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Charlotte Tate (she/her)
@drcharlottetate.bsky.social
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Social/Personality psychology human behavior researcher; intersectional feminist; scientist

Web: https://tatelab.wixsite.com/ctate2
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drcharlottetate.bsky.social
Some important and timely points about being clear-minded and critical about what the #AI-hype and #AI is really about in the USA, from the heart of Silicon Valley and in very plain language:
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

#resistAI #criticalAI #climatejustice
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
adolfont.github.io
We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research

by Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
papers.ssrn.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
serife.bsky.social
A good primer on the more entangled problems with this sort of trash science aka lacking epistemic soundness by Mel Andrews, @abeba.bsky.social, @andrewthesmart.bsky.social on www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions
Machine learning has a pseudoscience problem. In this perspective, the authors explore the recent resurgence of deep learning-assisted physiognomy and argue that pseudoscientific and socially harmful ...
www.cell.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
papers.ssrn.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
irisvanrooij.bsky.social
This is what my AI colleagues should have been doing for long but instead they preferred to ride the hype wave

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/s...
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
drcharlottetate.bsky.social
neillewisjr.bsky.social Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Oct 24
"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."
October 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
drcharlottetate.bsky.social
Meanwhile the U.S. has to deal with data tampering in federal datasets….
neillewisjr.bsky.social Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Sep 28
"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
mu-peter.bsky.social
⚠️ AI has some legitimate uses, however...

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.

This can't go on unchecked.

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...
AI tuba blown by any company into my face
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
drcharlottetate.bsky.social
Excellent critical perspective on the AI hype everywhere and in academia…
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
drcharlottetate.bsky.social
Meanwhile, the international community is taking note of the implications of the current U.S. government’s aversion to actual science, and the possible implications for raw data storage in the U.S. …
penders.bsky.social Bart Penders 🟥 @penders.bsky.social · Sep 3
Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
theklamorgenroth.bsky.social
I'll be recruiting a grad student to join the UNICORN lab for Fall 2026! If you know any magical students interested in gender/sex, LGBTQ+ issues, intergroup relations, stereotyping & prejudice, social cognition, feminism, issues of bodily autonomy, or anything else I do, please send them my way!
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August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Watch this amazing video by Jim Amos and then consider signing the two open letters below.

1. Open Letter Australia: openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

2. Open Letter The Netherlands: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

deeplywrong.substack.com/p/generative...
Generative AI is not fit for use in education
Educators speak out against the digital cartels pushing AI into schools and colleges in an open letter.
deeplywrong.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
drcharlottetate.bsky.social
Now, for some valid #genderscience! Behavioral science now has a self-report scale for gendered mannerisms for adults that has been initially validated on U.S. cis straight women and men, and aligns with sociological/observational findings. Access: DM me! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Measuring Intrapersonal Awareness of Nonverbal Behavior Associated With Gender: Development and Validation of the Gendered Mannerisms Scale - Sex Roles
This study addresses the underexplored domain of self-reports of gendered nonverbal behaviors. We developed the Gendered Mannerisms Scale (GMS) to bridge self-perception and social perception of gende...
link.springer.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
jasonread.bsky.social
Remember all those warnings about “complying in advance”? This is what complying in advance looks like.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Reposted by Charlotte Tate (she/her)
cdelawalla.bsky.social
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM