Dr Ola Michalec

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference)
📆17–19 March 2026
✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025

This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public.

Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

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This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list.

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This is disastrous, quite frankly.

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this?

Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.

👀 I'm hiring two roles for a new initiative launching soon (watch this space!) 👀

A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2

Careers Do you want to help build a fairer future, free from poverty? Join us and use your skills to make a real difference.

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We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher.

Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research?

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Hype Studies party in the Sants neighbourhood of Barcelona, a small club lit with red light and lots of hypers having after hours getting down!

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …

Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!

Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Against locking themselves into long term contracts without proven (?) effectiveness of the products for whatever use cases they imagine

Since we're unlikely to be in the same room as billionaires,I'd hope we'd be able to at least engage directly with journalists so they get to ask better questions during their interviews. Other than that, continuing to point out the scale of costs Vs revenue and caution governments and institutions

A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏

BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China’s System For Detaining Muslims BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry.

So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

I wish I was here;

Suuuuuper HYPED!

Exploring metaphors of AI: Visualisations, narratives and perception Hype Studies Conference (Barcelona) and ONLINE 10th September 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST (UTC +2) Online registration at hypestudies.org Join an exploration of insightful research and art as explorations on how AI hype narratives derive power from metaphors. Featuring presentations, discussion and Q&A including: Myra Cheng - Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors Leo Lau - New visual metaphors of AI Tania Duarte - Better Images of AI (moderator) Anuj Gupta and Yasser Atef - ChatGPT metaphors for developing critical AI literacies Rainer Rehak - AI narrative breakdowns of power and promise

Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions:

Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions

Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST

hypestudies.org/conference/c...

and funders to create decent working conditions and sustainable career pathways.

If you've worked on a 'past hype', I'd love to hear your perspective!

yes, we're going to be dragging the skeleton of the WEF Nexus out of the closet...but don't worry, there are lessons here for current and future hypes!

The core question is how do early career researchers deal with buzzy areas in science and what are the responsibilities of PIs, supervisors...

@hypestudies.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow, choo choo! I'm very excited to share our preprint with @cianooo.bsky.social and Joshua Moon: "Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach" . zenodo.org/records/1699...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Researcher (Digital Policy Team) Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

The best job I've ever had was at Demos. They're hiring people to work on AI and digital things. demos.co.uk/researcher-d... and demos.co.uk/lead-researc...

I can strongly recommend diving into this reading list. More than honoured to see my work being in great company and that the resources collected and curated by the @hypestudies.bsky.social are already finding good homes.

Tesla's Roadmap to Nowhere I'll give him this: Elon Musk has a solid grasp of futurity-as-PR.

I'm gearing up for next week's Hype Studies conference in Barcelona, so I'm thinking about this stuff a lot. @davekarpf.bsky.social makes some great points here, but there's a 'Yes and...'

Preparations are almost complete.

The countdown is on!

aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

What is deep hype? 🕳️ This week at @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference I'll present a paper where I define deep hype as a "long-term dynamic that projects civilisational transformation through uncertain futures, making its promises unverifiable in the present" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749

Thanks for sharing - it's what I was trying to get at in a roundabout way. It's a massive jump to resign, there are plenty of challenges but it *can* be done.