🥁 New paper is out: “The case for globally beneficial technology”. Iason Gabriel and I develop five moral arguments in support of the claim that advanced technologies such as AGI should be designed, developed, and distributed in ways that benefit everyone. Full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.03906

"I was late learning about science … For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers. But I have been able to close the gap—and that is something to be proud of." #NationalHigherEducationDay Read more: https://scim.ag/3RLitnz

What are you doing to break away from the limits of the Western methods? #Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #DecolonialFutures #Decoloniality #AfricanFutures #EpistemicJustice #InclusiveFutures #DecolonisingForesight #science #podcast #interview

There's a kickin' Mexican radio tower basically floating in the South Atlantic Ocean about 500km off the coast of Cape Town playing #cumbia #tejano #ytodo! Rock on Ke Buena Cuernavaca 🎶 #vivalamexico #KeBuenaCuernavaca #LaKeBuena

You can stream Scenarios for Tomorrow anywhere you get your podcasts, @scenariofutures

🌐Scenarios for Tomorrow🌐 Our futures are a public good! #Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #GeciKaruriSebina #SophiaBazile #WOCInSTEM #Decoloniality #AfricanFutures #EpistemicJustice #InclusiveFutures #DecolonisingForesight #Relationality #PhilosophiesOfFutures #IndigenousFutures

The National Anthem we could use right now #TDTND #Asmallreminder #anarchocommunist #antifascist #classstruggle #NationalAnthem #AliceNutter youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

⚠️To all AI researchers⚠️ We're in no different a position than 1926 researchers who remained silent in the face of mass expansions in the #oil & #gas #industry. Look at where we are today for it. #AI research must explicitly acknowledge AI industry damage. #FARvisions www.gov.uk/government/p...

When we commodify #decolonial talking points, we risk the empty gestures of #innovation #prospecting

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

There will never be a short supply of self-aggrandizing, me vs them, "experts" making up performative acts, desperate to tell you how you should be experiencing your life. (which is always always always predicted on their observation that whatever you're doing is wrong) #HealthAndWellness

Free bus travel for all could help bring new life to Scotland’s towns and cities – while also helping families with the cost of living crisis, Scottish Green co-leader Gillian Mackay has said

📣Read a free chapter of our book! > What does it mean to have a #poverty of #imagination > How is #scenarioplanning bringing #equity to the table? #Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #SciCom 💙📚👩🏻‍🔬🧪 @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

It was a real treat moderating the 6th Centre for Business Innovations and Sustainable Solutions #CBISS 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 Topic | 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 blogs.napier.ac.uk/cbiss/2026/0... #FARvisions #FinancialRisk #Crypto #crime #FinTech #AI #AML

🌐Scenarios for Tomorrow🌐 What happens when the conventional practice of #ScenarioPlanning actively embeds false #certainties and constraints, alongside an absence of #responsibility? Guests: #GeciKaruriSebina #SophiaBazile #OrphanVariables #PackagingTheFuture #InnovationProspecting #FARvisions

Of the 17 recurring expenses I pay each month, 10 increased. This is some old school #UnregulatedMarket 💩 Of the products & services I regularly use, all of them updated their contracts to include arbitration, indemnity or predatory #DataMonetization #StopBeingComplicit

✨Western culture challenge✨ Stop calling things a "brave new world". If you read even the first chapter you would recede into your nearest sphincter with such speed that only the heady bouquet of embarassment and cringe would be left in your wake. #gammas #alphas #booksky #AldousHuxley #castes 💙📚

Happy Monday to all our wee #haggis friends, emerging from the Spring growth. Occasionally mistaken for the intergalactic #tribble, but never matched. Great appreciation to the Haggis Wildlife Foundation. #WeeGinger #migration #Scotland #lochs haggiswildlifefoundation.com/wild-forest-...

Resurecting a song from 1941 written for the smaller world who would finally outlive their murderous, tyrannical leader #IrvingBerlin #POTUS #WhenThatManIsDeadAndGone youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

Instead of calling them "developing" or "third world" countries, try "historically exploited" or "currently exploited" countries.

ICE agents showed up at airports across the country this morning. Most seemed to have no clear purpose just standing around. Apparently the only goal was to make travelers uneasy with federal agents hovering around.

This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.

AI systems perpetuate stereotypes, misogyny, racism... AI systems perpetuate harms. #AI #ML #LLM #AIharm #AImagic #HaloEffect #HumanInTheLoop #BeMoreCriticallyMinded

We barely had a winter wave of COVID this year but the flu has been absolutely brutal www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"Habsburg AI" is now a term. AI trained on recursively generated data for so long it leads to model collapse. Being so famous for your dysfunctional choices that cultural evolutions a millenium ahead perfectly adapt your nomenclature. #HabsburgAI #AIslop #FARvisions

Silly things I refuse to accept in movies: ❌Full sun in N.Europe at 7pm midwinter ❌Spring songbirds in December England ❌Jackets in summer Louisiana ❌Mosquito-free tropical beaches

An author who has #generativeAI write all the novels she sells to publishers, lies to publishers about AI use, but protects her own product because she fears missing out on grifter profits. "lower your expectations" indeed

The logic of #economics My networth is $25M, but that's mostly brand equity.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

We tend to think that it was capitalism that drove the dramatic spike in humanity’s progress in population and wealth. | https://bit.ly/4nNWsPO But Samuel Miller McDonald argues this wasn’t true growth, but a system cloaking environmental destruction and corruption under the guise of progress.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Nicholas Christakis @yale.edu David Gelernter @yale.edu Marvin Minsky @mit.edu Lisa Randall @harvard.edu Bernie Steinberg, Carl Sloane, Eric Sinoway #HarvardHillel Dan Ariely @dukepress.bsky.social Marc Rowan @upenn.edu Robert Trivers @rutgersupress.bsky.social ... and more to come

What does a research fellow actually do #AtCERN? 🤔 Meet Mia, a research fellow in the Systems department, contributing to ISOLDE, where scientists study the properties of atomic nuclei, with further applications in fundamental studies, astrophysics, and material and life sciences. #WomenInScience

Joan Wiffen, self-taught palaeontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand, was born #OTD, 1922. wp.me/p3ihHu-4YT #WomeninSTEM 🧪⚒️

We have very talented PhD students! PhD student Natalie Coy founded Seeds of the Sea, to record flowering of endangered #Posidonia australis #seagrass. Check out the video she made about it (and website) below. vimeo.com/1136638387?f... www.seedsofthesea.org #marineecology #oceanoptimism 🌊🌐🧪

Remembering Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani on #WorldCancerDay. Dr. Mirzakhani was first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in #mathematics. She died in 2017 from #breastcancer at the age of 40. stanford.io/2C0io2A#WorldCancerDay#mathematics#breastcancer#WomenInSTEM

This is quite a fun perspective. I've heard variations of this theory since birth, but I love the #fractal approach here. Using fractal descriptors to reveal deep physical, metabolic, and developmental limitations in body size and lifestyle🧪 Open access www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

✨Let's Be Clear Every friendly name on the #EpsteinFiles knew their history and has been pretending it didn't exist until they had no choice. Every 👏 Last 👏 One 👏 Of 👏 Them 👏 #ArrestMorePedos

I'll add to this list of #heros Dr Ronald E McNair. Astronaught, physicist, musician, moon lazer radical! His legacy brings #educational opportunities to literally millions of marginalized #students across the US. Myself included. Dr McNair remains a major force for #humanity #BlackExcellence

Dock workers across more than 20 Mediterranean ports are set to strike due to their management’s and governments’ 'complicity' in the genocide in Gaza

Algorithms be algorithming @ncar-ucar.bsky.social @nws.noaa.gov #NOAA #weather #WeatherPrediction #NPR #ClimateReality

[email protected] didn't even hesitate. Link to the full Town Hall meeting. A lot of great moments happened, before AND after. They shouldn't be overshadowed by the sockpuppet. www.youtube.com/live/k7wg8kM... #WOCinPolitics #SomaliExcellence #PoliticalPower #BodyGuardsInDemand

"Moreover, secrecy sometimes hid the full impact of her work from her. 'We didn’t know exactly where it was going because we worked for the military where everything is secret,' West recalled." A true pioneer of the 20th century 💙 #GladysMaeWest #GPS #BlackExcellence #WOCinSTEM

A student I never met and skipped every meeting so far, just sent an email that flags so hard as a #genAI response, the flags are sending off their own flares. #PSA you have the skills to write your own emails. I promise you. #AIslop #IncomprehensibleEmails #AcademicSky #students #AcademicChatter

Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.

The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research will no longer support studies that use human fetal tissue derived from elective abortions. go.nature.com/49MXwOj

The US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization today. Per Trump we can work "one on one" with other countries Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC? No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

#WebofScience Smart Search and ✨Research Assistant are really awful. Highly unrecommend. #AIslop

A silent problem in #Academic #reviewing is that many reviewers work at institutions, like #universities, with no access to many of the references. Thereby making it impossible sometimes to validate whether the citations are legitimate. #R2 #PublishOrPerish #AcademicSky #AIslop📘💙🔎