Jane Brophy

Jane Brophy

@brophyjane.bsky.social

Sociology PhD | she/her | public health researcher | dog enthusiast

169 Followers 264 Following 38 Posts Joined Sep 2023
3 days ago
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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2 weeks ago
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Happy 30th birthday to all Pokemons who like dancing to Enya

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1 month ago
Headline image: Woman, 69, in hospital with four broken vertebrae after interaction with police at Sydney Herzog protest

Social Cohesion, one vertebrae at a time, one pensioner at a time, until we all start getting along by thinking what the government tells you to.

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4 months ago

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

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5 months ago

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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5 months ago
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Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon I don’t want AI in anything and certainly not everything please stop asking * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

Dear computer boffins please stop trying to fix problems I don’t have | First Dog on the Moon

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6 months ago

Apparently my new game is making people awkward at dinner parties when I talk about how little respect I have for anyone using AI

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6 months ago

That sucks so bad, I’m sorry the trolls are so predictable. Counterpoint: I absolutely shrieked and jumped out of my seat with joy when I recognised you! “My favourite podcaster!!” Thought you nailed it :)

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7 months ago

Finally, these majestic views will be available once more

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7 months ago
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Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism's Plan - Overland literary journal We, the undersigned university researchers, educators, students and professional staff, call on the Australian Government to reject the unprecedented attack on academic freedom and the autonomy of uni...

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: Academics against racism overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

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7 months ago

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:

do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published

and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

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8 months ago
Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.

paradox, you say

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8 months ago

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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9 months ago

These people have never clicked on the world news section in their lives

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10 months ago

This is actually rather comforting

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10 months ago

Shifting the NDIS to the Health portfolio signals a move to a medical model of disability

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10 months ago

what i'm hearing from the australians i follow is that peter dutton's pants fell down and he tried to run with his pants around his ankles and he tripped and fell over and rolled down a hill through a bunch of sand and the sand got in his mouth and then he hit his head against a rock

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10 months ago
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11 months ago

Sandy, I feel this in my bones xx

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11 months ago
Image of Trump. Chaser Headline: "Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today"

There's always some shit going on with old mate.

Full article here: chaser.com.au/general-news...

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11 months ago
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ok but what does this have to do with the budget??

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11 months ago
REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM:
How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom
By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren
Premise
Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome.
We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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1 year ago

Yes

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1 year ago

Surely you’ve made the connection between her and auspol 🐝 lady?

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1 year ago

Not aimed at anyone specific but noticing a lot of writers/women’s/ideas festivals that still don’t include issues around fatness or fat women speaking on other things! With ozempic & TikTok’s rising pro anorexia shit, it’s a very good time to include fat ppl in your thoughts, projects & politics!

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1 year ago
"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

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1 year ago
A jack russell dog with her legs tucked up under her front paws resting on a multicolour background

Happy birthday from one colour wheel pup to another!

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1 year ago
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
🧪👩‍🔬

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