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...

Are you interested in creative research design? Then we are the journal for you! Learn more about publishing in the Journal of Creative Research Methods bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #RC33 #11ICSSM

My daughter is twelve and is always looking for AI in images and ads. She nods critically: ‘That’s AI'

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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

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. 1/n

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? ❤️ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #ICRMC

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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...

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. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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 #socialsciences

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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Doing focus groups about new energy technologies with @jussararowland.bsky.social Some days I love my job.

Slow science. Three years after starting a project on the social dimensions of IoT, the first peer reviewed publication is finally out. Meanwhile, we published a research brief, a zine, a fortune teller (!), multiple blogposts. With @jussararowland.bsky.social @monicatruns.bsky.social et al.

New chapter with @anadelicado.bsky.social

On February 27th, we’ll be discussing the challenges, ethical dilemmas, and opportunities that AI brings to research with (and for) animals. This online event is part of the ABIDE project and follows an invitation from Verónica Policarpo to reflect on these critical issues. Link in the thread 👇

My research group just published a book addressing the environmental advances (and setbacks) after 50 years of democracy in Portugal. Me and @jussararowland.bsky.social wrote about participation. In 18 months time it will be in open access. www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/50-an...

O livro "50 Anos de Abril. Questões ambientais, sociais e territoriais" está disponível na Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. Mais informação: tinyurl.com/57av95ya #ambiente #territorio

Tech media is leaps and bounds ahead of the traditional newspapers covering Trump. I highly recommend subscribing to @404media.co @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy (follow @mmasnick.bsky.social) @wired.com They are putting in the work and not dancing around what's really happening.

NEW: Amid promises to improve platform safety for minors, Character.AI sent a marketing email directly to a Gmail account we'd used to register as a 14-yo CAI user -- imploring us, a presumed teenager, to engage with a chatbot based on a real and deadly school shooting. futurism.com/character-ai...

PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

NEW: Quartz’s news-generating AI is already publishing misinformation. It claimed yesterday that the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts' mission was intentionally prolonged for ISS maintenance. Completely wrong. Again, they're *stranded* -- their rocket didn't work. futurism.com/quartz-ai-ge...

People are looking for concrete action to take today. Donate to Wikipedia! donate.wikimedia.org and consider becoming a volunteer editor in your area of expertise!

How can researchers balance creativity with rigor in data analysis? 🎨📊 Jess Miles chats with me, Dawn Mannay, & @alistairroy.bsky.social, editors of The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis, about innovation, ethics, & anxieties around creative methods. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/14/p...

Pediram-me um post para o blog do @IcsShift e resolvi por em papel (digital) algumas ideias sobre a relação entre tecnologia e método e sobre 'Inteligência Artificial, Ferramentas Digitais e Reflexividade na Investigação em Ciências Sociais' 🎄🎄🎄 ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2023/12/20/p...

The call for papers for the 2024 EASST Conference in Amsterdam is open. Ana Delicado, Clara Venâncio, and I have organized a panel. Looking forward to your proposals :) Creative methods in STS: Innovative perspectives for citizen inclusion and engagement. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Would you like to see the critical tech zines my students made? Of course you do! They’re really good! First up, a photography zine, reminding people what they miss if they are always looking at their phones.

O período de inscrição com desconto para a Pós-Graduação em Métodos de Investigação Social termina a 𝟐𝟎 𝐝𝐞 𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐨 Inscrições: tinyurl.com/3txkays6 #ResearchMethodology #socialscience #methods

Bad Bunny dropped a new album this morning, and the visualizer slides are a crash course in anticolonial history youtu.be/uvfDaZ4ZT80?...

"Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?" - opening of @digitalmethods.net #dmi25 at University of Amsterdam ✨🧵https://www.digitalmethods.net/

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

i would like to celebrate david lynch by sharing maybe my favorite thing he ever did … a comic strip. www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/

Pediram-me um post para o blog do @IcsShift e resolvi por em papel (digital) algumas ideias sobre a relação entre tecnologia e método e sobre 'Inteligência Artificial, Ferramentas Digitais e Reflexividade na Investigação em Ciências Sociais' 🎄🎄🎄 ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2023/12/20/p...