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Emanuel Maiberg

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

New publication on the reception practices of science communication in Portugal, co-authored with @anadelicado.bsky.social e João Estevens, In Análise Social.

Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Oct 14

New publication (in Portuguese) with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens, the final article of the CONCISE project. It's part of a thematic issue we organised on science communication. revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocia...

October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM

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Ana Delicado

@anadelicado.bsky.social

New publication (in Portuguese) with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens, the final article of the CONCISE project. It's part of a thematic issue we organised on science communication. revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocia...

October 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Journal of Creative Research Methods

@crmethodsjnl.bsky.social

Are you interested in creative research design? Then we are the journal for you!
Learn more about publishing in the Journal of Creative Research Methods bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
#RC33 #11ICSSM

We accept submissions of:
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.
Journal of Creative Research Methods cover art.

September 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

My daughter is twelve and is always looking for AI in images and ads. She nods critically: ‘That’s AI'

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Sep 24

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

📣 new deadline: 30 September 📣

ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · Sep 23

📢 CfP: New Deadline: 30 Sept

ESA RN24/SSTNET – Sociology of Science and Technology Network conference: 'Technology in the face of global challenges'

🗓️ 26–27 Nov 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 30 Sept 2025

Details:
bit.ly/45E2JaC

September 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa

@ics-ulisboa.bsky.social

Nos dias 2 e 3 de outubro, o ICS-ULisboa recebe a primeira Animal Day Conference of the HAS-Hub, que terá como como título "Following the more-than-human: multimodal methods and approaches".

Para saber mais: tinyurl.com/y2phu7ew

September 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

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.
1/n

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 8:13 AM

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Journal of Creative Research Methods

@crmethodsjnl.bsky.social

Looking for something to read as you travel to #ICRMC2025? 🚆 🚴‍♂️ 🚌
Take a look at the first ever issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods!
Did we mention it’s free to read? ❤️
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
#ICRMC

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

September 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

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ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢 Call for Papers 📢

ESA RN24/SSTNET – Sociology of Science and Technology Network conference: 'Technology in the face of global challenges'

🗓️ 26–27 November 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 19 Sept 2025

Details:
bit.ly/45E2JaC

August 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

📢 RN24/SSTNET invites submissions 👉 Call for Papers: Technology in the face of global challenges".

ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Call for Papers 📢

RN24 Midterm Conference call for papers: Technology in the face of global challenges

RN24/SSTNET invites submissions on the role of technology in addressing today’s global challenges, with a special focus on Europe

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 19 Sept 2025
🗓️ Conference: 26–27 Nov 2025

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August 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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Journal of Creative Research Methods

@crmethodsjnl.bsky.social

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025).

We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!

More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!

July 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM

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Lisa Diedrich

@lisadiedrich.bsky.social

I think people have underestimated the anti-intellectualism of the technofascists as one of the key drivers of the spread of authoritarianism. The clear benefits of the post-1960s expansion of higher ed is being destroyed by the most parsimonious thinkers.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 28

It’s such a wanton, bizarre and self destructive act, these sustained demolitions of higher education at the demand of the far right, transphobes, technofascists and other assorted anti-intellectuals. And it’s happening in so many parts of the world.

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 28

Even the Telegraph is now advocating for the UK's universities, and pleading with readers who they themselves have poisoned to give Higher Education a chance. But really it's far too late to stop much of the slide. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

July 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM

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Yarden Skop

@skoopit.bsky.social

Our article about the hallucination metaphor is out, in case you're interested
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Between fact and fairy: tracing the hallucination metaphor in AI discourse - AI & SOCIETY

Large and powerful language models such as OpenAI’s GPT model family, Google’s LaMDA and BERT or Meta’s LlaMA are integral to many applications, such as translation, summarization or language generati...

link.springer.com

May 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Jussara Rowland

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May 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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michael veale

@michae.lv

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

May 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

@aoir.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

May 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

Muito contente por estar a organizar esta escola com a artista gráfica Júlia Barata.

www.instagram.com/julia_barata/

Tem como principal objetivo explorar, de forma prática, o potencial da narrativa gráfica enquanto ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais.

Online em junho!

Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · May 2

Abriram as inscrições para a Escola de Métodos Criativos: Narrativa Gráfica para as Ciências Sociais. Esta escola tem por objetivo explorar a narrativa gráfica como ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais: tinyurl.com/48fsy5b5

Com @jussararowland.bsky.social
#socialsciences

May 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa

@ics-ulisboa.bsky.social

Abriram as inscrições para a Escola de Métodos Criativos: Narrativa Gráfica para as Ciências Sociais. Esta escola tem por objetivo explorar a narrativa gráfica como ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais: tinyurl.com/48fsy5b5

Com @jussararowland.bsky.social
#socialsciences

May 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM

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Journal of Creative Research Methods

@crmethodsjnl.bsky.social

Announcing the Journal of Creative Research Methods! A peer-reviewed journal devoted to everything from creative research designs to innovative data analysis and dissemination approaches. We're creating space for boundary-pushing methods so follow us for updates as we launch later in 2025!

April 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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ESA RN24 - Science and Technology

@esarn24.bsky.social

The ESA RN24- Science and Technology is now on Bluesky!

April 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM

Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · Mar 31

New book chapter with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens: Personal Epistemologies and Science Information: Exploring the Role of Scientific Evidence and Trust in Four Science-Related Topics. Open access link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...