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gemmamilne.bsky.social
Writer, researcher • STS, economic sociology, political economy of deep tech • University of Glasgow & Edinburgh • Author of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
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submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

We made a film about cities, regions, money, carbon, steep topographies and shale bings. It's got Sharon Zukin, @lanalanalana.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @sianbayne.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @gemmamilne.bsky.social && and it's 🍿🎭 Feb 20 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opens-and-...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Super interesting! Great to read about real-world examples of 'alternatives'; critique is limited without possible, material, copy-able, structures. (I was very flattered find out this morning that some of my words are quoted in the conclusion too!) 👏 @melissaterras.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not exaggerating when I say I've just sent this to every mum-pal I have in my Whatsapp - Hayley Nahman *so* eloquently captures the experience of reflecting (or not!) on the madness of birth/pregnancy/early motherhood: haleynahman.substack.com/p/200-hey-fr... Sharing for the mum-pals on here!

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This is such a great film - congrats @bondhack.bsky.social @cynthiao.bsky.social @dangarrahan.bsky.social 👏 The way Windhorst squirms at so many points throughout is cracking viewing too..!

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

First ever MSc Science Communications cohort 😍 proud of every single one of them. A big shoutout to @gemmamilne.bsky.social for her amazing course on Science journalism @uofglasgow.bsky.social #uofglasgow

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @glasgowwestend.bsky.social 👋 (or anyone else who might be in the know) - we want to donate a load of baby/toddler toys before Christmas (heard it’s more useful than after..!) - any specific local charity shops / toy drives asking for toys? Don’t want to inundate where not needed / miss a call!

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

This is excellent! Such clarity and ambition, and awesome to see this properly explained in a Glasgow-specific news outlet (not ‘hidden’ in planning docs), so it gets the broader (but local) eyes and debate it deserves and needs!! Great work @garethdennis.bsky.social & @glasgowbell.bsky.social 👏👏

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Found this super thought-provoking - instead of focuses on the technical specifics: "AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power."

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Gary Marcus wrote a classy rebuke of Newton’s nonsense. Bless you, @garymarcus.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This story is totally insane, the title / summary does not do it justice! Amazing investigative work from @sooophie.bsky.social & @jackiedavalos.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Love my fans 🥰

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Just read an article that refers to ‘infrastructures of feeling’ (v cool to see in local journalism!) but cites Davies 2023 for the term. I’ve read the intro and Gilmore isn’t cited re the term but is quoted later in the chapter (so journo not misreading). Is there more than 1 use of this term? Or…?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Thought this was a great piece - captures and weaves together so much which can often end up lost in too-long, ‘too-political’, too-academic pieces which many cannot / will not access. More clear-eyed no-nonsense pieces like this pls!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Can we talk about this now? Thanks to @bellingcat.com for an amazing couple of days at Bellingfest. For those who missed it, many of the sessions are online here. Brian McClendon of Google Earth and Pokemon Go fame was an amazing end of day highlight www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Watching a panel and ofc the investor is wearing a vest - I know it's beyond parody now, but genuinely curious: what's the deal with / history of the investor 'uniform'? Were they given out as merch at one point? Is there a celeb VC Steve-Jobs-turtle-neck effect? Does @dieworkwear.bsky.social know?!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting comment at this Quantum Health conference re the impact of knowing more about our health / predicted mortality (in early diagnosis) - are we moving towards a demand for a ‘personalised retirement age’ (if you know you won’t make it to the state retirement age, why pay NI)?

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Currently listening live! @zsk.bsky.social interviewed me months ago for this series - I've been very excited to hear how she has pulled together what sounds like a great array of moderator stories and experts!

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

very interesting to see the biographer of the world's richest man, who loves to post excerpts of his book after key moments at subject's companies, post absolutely nothing about how the billionaire became the president-elect's most important supporter on the way to the white house

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

I regret to inform you that - yes - turning my phone off and on again did in fact solve the problem 🫠🫠

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Bitcoin is now at an all-time high, the play here is that by legitimizing all sorts of cryptocurrencies and preventing the SEC from prosecuting scammers, a new class of betting instrument that trillions can slosh into has been born

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

Kinda sad these kinds of dark anti-intellectual patterns in publishing from Google and other companies aren't discussed really as much as they should be given how much the apparent successful research is lauded. Impossible things are possible if you fudge the results. cacm.acm.org/research/ree...

submitted 109 days ago • 5 comments

Agreed. Also not sure I agree with Clearsky showing you who blocks who openly…

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

submitted 109 days ago • 87 comments