Sarah Klein
@saklein.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Communication Arts, University of Waterloo experiment | people studying people | performance | collaboration | knitting | feminist sts | fungi |
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I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
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Enjoyed writing this short but sweet [altho not necessarily in message] piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social:
> While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor
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> While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor
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Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social .
bit.ly/48FNcJj
bit.ly/48FNcJj
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Enjoyed writing this short but sweet [altho not necessarily in message] piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social:
> While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor
🧵
> While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor
🧵
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Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social .
bit.ly/48FNcJj
bit.ly/48FNcJj
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social .
bit.ly/48FNcJj
bit.ly/48FNcJj
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“How can we expect our students & mentees to navigate AI slop if we do not take a clear stand against it as teachers, researchers, and academic institutions?
How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?”
How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?”
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“How can we expect our students & mentees to navigate AI slop if we do not take a clear stand against it as teachers, researchers, and academic institutions?
How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?”
How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?”
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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we need to talk more about which specific people are on which boards and also which other boards those specific people are on.
something is horribly wrong when University of Chicago leadership is going "we can just get ChatGPT to teach languages"
"Is there a language teaching we can do via chatgpt" is the most cursed sentence
August 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
we need to talk more about which specific people are on which boards and also which other boards those specific people are on.
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This ongoing observation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, started in 1950 and continuous ever since, is one of the best things the US government has ever done.
Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.
Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.
430.33 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 10-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
March 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This ongoing observation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, started in 1950 and continuous ever since, is one of the best things the US government has ever done.
Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.
Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.
I know I have almost zero followers so I’m sure this will reach almost no one but friends frenemies, countrymen and humans of fabricated enemy states, it might be time to start moving our actual conversations off the platforms. Even this one.
March 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I know I have almost zero followers so I’m sure this will reach almost no one but friends frenemies, countrymen and humans of fabricated enemy states, it might be time to start moving our actual conversations off the platforms. Even this one.
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This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.
The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image
Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel …
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March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.
Publication klaxon! Please head over to Analog Game Studies to check out our article in the latest issue: "It's All Fun and Games 'Till Someone Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed." @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social and I learned a lot about one anothers' fields (and minds!) writing this together.
It’s All Fun and Games ‘Till Somebody Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed | Analog Game Studies
analoggamestudies.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Publication klaxon! Please head over to Analog Game Studies to check out our article in the latest issue: "It's All Fun and Games 'Till Someone Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed." @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social and I learned a lot about one anothers' fields (and minds!) writing this together.
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Really proud of this essay with @saklein.bsky.social theorizing bleed as not only an effect but also tactic of play and identifying some culturally situated practices around/for/against bleed play in ttrpgs
analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...
analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...
It’s All Fun and Games ‘Till Somebody Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed | Analog Game Studies
analoggamestudies.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Really proud of this essay with @saklein.bsky.social theorizing bleed as not only an effect but also tactic of play and identifying some culturally situated practices around/for/against bleed play in ttrpgs
analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...
analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...
It's a beautiful day in the 'neural neighborhood'. Getting ready to teach about objectivities in scientific visualization and saw this just out. Is the scientific atlas being revived? Did it ever really disappear? alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types.
alleninstitute.org
February 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
It's a beautiful day in the 'neural neighborhood'. Getting ready to teach about objectivities in scientific visualization and saw this just out. Is the scientific atlas being revived? Did it ever really disappear? alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
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Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types
#neuroskyence
alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types
#neuroskyence
alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types.
alleninstitute.org
December 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM
Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types
#neuroskyence
alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types
#neuroskyence
alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...
Tough one, but I believe I am a bog. Girlmoss over girlboss for sure
On a lighter note, apparently it's World Wetlands Day. Which one are you? I'm self-diagnosing as Peatland. (I love these little scicomm games.)
February 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Tough one, but I believe I am a bog. Girlmoss over girlboss for sure