Gerard Atkinson
@gerardatkinson.com
Policy and Program Evaluation; Ethical AI; Neurodiversity Advocacy
#ActuallyAutistic management consultant, company director, and cat daddy with a 3d printing workshop.
Usually around Warrnambool (Gunditjmara country), drinking coffee and/or running.
#ActuallyAutistic management consultant, company director, and cat daddy with a 3d printing workshop.
Usually around Warrnambool (Gunditjmara country), drinking coffee and/or running.
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Gerard Atkinson
@gerardatkinson.com
· Nov 11
I made a list of policy and program evaluators on the platform. Hopefully it’ll grow. I’ll go over to LinkedIn and bug Brad Astbury until he joins. He knows everyone in evaluation. Him and Tom Aston. bsky.app/profile/did:...
We are here for day 2, and we brought flowcharts!
Today’s office: Iris Ethics is proud to be the Networking Event sponsor for the @eisummit.org #EIS2025 Summit. Set up a mini-booth to talk about all things ethical review and how we can support high quality implementation research.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We are here for day 2, and we brought flowcharts!
Today’s office: Iris Ethics is proud to be the Networking Event sponsor for the @eisummit.org #EIS2025 Summit. Set up a mini-booth to talk about all things ethical review and how we can support high quality implementation research.
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Today’s office: Iris Ethics is proud to be the Networking Event sponsor for the @eisummit.org #EIS2025 Summit. Set up a mini-booth to talk about all things ethical review and how we can support high quality implementation research.
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You have been summoned before The Council. What are you accused of, and how will you defend yourself?
May 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
You have been summoned before The Council. What are you accused of, and how will you defend yourself?
Random brainwave: It just clicked that the song “Happy” by @pharellwilliams.bsky.social is written entirely in a minor key. That’s extremely clever.
April 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Random brainwave: It just clicked that the song “Happy” by @pharellwilliams.bsky.social is written entirely in a minor key. That’s extremely clever.
Some light reading for the long weekend…
April 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Some light reading for the long weekend…
And we’re back… for about 60 seconds, and then back off. I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a thousand air conditioning units suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
February 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
And we’re back… for about 60 seconds, and then back off. I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a thousand air conditioning units suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Power’s out my side of Warrnambool.
February 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Power’s out my side of Warrnambool.
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using only GIFs.
February 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using only GIFs.
So I’m not saying today’s Fairfax Quick was easy (it wasn’t), but there’s a reason there’s a rule at the office that says I can’t participate in doing the crosswords until after 3pm when everyone else has had a go. New PB. Now to try and solve a @dontattempt.bsky.social quick that fast.
February 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
So I’m not saying today’s Fairfax Quick was easy (it wasn’t), but there’s a reason there’s a rule at the office that says I can’t participate in doing the crosswords until after 3pm when everyone else has had a go. New PB. Now to try and solve a @dontattempt.bsky.social quick that fast.
The world is pretty awful at the moment. Trying to block it out by doing cool stuff. Today it was setting a PB in a 10k race and then going to the park on the way home to show my parents in law koalas in the wild. Pretty cool.
February 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The world is pretty awful at the moment. Trying to block it out by doing cool stuff. Today it was setting a PB in a 10k race and then going to the park on the way home to show my parents in law koalas in the wild. Pretty cool.
Meanwhile on LinkedIn, apparently calling out people for transphobia makes me an #ActuallyAutistic misogynist:
February 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Meanwhile on LinkedIn, apparently calling out people for transphobia makes me an #ActuallyAutistic misogynist:
Meanwhile in AI land, I just got a local deployment of Deepseek R1 (1.5B) running on a sandbox machine. Which isn't all that impressive in itself, except that my sandbox is a 2013 Macbook Air booting Linux off a USB flash drive.
February 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Meanwhile in AI land, I just got a local deployment of Deepseek R1 (1.5B) running on a sandbox machine. Which isn't all that impressive in itself, except that my sandbox is a 2013 Macbook Air booting Linux off a USB flash drive.
Honestly, the more I think about it the more I believe social media is the cigarettes of our era: addictive, harmful to our health, and making everything stink.
February 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Honestly, the more I think about it the more I believe social media is the cigarettes of our era: addictive, harmful to our health, and making everything stink.
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Nothing about us without us.
From my extensive reading, Participatory Research seems to be the only ethical way to research.
Otherwise, research is exploitative and extractive.
It is all about participants' emancipation.
Their lived experience overrides all, especially in psychology.
From my extensive reading, Participatory Research seems to be the only ethical way to research.
Otherwise, research is exploitative and extractive.
It is all about participants' emancipation.
Their lived experience overrides all, especially in psychology.
Here's a related paper... "we contend that through participatory research, we can reject a deficit-based conceptualization of autism while building a shared vision for a neurodiversity-affirmative biomedical research paradigm."
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Bridge-building between communities: Imagining the future of biomedical autism research
A paradigm shift in research culture is required to ease perceived tensions between
autistic people and the biomedical research community. As a group of autistic and
non-autistic scientists and stakeh...
www.cell.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Nothing about us without us.
From my extensive reading, Participatory Research seems to be the only ethical way to research.
Otherwise, research is exploitative and extractive.
It is all about participants' emancipation.
Their lived experience overrides all, especially in psychology.
From my extensive reading, Participatory Research seems to be the only ethical way to research.
Otherwise, research is exploitative and extractive.
It is all about participants' emancipation.
Their lived experience overrides all, especially in psychology.
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Hi, friendly reminder:
You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline?
Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.
You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline?
Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.
January 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hi, friendly reminder:
You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline?
Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.
You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline?
Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.
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Ozzy Osbourne really captures where things are at right now: youtu.be/tMDFv5m18Pw?...
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Official Animated Video)
YouTube video by OzzyOsbourneVEVO
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January 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ozzy Osbourne really captures where things are at right now: youtu.be/tMDFv5m18Pw?...
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Honor is important. Look no further than the hateful antics of those who have none to see why.
January 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Honor is important. Look no further than the hateful antics of those who have none to see why.
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Why should you fight injustice, if it affects only others? Why should you defend rights that don't affect you? Because it isn't justice if you only care when it applies to you. Because rights apply to all, or nobody at all. Because you are a true warrior, and honor demands it.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Why should you fight injustice, if it affects only others? Why should you defend rights that don't affect you? Because it isn't justice if you only care when it applies to you. Because rights apply to all, or nobody at all. Because you are a true warrior, and honor demands it.
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Three things that remain true, no matter what Trump does:
1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else.
2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better.
3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.
1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else.
2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better.
3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.
January 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Three things that remain true, no matter what Trump does:
1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else.
2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better.
3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.
1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else.
2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better.
3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.
While the title might say it's for schools, it's a useful primer for people looking at rolling out AI in their workflow, covering both the tech and the ethics, from someone who has been in the weeds with this for a long time.
Returning from a long break with a LONG post: (Re)Introduction to GenAI for Schools 2025. Everything from AI ethics to recent features and updates, and recommendations for policy and assessment responses. #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu leonfurze.com/2025/01/20/r...
January 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
While the title might say it's for schools, it's a useful primer for people looking at rolling out AI in their workflow, covering both the tech and the ethics, from someone who has been in the weeds with this for a long time.