Sarah Abel

This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood.

I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad” La profesora hispano-mexicana-británica de filosofía y ética, especialista en los dilemas éticos que plantea la economía de datos, confía en los más jóvenes para crear tecnologías más respetuosas y éticas que hagan del mundo un lugar mejor.

🗣️ #Entrevista a la filósofa @carissaveliz.bsky.social‬: "No debemos caer en el error de poner toda la responsabilidad sobre los hombros de los individuos". 

What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Again I stand by what I said.

"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

A great new series by @datasociety.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social cutting through the bullshit of #AI hype and its implications for #democracy and #governance in the #US

YouTube video by The Daily Show Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show

The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs

youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

🧵 1/26
drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

This is one of the last pieces of writing Gísli and I did as part of the #CitiGen project (2016-19), funded by Humanities in the European Research Area, and I'm really glad to finally see it in print. Thanks to the editors Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie & @mabaggesgaard.bsky.social‬ 🌟

The chapter follows Gísli's amazing book "The Man Who Stole Himself", and considers to what extent genomics can help solve mysteries about the parentage of historically enslaved individuals, and how to write these bio-graphies without erasing the voices, agency, and kinship choices of the dead

🌟📖🧐 Last week @johnbenjamins.bsky.social published A Comparative Literary History of Modern #Slavery Vol. II: Slavery, #Memory, and Literature, inc. my chapter with Gísli Pálsson, "Bio-graphies in the Broad Sense: Narrating the Lives and #Genomes of the Enslaved"
www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...

🗞️ [NEWS]

Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️‍♀️

More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈
@drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.

“It is as if suddenly no one were able to account for all the inhabitants of Arizona — only to learn they had been shipped off to #ElSalvador ’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT in Spanish.” 😦 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/22/t...

AI, art and morality - AI and Ethics After ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ won a prize in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition in 2022 there was a very strong outcry in the media that this signified the ‘end of art’. Allen himself ...

Flattering nod to “Because of You” here from @milenaivanova.bsky.social — may not sound like praise but definitely is, in context: “The value derived from BECAUSE OF YOU is possible because of the moral flaws of the ingredients it is constructed with.“ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It has been a year. And quite a year! The piece continues to be controversial, relevant and educational, and we’re looking for an in-person home for it! 👀

“By rooting misogyny in women’s ‘shared biology’, rather than our shared oppression under #patriarchy, the #SupremeCourt relies on incredibly conservative ideas about gender as a naturalised phenomenon”

Come from the important and damning reporting. Stay for the revelation that Palantir management refers to their workers as hobbits.

No se pierdan este conversatorio 👇 conversaciones en torno a la traducción de debates sobre "raza" y mestizaje entre México y EEUU, con una presentación del excelente libro Beyond Mestizaje. 21 de abril a las 11am CDMX
ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL.

Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid.

And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!??

God, we are fucked.

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms

Curator of Living Cultures:Manchester Museum

This must be someone’s dream job Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

¿Cómo transforma la IA nuestra cultura visual? 🧵👇

Sandra Harding (1935–2025) questioned whose perspectives shape Western science & STS. She pushed for Global South voices, co-founding Tapuya in 2016. Her vision & tenacity live on—she will be deeply missed.

Este año también habrá taller de filosofía para niñas y niños (además de café filosófico para mamás y papás) en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM
5 de abril
La liga de inscripción es esta: forms.gle/TGe63FnJjwMS...

How to Survive the Broligarchy Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

También son de interés las candidatas con especialidad en:
Historia de la filosofía medieval
Bioética
Estética
Filosofía general de la ciencia
(Y deben tener competencias en dos de las áreas de la primera lista)