Engineering Studies Journal

Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and wins Miles Astray subverts trend of artificial pictures muscling in on human photography, but is disqualified

A human photographer won AI generated image competition. This is a fascinating story.

"...whether this is a 'dog bites man' story or a 'man bites dog' one"

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Call for sessions National Open Science Festival opened | Open Science Festival Are you working on Open Science and eager to brainstorm new ideas with colleagues from across the country, inspire others with a successful project, gather input for a policy plan, or engage in an ope...

Have an Open Science project or idea you want to share w/ the Dutch Open Science community? Then propose a session for the National Open Science Festival!

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Timely study: #AI regulation in the European Union: examining non-state actor preferences doi.org/10.1017/bap....

Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment The decision follows years of controversy and the departure of one of the program’s key researchers.

Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere, following repeated delays, years of controversy, and the departure of one of the program’s key figures.

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’ AI-generated porn, fuelled by misogyny, is flooding the internet, with Taylor Swift the latest high-profile casualty. Victims say social media platforms are failing to take it down – will they now sta...

Worth read on digital technology and misogyny.

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: « it’s the facilitated spread of this particular form of virulent misogyny that should worry us, and how normalised and accepted it is »

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide

A security leak has revealed state-led hacking activities. Somewhat ironic, but alarming.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’ Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft Odysseus lands after a 73-minute descent, touching down near moon’s south pole

So, after 50 years, the Moon race has returned.

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

A very interesting discussion on AI, focusing on how AI hype has distracted us from real-world problems such as labor and inequity, from the podcast 'Tech Won't Save Us'
@techwontsave.us

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/ai-h...

"Our conclusion from studying this rainwater harvesting system is that there is merit in expanding and complementing prevailing notions of engineering as optimizing forms of control, with theorizations of engineering as forms of tinkering care."

"Acknowledging this hinges on accepting that infrastructures are more fragile, emergent, and contingent than is normally allowed for in engineering textbooks."

"Located at a school in the rural outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, the performance of the system depends on ongoing forms of sociotechnical tinkering: it works well because of the continuous fine-tuning, adaptations, negotiations, and adjustments that people engage in."

"In this article, we show how a rainwater harvesting system is made to work."

"Latest publication!

Stefano Archidiacono, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum, Irene Leonardelli, Carolina Dominguez Guzman, Tavengwa Chitata & Margreet Zwarteveen:

"Engineering as Tinkering Care: A Rainwater Harvesting Infrastructure in Cochabamba, Bolivia"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I discuss the usage of the PSVT:R in spatial training efforts targeting historically excluded groups, and how understanding the politics of the PSVT:R should inform future efforts."

"I examine the validation and popularization of the PSVT:R, discuss how the instrument may not actually measure mental rotation, and explain how the construct of ‘gestalt processing’ was created in an effort to raise the status of spatial instruments which favored men."

"The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) is commonly used in engineering education to measure spatial ability in efforts to predict academic or vocational success, or as a placement test. However, the politics of the instrument are rarely discussed."

Latest publication!
Kristin A. Bartlett, "The Politics of the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test of Rotations (PSVT:R) and its Use in Engineering Education"

#gender #bias #fairness #assessment

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Horizons for Innovation Studies ‘This is a wonderful and timely contribution to innovation studies, and to science, technology and society studies. Everyone in those fields should read it, and profit from it.’ – Arie Rip, Univ...

The recently published book, “New Horizons for Innovation Studies: Doing Without, Doing With Less,” edited by Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck, offers an engaging exploration into innovation.

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/new...

Salvaging Empire by James J. A. Blair | Paperback | Cornell University Press Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental scie...

If interested in reading more about this topic, my new book Salvaging Empire may make a good stocking stuffer:

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The most important issue about water is not supply, but how it is used The world faces a series of deep and worsening crises that demand radical changes in how we understand, manage and use fresh water. The world faces a series of deep and worsening crises that demand ra...

New articles on #water just been released in Nature.
Here's mine:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"The world faces a series of deep & worsening crises that demand radical changes in how we understand, manage & use fresh water. The most important issue about water is not supply, but how it is used."

Excited to join Bluesky, we extend a warm invitation to all passionate about engineering! Our focus spans history, politics, work, organization, research, culture, equity, ethics, education, and social impacts in the field of engineering. Let’s explore these multifaceted dimensions together!

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