Dr Bettina Nissen (she/her)
@bettinanissen.bsky.social
Lecturer and interaction designer working with tangible things, technology and data. Also love knitting, craft and making things, and of course cats ;)
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️terf-free zone 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Views my own
@designinf
✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️terf-free zone 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Views my own
@designinf
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Really really love this graphic from @mirajacob.bsky.social.
A1 takeover has me LOL.
mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
A1 takeover has me LOL.
mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
April 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Really really love this graphic from @mirajacob.bsky.social.
A1 takeover has me LOL.
mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
A1 takeover has me LOL.
mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
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Material Shadows: Performance and Panel Discussion brings together researchers at the University of Edinburgh and joined by researchers at Lancaster University to discuss embodiment, materialism and technology.
📅 Tues, 22 Apr, 2025
⏰ 6– 8pm
📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
🔗 edin.ac/4cuwQD8
📅 Tues, 22 Apr, 2025
⏰ 6– 8pm
📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
🔗 edin.ac/4cuwQD8
April 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Material Shadows: Performance and Panel Discussion brings together researchers at the University of Edinburgh and joined by researchers at Lancaster University to discuss embodiment, materialism and technology.
📅 Tues, 22 Apr, 2025
⏰ 6– 8pm
📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
🔗 edin.ac/4cuwQD8
📅 Tues, 22 Apr, 2025
⏰ 6– 8pm
📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
🔗 edin.ac/4cuwQD8
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Great to see our third year BA (Hons) Textiles students exhibiting at @inspacegallery.bsky.social as part of Edinburgh Science Festival!
It's a fascinating collab with a consultant neurosurgeon: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/textile...
19-27 April (not 22), with evening events bookable on link above!
It's a fascinating collab with a consultant neurosurgeon: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/textile...
19-27 April (not 22), with evening events bookable on link above!
April 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Great to see our third year BA (Hons) Textiles students exhibiting at @inspacegallery.bsky.social as part of Edinburgh Science Festival!
It's a fascinating collab with a consultant neurosurgeon: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/textile...
19-27 April (not 22), with evening events bookable on link above!
It's a fascinating collab with a consultant neurosurgeon: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/textile...
19-27 April (not 22), with evening events bookable on link above!
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Join us this weekend and explore our interactive ‚Design Data and Beyond’ exhibition (Sat-Mon 10-5pm) in Inspace @inspacegallery.bsky.social @designinf.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Join us this weekend and explore our interactive ‚Design Data and Beyond’ exhibition (Sat-Mon 10-5pm) in Inspace @inspacegallery.bsky.social @designinf.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social
Join us for the first event in a series, our exciting and interactive Design, Data and Beyond exhibition is opening tonight (4-6pm) and is open for a long weekend (Sat-Mon, 10-5).
At Design Informatics we are excitedly gearing up for the launch or our 2025 #EdSciFest programme kicking off this weekend, featuring exhibitions and events at @inspacegallery.bsky.social, National Museum of Scotland, Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social & Edinburgh Futures Institute
April 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join us for the first event in a series, our exciting and interactive Design, Data and Beyond exhibition is opening tonight (4-6pm) and is open for a long weekend (Sat-Mon, 10-5).
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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Critical Data Studies Network
7 March, 3pm - 5.30pm
With Dr Morshed Mannan and Prof Aggelos Kiayias
Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series
Hybrid seminar
Info and Booking:
buff.ly/wUUJBQj
Critical Data Studies Network
7 March, 3pm - 5.30pm
With Dr Morshed Mannan and Prof Aggelos Kiayias
Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series
Hybrid seminar
Info and Booking:
buff.ly/wUUJBQj
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Critical Data Studies Network
7 March, 3pm - 5.30pm
With Dr Morshed Mannan and Prof Aggelos Kiayias
Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series
Hybrid seminar
Info and Booking:
buff.ly/wUUJBQj
Critical Data Studies Network
7 March, 3pm - 5.30pm
With Dr Morshed Mannan and Prof Aggelos Kiayias
Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series
Hybrid seminar
Info and Booking:
buff.ly/wUUJBQj
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VIEJO California call to action March 4 for democracy. Check details for many other state locations at www.FiftyFifty.one
50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
www.FiftyFifty.one
March 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
VIEJO California call to action March 4 for democracy. Check details for many other state locations at www.FiftyFifty.one
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Trying to open a new campus while cutting jobs. Not a good look.
Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.
14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇
With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.
Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.
14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇
With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trying to open a new campus while cutting jobs. Not a good look.
Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.
14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇
With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.
Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances.
14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇
With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.
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It’s getting very authoritarian in the US very fast
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
March 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s getting very authoritarian in the US very fast
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
And these are the people who supposedly campaigned to - checks notes - ‘protect free speech’
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Show your support for Ukraine at the US Consulate in Edinburgh (3 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5BW)
Wednesday 5 March @ 18h
More info and let them know you're coming here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...
#edinburgh
Wednesday 5 March @ 18h
More info and let them know you're coming here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...
#edinburgh
EMERGENCY DEMO: STOP PUTIN - STOP TRUMP! STAND BY UKRAINE! EUROPE WAKE UP!
It's time to come together and show our support for Ukraine, Stop Putin and Trump, and for Europe to wake up to prevent another Munich.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Show your support for Ukraine at the US Consulate in Edinburgh (3 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5BW)
Wednesday 5 March @ 18h
More info and let them know you're coming here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...
#edinburgh
Wednesday 5 March @ 18h
More info and let them know you're coming here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emergency-...
#edinburgh
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Time to actually take digital sovereignty seriously. The trouble is this will be vastly expensive. Europe needs a digital Marshall Plan . But without US money 😩
Beyond military and intelligence, Europe is going to need to think about civilian dependencies.
Alphabet, Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft are all vulnerable to US government pressure, and underpin an incredible range of important systems, from hospitals to tax systems and transport.
Alphabet, Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft are all vulnerable to US government pressure, and underpin an incredible range of important systems, from hospitals to tax systems and transport.
March 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Time to actually take digital sovereignty seriously. The trouble is this will be vastly expensive. Europe needs a digital Marshall Plan . But without US money 😩
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"we have documented a troubling lack of transparency, and failure to answer questions from unions, governance bodies and staff. These continue apace: the modelling and justifications for the £140m figure remain shrouded in secrecy."
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
Cuts Could Kill Our University — UCU Edinburgh
University management is courting a death spiral, where cuts in the name of sustainability actually undermine that which they are meant to save.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"we have documented a troubling lack of transparency, and failure to answer questions from unions, governance bodies and staff. These continue apace: the modelling and justifications for the £140m figure remain shrouded in secrecy."
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8gaanhy...
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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Each horrific event gets more people to mobilize. There are people who were sitting on the sidelines until this afternoon and they will no longer be sitting on the sidelines.
We are stronger than we were yesterday.
Before you catastrophize, remember this
We are stronger than we were yesterday.
Before you catastrophize, remember this
February 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Each horrific event gets more people to mobilize. There are people who were sitting on the sidelines until this afternoon and they will no longer be sitting on the sidelines.
We are stronger than we were yesterday.
Before you catastrophize, remember this
We are stronger than we were yesterday.
Before you catastrophize, remember this
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Always use alt text for your pictures and GIFs. It's not difficult to add and it's a huge boost for accessibility.
Tonight I've seen more images without alt text than I've ever seen in one short period. Do better people. It doesn't take that long. And I don't care if you are some big account that expects some person to add it in a reply. DO BETTER.
March 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Always use alt text for your pictures and GIFs. It's not difficult to add and it's a huge boost for accessibility.
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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The person who made this is genius. It should be sent to Zelensky.
www.threads.net/@shadymentol...
www.threads.net/@shadymentol...
Oluwayemi Okunoren (@shadymentol) on Threads
Who did this 🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤭cannot stop watching
www.threads.net
March 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The person who made this is genius. It should be sent to Zelensky.
www.threads.net/@shadymentol...
www.threads.net/@shadymentol...
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.
February 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.
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REMEMBER: THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU?
February 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
REMEMBER: THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU?
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.