Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
We see similar subsidies and rebates for polluting, extractivist companies in the Netherlands. Meanwhile they are cutting even more on social services, healthcare, and education to give it to the military industrial complex. 🫠
Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 20h agoLuckily, this year we will give half a billion dollars to a company that has booked $10b in profit. I can't think of anything else that we could have done with that money.
“Being a thought leader does not automatically make one a professional writer" is the new slogan of the faculty, mentions the dean during the opening of the year, while he also tells staff of redundancies and gives them a bag of fortune cookies with said slogan. Mucho thought & leadership 🔭
Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · 18h agoDean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...
In #Landscapes by Christine Lai, the trees disapear, not with a bang but slowly. For the last summers I've been watering young trees in our street, trying to save them. City council has not replanted those that died in the prev heatwave. Ppl are more concerned w holidays. christine-lai.com/writing/
Landscapes
* 2024 CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature, Finalist* 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Finalist* A Best Book of the Year —NPR, CBC, Nerdette, Independ…
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Patrick Barkham@patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 20h agoSad story about ancient oaks dying in the drought. I know other custodians of these amazing trees (Britain has far more than the rest of Europe combined) who say they've been really struggling in recent summers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just like the story I posted last night. Genie out of the bottle again. Flood the zone with an inherently harmful (to teens and everyone else) tool, then - how convenient - provide a “fix.” But the best fix: just don’t use it.
OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users.
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#WhatIAmReading #Balla 's Big Love, translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood, published by @jantarbooks.bsky.social. AFAIK it has only been translated from Slovak to English & Czech.
There's a whole bunch of white male academics who were told that their era is up, and who are now organising. I mean C'mon, this is a MUCH bigger story than the Arday one.
Een buienradar voor boeven: een systeem dat voorspelt waar en wanneer criminaliteit zou plaatsvinden. Het klonk veelbelovend. Jarenlang waren er twijfels over de werking van het systeem. De kritiek bleek terecht: het werkte nauwelijks. Waarom bleef de politie zo lang op het algoritme vertrouwen?
Politie-algoritme ‘voorspelde’ jarenlang misdaad. Zonder bewijs dat het werkte
In december viel stilletjes het doek voor een politie-algoritme dat jarenlang voorspelde waar en wanneer misdrijven zouden gaan plaatsvinden. De methode kon niet effectief zijn, blijkt uit een verniet...
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The EU sanctions a few settlers but still imports their produce - oranges, dates, wine - into our supermarkets. Until the Union bans that trade, Europe is not effectively enforcing international law. @aljazeera.com
Private equity is currently imploding. A historical accident, produced by low rates & tax subsidies. Meanwhile, the European Commission? Is consulting "to explore ways to make it easier for investors in private companies to sell on their stakes." EU financial policymaking is so depressing.
#WhatIAmReading #Balla 's Big Love, translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood, published by @jantarbooks.bsky.social. AFAIK it has only been translated from Slovak to English & Czech.
Scumbag rushing for scrapes. I hope Leiden won't invite him for a third, fourth? time for a talk.
Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2d agoyikes
We’ve attached nearly everything to a cost and in consequence have turned nearly every surface of social life into a grinding market relationship built to humiliate and degrade.
Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.
NOS weet dat Rooijakkers in Helenaveen en van Lierop in Heusden ruim twee keer zoveel kippen houden als de vergunning toestaat (en dus deels illegaal opereren) verzwijgt NOS dit zeer relevante feit. Overigens heeft Rooijakkers 4 productielocaties. Conclusie: selectieve journalistiek. NOS, waarom?
Te veel dieren bij boeren die vergunning kwijtraken: 'Provincie grijpt in'
Twee van de vijf pluimveehouders die hun vergunning dreigen kwijt te raken omdat ze te veel stikstof uitstoten, houden veel meer kippen dan mag. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Omroep Brabant. De twee bo...
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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.
For 15 of August, a sculpture of Panna Mária Immaculata at the Mirbach Palace.
There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.
Jason Arday is dood door racisme. Door de racistische academische wereld - er zijn witte plagiaatplegers die zelfs jatten van studenten, die hun baan nog hebben. Door racistische media, ook hier. Door de gore obsessie met zwarte mensen die die nooit fouten mogen maken. Gefeliciteerd allemaal.
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The more elegant way to say this is that epistemic & social uncertainty in science are tightly coupled. I wrote about this w colleague Wolfgnag Kaltenbruner; this was before AI & has only gotten worse. We need to refuse the optimisation drive & join a union FFS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Navigating the Science System: Research Integrity and Academic Survival Strategies - Science and Engineering Ethics
Research Integrity (RI) is high on the agenda of both institutions and science policy. The European Union as well as national ministries of science have launched ambitious initiatives to combat miscon...
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Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d agolies are lies and plagiarism is plagiarism. but institutional incentives right now are, to use a technical term, completely fucked, and media coverage of academia is effectively a branch of the culture war
Tractoren zijn verboden op de snelweg. Maar het wordt elke keer getolereerd want protest. En nu dit.. (en er was al eerder een dode bij een tractorprotest in 2022).
Very good post, and when I have time I will defo check both books. My interpretation of Cleve's claims was that Walden had only gone once to an archive. But she spent a year researching. This was a gross omission/misrepresentation by Cleve, it's shitty.
thene@thene.bsky.social · 6d agoout it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
All I’m saying is if I was going to write a book about a boy who never grew up, I wouldn’t have called him Peter Pan. I would’ve named him Constanteen.
#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
I'm exclimisinly hetersexual orange 0 orange 6, but I didn't get a dress and that makes me sadivly.
The Big Marmot@bigmarmot.bsky.social · 6d agoI went looking for the Kinsey scale image you were describing and found this baffling rendering
