Kara White

Arts, Sciences and Climate Change: Practices and Politics at the Threshold Within climate change debates, writers and scholars have called for expanded methods for producing science, for proposing strategies for mitigation and adaptation, and for engaging with publics. Ar...

A blast from the past!

We are (re)releasing an old gem free access: the article "Arts, Sciences and Climate Change: Practices and Politics at the Threshold," originally published in 2011, by Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff

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#stsbluesky #climatechange

Amazing collection of resources in this thread

It's symbols all the way down, never crashing to earth, just statistical weights tumbling and tumbling and tumbling through what computer scientists term "vector space." Often, but not always, this vector space maps to the world as we more or less know it, though dressed in washed out colors. +

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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📣 72% of the UK public say laws and regulations would increase their comfort with AI. This is an increase from 62% in 2022/23.

Explore the findings from the second wave of our nationally representative survey in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute: attitudestoai.uk

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

Animal Architecture: In Conversation An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.

“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang

IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

My soror shared this note from a university hiring manager. The market isn’t just wrecked. I don’t think this is just a recessionary pullback. 2,000 applications for one higherEd job is 100% a sign of a structural failure. It’s so horrible. I’m sorry.

My wife is a screenwriter and I’m an academic. We have a longstanding argument about whose industry is harder to break into.

I am currently winning.

We see a slide illustrating a colorful spectrum (vs a binary). There are two clusters of traits bracketed on the spectrum with a lot of variation around the clusters. To the right are still images of Dr. Fuentes and Dr. Colwell in conversation.

Thanks to @sapiens.org for hosting @anthrofuentes.bsky.social at today's webinar. Really brilliant to have a 30-minute book-focused discussion, in this case, with @chipcolwell.bsky.social, around Dr. Fuentes' excellent book Sex is a Spectrum from @princetonupress.bsky.social. #Anthropology #gender

Our Bodies, Our Decisions: A Response to Andrew Sullivan’s NYT Essay In a recent New York Times, author Andrew Sullivan, a conservative British-American political commentator and former editor of The New Republic, argues that the trans movement has gone too far, pro…

Our Bodies, Our Decisions: A Response to Andrew Sullivan’s NYT Essay nursingclio.org/2025/07/16/o...

Where is the rule that says you can't do both?

You're brave visiting in this weather. I've been hiding under my AC and only going out when necessary. Are you here for research or a vacation?

Automated license plate reader (ALPR) visualization tool from flock.ajith.fyi

We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess.

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Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.

"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

1/ Released! Originally made in late 2021, Swarming Media is a generative codework produced by simulating a fleet of utility drones in an urban environment, performing myriad “dull, dirty, dangerous” tasks while transmitting a constant stream of terse bulletins. richardacarter.com/swarming-med...

You also can’t learn to write good papers without writing bad drafts (or bad papers) so write your own outlines, drafts, and papers!

“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

PARDON TRACKER REPORT: Documenting the Statements, Activities, and Networks of the Pardoned Capitol Rioters. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jxx8j...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

Shade by Sam Bloch: 9780593242766 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to...

I've been waiting many years for this book by Sam Bloch, finally coming our next summer!

"An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all."

We invite you to join us for CASPR 2025. This year’s event centers on the escalating crises that are reshaping the conditions of knowledge production across institutional, national, and disciplinary boundaries.

When? May 2nd.
Where? caspr2025.eventbrite.com

#sts #anthropology

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames Alt: a woman in a black dress says "it - it - the f - it - flam - flames on the side of my face", while gesturing at her face.

Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online.

*clears throat*

IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.

How to sellout your entire profession to an #AI model in just 2-4 weeks!