Rita Mota
@ritamota.bsky.social
Academic. Doing research in business ethics, human rights, and organisation studies.
Ecofeminist, vegan, melomaniac.
Ecofeminist, vegan, melomaniac.
The next round of R:ETRO seminars starts soon! Register now for 4 fascinating talks on AI at work, the institutional structure of business ethics, corporate responsibility in the Anthropocene, and AI and moral agency: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/cen...
R:ETRO webinars - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford | Saïd Business School
Information about upcoming R:ETRO webinars and links to recordings and abstracts from past webinars. To be added to the mailing list, email reputation@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk
April 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The next round of R:ETRO seminars starts soon! Register now for 4 fascinating talks on AI at work, the institutional structure of business ethics, corporate responsibility in the Anthropocene, and AI and moral agency: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/cen...
Junior Business Ethics scholar? How cool would it be if you could be mentored by one of your academic idols? ✨ Learn about & express your interest in the SBE DEI Committee’s Icons mentorship programme:
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March 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Junior Business Ethics scholar? How cool would it be if you could be mentored by one of your academic idols? ✨ Learn about & express your interest in the SBE DEI Committee’s Icons mentorship programme:
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Deadline is Sunday, 6th April, so submit your response now!
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Deadline is Sunday, 6th April, so submit your response now!
I keep coming back to this card today.
[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
March 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I keep coming back to this card today.
[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
[“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
March 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Here’s a nice list of words to inspire new paper titles.
(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here’s a nice list of words to inspire new paper titles.
(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How do you think about the trade-off between efficiency gains from using AI for teaching prep (e.g., creating slides) and protecting your intellectual property (and/or donating your knowledge and creativity to the tech companies that then train their models using your input)?
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How do you think about the trade-off between efficiency gains from using AI for teaching prep (e.g., creating slides) and protecting your intellectual property (and/or donating your knowledge and creativity to the tech companies that then train their models using your input)?
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Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?
People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. *Should* she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?
She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?
We’re closing this term’s R:ETRO seminars with the wonderful Tanusree Jain from CBS: “Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms.” This is a necessary and urgent conversation. Don’t forget to register!
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social
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R:ETRO seminar with Tanusree Jain
The last of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
www.eventbrite.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We’re closing this term’s R:ETRO seminars with the wonderful Tanusree Jain from CBS: “Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms.” This is a necessary and urgent conversation. Don’t forget to register!
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
@drtanusreejain.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
“You don’t promote growth in a garden by allowing all the pests to feast on the fruit and flowers, and you don’t promote growth in an economy by allowing all the AIs to feast on the fruits of our creators.”
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“You don’t promote growth in a garden by allowing all the pests to feast on the fruit and flowers, and you don’t promote growth in an economy by allowing all the AIs to feast on the fruits of our creators.”
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Stephen Fry
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“We have been handed a huge list of words that may lead to a grant being pulled, including advocacy, biased, gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), diversity, inclusion, marginalised, and underserved.”
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
www.bmj.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“We have been handed a huge list of words that may lead to a grant being pulled, including advocacy, biased, gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), diversity, inclusion, marginalised, and underserved.”
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Wanna learn more about what constitutes the wrong of exploitation? Join us on Thursday for a R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey from The Wharton School. So looking forward to it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey
The third of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
www.eventbrite.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Wanna learn more about what constitutes the wrong of exploitation? Join us on Thursday for a R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey from The Wharton School. So looking forward to it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
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February 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Without even thinking, I asked if I could have pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) in a restaurant in Mexico that didn’t have many vegan options. The addiction is real. 🍅 #paambtomaquet #catalanfood
February 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Without even thinking, I asked if I could have pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) in a restaurant in Mexico that didn’t have many vegan options. The addiction is real. 🍅 #paambtomaquet #catalanfood
So excited about tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson! Don’t forget to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson
The second of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
www.eventbrite.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So excited about tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson! Don’t forget to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
So looking forward to tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro (IESE Business School): “Still standing tall in the face of adversity: the formation of organizational character”. Register below to join us!
#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars
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#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro
The first of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
www.eventbrite.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So looking forward to tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro (IESE Business School): “Still standing tall in the face of adversity: the formation of organizational character”. Register below to join us!
#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
#businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars
www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.
January 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.
I don’t have the words to express all my anger (at least not yet, not without being rude). So let me share Thandii’s new album, which is the slightly sorrowful musical hug I needed.
open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
Halo
Thandii · Album · 2025 · 10 songs
open.spotify.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I don’t have the words to express all my anger (at least not yet, not without being rude). So let me share Thandii’s new album, which is the slightly sorrowful musical hug I needed.
open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
A lovely compilation of indie covers, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. 🍉
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
Number Ones! A Tribute to the Billboard Hot 100, by Something Merry
15 track album
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:57 AM
A lovely compilation of indie covers, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. 🍉
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
@billboard.com.web.brid.gy
#musicforgood #solidarity
somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
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Merci Gisèle Pelicot !
December 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Merci Gisèle Pelicot !
Used this article in class this week and the debate was incredible - from business ethics to policy, touching upon some metaphysics and metaethics. We, as a society, need to talk more (and more effectively) about this sort of tech and what we want it to look like.
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
www.theverge.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Used this article in class this week and the debate was incredible - from business ethics to policy, touching upon some metaphysics and metaethics. We, as a society, need to talk more (and more effectively) about this sort of tech and what we want it to look like.
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Closed the Racial (In)justice MBA elective in fantastic company: Flavia Ladino (MBA Student’s Association VP of DEI), Anita Abaisa and Vivian Acquah (AmplifyDEI), and my partners-in-crime Naomi Williams and Alejandra Linares-Figueruelo. Thank you (and all the students) for such a special experience!
December 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Closed the Racial (In)justice MBA elective in fantastic company: Flavia Ladino (MBA Student’s Association VP of DEI), Anita Abaisa and Vivian Acquah (AmplifyDEI), and my partners-in-crime Naomi Williams and Alejandra Linares-Figueruelo. Thank you (and all the students) for such a special experience!
Not (too) surprised to find out that I spent almost 4000 minutes listening to @idlesband.bsky.social in 2024… Thank you for keeping me company!
December 4, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Not (too) surprised to find out that I spent almost 4000 minutes listening to @idlesband.bsky.social in 2024… Thank you for keeping me company!