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Great to see this perspective piece with @warrenpearce.bsky.social finally come out. Amid the rising interest in AI we reflect on AI and the democratic governance of climate change - what lessons might be taken from wider critical digital studies? wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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💥New: Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did ✍️ @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicSocialMedia

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Can AI be used to govern climate change while maintaining democratic values? New article on an urgent question by me and the mighty @ruthmachen.bsky.social :-) wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #sts #ClimateChange

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An important call from the editors of Climatic Change, Michael Oppenheimer and Gary Yohe, on supporting climate science while it’s under attack: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Makes sense for various reasons, but striking to see this front page of the Daily Mail.

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Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!

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Silke Beck at @tum.de's STS department is looking for a postdoc (full position, five years) specialising in environmental STS. Deadline for application is 15 March 2025. Salary is somewhere in the ballpark of €2.8 k and €3.8 k after taxes (depending on your job experience and marital status).

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My first book, The Populist Style, is finally out! 🎉✨ It is available in open access (direct link to the PDF: tinyurl.com/PopulistStyl...) and there is a 30% discount code (NEW30) for those who want to get a hardback copy (edin.ac/3WIe0Sr). Here's a summary of the book's key arguments: 1/25

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My first solo paper is out on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social and it's on, you've guessed it, memes! In the study, I explore how memes partake into the sociological process of generational othering. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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“We’re doing what is possible in the current situation to unite people, support them and support grassroots activism.” Alexandrina Vanke joins the Russian eco-activists sorting waste and creating hope in the shadow of war. Out now in our #TSRWaste issue https://buff.ly/3OQasc7

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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What are the ethical issues around delpoying AI in healthcare? New blog post by the fab Sarah Ball from our Ethics and Expertise project, gives the view from Australia blog.bham.ac.uk/ethics-exper...

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From Twin Peaks onwards (for me), Lynch was a byword for how one could do things differently in this world. A hero. Also shout out for The Straight Story ❤️

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Highly recommend this article. It takes a fresh look at science advice within the different epistemic context of digital societies, whatever one's view of Independent Sage. For a critical view of the latter, Des's article is of course excellent doi.org/10.1177/1360...

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Stock taking, re-conceptualising & method synchronisation. A wonderful productive week with the Cultural Climate Models workgroup at MESH in Cologne. @davidhiggins.bsky.social @warrenpearce.bsky.social @caroschwegler.bsky.social @juliahoydis.bsky.social

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Be nice to people on the way up. You might need them on the way back down.

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I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS! www.wired.com/story/the-be...

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What an excellent #AANZCA24 keynote on young people and social media by @ysabel.bsky.social. If only @albomp.bsky.social and his pearl-clutchers could be made to listen to this, rather than falling prey to utter charlatans like Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt. Liveblog: snurb.info/node/3260

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An excellent article: “…when Haidt shows a rise in psychological distress in Nordic countries starting in 2010, we don’t see what happened before 2002. It risks giving the impression that nothing changed before the spread of smartphones”.

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Michael Mann is totally misrepresenting Holly Jean Buck’s important and insightful work here. And by doing so he’s undermining his allies’ efforts to further action on climate change.

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💯 on geoengineering taking in RFK, conspiracy & para-environmentalism. The ‘science first’ defence against constructivism #STS dates to Climategate. Response to worries re ‘war on expertise’ should be (re)learning the lessons (which is not the same as ceding to Trump-ism) #AcademicSky

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One point of my piece is that this communication style is counterproductive for widespread climate action. People want Vice Provosts to be facilitating research, not engaging in you're-with-us-or-with-the-enemy "war". Academics, watch this quietly at your peril- this will come to affect you. Why?

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“I think that has to count, Jimmy” Not J Saul Kane’s pinnacle, but the track I have the happiest memories of. RIP youtu.be/TS6XRJ1r7xs?...

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🔔 New version out for Zeeschuimer, our tool for capturing social media data from the browser! This brings it up to speed with Instagram's latest updates, fixing the capture of posts from Location and Tag pages. 💾 Get it here: github.com/digitalmetho... ⬆️ Already installed it? It will auto-update!

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www.thestar.co.uk/education/re...

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Nas Illmatic tour at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Incredible gig, amped crowd, great venue. One for the ages 🙏

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I just worked out how to host a wine after the workshop on misinformation on 9 December - tiny step towards settling in Munich 😅, a precious opportunity to debate how to address this huge concern going into 2025. If you are in town, register & join us! www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/home/...

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It is a time to develop short- and long-term STRATEGY for democratic reimagining and renewal and not reactive tactics: "Instead of defending a system that has been rejected, we need to articulate an alternative vision for what kind of democracy comes next."

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Well, the election motivated me to start a Substack and write about the politics of scientific knowledge and public trust in Trump's America: open.substack.com/pub/shobitap... #scipolicy #STS

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Cognition and AI: Promises and pitfalls from yours truly www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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As of this morning, @nytguildtech.bsky.social, which represents NYT tech workers, is on strike. Unless it's resolved while today's Wordle is still live, this streak is gone. Here's a 🧵 with info on the picket line and how you can help. PLEASE READ — the rules may not be what you think!

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Read my first editorial for new journal Dialogues on Climate Change here! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Congratulations once again to Professor Helen Kennedy, Director of the Digital Good Network, on being awarded an Honorary Doctorate at @umeauniversitymath.bsky.social Here are some photos of Professor Kennedy attending the ceremony in Sweden.

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If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going? My piece for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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"And China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, is leading the way... 'The simplest way we can put it is that global energy systems are facing the biggest, most rapid change since the Industrial Revolution and it's happening right now', Quong said." www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...

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Can anyone here offer workflow tips? Looking for a way to annotate PowerPoint file with a tablet/stylus in a lecture, then to save the file with notes attached. 🧑‍🏫🪶 (Totally out of my usual methods, so any extremely obvious/simple solutions wanted!) 🤓

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The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol... @dukepress.bsky.social

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Are climate advocates focusing too much on the dangers of "climate disinformation"? I think so - and in doing so, we risk failing to address people's worries about what the energy transition means for them. More on this issue and what to do about it: jacobin.com/2024/08/clim...

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Paul Nurse now looking to bed in as the Joe Biden of UK science. Couldn’t agree more with these sceptical voices among the fellowship. Where’s their Kamala FRS? www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

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Not too far from me, the many stories behind the closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar - the UK’s last coal fired power station www.theguardian.com/business/202... (The Victoria is an excellent pub!)

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