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Warren Pearce
@warrenpearce.bsky.social
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Academic.
Digital methods.
Climate change.
Expertise.
Imagery.
Occasional music posts.
#AcademicSky #STS
https://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/warren-pearce
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Warren Pearce @warrenpearce.bsky.social · Jul 11
How has computer vision changed Google's knowledge infrastructure? 🤔

*Extremely* happy that our pre-print now up at SocArXiv. Our amazing team dig into Google Images, the #AI technology driving it, and the impacts for users.

osf.io/preprints/so...

#STS #digitalmethods @digitalmethods.net
Screen shot of web page reading: From authority to similarity: how Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision Authors Warren Pearce, Maud Borie, Laura Bruschi, Daniele Dell'Orto, Matthew Hanchard, Elena Pilipets, Alessandro Quets, and Zijing Xu Data visualisation showing the ranking of Google Images results for climate change in Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico, Netherlands and Nigeria. Some images such as 'earht in hand' and 'landscape' appear multiple times across different countries Data visualisation showing Google Images search results for biodiversity loss in Australia, Brazil, China, Mexico, Netherlands and Nigeria. As with climate change, some images appear multiple times across different countries, such as scientific charts and 'lonely animal', but there is slightly more diversity than for climate change Data visualisation showing that most search results from Google Images are different than those from Google Search. This applies for both climate change and biodiversity loss, and across all six countries.
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ibogost.com
I've been talking about both doctoral study (with academic jobs as the goal) AND tenure for YEARS in terms of RISK MANAGEMENT. It is a very calculated, and increasingly speculative, risk. You have to treat it that way.

Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.
tlecaque.bsky.social Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16d
I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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anthonymoser.com
i made a helpful reference
top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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melinamuch.bsky.social
Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...
December 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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markpendleton.bsky.social
As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb
Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
gofund.me
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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jacomyma.bsky.social
Our case is the ambiguity of categories obtained by community detection algorithms in networks.

We offer an implementation of our ambiguity visualization method in Gephi Lite, which you can try online right now!

lite.gephi.org
Explanation of the ambiguity visualization principle: white nodes and edges are the most ambiguous ones. Colored edges are non-ambiguously within a cluster, while black edges are non-ambiguously across clusters.
December 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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hannahjlewis.bsky.social
Day 15 of strike action at the Uni of Sheffield. 495 jobs already cut. Now they tell us another £50m will be cut from staff budget in coming year despite bar charts of coffers which look like this and a VC on a salary of nearly £400k. #SheffieldUCU
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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southamptonucu.bsky.social
✊ It was an honour to join friends at Southampton Solent #UCU Branch (not on BSky) this pm to lobby their university's Board of Governors. The Governors were meeting to decide if to 'fire and rehire' staff using a subsidiary company, to deny staff a decent pension.
#SouthamptonSolent @ucu.org.uk
UCU members, at dusk, outside Southampton Solent University, holding banners reading 'UCU' and 'SAVE SOLENT'.
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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iansudbery.bsky.social
Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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ruha9.bsky.social
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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hannahjlewis.bsky.social
Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
Good rally today with @sheffielducu.bsky.social and Sheffield Hallam
A UCU placard that reads “too burnt out to think of a slogan” in front of a tower block and another placard reading “trade unionists for trans rights”
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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hlmurray.bsky.social
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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samuel-bagg.bsky.social
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.

Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.

blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
Monday night's elite-level Clipse gig in Manchester. Almost all the new album and a back cat of certified bangers.
A large stage with two large screens showing the words "I'm back by popular demand" in large red capital letters on a light blue background. Pusha T and Malice from Clipse are standing in front, with a large crowd in the foreground. A large stage with two large screens showing a young black woman wearing a cap sleeved red and white top, with her right arm held out in front of her. Pusha T and Malice from Clipse are standing in front, with a large crowd in the foreground. Pusha T is holding a microphone to his mouth.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
a man covering his nose with his hand while talking into a microphone in front of a wall with barclays advertisements
Alt: Jose Mourinho saying “I really prefer not to speak. If I speak - big trouble. Big trouble. I prefer not to be in big trouble”
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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jamellebouie.net
score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · Nov 5
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Nov 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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hannahjlewis.bsky.social
Today I did something I should have done months ago. I went to an 'asylum seeker hotel protest' to speak to all involved. Protestors, live stream vlogger, police, counter-protestors. My main take away is that anyone wishing to understand this movement should do the same. Chat. Listen. Reflections🧵
Arial image of roundabout, a small l, grassy park area, and a roadside hotel. Credit: Shutterstock
November 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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hannahjlewis.bsky.social
Striking women!
In or passing through Sheffield before 4 Nov?

Get yourself to the _Winter Gardens_ to check out the wonderful comic and archives from Prof Anitha Sundari's work with Prof Ruth Pearson on the 1976 Grunwick Strike and 2005 Gate Gourmet dispute. sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...
New exhibition: Striking Women - South Asians Workers' struggles in the UK labour market
Striking Women: South Asians Workers' struggles in the UK labour market, led by Professor Sundari Anitha, with Professor Ruth Pearson, is a fascinating new exhibition in this year’s Festival of Social...
sheffield.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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jbakcoleman.bsky.social
I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.

In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
Early train->Skegness (with some keen sunseekers ☀️ ) en route to York for the White Rose DTP Welcome Event

Reconnecting with our fantastic students, hearing their hopes & fears for the coming year and unveiling our Digital Tech, Communication & AI training programme wrdtp.ac.uk/training/tra... 🤓
Training and Events Calendar – White Rose DTP
wrdtp.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"We focus on Israel during 2023, a period marked by intense political polarization...We find that exposure to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity, compared to smaller, less consistent associations with outgroup toxicity."
jayvanbavel.bsky.social Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Oct 22
Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members

An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
warrenpearce.bsky.social
Gillian Tett: is AI a cargo cult? www.ft.com/content/f202...
AI has a cargo cult problem
Spending vast sums and inflating an investment bubble is no guarantee of unleashing technological magic
www.ft.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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briony.bsky.social
At #aoir2025 I’m presenting on what I term “platformed nostalgia”, which I explore via an analysis of Automattic-era Tumblr’s efforts to commercialise historical social media nostalgia in its marketing (particularly in response to the X-odus). I’m in the Memes panel at 9am tomorrow. Sneak peak 👀
Presentation slide defining platformed nostalgia as a social media platform branding strategy that commercialises historical social media nostalgia in an attempt to (re)gain legitimacy and social acceptance in a landscape marked by controversy, crisis, and distrust.
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM