🎶A joy to let my Liberal Arts brain wander how a single word in #Zombie charts evolving warfare, from tanks & bombs to #drones & #AI Culture often registers such shifts ahead of policy Lyrics change, symbols evolve & suddenly the world looks a little different 🗞️ www.voicemag.uk/feature/1632...

Between projects I’ve been building PsyberVision, a strategic future-foresight advisory Guided by Confucian 温故知新 ~ learn from the past, shape the future By curious coincidence, posting from Shandong, home of Confucius & visiting Mount Tai 🇨🇳 🦉A fitting place to reflect on power, knowledge & tech

Last day in #Vietnam, I stumbled into a shop packed with old #propaganda posters. Policy turned visual History, design, tech & art all in one room It made me wonder: today, amidst #AI, #climatech & #biotech, what are our shared posters? What stories are we building for the future?

What's shaping innovation at the crossroads of culture, regulation & tech in China? I spoke with TechRound about patterns I’ve observed in China’s fast-moving tech landscape More here: techround.co.uk/business/is-... #AI #AIinChina #techpolicy

Happy CNY! (belated, too many celebrations on the day 🎉) Here’s to shedding snake skin from the previous year and striding straight into the Fire Horse year ahead!🔥🐎 新年快乐、马年大吉！ 爆竹声中一岁除

Standard 4am activities in Vietnam Happy beginning of Tet, I guess? 🎉 🇻🇳

To be read, or to be watched; Hamlet meets Hamlet 💀

Early in my career, while at the #BBC, I was warned not to become a 'TV widow' One of THOSE women. All work, no children @theguardian.com shows older men outnumber women Over 70: 57 men / 11 women Yet nobody ever warned about the men amongst the tv widows www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

夜雨寄北，夜深人静，慢慢推进研究写作……in quiet dialogue with my life choices, between resolve and doubt 🫠 砥砺前行!

Still, spiralling

Sipping the day before it begins 💃🏻 ☕️

Recently got caught using Vietnamese money as a bookmark 😭 If I’m feeling chaotic I’ll buy a coffee with it… then switch to the receipt

Evening cafe culture might have to be one of my favourite things about Vietnam 🫶🏻 🇻🇳

Saturday sparring, strangling, sweating & surviving in #Saigon, #HCMC 🇻🇳 Robert Diggle’s Four Corners #BJJ Academy Grand opening 🔥

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Shoutout to the War Remnants Museum in Vietnam Outstanding exhibitions, extensive detail & unafraid to confront truths often avoided in Western narratives As someone who’s researched Vietnam and worked as a curator & journalist, highly recommended 👏

Exploring 🇻🇳 💃🏻

Happy New Year from 🇻🇳! (简直在美食天堂 🌶️ 🤤 ~ basically a food heaven) 烟火人间，最抚凡心 ~ the everyday world of lights & warmth soothes the heart 🫶🏻

🇭🇰 passing through

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No greater day than one of museums, art & coffee 🖼️ ☕️

Just a woman and her beloved books she cannot bring 🥺 📚 (thank you for all the knowledge 🫶🏻)

A wonderful Christmas mixer with the #Beijing Media Professionals Network Loved hearing stories from #creatives later in life and reinvention: engineers turned actors, those who've had it all, lost it all & somehow rebuilt Proof there’s no single path to a fulfilling creative life or #vocation!

They say when life gives you lemons… you make lemonade🍋 So when US policy cancelled my uni classes overnight, I somehow ended up teaching #film workshops, of all things 🎬 Watching #StarWars for the first time with students was surprisingly magical (even if they did call Darth Vader 'the Robot Man')

Two days. Countless conversations Great to speak at the Responsible #AI Summit As part of my work with #PsyberVision, I explored how culture, clicks & code collide. We looked at viral AI trends, biometric data, surveillance capitalism & why 'just a trend' is rarely just that! #ResponsibleAISummit

~ ❄️ festive season ⛄️ ~ Received the cutest handmade gift from a student today, because she thought I might be missing Christmas season in the 🇬🇧 So talented and thoughtful, 谢谢 🫶🏻

All this time in China and my calligraphy still looks… distinctly left-handed!

Elle, l’artiste 👩🏻‍🎨 Despite it being -5°C, great fun to be invited to the The River Workers’ Spring Gala to attempt a Beijing opera mask 🇨🇳 🎭

올해도 김장과 함께하는 따뜻한 겨울 시작!🌶️🥬☃️ Such a joy to be invited to a #김장 event, a cultural tradition where we come together to prepare #kimchi and welcome the winter season As the only non-Korean attendee, it was also great fun to practice my #Korean! 🇰🇷

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🎇🍁🇺🇸 The end of an era of University of Arizona College of Technology at Hebei University of Technology 🫶🏻 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 represented

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends & colleagues ~ grateful for all the positivity you bring! 🦃 🍁 🎇

My most meaningful moment of 2025 ~ handmaking a #Medusa costume ~ researching classical #chitons, crafting careful details & recreating childhood #myth In awe that #Darkly #Art #Magazine, a French #avant-garde #couture mag, featured the photos & even chose one for the cover 1/3

People assume I love hustle culture I don’t I worry when side hustles become essential to survival, signalling a society slipping & social contract cracking, reminding me of Melville’s #Bartleby Well… I’d prefer not to! Thanks TechRound for including my thoughts: techround.co.uk/startups/par...

Honoured to join @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social, University of Sussex #SPRU & @soifutures.bsky.social for the International Science & #Tech #Policy Roundtable Great to discuss #tech-policy developments, reconnect with familiar faces, meet new colleagues & explore future UK-China collaboration 🇬🇧🇨🇳

Thank you Baidu for hosting me at #BaiduWorld in Beijing! AI everywhere from digital avatars & AI agents to autonomous vehicles & smart mirrors. China’s approach is highly ambitious, hands-on, and fast-moving 1/5 #AIinnovation #Baidu

🚨ChatGPT “18+” arrives in Dec, but at what privacy cost? Sharing with AI isn’t fully private. "Treating adults like adults" shouldn’t mean harvesting their inner worlds Be sure your consent is informed, not buried in fine print Thanks to Just #AI News for featuring my insights on GDPR red flags!

Returning to the Responsible AI Summit: Your Face, Your Feed, Your Future: How Viral Trends Shape AI & Threaten Digital Safety Exploring: • How viral trends shape AI & privacy • Data collection & social engineering • Psychological toll of algorithmic immersion • Policy gaps • Digital detox & defence

Terrifying ❌ Petrifying ✔️ (Fun fact: I made this costume!) #Medusa

Once they called me a monster. Now they call me a myth 🐍 Happy belated Halloween! 🎃 #Medusa

You shall not gaze upon me and live 🐍 #Medusa

New horizons 🌄🧘🏻‍♀️🪷

Beyond tech, #Beijing is looking to transform into a ‘garden city’ The duality is charming. Ancient gardens and traditional architecture sit alongside gleaming high-rises, AI-assisted services, and smart city infrastructure You can particularly feel this contrast strolling through Ritan Park

Beijing’s innovation isn’t loud, it’s lived 🤖 Delighted to share my thoughts with the BBC on how #AI, culture, and convenience coexist to shape everyday life in the world’s smartest cities www.bbc.com/travel/artic... #Beijing

Spooky season stories 📚👻 🎃

🌙 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟 Happy mid-autumn festival! 🇨🇳

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AI Polaroids putting you next to a younger self are exploding, 5B+ made in Sep Fun? Sure. But each upload is a face, an identity, a dataset. Your nostalgia trains models that could do more than #AI art. Consider: Am I okay with it being used beyond these images?? ⚠️ #dataprivacy #digitalIdentity

Survived another semester of law school ~casebooks closed, Chianti calling ⚖️🍷🇮🇹

年年有今日，岁岁有长寿面 🍜🎂 In China, eating 长寿面 (longevity noodles) symbolises a long life. The longer the noodle, the longer your life! Traditionally, you eat them uncut, to keep life long and unbroken 🥢 我一定要活到一百岁! I shall surely live to 💯 now 🎉

Sushi and sake birthday night ~ come join in spirit! 🍣 🍶 🎈 Very thankful for the year that’s been and the year that’s still to come 💫