@acababble.bsky.social
Academic, feminist, geek (not necessarily in that order). Researcher in STS & RI @ iHuman, poker of robots, dabbler in genetics, facilitator of LEGO Serious Play.
Absolutely stoked to share that my @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social colleague Ryan Shum has been awarded the AsSIST-UK Andrew Webster PhD prize for his work, 'Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography'! #STS #EnvHums #geography
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💰Ahead of the Spending Review, Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social shares his thoughts on the dynamics between the Treasury and the rest of Whitehall...
As a former Treasury official himself, this one is definitely worth a read👇
STS scholar Judy Wajcman in front of slide with a quote by Joanne Mackiejewska which says "I want AI to do my dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
Judy Wajcman, speaking at @assist-uk.bsky.social's gala to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'The Social Shaping of Technology' has the perfect response to genAI.
04.06.2025 10:03 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to everyone at @assist-uk.bsky.social for a great conference (special thanks to those who got up in time to make my 9am panel on robots 🤖) See you all in two years, hopefully before!
03.06.2025 21:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📌
02.06.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢 AsSIST-UK is now on Bluesky!
🌍 AsSIST-UK brings together scholars across the social sciences, humanities, and sciences to explore innovation, science, and technology in society. With 386+ members, we’re building a vibrant, transdisciplinary community.
Will RT...or is that RS 😜
10.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
Read this and think about what worshipping tech people who don't give a damn about ethics or humanity does in the world. Look at where we are 30 years since this essay was published. People in tech need to think about whom they choose to promote and celebrate - and to learn some history and ethics.
23.02.2025 15:21 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The state of UK academia: becoming truly horrific, while UCU is thinking about thinking about maybe making a plan.
As Cardiff goes, so probably are rest of us about to follow. I know my uni is already halfway there.
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Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Sigal QR code for Tim.415
Only You... can help Americans sort out what's really going on inside the federal government.
If you're a federal worker with information that the public ought to know, please reach out to me. You can remain anonymous.
Wonder how long it will take before they decide faculty are actually unnecessary. No worries at all in the present climate.
05.02.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If anyone wants to talk to a linguist about why this list of words banned from federal grants is absurd, please get at me. The point is to make sure that no one can do social science (or really any science) at all. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yjf5FH/
04.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 125 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 0Finally.
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NEW: After consulting former Treasury staff, the Progressive Change Institute just released a memo outlining the worst case scenarios of Musk's hostile takeover.
This is nothing more than an economic coup.
The points made in this piece apply far beyond biology. Authoritarianism is a philosophy of death: set hierarchical categories, everyone & everything fixed in place, stasis. But life, the universe itself, is fluidity, evolution, fuzzy boundaries, constant change. Authoritarianism denies life.
23.01.2025 20:41 — 👍 507 🔁 126 💬 16 📌 13
ROOTS was THE television event when it had its premiere on this day in 1977. @alondra.bsky.social felt the effects of the cultural sensation and got turned onto discovering her own African ancestry and genetic genealogy.
23.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A sinkhole in a road, representing an existential pit of despair.
I actually thought that quote was from The Onion or McSweeney's at first glance.
23.01.2025 19:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.
23.01.2025 14:55 — 👍 2694 🔁 923 💬 45 📌 27
SERVICE UPDATE: any newsreaders pronouncing it Storm “Eye-oh-win” are to be immediately deported to the tower of Cirith Ungol
23.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Oh good. Something nice to RT (RS?)
23.01.2025 19:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."
23.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 2456 🔁 1562 💬 92 📌 140look man my aunt was born in an internment camp because her US citizen mom was an “alien” race so I don’t find comfort in “it’s unconstitutional, it won’t stand up in court!!”
23.01.2025 18:41 — 👍 919 🔁 140 💬 11 📌 9Haven't been here much yet - too busy watching first my home town, then my entire country go up in flames.
And FFS, it's still only January. 😭
Distract me, Aca-sky Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Mycology...
#transmemes
Definitely not a reason to go to the corner and hang your head in shame 🤓
10.01.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don't just stop using AI; start using the public domain! Here's a search engine for public domain works that are absolutely *free to use and remix*: picryl.com
23.12.2024 06:19 — 👍 1840 🔁 1093 💬 34 📌 14
PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity!
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