I'm so proud of this project I did two years ago with Jonathan Ashley.
It's an essay and web comic about how historical archives deserve to be treated as more than just fuel for AI training.
I wrote a scripting system for the web comic, and also spent nearly a full year with writing and research.
⭐ Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ top three articles from recent issues. Access the Editors' Choice Collection until 30 April 🔓 Congrats to all featured authors! @sarahjtracy.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/jcrm...
Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊
Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
New publication on the reception practices of science communication in Portugal, co-authored with @anadelicado.bsky.social e João Estevens, In Análise Social.
New publication (in Portuguese) with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens, the final article of the CONCISE project. It's part of a thematic issue we organised on science communication. revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocia...
We accept submissions of: Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research; Creative arts-based research; Creative digital research; Creative research using transformative research frameworks; Creative adaptations of existing methods. Journal of Creative Research Methods cover art.
Are you interested in creative research design? Then we are the journal for you!
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My daughter is twelve and is always looking for AI in images and ads. She nods critically: ‘That’s AI'
📣 new deadline: 30 September 📣
Nos dias 2 e 3 de outubro, o ICS-ULisboa recebe a primeira Animal Day Conference of the HAS-Hub, que terá como como título "Following the more-than-human: multimodal methods and approaches".
Para saber mais: tinyurl.com/y2phu7ew
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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Looking for something to read as you travel to #ICRMC2025? 🚆 🚴♂️ 🚌
Take a look at the first ever issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods!
Did we mention it’s free to read? ❤️
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📢 RN24/SSTNET invites submissions 👉 Call for Papers: Technology in the face of global challenges".
The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025).
We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!
More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
I think people have underestimated the anti-intellectualism of the technofascists as one of the key drivers of the spread of authoritarianism. The clear benefits of the post-1960s expansion of higher ed is being destroyed by the most parsimonious thinkers.
Our article about the hallucination metaphor is out, in case you're interested
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
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Muito contente por estar a organizar esta escola com a artista gráfica Júlia Barata.
www.instagram.com/julia_barata/
Tem como principal objetivo explorar, de forma prática, o potencial da narrativa gráfica enquanto ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais.
Online em junho!
Abriram as inscrições para a Escola de Métodos Criativos: Narrativa Gráfica para as Ciências Sociais. Esta escola tem por objetivo explorar a narrativa gráfica como ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais: tinyurl.com/48fsy5b5
Com @jussararowland.bsky.social
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Announcing the Journal of Creative Research Methods! A peer-reviewed journal devoted to everything from creative research designs to innovative data analysis and dissemination approaches. We're creating space for boundary-pushing methods so follow us for updates as we launch later in 2025!
The ESA RN24- Science and Technology is now on Bluesky!
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