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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick
@amltaylor66.bsky.social
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Professor of Digital and Social Science. Working at various sociotechnical intersections.

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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · Aug 29
When you are gifted an original (yes, 1989) text, by one of your academic hero’s, written by a number of other #socialwork and #tech hero’s… what a day today is.

Thank you SO much @jaxr.bsky.social - this is an incredible inaugural lecture gift 📙
A casebook of computer applications in the social and human services First page of book - stating the state of play for social work and tech in 1989 - which still stands today in terms of acceptability, ethics and appropriateness
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉

🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)

🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)

#CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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prospectmagazine.co.uk
96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women.

Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
The new misogyny
Culture changed in the 2000s—and, with some technological support, it has led us to some very dark places now
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
UK can't afford to help old people with winter heating but wants to subsidise failing LLM industry just at the point everyone has started to realise their product is basically crap www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
More 'humanities-led' sponging of funds from UK research for Turing-validated bs. As if it's OK to waffle about systems producing "multiple valid perspectives" when actual AI can't even produce one valid perspective! Clown show. www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica..., www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Doing AI differently
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming global infrastructure – shaping decisions in healthcare, education, industry and everyday life.
www.turing.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
The goal is to make these systems both unavoidable and unaccountable. They want to turn “ai is inevitable” from hype into actual policy.
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
www.ft.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
Read more on the bigger picture of AI in Trump's education plans here www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...
Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
www.indexoncensorship.org
June 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
I wrote this about how to read and why.

Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.

Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.

jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read
How to read and why
I love reading and I love advice about how to read.
jmarriott.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
Halfway there! 🎉

Over 50% of tickets for #ICRMC are already sold.

Join us for keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social, along with a host of inspiring presentations.

Lock in your spot today: www.creativeresearchmethods.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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nicolechvastek.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
Follow for rational thought!

#HTLGI25
May 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
ICYMI: Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? helenkara.com/2024/01/23/w...

#CRMethods
Why Bother With Creative Research Methods?
Conventional research methods are good methods. Creative research methods, in themselves, are not better than conventional research methods. Sometimes all you need is to do some interviews and, if …
helenkara.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
AI is routinely making stupid, nonsensical mistakes that even the most incompetent employee would never make. #socialwork open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist
The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
🚨 Tickets are officially on sale for the International Creative Research Methods Conference!
Join us for powerful keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social.

Lock yours in here 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com
#ICRMC #CreativeResearch
Creative Research Methods Conference 2025
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
creativeresearchmethods.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
Tickets are live for this years International Creative Research Methods Conference! 🎉

With keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social , you won’t want to miss this.

Grab yours now 👉https://creativeresearchmethods.com/

#ICRMC
April 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
New blog post from the Cumbria Youth Co-Research Collective www.linkedin.com/posts/carlis...

Do have a read, and share #youthwork #youngpeople #coresearch #research
💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉… | Carlisle Youth Zone
💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP_A4SPh This is the second blog in our "Get Research Ready With Me" series, and shares more of our ...
www.linkedin.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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northumbriauni.bsky.social
The Technology Empowered Dementia Independence (TEDI) Network Plus is a collaboration between Northumbria, @cumbriauni.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and will also involve health professionals, charities, local authorities, industry, people living with dementia, and their families.
March 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
Delighted to be one of the Profs taking this work forward.

#dementia #TEDIplus
April 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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cibled.bsky.social
Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Read and weep.
April 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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kiminsley.bsky.social
Bravo, Harvard. About freaking time. The emperor has no clothes on!
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands (Gift Article)
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/reel/DG0wwdh... @jon ronson on psychopaths leading our world!
Login • Instagram
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March 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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researchip.bsky.social
@amltaylor66.bsky.social: If you're procuring technology, you need to be able to understand what it does and be able to explain it clearly. Automation can't come at the expense of relationships #PartnershipC
February 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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drhelenkara.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for #ICRMC: Amanda Taylor-Beswick (@amltaylor66.bsky.social) from the University of Cumbria! 🎤 More updates coming soon!

#ICRMC #CRMethods
January 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
amltaylor66.bsky.social
Really honoured to be involved in this brilliant annual #researchevent #ICRMC
drhelenkara.bsky.social Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · Jan 30
Big news! 🎤 We’re excited to welcome Amanda Taylor-Beswick (@amltaylor66.bsky.social) from the University of Cumbria as our second keynote speaker at #ICRMC 2025! Stay tuned for more updates!

#ICRMC #CRMethods
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM