Bartosz Slosarski

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...

The consequences of data activism: Data Sustainability Package in air and biodiversity politics The article examines the consequences of environmental activists’ data use in two contexts: air quality politics in Poland and biodiversity politics at the European Union level. Theoretically, I an...

The article can be found here: doi.org/10.1080/1474...

The open access preprint is available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In the article, I show how strategic dilemmas of sustainable data use (that is, just right!) translate into concrete gains and losses for environmental activists - which I present using the example of the anti-smog movement and the nature conservation movement.

Abstract of the research article „The Consequences of Data Activism”

My latest article "The Consequences of Data Activism: Data Sustainability Package in Air and Biodiversity Data Politics" has just been published in "Social Movement Studies," in which I discuss what are the opportunities and threats associated with the use of data by activists.

Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:

I will use it in my coding classes!

super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish!
@amymaher.bsky.social 🥰
#ThematicAnalysis
#Qualitative

OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience! We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.

💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more.

#QDA #opensource

zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...

16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Faculty of Political Science and Sociology
Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy)
Closing date: 13th March 2025

www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...

what the hell 😅

Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which...

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

I’m going to try to avoid posting “OMG did you see what Trump/Musk did?” content unless really relevant to Europe getting its shit together. There’s only a limited amount of energy in my life and I know where it needs to be focused.

In this new format of the recently launched SAGE journal Dialogues on Digital Society, our @mitpress.bsky.social book Algorithms of Resistance shorturl.at/deLVW has been reviewed by 3 scholars to which we then respond. Smart way to dust off book reviewing! All Open Access, including our book :)

Last season of the USA is gonna be epic

Wow, finally, climate change has stopped being real. Whew!

Before PhD: I don't know

During PhD: that is beyond the scope of my current knowledge

After PhD: I don't know

just learned that Eagle Eye Cherry was his NAME (and that he’s Don Cherry’s son?)

Big if true

Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds is available open access w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

You can order the book in hardcover and paperback, too, if you need a last minute Christmas present: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Critical Data Studies Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produce...

Wonderful teaching resource with further reading suggestions by @robkitchin.bsky.social, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods! This is so useful for building a fundamental understanding of everything data-related before getting into more complex discussions.

POLITICO Pro: White House weighing executive action to spur data centers The exact nature of the action is still under discussion, said two people familiar with the matter.

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“The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply, the people said. One of the sources said the policy under discussion would take the form of an executive order”

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social.

🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

CFP: Digital Sociology: New Theoretical Approaches, New Methodological Perspectives, New Research Areas

studiasocjologiczne.pl/p,482,call-f...

#books #bookrecommendations #authors #privacy

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

I just joined Bluesky. I’m an environmental macrosociologist at UBC studying the societal drivers of the climate crisis. Hope to link up with others here with similar interests. #climate #ClimateCrisis #sociology #Political-Economy #inequality