Stevienna de Saille
@acababble.bsky.social
Academic, feminist, geek (not necessarily in that order). Researcher in STS & RI @ iHuman, poker of robots, dabbler in genetics, facilitator of LEGO Serious Play.
Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
Science as Culture
Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture
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We will resist the bullies with our usual courage and resolve - for the good of our students, our university, and our city. We won't allow the dismantling of higher education without resistance. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
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📢 Looking forward to @stsvienna.bsky.social talk 'Reimagining AI policy for societal challenges' on Wednesday 1 October 16:00 Vienna time. Join us in person or online, more info here sts.univie.ac.at/en/news-even... #STS #AI
An excellent analysis by Nuffield PRC of exactly where Labour's so-called "lost voters" have gone, and why lurching to the right is the absolutely worst strategy for winning the next election. Now if only SOME PEOPLE ::cough:: would listen. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre
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That's now 10 of those "new schools" created 2 years ago up for further restructures and redundancies (including mine). Welcome back from summer, kids. 🤬
Sheffield UCU@sheffielducu.bsky.social · last yr.Earlier today, staff in five additional work areas were told they face targeted Voluntary Severence. This decision, and the meagre justifications that UEB are offering, show a complete lack of leadership or financial strategy. ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/weekly-updat...
5 years post-pandemic and hybrid conferencing is still an adventure every time.
Absolutely stoked to share that my @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social colleague Ryan Shum has been awarded the AsSIST-UK Andrew Webster PhD prize for his work, 'Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography'! #STS #EnvHums #geography assistuk.org/2025/06/03/2...
2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize is awarded to: Dr. Ryan Shum (University of Exeter) for his thesis: Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory …
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💰Ahead of the Spending Review, Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social shares his thoughts on the dynamics between the Treasury and the rest of Whitehall... As a former Treasury official himself, this one is definitely worth a read👇
Judy Wajcman, speaking at @assist-uk.bsky.social's gala to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'The Social Shaping of Technology' has the perfect response to genAI.
Thanks to everyone at @assist-uk.bsky.social for a great conference (special thanks to those who got up in time to make my 9am panel on robots 🤖) See you all in two years, hopefully before!
📢 AsSIST-UK is now on Bluesky! 🌍 AsSIST-UK brings together scholars across the social sciences, humanities, and sciences to explore innovation, science, and technology in society. With 386+ members, we’re building a vibrant, transdisciplinary community.
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
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Wonder how long it will take before they decide faculty are actually unnecessary. No worries at all in the present climate.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y ago“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
ROOTS was THE television event when it had its premiere on this day in 1977. @alondra.bsky.social felt the effects of the cultural sensation and got turned onto discovering her own African ancestry and genetic genealogy.
Alex Haley and the “Roots” Effect
By Alondra Nelson | As a wide-eyed girl watching Roots, and wondering about mine, I never could have dreamed a future where one day I’d have the surreal experience of having my genealogical results re...
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SERVICE UPDATE: any newsreaders pronouncing it Storm “Eye-oh-win” are to be immediately deported to the tower of Cirith Ungol
Don't just stop using AI; start using the public domain! Here's a search engine for public domain works that are absolutely *free to use and remix*: picryl.com
Search, download and print PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine images, albums, collections
PICRYL is the largest media source for public domain images, scans, and documents. PICRYL is an AI-driven search & similarity engine. PICRYL makes the world'...
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Put strawberries on your pizza cuz I said so@adriennepelz.bsky.social · 2y agoHey here's a New Year's resolution we can also stick to (for free!) this year: Stop using AI 😑
For today’s #ArtAdventCalendar - I present one of my more ridiculous #SciComm & #SciArt ideas. A hand printed canvas to demonstrate sampling using a quadrat. Thread of the process 👇🏼
"Our tendency to imbue things with human-like minds is a fundamental fact of our cognition." Really rich account of how humans use AI to substitute for human relationships. I don't think this is a "when you've read one, you've read 'em all" thing--we'll be mining these phenomena for a long time.
What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
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"Rather than attempt to read between the lines of the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health."
Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”
We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering ...
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When I am hired as an legal expert, I do my own work. This includes tracking down my own citations. Given what they pay us, it seems like the ethical thing to do. It is a scandal if you get caught cheating. It is a bigger scandal -- I think -- if your excuse is that you are lazy.
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 2y agoA Stanford University professor and misinformation expert accused of making up citations in a court filing has apologized — and blamed the gaffe on his sloppy use of ChatGPT.
And get rid of the one for That Place, while you're at it. 🤓
Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y agoWe strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Darwin was surprisingly modern for a Victorian dad. But I didn’t know about these doodles!
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 2y agoPerhaps one of the most famous manuscripts of all time – Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species – was doodled all over by his children. Adorable! 😊 www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 Ensuring ministers are properly supported is critical to high-performing government. Yet too often, they report feeling overloaded - unable to drive change in line with their priorities. Today, ‘Grown up government’ sets out a new model of political support.
We are also delighted to welcome @acababble.bsky.social from The University of Sheffield. Dr Stevienna de Saille will be working on policy ideas around the development and use of robots and AI in England's system of social care.
