Andrew Erickson

UZH: Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and research position (Oberassistenz) in the field of English Literary Studies (British, North Ameri...

Senior Assistantship in British/American/Anglophone Lit+Culture

Whoa, cooles Thema! Willst du (wollt ihr) auch nach Dresden kommen, um mit dem Schaufler Lab ins Gespräch zu kommen?

Aber als Akademiker:Innen in Deutschland sollen wir nicht politisch sein, oder? (Dripping with sarcasm)

Apropos what I was just sayin’

If only there was an entire body of literature—indeed what some insist on calling a genre—that warned us…

When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“In the absence of global governance, we will depend on the integrity of robber barons and authoritarian apparatchiks to build ethical guardrails around systems already being embedded in tools we use for work, play and education.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The final deadline for proposals for Fantasy's Present Pasts (Glasgow, 23rd-25th June 2026) is this Friday (12th December).

The abstracts we've received so far are very exciting - it's shaping up to be a really good programme.

More information here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20....

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Fascinating interdisciplinary science with outcomes applicable for engineers, designers, cultural specialists and historians (to name a few)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...

Can’t we just use chat gpt to decide these cases?

Hashtag data science

Tricky

Somehow it seems to me that the machines are not the problem but rather a symptom

You guys, I made it, I’m now truly German

Danke, Airbnb-Host-Erich!

Is there any chance this will be recorded? The event sounds great but Cambridge is far away…

What happens when a second peer reviewer meets a goodreads one-star review writer?

Life Finds an Investor | Los Angeles Review of Books Karoline Huber discusses the phenomenon of “de-extinction” in SF and popular culture.

Some folks are learning entirely the wrong lessons from science fiction’s cautionary tales

+ shoutout to my colleague and friend, Karoline, for research that meets its moment (!)

lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

Social card for the event: Surveillance Capitalism, Power, and our Democratic Future Speakers and Presenters Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and architect of the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights."; Cathy O'Neil, Data Scientist and Author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights; Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Date and Location October 16, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Starr Auditorium

Looking forward to joining Shoshana Zuboff and Cathy O'Neil this week at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for a conversation on democratic resilience in the age of AI and tech power concentration.

Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...

It’s like they looked into my soul

Join our team! Offene Stellen in der AG Ethik und Kritische Theorien der KI In meiner Forschungsgruppe gibt es in der nächsten Zeit neue Stellen auf allen Leveln (Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., stud. Mitarbeitende).

✨ Join our team!
In meiner Forschungsgruppe "Ethik und kritische Theorien der KI" gibt es bald neue Stellen: Professurvertretung, Postdoc, Ph.D., SHKs.

Themen: #KI-Ethik, #Datenschutz, #Demokratieresilienz, KI & Schule.
Infos: rainermuehlhoff.de/join-our-team/

#AI #Philosophie #STS #Bildung

Europäischer Depressionstag: Dauerkrisen und Belastung führen in die Erkrankung – Deutsches Ärzteblatt

Depression ist eine weit verbreitete Krankheit. Genauso weit verbreitet ist nach wie vor ihre Stigmatisierung. Menschen mit Depression haben oft mit gesellschaftlicher Abwertung zu kämpfen.

Der 5. Oktober ist Tag der Depression. Ein Hinweis, besser mit dieser (oft tödlichen) Krankheit umzugehen.

Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir Neither Trump’s US nor the rise of the AfD explains it all. Self-styled progressives in the arts must take a hard look at themselves too, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

Centering a diversity of perspectives remains essential to knowledge and truth

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@annleckie.com

One is reminded that trains exist (and in Germany will be delayed until the management bros, who are definitely already working on how to use this cyber attack as an excuse to keep fucking up, are all fired and replaced with competent humans) :winkyface
@deutschebahn.com

Monday mood: “this having meetings so we can plan to have meetings business is bullshit. I want to talk about ancillaries."
—Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Mercy_

Reading remains an act of protest

Don’t sugarcoat this: Starmer’s government is weak and may perish. Here are my five steps to recovery | John McDonnell After so many avoidable mistakes, of course people are angry. But with the far right looming, we need action not despair, says MP and former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Agreed. Give us a Labour Party in which to believe.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SF futures modeling continues to offer essential knowledge about human being and becoming

London-Berlin: competition hots up for cross-Channel rail links Firms vie with Eurostar to provide direct services from Britain to mainland Europe as they spy growth in market

Yeah, but will the German ones be on time?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Here there be bots

I swear to god I don’t know what he’s taking about