Ali Adair
@aliadair.co.uk
Passionate about designing products that make the world a better place. UX. Behavioural science. AI. The sisyphean challenge of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’. Senior UX Product Designer at the Open Access publisher @peerj.bsky.social
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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
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Today’s the day to Stop Reform getting into your council.
Vote tactically.
Put your postcode in here StopReformUK.vote
Take a friend and double your vote.
Pass this message on.
Vote tactically.
Put your postcode in here StopReformUK.vote
Take a friend and double your vote.
Pass this message on.
Stop the Tories and Reform
Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.
StopReformUK.vote
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Today’s the day to Stop Reform getting into your council.
Vote tactically.
Put your postcode in here StopReformUK.vote
Take a friend and double your vote.
Pass this message on.
Vote tactically.
Put your postcode in here StopReformUK.vote
Take a friend and double your vote.
Pass this message on.
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It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.)
Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
Great work! 👏👏👏
New podcast episode on "Diary of a CEO": learn about your predicting #brain, anxiety, depression, and meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtv...
Anxiety Expert: Anxiety Is Just A Glitch In Your Brain’s Prediction System!
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
www.youtube.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Great work! 👏👏👏
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“I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath...It’s a strange way to live when you have objectively more money than a person can spend.”
Read a profile of @abigaildisney.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today!
Read a profile of @abigaildisney.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today!
Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’
She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath...It’s a strange way to live when you have objectively more money than a person can spend.”
Read a profile of @abigaildisney.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today!
Read a profile of @abigaildisney.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today!
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That last Arendt line in the middle paragraph. Fuck.
March 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
That last Arendt line in the middle paragraph. Fuck.
An ode to @peerj.bsky.social by @invisiblecomma.bsky.social
PeerJ: Open for Science by @aeaton | Suno
Indie, triumphant song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
suno.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
An ode to @peerj.bsky.social by @invisiblecomma.bsky.social
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Hello AI Agents: Goodbye UI Design, RIP Accessibility, by Jakob Nielsen @jakobnielsen.bsky.social / Jakob Nielsen on UX - Substack jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ai-agents?...
Hello AI Agents: Goodbye UI Design, RIP Accessibility
Autonomous agents will transform user experience by automating interactions, making traditional UI design obsolete, as users stop visiting websites in favor of solely interacting through their agent.
jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hello AI Agents: Goodbye UI Design, RIP Accessibility, by Jakob Nielsen @jakobnielsen.bsky.social / Jakob Nielsen on UX - Substack jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ai-agents?...
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"validation and verification need to become key aspects of our community...Anyone can setup an ORCID [and] easily create fake information" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/05/s...
Scholarly Publishing Based On a Zero Trust Architecture - The Scholarly Kitchen
The many trust issues in scholarly publishing might benefit from applying a zero-trust framework to the publication process
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
February 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"validation and verification need to become key aspects of our community...Anyone can setup an ORCID [and] easily create fake information" scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/05/s...
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When I was a professor at University of New Hampshire, I used to teach a class on contemporary metamodern multimedia in which I would play this video for students. Giant screen; small, darkened seminar room...it would leave us all speechless. Including me—every time I saw it. Hope you feel as I did.
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
When I was a professor at University of New Hampshire, I used to teach a class on contemporary metamodern multimedia in which I would play this video for students. Giant screen; small, darkened seminar room...it would leave us all speechless. Including me—every time I saw it. Hope you feel as I did.
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For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".
The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.
Hope you will check it out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.
Hope you will check it out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
www.science.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:56 PM
For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".
The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.
Hope you will check it out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.
Hope you will check it out!
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.
Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Generally, the median or mean wealth of an African-American householder with a college degree is less than the median or mean wealth of a white householder without a high school degree.
Generally, the median or mean wealth of an African-American householder with a college degree is less than the median or mean wealth of a white householder without a high school degree.
November 14, 2024 at 9:29 PM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.
Nearly every country on the face of the planet guarantees some form of paid leave. The United States, virtually alone, does not nationally guarantee any paid leave--not one day, not one dollar.
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
About 70% of the energy in the fuel used in an internal combustion engine becomes waste heat. Or, more pithily: 70% of what you pay at the pump goes out your tailpipe.
About 70% of the energy in the fuel used in an internal combustion engine becomes waste heat. Or, more pithily: 70% of what you pay at the pump goes out your tailpipe.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
There are more deaths annually due to indoor air pollution from households cooking with solid fuels (e.g. wood) than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined.
There are more deaths annually due to indoor air pollution from households cooking with solid fuels (e.g. wood) than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
November 15, 2024 at 10:45 PM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
About 70% of the energy in the fuel used in an internal combustion engine becomes waste heat. Or, more pithily: 70% of what you pay at the pump goes out your tailpipe.
About 70% of the energy in the fuel used in an internal combustion engine becomes waste heat. Or, more pithily: 70% of what you pay at the pump goes out your tailpipe.
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For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Taylor and Francis decided to make the new special issue of the JAE open access for the next month!
It’s a massive collection of beautiful work under the theme “Worlding Energy Transitions” that Rania Ghosn and I co-edited.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjae20/7...
It’s a massive collection of beautiful work under the theme “Worlding Energy Transitions” that Rania Ghosn and I co-edited.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjae20/7...
Journal of Architectural Education
Worlding. Energy. Transitions.. Volume 78, Issue 2 of Journal of Architectural Education
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:50 AM
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Taylor and Francis decided to make the new special issue of the JAE open access for the next month!
It’s a massive collection of beautiful work under the theme “Worlding Energy Transitions” that Rania Ghosn and I co-edited.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjae20/7...
It’s a massive collection of beautiful work under the theme “Worlding Energy Transitions” that Rania Ghosn and I co-edited.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjae20/7...
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The arc of history is long and it bends off to the side a bit, it’s always been like that and history would prefer you not mention it because it makes them a bit self-conscious.
November 7, 2024 at 4:02 AM
The arc of history is long and it bends off to the side a bit, it’s always been like that and history would prefer you not mention it because it makes them a bit self-conscious.
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Introducing PeerJ Open Advances in Zoology! A new community-led, Open Access journal dedicated to addressing the critical questions in zoology. Led by Editors-in-Chief Professors Lesley Rogers & Michael Wink ow.ly/6bLt50TNx3h
#Zoology #OpenAccess
#Zoology #OpenAccess
October 25, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Introducing PeerJ Open Advances in Zoology! A new community-led, Open Access journal dedicated to addressing the critical questions in zoology. Led by Editors-in-Chief Professors Lesley Rogers & Michael Wink ow.ly/6bLt50TNx3h
#Zoology #OpenAccess
#Zoology #OpenAccess
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Listening to "Automation, Algorithms, and Research Integrity: What does a Hybrid Human-Machine Future Look Like for Academic Publishing?"
with @mcintold.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7nu2...
with @mcintold.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7nu2...
Automation, Algorithms, and Research Integrity: What does a Hybrid Human-Machine Future Look Like fo...
Listen to this episode from Insights Xchange: Conversations Shaping Academic Research on Spotify. This episode features Nikesh Gosalia in captivating conversation with Dr. Leslie McIntosh, Vice Presid...
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2023 at 11:54 AM
Listening to "Automation, Algorithms, and Research Integrity: What does a Hybrid Human-Machine Future Look Like for Academic Publishing?"
with @mcintold.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7nu2...
with @mcintold.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/7nu2...
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Good read from Steve Westlake
Don't see why we shouldn't focus on the behaviour of individuals w very high-emitting lifestyles & assets
"avoiding the topic of individual behaviour change serves mainly to protect the lifestyles of the wealthy, who have the most choice to act in lower-carbon ways"
Don't see why we shouldn't focus on the behaviour of individuals w very high-emitting lifestyles & assets
"avoiding the topic of individual behaviour change serves mainly to protect the lifestyles of the wealthy, who have the most choice to act in lower-carbon ways"
Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets
Research shows prominent individuals can influence the rest of us.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Good read from Steve Westlake
Don't see why we shouldn't focus on the behaviour of individuals w very high-emitting lifestyles & assets
"avoiding the topic of individual behaviour change serves mainly to protect the lifestyles of the wealthy, who have the most choice to act in lower-carbon ways"
Don't see why we shouldn't focus on the behaviour of individuals w very high-emitting lifestyles & assets
"avoiding the topic of individual behaviour change serves mainly to protect the lifestyles of the wealthy, who have the most choice to act in lower-carbon ways"
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We launch our 2024 Insights report next month with two events – one, in London, on what shapes political behaviour, the second online, on climate change. How do we view it, how do we respond to policy designed to tackle it, and can protestors change our minds?
Transition to net zero: a shared public journey? - Understanding Society
Understanding Society will be launching its 12th annual Insights report at the event. The report covers two major themes relevant to a future general election: what shapes political participation in...
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
January 26, 2024 at 10:23 AM
We launch our 2024 Insights report next month with two events – one, in London, on what shapes political behaviour, the second online, on climate change. How do we view it, how do we respond to policy designed to tackle it, and can protestors change our minds?
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🗓️ In March we are launching our new Behavioural Research Hub UK 🤓
Join us online to find out about this 5-year research & capacity-building programme to address a range of pressing social, environmental, health & economic issues.
Everyone welcome!
Registration 👉🏼 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Join us online to find out about this 5-year research & capacity-building programme to address a range of pressing social, environmental, health & economic issues.
Everyone welcome!
Registration 👉🏼 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
January 24, 2024 at 1:24 PM
🗓️ In March we are launching our new Behavioural Research Hub UK 🤓
Join us online to find out about this 5-year research & capacity-building programme to address a range of pressing social, environmental, health & economic issues.
Everyone welcome!
Registration 👉🏼 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Join us online to find out about this 5-year research & capacity-building programme to address a range of pressing social, environmental, health & economic issues.
Everyone welcome!
Registration 👉🏼 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Yep, a real challenge
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
www.wired.com
November 23, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Yep, a real challenge