Kerstin Sailer

It does - thanks! 👍🏻

The link only leads to a login page. Can you reshare?

Lovely short piece on the role of coffee breaks in science

I've written about one of my early PhD case studies (studying spatial and social networks) and the two coffee cultures at this research institute 12 years ago in this blog post:

spaceandorganisation.org/2013/05/06/a...

#VioletAffleck speaking at the UN meeting "Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action", saying all the things that need to be said. The knowledge, passion, brains and determination of this young woman are amazing. She should be put in charge of public health everywhere.

#CallForPublicHealthAction

Sounds great!
Also 🫶🏼 👏🏻 for remote joining option

Is research really worth it? with Professor Kathryn Oliver | LSHTM Research is something we spend a lot of money and time on — as individuals, organisations, and states. But is it worth it? Do we get bang for our buck? Who really benefits? And does research actually

Is research really worth it? Come and hear what I think about why we do what we do.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Very dramatic sunset over silhouetted rooftops. The sky ranges from yellow and orange to light blue and grey. A series of clouds are dotted across the sky, painted by the setting sun in pink and purple hues

'Blick aus deinem Fenster'
Die Dächer Nordlondons
#FotoVorschlag

The tail of a crashing wave shoots into the sky after breaking over icebergs in the surf. The spray is illuminated by the setting sun (out of sight off to the left of the shot) but glowing pink. Behind are some low mountains and some dark cloud above.

Waves crash over icebergs in the surf at Fellsfjara beach at Jökulsárlón in South-East #Iceland during glorious sunset light in Nov 2020.

Wie cool! Als Nachteule verpasse ich die Morgendämmerung allzu oft

Das Foto zeigt eine ruhige Hochgebirgslandschaft in der Dämmerung. Im Vordergrund liegt ein kleiner Bergsee, dessen Wasser im sanften Blau schimmert. Dahinter ragt ein markanter, felsiger Gipfel auf, der sich deutlich vom Himmel abhebt. Die umliegenden Berge bilden eine Kette aus schroffen, grauen und grünen Hängen, die sich bis zum Horizont erstrecken. Am Himmel liegt ein sanfter Farbverlauf von tiefem Blau zu zartem Rosa und Violett, typisch für die Minuten vor Sonnenaufgang. Die Stimmung wirkt friedlich, still und fast mystisch.

'An der Schwelle zum Tag' #FotoVorschlag in den Lechtaler Alpen. Einsam, wild und wunderschön…

Among your amazing robot drawing collection, you don't happen to have one in a gym?

I'm lecturing to my new Masters students next week for the first time and want to convince them that they shouldn't use AI to write their essays for them - it's like sending a robot to the gym to get fit

The Kickstarter forthe 2026 Transmissions calendars has ended. Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! If you missed out, pre-orders for both calendars are now live on my website - www.mattdixon.co.uk

Great question with lots of interesting replies

#Architecture #Sociology #SpaceUsage

How about William Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces?
Not exactly article-length but maybe one of the chapters?

Great initiative - happy to support this! 👏🏻👏🏻

two people standing behind a table with crates of fresh food on it.

I'm trying to raise a bit of money to send books to a new Mobile Library being set up specifically to support the homeless in London.

It's being organised by the charity "PINT Giving".

I'm donating £100 & if you can help too, i'd be so grateful.

More info here.

tinyurl.com/37yn63zu

#Alttext
Drawing of a cute robot sitting on a tattered bench next to a crow. It's a foggy day and a bit gloomy but they look at each other with curiosity and warmth

History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.

Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

Love red pandas!

Hat jemand rote Pandas gesagt?
Ich finde die so süß und lustig😊

Meiner ist zwar nur mit Bleistift gezeichnet aber ihr seit ja alle mit guter Fantasie und Vorstellungskraft gesegnet, da könnt ihr euch die Farbe ja einfach "dazu denken"😜

#WattIsKunst
#kleineKunstklasse

Artists! Quote with your night art!
#kleineKunstklasse #HauntedCollective

In London, hate will never win.

Hey spatial bubble!

My colleague created a women in spatial science / journalism starter pack for @bsky.app 🗺️ ☁️🙌🏼

Also, feel free to text her if you have other women to add to the list! ➕👳🏽‍♀️🧔🏼‍♀️🧕🏻👩🏾‍🍼👵🏽👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏼‍🔬👩🏿‍🎓📍

go.bsky.app/S85CdPy

This is a really cool test to check on your knowledge of all things Covid and #LongCovid

Public misinformation is an important element of the difficult times we're finding ourselves in

Didn't get it all right myself (should read details more properly...) 🤣

#CallForPublicHealthAction

In times when profit outweighs humanity and politics protects power over people, it’s time to stand up - for science, for health, for those left behind, and for the future of us all.

Virtual Demonstration
📢 #CallForPublicHealthAction

#CovidIsNotOver
#CleanAir
#LongCovid
#MEcfs

A mannequin of a department store with no clothes on and instead completely covered in tiny disco ball mirrors. Some other disco balls surround the figure. Several silver pieces of kitchen equipment like colanders and an egg-beater are draped around. All very shiny and glittery.

'Glitzer' #FotoVorschlag

A blue and pink heron with spiky hair stood in some shallow water with some grass in an angular style

First angular bird commission done - Agami Heron

Thanks for sharing - I'm seeing so much pressure being put on my graduate students to publish in particular sets of journals to even get a job. It's insanity!
📌

Amazing work 👏🏻👏🏻
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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