gabriel burrow
@gabrielburrow.bsky.social
PhD in contemporary literature at Birkbeck, UoL (SF modelling; political movements; utopia). Part-time Research Lead for TEAM LEWIS global creative. Editor at MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. Tired.
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In December I'll be co-hosting a workshop entitled "Utopia, Dystopia and the Post-Capitalist State" with the wonderful people at @ucl-ccs.bsky.social.
This is an open CFP, and we're keen to bring together researchers across multiple disciplines. For more information, drop me a message!
This is an open CFP, and we're keen to bring together researchers across multiple disciplines. For more information, drop me a message!
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In December I'll be co-hosting a workshop entitled "Utopia, Dystopia and the Post-Capitalist State" with the wonderful people at @ucl-ccs.bsky.social.
This is an open CFP, and we're keen to bring together researchers across multiple disciplines. For more information, drop me a message!
This is an open CFP, and we're keen to bring together researchers across multiple disciplines. For more information, drop me a message!
The GenAI ecosystem in two charts. The first covers its (circular) funding - what could possibly go wrong? 👀
The second addresses everything else: the footprint of physical infrastructure, resource use, human labour, etc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.cartography-of-generative-ai.net
The second addresses everything else: the footprint of physical infrastructure, resource use, human labour, etc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.cartography-of-generative-ai.net
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The GenAI ecosystem in two charts. The first covers its (circular) funding - what could possibly go wrong? 👀
The second addresses everything else: the footprint of physical infrastructure, resource use, human labour, etc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.cartography-of-generative-ai.net
The second addresses everything else: the footprint of physical infrastructure, resource use, human labour, etc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.cartography-of-generative-ai.net
Sam Altman last week: Unless we bring more AI-ready compute online, we might have to choose between curing cancer and free global education
Sam Altman this week: We've launched an AI brainrot engine lol
gizmodo.com/openai-offic...
Sam Altman this week: We've launched an AI brainrot engine lol
gizmodo.com/openai-offic...
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sam Altman last week: Unless we bring more AI-ready compute online, we might have to choose between curing cancer and free global education
Sam Altman this week: We've launched an AI brainrot engine lol
gizmodo.com/openai-offic...
Sam Altman this week: We've launched an AI brainrot engine lol
gizmodo.com/openai-offic...
The violent criminality...
August 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The violent criminality...
Your dad doomscrolling LinkedIn at Glastonbury
June 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Your dad doomscrolling LinkedIn at Glastonbury
Was great to catch up with Birkbeck colleagues at this year's CACC conference.
So many cool projects underway (mushrooms, Cornish knockers, human compost, a breast cancer memoir, Silicon Valley theology, etc.)
Being a humanities researcher in the UK often feels pretty bleak. But not yesterday!
So many cool projects underway (mushrooms, Cornish knockers, human compost, a breast cancer memoir, Silicon Valley theology, etc.)
Being a humanities researcher in the UK often feels pretty bleak. But not yesterday!
June 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Was great to catch up with Birkbeck colleagues at this year's CACC conference.
So many cool projects underway (mushrooms, Cornish knockers, human compost, a breast cancer memoir, Silicon Valley theology, etc.)
Being a humanities researcher in the UK often feels pretty bleak. But not yesterday!
So many cool projects underway (mushrooms, Cornish knockers, human compost, a breast cancer memoir, Silicon Valley theology, etc.)
Being a humanities researcher in the UK often feels pretty bleak. But not yesterday!
Ok, it's not shit with randoms once you get to the later night lords...
June 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Ok, it's not shit with randoms once you get to the later night lords...
🌌 Our latest issue of JOSF is LIVE 🌌
Lots of cool stuff in there, including an essay on science fictional librarians from fellow editor John J. Doherty.
I didn't work on this one – getting stuck into our forthcoming VR special issue. Watch this (virtual) space.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/sc...
Lots of cool stuff in there, including an essay on science fictional librarians from fellow editor John J. Doherty.
I didn't work on this one – getting stuck into our forthcoming VR special issue. Watch this (virtual) space.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/sc...
May 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🌌 Our latest issue of JOSF is LIVE 🌌
Lots of cool stuff in there, including an essay on science fictional librarians from fellow editor John J. Doherty.
I didn't work on this one – getting stuck into our forthcoming VR special issue. Watch this (virtual) space.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/sc...
Lots of cool stuff in there, including an essay on science fictional librarians from fellow editor John J. Doherty.
I didn't work on this one – getting stuck into our forthcoming VR special issue. Watch this (virtual) space.
publish.lib.umd.edu/index.php/sc...
Best torso in the game.
May 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Best torso in the game.
Spicy paper reveal:
May 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Spicy paper reveal:
"In the clown nursery it's always time to dance."
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"In the clown nursery it's always time to dance."
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos did a Star Trek cameo without a critical bone in his body...
May 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos did a Star Trek cameo without a critical bone in his body...
Jordan from Rizzle Kicks and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
This is my Super Bowl.
This is my Super Bowl.
April 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Jordan from Rizzle Kicks and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
This is my Super Bowl.
This is my Super Bowl.
UK launch for @koheisaito.bsky.social's Slow Down, hosted by @ariskomporozos.bsky.social & @ucl-ccs.bsky.social!
A wide ranging conversation spanning the commons, planning, revolutionary reformism, and why you should collectively own forest with your mates.
A wide ranging conversation spanning the commons, planning, revolutionary reformism, and why you should collectively own forest with your mates.
April 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
UK launch for @koheisaito.bsky.social's Slow Down, hosted by @ariskomporozos.bsky.social & @ucl-ccs.bsky.social!
A wide ranging conversation spanning the commons, planning, revolutionary reformism, and why you should collectively own forest with your mates.
A wide ranging conversation spanning the commons, planning, revolutionary reformism, and why you should collectively own forest with your mates.
Still recovering from last week's #BSLS2025 in Lancaster! So many great interdisciplinary panels and talks, spanning robots, clones, gene editing, astrology, etc.
I presented a paper on SF models and the ways they're being instrumentalised as part of a session on New Narrative Structures.
I presented a paper on SF models and the ways they're being instrumentalised as part of a session on New Narrative Structures.
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Still recovering from last week's #BSLS2025 in Lancaster! So many great interdisciplinary panels and talks, spanning robots, clones, gene editing, astrology, etc.
I presented a paper on SF models and the ways they're being instrumentalised as part of a session on New Narrative Structures.
I presented a paper on SF models and the ways they're being instrumentalised as part of a session on New Narrative Structures.
Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.
Am I not merciful?
March 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Am I not merciful?
“Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Researchers from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social quote Tolstoy to explain how multi-agent LLM systems fail (as much as 75% of the time).
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657
Researchers from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social quote Tolstoy to explain how multi-agent LLM systems fail (as much as 75% of the time).
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657
March 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Researchers from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social quote Tolstoy to explain how multi-agent LLM systems fail (as much as 75% of the time).
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657
Researchers from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social quote Tolstoy to explain how multi-agent LLM systems fail (as much as 75% of the time).
Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657
Here's a visual overview of the talk, cutting down many, many slides.
February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Here's a visual overview of the talk, cutting down many, many slides.
I forgot how awful PS4 controllers were. History will damn them.
Horizon: Zero Dawn has aged much better (or rather AAA games have barely progressed since 2017...)
Horizon: Zero Dawn has aged much better (or rather AAA games have barely progressed since 2017...)
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I forgot how awful PS4 controllers were. History will damn them.
Horizon: Zero Dawn has aged much better (or rather AAA games have barely progressed since 2017...)
Horizon: Zero Dawn has aged much better (or rather AAA games have barely progressed since 2017...)
Queer a late, great entry for film of 2024.
January 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Queer a late, great entry for film of 2024.
And at SFRA 2024 I presented a paper on how @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social reimagines the 2008 financial crisis in Another Now.
November 15, 2024 at 12:44 AM
And at SFRA 2024 I presented a paper on how @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social reimagines the 2008 financial crisis in Another Now.
What do cyborg penises, mutant tails, and topless Putin have in common?
At this year's CRSF, I tackled the question on everyone's lips, mapping out the connections between post-Soviet nostalgia and the (post)human body.
At this year's CRSF, I tackled the question on everyone's lips, mapping out the connections between post-Soviet nostalgia and the (post)human body.
November 15, 2024 at 12:39 AM
What do cyborg penises, mutant tails, and topless Putin have in common?
At this year's CRSF, I tackled the question on everyone's lips, mapping out the connections between post-Soviet nostalgia and the (post)human body.
At this year's CRSF, I tackled the question on everyone's lips, mapping out the connections between post-Soviet nostalgia and the (post)human body.