece is 🔥

"The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’ [Its] aesthetic project is to flood the zone...to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · Feb 14
Must read by @alicesperi.bsky.social @theguardian.com about organized attacks on faculty research. @bletiecq.bsky.social quoted: “We are totally under attack...we’re like sitting ducks.” We need strength and solidarity. Keep doing the good work, and fight back. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics
The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color
www.theguardian.com