Anuja Cabraal

How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.

Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.

Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Ever run researcher development sessions and noted a gender disparity? Our paper on this topic, simmering away since 2024, is out! Our fearless leader + heaviest lifter on this work is undeniably @drmeagantyler.bsky.social.

* insert 'We're not worthy' meme *

Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰

Informative thread.

So, Signal does what we can to provide a service w integrity in the concentrated ecosystem we're working in. We protect your comms w end-to-end encryption, so that we can use AWS and others as a highway across which to send Signal data in ways that don’t let AWS, or anyone else, gain access. 12/

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌

They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.

Other governments should do the same!

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

If you're from a discipline that's unfamiliar with qualitative research, or methods like questionnaires, it may seem easy to use them, but it's not.

Working with methodological experts will reduce research waste and mean you actually get useful answers to the things you want to know about.

Definitely. I just love the marvel of nature. Your painting is incredible too. Very talented.

it's so beautiful!

Bringing Qualitative Analysis to Life: Making the most of your senses Central Edinburgh | Thursday, 13 November • 10:00 AM

When thinking about qualitative analysis, many think of coding by hand or software such as NVivo.

However, there are many other ways. We're running a workshop working with different analytical tools combining rigour, creativity & fun.

More info here: tinyurl.com/bzjpp2mk

#QualAnalysis #CRMethods

Training course: Bringing Qualitative Analysis to Life: Making the most of your senses Join Anuja Cabraal, Daniel Turner and Christina Silver for two days exploring creative, tactile and reflexive ways of working with qualitative materials. This workshop encourages you to go beyond rea

I'm running an Edinburgh workshop this November on creative qualitative analysis, complete with art trips, chocolate tasting and emoji analysis! Details here:

www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

#qualitative #research #Edinburgh #training

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

So true!

Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am I’ve been a relatively slow-adopter of the genAI movement in academia. For a while now I’ve been under the (misguided?) perception that if I used genAI in any way to conduct my research, I would so…

Recent post on the blog:

Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am

"Discovering that my work was being inaccurately represented by genAI was frustrating and concerning." - Tess Shirefley
researchwhisperer.org/2025/05/20/h...

#AcademicSky

Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy. Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It’s more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself. Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds. @adamgrant

A graph showing An Act of Kindness Y axis is labeled a little at the bottom and a lot at the top X axis is labeled effort on the left and impact on the right The graph shows that effort is a little and impact is a lot @LIZANDMOLLIE

Good morning—some Monday morning motivation

I​t’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term ​in troublingly narrow ways.

However you define political violence, the right is responsible for more of it.

The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/SaMpxtS

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing.

An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

Ohhh... another fave... ❤️

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Unless we're dumping on X and Musk (and we absolutely should be), the "Nazi AI" is a footnote. The headline is "LLMs are trivially manipulated by an unseen hand that can change how responses work after testing and promoting an app to prod and there's nothing you can do to mitigate this." 2/

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I’m planning on running a 10 week course on doing conversation analysis - learner time commitment will be a few hours per week. It’ll be online, asynchronous, & with direct feedback from me. It will be available worldwide. Join the mailing list to find out more! www.bedsidemanners.com.au/contact

I was just remembering that 5 years ago at the start of the lockdowns @anujacabraal.bsky.social @patthomson.bsky.social started the #VirtualNotViral chat over on the other platform. It was honestly such a highlight joining the chat most weeks and really inspired me at the start of my PhD journey.

Hard to believe it was 5 years ago. Send so long ago, and so recent at the same time.

It is so special to hear it has a lasting impact for those in #VirtualNotViral community. Interesting ways of community building. Was so special.

When I wanted to leave academia, I was worried I wouldn't find a use for my qual skillset because I had bought the idea that quant is more valuable. Actually, the demand for qual skills in applied spaces is HIGH! Soooo much of what we do in evaluation & technical assistance spaces requires qual 💪

If you could plan the ultimate degree for building a society and culture in our contemporary world skillset, what disciplines/ topics would you expect a graduate to be across?

In 2012 the US Department of Defence suggested a skillset that included civic awareness, global knowledge and languages.

This is well worth reading if you're trying to work out your scholarly practice for social media - insightful and clear. Thanks, @proflaurenball.bsky.social. 🙌

#AcademicSky #PhDchat #SocialMedia #PublicScholarship

I've just added @leedslitfest.bsky.social to this Starter Pack, are you a book related event, festival, or award and would like to be added?Please let me know

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Good to see you!

Hi everyone! We are finally here :D