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migueldobrich.bsky.social
Journalist and educator based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founder of Dobcast and Amenaza Roboto (@amenazaroboto.bsky.social). 2024 & 2023 Pulitzer Center grantee. Oxford Climate Journalism Network alum. 2018 Tow-Knight Fellow.
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Have you checked out @amenazaroboto.bsky.social educational resources? ¿Conocés los recursos educativos de #AmenazaRoboto? 🎯 "From Data To Action" - "De los datos a la acción" This project was carried out through the ISF @pulitzercenter.bsky.social. amenazaroboto.com/from-data-to...

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Looking forward to reading it, @loriemerson.net!

This picture brings me immense joy. I love these two gents. Can’t wait to see Spike Lee’s new film! And God bless New York. #SpikeAndMarty

"Dragonfly-Eye (ꙮ) is an online library and image-bank. We aggregate key texts with peripheral images (reflections, connections, detours, commentaries) that radiate from the readings—transforming fragments into construction sites, www.dragonfly-eye.online

We're in a serious financial situation at @chicagoreader.com. If you're in a position to help with $1 or $10,000, now is the time. Your donations will be seen by other potential donors & funders. If 100 people give us $3 each, that says, "Hey, this paper is valuable." donorbox.org/save-the-chi...

What an incredibly sad day. We owe this artist so much. RIP #DavidLynch.

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Isn't it time to prioritize building public and regional infrastructure to avoid being at the mercy of sudden policy shifts by private entities? #TechGovernance

great starter pack to bring all kinds of science to your feed in all sorts of formats, from writing to podcasting to videos, from award-winning science communicators and journalists! go.bsky.app/R3WZmxy

Happy New Year to this incredible cohort! What an unforgettable experience we shared. I raise my glass from afar in your honor 🥂 Deepest thanks to @nationalacademies.org and @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for honoring us with the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications!

Just because you deserve it. 😉🖖

⚠️⚠️ My departments is looking for an Asst Prof of Communication (open to PhDs and MFAs) www.academicdiversitysearch.com/job/college-...

I strongly believe that we deserve fewer DJs and better playlists.

A bunch of terrific scholars, practitioners, writers, and more are joining together on Dec. 6 for an online conference exploring some of the social, political, and environmental contexts & consequences of AI. Free to attend (register by Dec. 5): uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...

Let's talk shop! Join Alejandra Crail (🇲🇽) , Christine Spolar (🇺🇸), and me (🇺🇾) for the panel "Reporting on Climate Change – Who Has the Data and How to Make Communities Care?" ¡Nos vemos pronto en el OWM Global Reporting Summit! 👉 oneworldmedia.org.uk/owm-global-r... #GlobalReportingSummit

"How We Used Open Data To Report on Coastal Consequences of Climate Change in Uruguay" @amenazaroboto.bsky.social 👉 pulitzercenter.org/how-we-used-... #OpenData #OpenClimateData #JournalistResource

As a tiny action to encourage the spread of evidence-based thinking, I'm providing free access to the Science Communication Fundamentals chapter of my book Building Science Graphics (incl links to the work of many thoughtful people) 🧪📊 #SciArt #SciComm www.buildingsciencegraphics.com/science-comm...

Internet studies people unite! Internet studies starter pack is here - incomplete, skewed etc etc but some fantastic folks, to help us all rebuild our social networks. Happy to add you if I left you out! Please circulate, and here it is: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf

Latest NASA global temperature data. Earth has never been hotter since Homo sapiens (we) discovered agriculture in the early Holocene. Likely even since the Eemian interglacial 120.000 years ago. Fossil coal, oil and gas emissions caused it. We need to stop making it worse. We can if we want to.

New Paper! w/@HeidyKhlaaf + @sarahbmyers. We put the narrative on AI risks & nat'l security under a microscope, finding that the focus on hypothetical AI bioweapons is warping policy and ignoring the real & serious harms of current AI use in surveillance, targeting, etc. 1/

“What were the material, technical, epistemic, cultural, + political conditions that made the built environment computable? And, conversely, what are the implications of emplacing the history of computing in material + spatial settings – in the built environment?” IEEE CFP: abstracts due Dec 1!

Time to re-up this (now updated). If you work on this and feel you should be in this, drop me a line go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS

"rocks are best understood not as nouns but verbs, signifying events + processes. If nothing is happening on a planet, there will be no new rocks. Thinking of rocks as verbs is like seeing a painting not merely as an object that is, but as the manifestation of the motions that led to its creation."

"The new wording states: 'No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems', and will be included in all new titles and any backlist titles that are reprinted."

@librarycolleen.bsky.social which is the best definition of Library? Do you recommend any reads regarding this subject? Thanks for your help.

Excellent piece from the Times on the deep conflicts of interest that arise if Musk is given the post he has lobbied Trump for: overseeing the federal agencies that fund him and regulate him, and that he is frequently at loggerheads with. Fox/henhouse etc. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/u...

You definitely need some music from Latin America. open.spotify.com/playlist/4Zf...

I am really enjoying the Bluesky experience. Did you know that @bprainsack.bsky.social is also here? You should definitely follow her!

@loriemerson.bsky.social Thanks for everything today 🙏 Saludos from Uruguay!

You definitely need some music from Latin America. open.spotify.com/playlist/4Zf...

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Is there any amazing PhD opportunity you'd like to share, #AcademicSky community?

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