Monique Tschofen
@monique-tschofen.bsky.social
Decameron Collective; electronic literature; digital humanities; critical AI studies; documentarian of multiple overlapping and ongoing crises; mad lover of glaciers and whales.
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Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/
May 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/
www.sciencephoto.com/media/998492... Apropos of nothing...
www.sciencephoto.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
www.sciencephoto.com/media/998492... Apropos of nothing...
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Happy to announce my paper about the Decameron Collective is in the Imaginations Special Issue on research creation, edited by Josh Synenko and Agata Mer:
imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...
imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...
Vol. 15 No. 3 (2024): A Research-Creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus
| Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
imaginationsjournal.ca
March 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Happy to announce my paper about the Decameron Collective is in the Imaginations Special Issue on research creation, edited by Josh Synenko and Agata Mer:
imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...
imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...
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I continue to be blown away by the sub-cellular resolution that our new #Nanolive 3D explorer allows. Look at these #microglia go!
March 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I continue to be blown away by the sub-cellular resolution that our new #Nanolive 3D explorer allows. Look at these #microglia go!
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March 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My latest work of interactive fiction, Happenings, is on a long list for a New Media Writing Prize. You can vote and see the absolutely marvellous works that are also on the list here: newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...
Opening Up 2024 - New Media Writing Prize
Opening Up 2024The Opening Up Competition celebrates all entries that are eligible that have been submitted to the Main and Student Prizes - it does not affect the forthcoming shortlist/winners in tho...
newmediawritingprize.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My latest work of interactive fiction, Happenings, is on a long list for a New Media Writing Prize. You can vote and see the absolutely marvellous works that are also on the list here: newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...
Delighted to share that my short film Aquaphoria (before the waters rise) is screening this week.
Produced by @imprint.documentaries, with sound by Hendrick de Haan.
When: THIS Thursday March 13th at 10pm.
Where: Toronto, 1006 Bloor West.
Tickets online paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...
Produced by @imprint.documentaries, with sound by Hendrick de Haan.
When: THIS Thursday March 13th at 10pm.
Where: Toronto, 1006 Bloor West.
Tickets online paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...
March 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Delighted to share that my short film Aquaphoria (before the waters rise) is screening this week.
Produced by @imprint.documentaries, with sound by Hendrick de Haan.
When: THIS Thursday March 13th at 10pm.
Where: Toronto, 1006 Bloor West.
Tickets online paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...
Produced by @imprint.documentaries, with sound by Hendrick de Haan.
When: THIS Thursday March 13th at 10pm.
Where: Toronto, 1006 Bloor West.
Tickets online paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...
Our VR world Memory Eternal is on exhibition February 13, 2025 at the RUBIX Catalyst 10th anniversary show (Toronto Metropolitan University, Creative School).
Please join us!!
For details: www.torontomu.ca/the-catalyst...
Please join us!!
For details: www.torontomu.ca/the-catalyst...
February 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our VR world Memory Eternal is on exhibition February 13, 2025 at the RUBIX Catalyst 10th anniversary show (Toronto Metropolitan University, Creative School).
Please join us!!
For details: www.torontomu.ca/the-catalyst...
Please join us!!
For details: www.torontomu.ca/the-catalyst...
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Can we all PLEASE take a moment to acknowledge that the new forbidden words include female, females, woman, and women which describe about half the population. But of course the words male or men are still allowed.
Am I to understand that this is a direct attempt to defeud women's health research?
Am I to understand that this is a direct attempt to defeud women's health research?
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Can we all PLEASE take a moment to acknowledge that the new forbidden words include female, females, woman, and women which describe about half the population. But of course the words male or men are still allowed.
Am I to understand that this is a direct attempt to defeud women's health research?
Am I to understand that this is a direct attempt to defeud women's health research?
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Dr. Raj Pannu was one of the best. 🧡
From the first time I met him, I was struck by his kindness, his warmth, and his quiet leadership.
Rest in Power, Raj.
And Raj Against the Machine, forever ✊
From the first time I met him, I was struck by his kindness, his warmth, and his quiet leadership.
Rest in Power, Raj.
And Raj Against the Machine, forever ✊
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Dr. Raj Pannu was one of the best. 🧡
From the first time I met him, I was struck by his kindness, his warmth, and his quiet leadership.
Rest in Power, Raj.
And Raj Against the Machine, forever ✊
From the first time I met him, I was struck by his kindness, his warmth, and his quiet leadership.
Rest in Power, Raj.
And Raj Against the Machine, forever ✊
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Raj Pannu is known to all who met him as a tireless advocate for a better Alberta. As Leader, his "Raj Against the Machine" campaign didn’t just give us a great slogan—it created a legacy and inspired a movement that lives on.
My thoughts are with his loved ones today.
My thoughts are with his loved ones today.
The Alberta NDP is saddened by the passing of Dr. Raj Pannu. A compassionate and dedicated leader, Raj served as the MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona from 1997 until his retirement in 2008. He led our party in 2000 with his memorable "Raj against the Machine" campaign, leaving a lasting impact.
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Raj Pannu is known to all who met him as a tireless advocate for a better Alberta. As Leader, his "Raj Against the Machine" campaign didn’t just give us a great slogan—it created a legacy and inspired a movement that lives on.
My thoughts are with his loved ones today.
My thoughts are with his loved ones today.
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Really helpful work by the always generous Eryk Salvaggio.
Teaching "A Critical Introduction to AI Images" this semester as a visiting prof at RIT's Humanities, Computing and Design department. Here's the reading list I have so far.
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Really helpful work by the always generous Eryk Salvaggio.
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January 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Tech companies want to make authoritative sounding knowledge replacers, but they could just as easily make models that point out their own epistemological standing and encourage users to think critically about the content they’re generating.
January 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Tech companies want to make authoritative sounding knowledge replacers, but they could just as easily make models that point out their own epistemological standing and encourage users to think critically about the content they’re generating.
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Using vintage Shell maps, Jeffrey Linn from #ConspiracyOfCartographers imagines the IPCC worst-case scenario, in which sea levels will rise by 66 metres as a result of ice melting conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-... (Via Krisis Publishing newsletter)
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Using vintage Shell maps, Jeffrey Linn from #ConspiracyOfCartographers imagines the IPCC worst-case scenario, in which sea levels will rise by 66 metres as a result of ice melting conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-... (Via Krisis Publishing newsletter)
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New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social
The Living History and Surprising Diversity of Computer-Generated Text
Selections from "Output," an anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 16, 2024 at 10:42 PM
New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social
Lovely. Implementable.
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Lovely. Implementable.
Works I love: www.alintakrauth.com/otherhood/
The (m)Otherhood of Meep
The Bat Translator
www.alintakrauth.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Works I love: www.alintakrauth.com/otherhood/
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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
slate.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...