“From the Politics of Affect to the Politics of Being Affected By/With Others: A Commentary on the Special Issue” by Lucy Avraamidou @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social and Betzabe Torres Olave @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.70019

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

Can you all explain yourselves what the actual f is 23k views and about half as many downloads on a preprint right now come off it 🥺

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