Björn Ekström

How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.

👊"If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible. AI could promote environmental values and reduce consumption—not the other way around" with @bjornekstrom.bsky.social & James White from @lund-university.bsky.social The Conversation theconversation.com/how-everyday...

Workshops - Uppsala University

Call for abstracts to the workshop "The environment in times of AI hype: Interrogating digitisation in and for environmental governance, policy, and its constitutive processes".

To be held during the Nordic Environmental Social Sciences conference, 9–11 June 2026, Uppsala.

Abstracts due 8 Dec CET.

Indeed, and I think that Jutta phrased it well, but I also agree with you regarding accountability. It is a grander question than a ~1000 word Correspondence piece allows, but hopefully a starting point.

🆕 📄 in Nature Machine Intelligence. We argue that environmental considerations must be explicitly mentioned in foundation models' use policies and similar documents. Read here.

Reminder about our workshop in Lund, Sweden, this October. Deadline approaching at April 17th!

KB-Whisper - a KBLab Collection Whisper models trained on over 50,000 hours of Swedish speech data.

I tried KB-Whisper today. It is certainly impressive.

🏞️📲 Call for contributions to Digitizing nature - a workshop on the use of digital environmental technologies in everyday life. October, 23 at Lund University.

Please see the full Call for Contributions at environmental-communication.org/news/digitiz...

No hay banda. I helgen ska jag se Mulholland Drive igen.

Can the Exposition of Paradata Lead to Participant Diversity in Biodiversity Citizen Science? - Information Matters Newcomers to voluntary environmental monitoring tend to struggle with continued engagement as current research indicates that young participants’ pace of reporting species slows down over time. Arguab...

"[P]rompting practitioners to register the breadth of fieldwork activities to an increasing extent can demystify activities occurring in the setting and enable a new and hopefully more diverse set of participants."

informationmatters.org/2025/01/can-...

Survey Participants Needed! Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.

How do researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences make use of research services and tools? Participate in this survey from the EU funded research project ATRIUM (Advancing fronTier Research In the arts and hUManities). atrium-research.eu/news/survey-...

I'm currently trying to write more essay-esque, and figuring out ways to improve my writing. I wish to, at least occasionally, escape this usual jargon of mine.

Read all sorts of things, write different types of prose, sure! But what else is there? How did you come to be an even better writer?

There is a new, beautiful website for Mistra Environmental Communication. Reframing Communication for Sustainability.

Hello world!