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Dean Cooper-Cunningham
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Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. I research the visual, the body, sex(uality), gender, and their place in international politics. Recent work focuses mostly on queering peace & security. I run a lot. Scottish. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰
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shoot this straight into my veins
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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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.
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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
whereisdean.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of thinking with and being probed by these wonderful minds as part of the #EWIS2025 opening sessions. Maybe there is some hope in these transitional, liminal times…
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In case you ever feel like a waste of space whose job is bullshit…

Jokes aside, how does shit always seem to float (into power)?
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Asked DALL-E to give me Moo Deng but Christmassy… didn’t expect a recipe 🦛🆘
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Are you doing simulations in IR? Consider using ChatGPT to help you design and run gameified learning exercises. It reduces time & resources, works as a sparring partner, and can be fully randomised. I wrote about this for the pedagogical course I took at Copenhagen Uni: curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil...
curis.ku.dk
December 11, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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mfenzl.bsky.social Michele Fenzl @mfenzl.bsky.social · Nov 23
I would like to create a starter pack of LGBTQ+ scholars in the field of political science. But I only want to include people that opt in voluntarily. If you want to be included, please reply to this post and I will do so :) #PolSky
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning and in light of the revelations from the UK Covid inquiry about senior civil servants’ communications during the pandemic, it’s very clear that many of the UK’s political leadership are incompetent donkeys who can’t formulate independent arguments 🫏
November 1, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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Hard copies of my article with @whereisdean.bsky.social just arrived! It's on Queering the Responsibility to Protect and the need to integrate queer perspectives and persecution into research policy and practice on R2P. Article Open Access here! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...
Hand holding a hard copy of the journal International Affairs.
October 27, 2023 at 3:54 AM
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Come join us in NYC on 23 Oct for the launch of our paper 'Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations Independent Expert on SOGI' 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇳

Register: eventbrite.com/e/queer-peace-…

Paper: https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/369349432/Queer_Peace_Design_Report_v3_single_page.pdf
October 18, 2023 at 12:52 PM
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Reviewing the final proofs for the outcome document of a truly collaborative venture. This one is something I’m really proud of and super excited to deliver 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 more soon…
A front cover for a booklet titled Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations, independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity. The cover is gradient coloured white to pink from left to right and the text is bold and black with the title.
October 8, 2023 at 7:14 PM