@danachatter.bsky.social, @md.ekstrandom.net, @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social, @maria-murray.bsky.social, and I proposed this workshop to create a space in our community to reflect on how we can realize information access as a force for justice, emancipation, and democracy; and...
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Fascinating take on the spectrum of AI use from Carlo Iacono at #rails25: Augmentation vs abdication. The test? If AI failed tomorrow could you defend your decision?
<bangs 💥 head 💥 on 💥 desk 💥 in 💥 German>
Once more for the hard of thinking: social media bans do not and cannot work. All they do is hurt the most vulnerable.
In your daily reminder that academia isn't a neutral space, and that racism, lip service to reconciliation, and misogyny are still prevalent: this looks like a great add to your reading list
Career goal unlocked today: I was quoted in the Guardian! This made my morning over riisipirakka for breakfast
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
...and for a moment I forget to worry
Oh Glasgow, you are lovely
Cò leis thu welcome to #CoLIS2025
Please note, the US isn't the whole world.
i keep saying it but if you think that scientists given the means to work will slack off, you haven't met a scientist
Love studying how people use, abuse, find and manage information? Want to visit Montreal in the summer? The call for papers for Information Seeking In Context is out: www.mcgill.ca/isic2026/cal.... Please don't make your paper too good, though, because I want to go!
At #thewebcobf25 hearing a range of great talks about how we can make the Web safer for women
Australia, watch and learn. The solution to a broken health system IS NOT to privatise it #auspol. See also: New Zealand
It's April fools in Australia :)
so my own work, two years of it, has been warped into an excuse for racist attacks on my students' work.
Many of my personal writing conventions (use of the word delve, correct use of the em dash) are now being taken as "signs" of AI writing. Meaning work that I edit for my students, whose names aren't Smith, Jones, or McKay, is being criticised for having AI input. 2/3
The LibGen database contains 35 of my publications. At a conservative estimate that is 3500 hours of my work allowing for data collection, but accounting for co-authorship. Two years of work. That they just took "because it was there". 1/2
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Australia is missing. Maybe after the election. Bot the countries of which I am a citizen are on this list.
Great opening keynote at #chiir25 from @antmandan.bsky.social. What does data donation mean for the future of studying humans, and how do we respect and protect donors?
...being sent back ONCE, from anywhere, for even a reason that is later dropped means you have to tick any 'denied entry' boxes on forms for every country you may enter in the future. It is time to reconsider your travel plans, if you have opinions you may ever have expressed.
Right academia, it's time to think about your travel plans. An academic was just detained at the US border, charged with terrorism, and sent back for having personal opinions on Trump in their email. This might seem like one trip gone wrong, but.... 1/2 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
We're not Amsterdam because we choose not to be.
This should have the whole world on notice, but it is also eerie how much Trump's treatment of the US echoes an abusive partner's slow erosion of boundaries
Once again, I want to point out that entering career interruption data often requires those of us doing it to think about the worst times in our careers. This response to losing it is therefore doubly callous.
Many of you will know I am a bit of an AI skeptic, but this is a use I can really get behind. Esafety does important but emotionally gruelling work. Limiting exposure is a really, really good thing.
The underlying horror though? They had to have enough images to train the models.
We KNOW that people in their own homes is a good thing for society in many ways. So why isn't anyone standing up for the next generation?
I cried with laughter reading this thread. I also learned a lot, that one day in some pub quiz somewhere, will be useful
I've always maintained that bad times are a good way of figuring out who's who.
I'm aware my character is under scrutiny, it should be! I have a lot of privilege. If you do, too, use it for good. Speak up. Reach out. Write to your representatives. Organise in the community. Vote with your money.
When private companies are key infrastructure for disaster information, private interests will almost certainly come before human life some of the time. Facebook are one example of many companies that could do this--I suspect they are the first rather than the only. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
In news that will surprise no-one, in jobs where you do not have to be in the office, giving employees flexibility improves productivity. COVID changed the way we work, regardless of the rent paid on high rise office blocks.