Pip Shea
@pipshea.bsky.social
Designer 🏳️🌈🥁. AI for Science R&D at @ CSIRO Australia. She/Her.
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We’re excited to highlight the launch of the online course Quality and Consistent Data with the Open Data Editor, developed by our partner @okfn.bsky.social.
🔗 schoolofdata.org#course
This free, hands-on training provides non-technical users with skills to work with data - no coding required.
🔗 schoolofdata.org#course
This free, hands-on training provides non-technical users with skills to work with data - no coding required.
School of Data
Let's bridge the digital literacy gap together
schoolofdata.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We’re excited to highlight the launch of the online course Quality and Consistent Data with the Open Data Editor, developed by our partner @okfn.bsky.social.
🔗 schoolofdata.org#course
This free, hands-on training provides non-technical users with skills to work with data - no coding required.
🔗 schoolofdata.org#course
This free, hands-on training provides non-technical users with skills to work with data - no coding required.
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It's Women's History Month! In recognition and celebration of women in political science, explore the latest journal articles and publications highlighting women and gender politics, and research in the political science profession. #WomensHistoryMonth
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's Women's History Month! In recognition and celebration of women in political science, explore the latest journal articles and publications highlighting women and gender politics, and research in the political science profession. #WomensHistoryMonth
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A cup of neuroscience, a spoonful of evolution, a dash of art, a sprinkling of history. Something for everyone! 🧪🐡🧠
Read The Signs
The Evolution of Writing, In Science and Art
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A cup of neuroscience, a spoonful of evolution, a dash of art, a sprinkling of history. Something for everyone! 🧪🐡🧠
🧪Article: Researchers’ perceptions of automating scientific research (from my CSIRO colleague David Douglas) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ai4science
Researchers’ perceptions of automating scientific research - AI & SOCIETY
Science is being transformed by the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Integrating AI and machine learning (ML) into scientific practice requires chan...
link.springer.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
🧪Article: Researchers’ perceptions of automating scientific research (from my CSIRO colleague David Douglas) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ai4science
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For every job DOGE cuts, we will invent a new gender in retaliation
The latest is bananagender, pronouns na/na, but pronounced differently like the two "na"s in banana
The latest is bananagender, pronouns na/na, but pronounced differently like the two "na"s in banana
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For every job DOGE cuts, we will invent a new gender in retaliation
The latest is bananagender, pronouns na/na, but pronounced differently like the two "na"s in banana
The latest is bananagender, pronouns na/na, but pronounced differently like the two "na"s in banana
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Open source scientific journal now shutting its doors as USAID dries up 🧪
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
February 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Open source scientific journal now shutting its doors as USAID dries up 🧪
I wrote a piece about making Design Fiction with LLMs .. inspired by current scientific work on the wax moth and how it might play a role in plastic degradation (which is the use case for the software product we are making at CSIRO) #designfiction #plasticdegradation medium.com/design-bootc...
Creating Design Fiction with LLMs
‘The Moth Keepers’ is Design Fiction inspired by current work on the wax moth and how it might play a role in plastic degradation. This scientific inquiry is the use case for the AI software product…
medium.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I wrote a piece about making Design Fiction with LLMs .. inspired by current scientific work on the wax moth and how it might play a role in plastic degradation (which is the use case for the software product we are making at CSIRO) #designfiction #plasticdegradation medium.com/design-bootc...
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The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article)
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media
— Manovich and Arielli 2021-2024 — free PDF manovich.net/index.php/pr...
— Manovich and Arielli 2021-2024 — free PDF manovich.net/index.php/pr...
Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich: photos, bio, complete CV.
manovich.net
January 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media
— Manovich and Arielli 2021-2024 — free PDF manovich.net/index.php/pr...
— Manovich and Arielli 2021-2024 — free PDF manovich.net/index.php/pr...
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www.aiglossary.co.uk/index For those of you teaching AI in the social sciences or humaities
Index — The Philosophical Glossary of AI
www.aiglossary.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
www.aiglossary.co.uk/index For those of you teaching AI in the social sciences or humaities
Personal supercomputing and AI agent creation: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data Center
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI tools for creating autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES.
www.wired.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Personal supercomputing and AI agent creation: www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
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Fresh out of dcode-network.eu, and co-edited by Elisa Giaccardi and myself, Rethink Design: A Vocabulary for Designing with AI, offers several critical entry points into the entangled relations between design and seemingly intelligent systems.
Open access:
books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog...
Open access:
books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog...
November 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Fresh out of dcode-network.eu, and co-edited by Elisa Giaccardi and myself, Rethink Design: A Vocabulary for Designing with AI, offers several critical entry points into the entangled relations between design and seemingly intelligent systems.
Open access:
books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog...
Open access:
books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog...
Demos of AI failures to build AI literacies civai.org
CivAI - Civic AI Security Program
Nonprofit building public understanding of AI capabilities and dangers.
civai.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Demos of AI failures to build AI literacies civai.org
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Recent advances in humanoid robots and AI mean that people and robots are more likely to cross paths in 2025 - which raises the question of what human-robot etiquette should look like.
Will 2025 become the year we need to teach robots better manners? Read the Future Signal: bit.ly/3DBGZk6
Will 2025 become the year we need to teach robots better manners? Read the Future Signal: bit.ly/3DBGZk6
Robots behaving badly: why manners matter in a world designed for humans
We’re getting closer to sharing our world with humanoid robots - which raises the question of what human-robot etiquette should look like
bit.ly
January 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Recent advances in humanoid robots and AI mean that people and robots are more likely to cross paths in 2025 - which raises the question of what human-robot etiquette should look like.
Will 2025 become the year we need to teach robots better manners? Read the Future Signal: bit.ly/3DBGZk6
Will 2025 become the year we need to teach robots better manners? Read the Future Signal: bit.ly/3DBGZk6
My other favourite holiday read .. SPACE CRONE www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Space Crone
For the first time, Space Crone brings together celebr…
www.goodreads.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My other favourite holiday read .. SPACE CRONE www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Absolutely loving the book ‘What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion’ by @silviolorusso.bsky.social .. The chaos surrounding my magic circle of design:
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Absolutely loving the book ‘What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion’ by @silviolorusso.bsky.social .. The chaos surrounding my magic circle of design:
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The amount of rage this makes me feel is honestly inexpressible. It's like a fist trying to punch its way out of my chest.
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The amount of rage this makes me feel is honestly inexpressible. It's like a fist trying to punch its way out of my chest.
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🧪 I heart my workplace. From flexible solar to rare species genome sequencing, there is always something wonderful going on.
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
10 uplifting science stories you may have missed in 2024
It’s been another groundbreaking year for science and technology here at CSIRO, with our researchers’ exciting discoveries and innovations helping shape our understanding of the world. Here are some u...
www.csiro.au
December 20, 2024 at 8:34 PM
🧪 I heart my workplace. From flexible solar to rare species genome sequencing, there is always something wonderful going on.
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
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OpenAI’s #Sora and #Ai tech like it represent a step change in generative video. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I highlight key risks and fundamental inequitable gaps in access to detection tools. But ... there is time to address this and other threats www.techpolicy.press/openais-sora...
OpenAI's Sora Is Here. There Is Still Time To Prepare For The Threat Such Technologies Pose | TechPolicy.Press
WITNESS executive director Sam Gregory says there are fundamental gaps in access to detection tools that disadvantage journalists and civil society.
www.techpolicy.press
December 12, 2024 at 3:04 PM
OpenAI’s #Sora and #Ai tech like it represent a step change in generative video. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I highlight key risks and fundamental inequitable gaps in access to detection tools. But ... there is time to address this and other threats www.techpolicy.press/openais-sora...
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Eleanor Tursman recently sat down with Siegel Family Endowment's @eryk.bsky.social to discuss #AI ethics, #MediaLiteracy, and public use. Here's what they said: www.siegelendowment.org/insights/from-oscilloscopes-to-ai-policy-building-a-foundation-of-public-ai-understanding-with-eleanor-tursman
December 12, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Eleanor Tursman recently sat down with Siegel Family Endowment's @eryk.bsky.social to discuss #AI ethics, #MediaLiteracy, and public use. Here's what they said: www.siegelendowment.org/insights/from-oscilloscopes-to-ai-policy-building-a-foundation-of-public-ai-understanding-with-eleanor-tursman
Blast Theory’s ‘Constant Washing Machine’ invites people who use and work with AI to connect the good habits of everyday washing to ‘Responsible AI’ culture.theodi.org/constant-was...
Constant Washing Machine by Blast Theory - Data as Culture - ODI - The Open Data Institute
Constant Washing Machine by Blast Theory from 10 December 2024, commissioned by Data as Culture at the ODI and FRAIM 2024
culture.theodi.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Blast Theory’s ‘Constant Washing Machine’ invites people who use and work with AI to connect the good habits of everyday washing to ‘Responsible AI’ culture.theodi.org/constant-was...