Maria Wolters
@mariawolters.bsky.social
She/her. Digital inclusion, accessibility, HCI, communication, eHealth, citizen empowerment. Cats, reading, yoga, lifting. Views own.
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also: the finger
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
also: the finger
New paper on the state of democracy today.
🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨
Our State of the World article is finally out! Among other things, it includes a qualitative analysis of the first two months of the second Trump administration.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@silindberg.bsky.social @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social
Our State of the World article is finally out! Among other things, it includes a qualitative analysis of the first two months of the second Trump administration.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@silindberg.bsky.social @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
New paper on the state of democracy today.
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If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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This is a good and important suggestion - every major dataset housed in the US (which is a *lot* of great data) can be considered under threat right now. One way researchers and institutions elsewhere can help limit the harm is finding ways to mirror host/backup a lot of that data.
3. I think the easiest way to help is aimed as helping science in general rather than US science or scientists. And that is to protect endangered datasets — house them outside of the U.S. and make them publicly available.
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is a good and important suggestion - every major dataset housed in the US (which is a *lot* of great data) can be considered under threat right now. One way researchers and institutions elsewhere can help limit the harm is finding ways to mirror host/backup a lot of that data.
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"No, Mr Vance. No polar bears out there. And don't worry if you do meet one. They're very friendly. Feel free to go up and pet them! Totally safe! Absolutely won't eat you, honest!"
March 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"No, Mr Vance. No polar bears out there. And don't worry if you do meet one. They're very friendly. Feel free to go up and pet them! Totally safe! Absolutely won't eat you, honest!"
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🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
March 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
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On #AI and the "threat" to #ScientificPublishing:
Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science.
AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices.
#ResearchIntegrity
Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science.
AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices.
#ResearchIntegrity
March 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
On #AI and the "threat" to #ScientificPublishing:
Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science.
AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices.
#ResearchIntegrity
Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science.
AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices.
#ResearchIntegrity
Thread on the potential for abuse of AI in government, by a GovTech AI developer. Cc @shannonvallor.bsky.social
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thread on the potential for abuse of AI in government, by a GovTech AI developer. Cc @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
🧵1/10
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
🧵1/10
March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
🧵1/10
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.
🧵1/10
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I'm not just blowing smoke, I'm involved with this academy
US sponsorship of Pacific disinformation workshop ends after dispute
An NZ-run programme has been caught in the crossfire of the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity and countering disinformation.
newsroom.co.nz
March 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm not just blowing smoke, I'm involved with this academy
Ringen-Jacobs: Female Forward mode ideas. (1) control your visibility. Watch the cost - what feels right. (2) digital resilience - control your exposure (3) balance is calm focus #womenup
March 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ringen-Jacobs: Female Forward mode ideas. (1) control your visibility. Watch the cost - what feels right. (2) digital resilience - control your exposure (3) balance is calm focus #womenup
Ringen-Jacobs: we are living in difficult times. Austerity, diversity under attack. What can we do? How can we be an agent of change? #womenup
March 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ringen-Jacobs: we are living in difficult times. Austerity, diversity under attack. What can we do? How can we be an agent of change? #womenup
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Read about the new additions to the Data Rescue Tracker! Thank you so much to @icpsr.bsky.social, EDGI, and others for participating in this effort. If you are doing data rescue, please get in touch. We'd love to track where the data are going. www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
The Data Rescue Tracker Grew Overnight
Are you looking for a specific dataset? Are you curious if someone somewhere has rescued it? You aren't alone! We created the Data Rescue Project (DRP) as a way to encourage communication across the m...
www.datarescueproject.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read about the new additions to the Data Rescue Tracker! Thank you so much to @icpsr.bsky.social, EDGI, and others for participating in this effort. If you are doing data rescue, please get in touch. We'd love to track where the data are going. www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
Some changes to Google‘s AI principles.
It would help to list exactly what was removed in the latest version of the AI Principles.
Here is a Wayback Machine archive of previous version: web.archive.org/web/20250110...
It included "Applications we will not pursue": weapons, surveillance, and more. That section was completely removed.
Here is a Wayback Machine archive of previous version: web.archive.org/web/20250110...
It included "Applications we will not pursue": weapons, surveillance, and more. That section was completely removed.
AI Principles – Google AI
- Google AI
A guiding framework for our responsible development and use of AI, alongside transparency and accountability in our AI development process.
web.archive.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Some changes to Google‘s AI principles.
Information about the federal workers' resistance. Link to a Verge article with a picture of a "doge" dog on orange background.
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
buff.ly
February 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Information about the federal workers' resistance. Link to a Verge article with a picture of a "doge" dog on orange background.
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"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl)
Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.
Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.
February 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl)
Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.
Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.
Great idea - light maps for theatres. Lighting can be a barrier for folx. The link comes with a picture that shows a mind map, with bubbles of design requirements, and a few design ideas. All visual. Might benefit from a text version?
If you're a disabled, neurodivergent or chronically ill person who's experienced light as a barrier in theatre, please help understand this better by completing our short survey (8 questions) & or by sharing this with others. Let there be #LightMaps www.touretteshero.com/2025/02/10/l...
Launching Light Maps: The Next Chapter – Dr Will Renel
Back in October 2023 I wrote about relaxed performance practice and the importance of developing tools and approaches that support audiences to access art, theatre and live performance. This is partic...
www.touretteshero.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Great idea - light maps for theatres. Lighting can be a barrier for folx. The link comes with a picture that shows a mind map, with bubbles of design requirements, and a few design ideas. All visual. Might benefit from a text version?
In welche Unternehmen haben die Großspender der AfD investiert, wo sind sie leitend involviert?
(VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)
(VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)
▶️ AfD: 2.349.906 € von Gerhard Dingler
▶️ AfD: 1.500.000 € von Winfried Alexander Stöcker
▶️ AfD: 999.900 € von Horst Jan Winter
▶️ VOLT: 1.000.000 € von Thadaeus Friedemann Otto
▶️ VOLT: 75.000 € von Christian Oldendorff
▶️ AfD: 1.500.000 € von Winfried Alexander Stöcker
▶️ AfD: 999.900 € von Horst Jan Winter
▶️ VOLT: 1.000.000 € von Thadaeus Friedemann Otto
▶️ VOLT: 75.000 € von Christian Oldendorff
February 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In welche Unternehmen haben die Großspender der AfD investiert, wo sind sie leitend involviert?
(VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)
(VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)