So excited to introduce @gemmamilne.bsky.social on Weds ☺️ Registration details 👇

There is soon going to be an historical primary-source black hole for the past thirty years of human existence... if it doesn't exist already, of course.

A different take from me back in 2023... (Not a perfect take, but something I've been thinking about a lot since I wrote these pretty high level / early thoughts) www.newreal.cc/magazine/roa...

🥶 Are we hurtling towards a quantum winter? 🥶 Had a great time chatting hype in quantum on @crackingquantum.bsky.social! We touched on: ❄️ Too little or too much hype in quantum? ❄️ Alternative 'norms' for science-entrepreneurs ❄️ 'Spinning out, better': equitably, democratically, and for the many

Woohoo! SO excited my pal @gemmamilne.bsky.social will join us on the hype train, helping us kick-off the hype studies conference in Barcelona in September!

Chaired by fab writer, researcher and pal @gemmamilne.bsky.social - we'll be discussing what happens when LGBTQ communities meet the categories, classifications and labels assigned to them! Please (if you can) preorder a copy of the book with Lighthouse - it really helps! 📚

Fascinating pre #PCST2025 workshop on #scicomm teaching & AI. Great to welcome @gemmamilne.bsky.social @samillingworth.com & more for an insightful discussion. Thanks to everyone who came!

Nice new podcast by the lovely Ash on all thing quantum! Give it a listen :)

New podcast series on everything quantum! No physics knowledge needed - just me talking to scientists about what it all really means Come join me on on: Youtube youtube.com/playlist?lis... Spotify open.spotify.com/show/1j84GCr...

Listening to @melhogan.bsky.social, @gemmamilne.bsky.social and @danishanley.bsky.social on ₊˚⊹⚬ hype ˙₊˚⊹ is so so interesting and enlightening! Can‘t recommend enough. play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/d4d...

I so enjoyed this chat with @melhogan.bsky.social and @danishanley.bsky.social on all things 💫hype💫!

Been thinking recently about a ‘turn to badness’ re the explicitness of immoral behaviour usually more ‘hidden’ in the cult(ure) of tech startups etc (think: VCs proudly & openly promoting defence investments) - looking for good readings on cynicism / explicit badness - anyone?

Nice opportunity ⬇️

Ok, time to dust off some Hannah Arendt, for absolutely no particular reason: "In totalitarian regimes, provocation, once only the speciality of the secret agent, becomes a method of dealing with his neighbor which everybody, willingly or unwillingly is forced to follow" (OT, ed. 2004, p. 556) 1/

📣 Wee bit of news 📣 (Not April Fools’ fodder…) Totally thrilled to have been given a Lectureship at the University of Glasgow, which I start today! I’ll be focusing on my research programme on the political economy of deep tech, based in @uofgasbs.bsky.social 🚀 I’m so excited to get started 🌱

it's a fucking CHATBOT

In 2023, Scotland saw 1,172 drug related deaths (DRDs). Approaches to death prevention are complex as solutions require coordinated action across different sectors. How can we explore how causes of DRDs interact in our health and social care system? Let's use systems mapping!🧵 (1/17) #systemscience

This is a cool story about the Swiss furnace working around the clock to resize gold bars in the rush sparked by Trump - on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2

May 12th - Laura Bates on The New Age of Sexism and the ways AI and the new horizon of evolving technologies may come to affect the rights and safeties of women. Chaired by @gemmamilne.bsky.social 🧵

🎺🕵️‍♀️ Unofficial starter pack @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social go.bsky.app/CAYjEDd

We made a film about cities, regions, money, carbon, steep topographies and shale bings. It's got Sharon Zukin, @lanalanalana.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @sianbayne.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @gemmamilne.bsky.social && and it's 🍿🎭 Feb 20 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opens-and-...

Super interesting! Great to read about real-world examples of 'alternatives'; critique is limited without possible, material, copy-able, structures. (I was very flattered find out this morning that some of my words are quoted in the conclusion too!) 👏 @melissaterras.bsky.social

I'm not exaggerating when I say I've just sent this to every mum-pal I have in my Whatsapp - Hayley Nahman *so* eloquently captures the experience of reflecting (or not!) on the madness of birth/pregnancy/early motherhood: haleynahman.substack.com/p/200-hey-fr... Sharing for the mum-pals on here!

This is such a great film - congrats @bondhack.bsky.social @cynthiao.bsky.social @dangarrahan.bsky.social 👏 The way Windhorst squirms at so many points throughout is cracking viewing too..!

First ever MSc Science Communications cohort 😍 proud of every single one of them. A big shoutout to @gemmamilne.bsky.social for her amazing course on Science journalism @uofglasgow.bsky.social #uofglasgow

Hey @glasgowwestend.bsky.social 👋 (or anyone else who might be in the know) - we want to donate a load of baby/toddler toys before Christmas (heard it’s more useful than after..!) - any specific local charity shops / toy drives asking for toys? Don’t want to inundate where not needed / miss a call!

This is excellent! Such clarity and ambition, and awesome to see this properly explained in a Glasgow-specific news outlet (not ‘hidden’ in planning docs), so it gets the broader (but local) eyes and debate it deserves and needs!! Great work @garethdennis.bsky.social & @glasgowbell.bsky.social 👏👏

Found this super thought-provoking - instead of focuses on the technical specifics: "AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power."

Gary Marcus wrote a classy rebuke of Newton’s nonsense. Bless you, @garymarcus.bsky.social

This story is totally insane, the title / summary does not do it justice! Amazing investigative work from @sooophie.bsky.social & @jackiedavalos.bsky.social

Love my fans 🥰

Just read an article that refers to ‘infrastructures of feeling’ (v cool to see in local journalism!) but cites Davies 2023 for the term. I’ve read the intro and Gilmore isn’t cited re the term but is quoted later in the chapter (so journo not misreading). Is there more than 1 use of this term? Or…?

Thought this was a great piece - captures and weaves together so much which can often end up lost in too-long, ‘too-political’, too-academic pieces which many cannot / will not access. More clear-eyed no-nonsense pieces like this pls!

Can we talk about this now? Thanks to @bellingcat.com for an amazing couple of days at Bellingfest. For those who missed it, many of the sessions are online here. Brian McClendon of Google Earth and Pokemon Go fame was an amazing end of day highlight www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Watching a panel and ofc the investor is wearing a vest - I know it's beyond parody now, but genuinely curious: what's the deal with / history of the investor 'uniform'? Were they given out as merch at one point? Is there a celeb VC Steve-Jobs-turtle-neck effect? Does @dieworkwear.bsky.social know?!

Interesting comment at this Quantum Health conference re the impact of knowing more about our health / predicted mortality (in early diagnosis) - are we moving towards a demand for a ‘personalised retirement age’ (if you know you won’t make it to the state retirement age, why pay NI)?

Currently listening live! @zsk.bsky.social interviewed me months ago for this series - I've been very excited to hear how she has pulled together what sounds like a great array of moderator stories and experts!

very interesting to see the biographer of the world's richest man, who loves to post excerpts of his book after key moments at subject's companies, post absolutely nothing about how the billionaire became the president-elect's most important supporter on the way to the white house

I regret to inform you that - yes - turning my phone off and on again did in fact solve the problem 🫠🫠

Bitcoin is now at an all-time high, the play here is that by legitimizing all sorts of cryptocurrencies and preventing the SEC from prosecuting scammers, a new class of betting instrument that trillions can slosh into has been born

Kinda sad these kinds of dark anti-intellectual patterns in publishing from Google and other companies aren't discussed really as much as they should be given how much the apparent successful research is lauded. Impossible things are possible if you fudge the results. cacm.acm.org/research/ree...

Agreed. Also not sure I agree with Clearsky showing you who blocks who openly…

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

This is also fab! Thanks @eryk.bsky.social for including me 🙏

This is a super useful list! Thanks @angecass.bsky.social 🙏 go.bsky.app/LRFUZxm

Had lots of super interesting-looking folk follow me in the last 2 days - thank you! But also, am I on a list of some kind?!

Looking forward to giving this a read! @nickbernards.bsky.social

This Channel 4 looksmaxxing documentary is shocking - had never come across the term before, making me so so sad and angry to watch. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...

Back to my Mandarin class this evening after a 3 month break (summer / having a baby lol) - can’t wait to feel completely lost..! 🫠 Kept up daily Duolingo in the meantime but it really is not the same!

I gots the goods 👌 (And my first academic acknowledgment!! So chuffed!!)