New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

404media.co

Another job posting on the recordkeeping careers hub: Archives Workflow Coordinator (Full-time / 1 year fixed-term / Hybrid Working) working with UK Parliamentary archives and National Archives - listing here: recordkeeping-careers.org/job/archives...

“Solar panels bolted over 2 working irrigation canals in California’s Central Valley cut evaporation beneath them by as much as 70 percent, and the aquatic weed that fouls those channels dropped by about 85 percent”

Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight@canadianerrant.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan... this feels like such an easy and obvious move

NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/khv...

NEW MORPHSS PREPRINT on Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenResearch #OpenQualData

England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather

England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather

Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected England’s ancient oak trees are dying in the summer’s extreme heat and dry weather, according to the Woodland Trust, with trees and ecosystems unable to adapt fast enough to the changing climate. The heatwaves across much of Europe this summer have had a notable impact on crop growth and plant health. To cope with the extreme conditions, many trees are undergoing “early autumn”, wilting and losing their leaves early. Crow Leasow oak, Shropshire. Tea Party oak, Suffolk. King John oak, Devon. Enmore oak, Somerset. Lydham Manor oak, Shropshire. Old Knobbley, Essex. Pwllpriddog oak, Carmarthenshire. Continue reading...

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New experimental preprint on zine-making, feminism and open research from MORPHSS colleagues @jenniad.bsky.social & @mirandab-oa.bsky.social alongside collaborators @domismithson.bsky.social and others:

Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · 4w ago

💥New preprint from @mirandab-oa.bsky.social , @domismithson.bsky.social , myself & others on creativity, collaboration & activism Our experimental piece offers reflections on a recent zine making workshop on feminism & open research, drawing on zine logics & aesthetics ⬇️ doi.org/10.17613/r46...

A former director of BBC News speaks:

Richard Sambrook@sambrook.eurosky.social · last mo.

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

Spell check has been degrading for a while, but we are reaching clown car levels of a tool that is older than I am.

Prepared to be amazed by yet another incredible woman from history via the fab @whatshernamepod.bsky.social whatshernamepodcast.com/mary-ann-pat...

THE SEA CAPTAIN Mary Ann Patten — What'shername

It’s 1857. A clipper ship is headed into a monster storm at Cape Horn – the most dangerous waters on earth. The captain is in a coma; the first mate is locked up in the brig. Who can lead the ship thr...

whatshernamepodcast.com

'Neighbourhoods across the United States that experienced a growth in their undocumented population also saw property-related and violent crime fall, not rise, according to an analysis of 11,500 neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities.' Link to original research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds

The analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 cities in the United States finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

nature.com

Pro Tip: If you don't have at least two copies, in two different locations, one of which is on storage that you own, data doesn't exist. www.tomshardware.com/software/clo...

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archiv...

This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.

tomshardware.com

⭐ Amazing new paper from Jenni, Shuolin, and Zuzanna on cross-disciplinary conversations around open, transparent and rigorous research

Jenni Adams@jenniad.bsky.social · last mo.

“Cross-disciplinary exchanges are crucial in contesting the narrowness of dominant frameworks of open research…” doi.org/10.36399/kgd...

The full print catalog for 'We are each other's Harvest': Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon can be downloaded here! www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/131934

some Good News from the world of vaccinations 💉 "Around 50% fewer infants under 6 months were admitted to intensive care with RSV disease in England... [demonstrating] the annual impact of the NHS RSV maternal vaccination programme for the first time." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Newborn ICU admissions drop 50% in first full year of RSV maternal vaccine programme

While around 60% of women giving birth every month are vaccinated, UKHSA warns many thousands of babies still at risk.

gov.uk

since referencing and repurposing creative works is a topic of discussion today i am just going to drop zhang jingna’s lawsuit article here as well zhangjingna.com/blog/luxembo...

Something to ponder this week.

Pond ripples? Sound waves? Both and more #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4528...

Wave Interference 2 - Ink Painting on Yupo - Physics Art - Etsy

This Ink Paintings item is sold by artologica. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Jun 27, 2026

artologica.etsy.com

It’s just so nice to hear a smart person.

laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · last mo.

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)

Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.

insidehighered.com

NEW: A hacker tracked @agreenberg.bsky.social from his apartment to the subway to his desk using a $30 kids' smartwatch, took photos through its camera and listened in on him at work. Tens of millions of the devices run on three backends in China, and they're all broken.

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

wired.com

Thanks to everyone who already completed the survey, it's been lovely to read the responses coming through 😊 Please do complete it if you have 5 minutes and if you are able to share it that would be great 😊 tinyurl.com/5579y76e #SoundHeritage #Soundscapes #Acoustics

Mariana J López@marianajlopez.bsky.social · last mo.

As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e

"This is precisely the moment we need the humanities. To ask what counts as human. To challenge power. To hold new technology to account." Dr Peter Riley of Exeter UCU on why we now, more than ever, need the humanities. Defend jobs. Defend the Humanities. Defend Exeter.

Sure, totally fine. Absolutely won't be used for massive harm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

bbc.co.uk

Stories generated by a machine that has been fed huge amounts of cannibalised, *human-created* material without permission or due payment to human creators, mimicking the creations made by humans for thousands of years, does a thing that people like. Hmm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI-generated tales preferred to human-written ones, study finds

A study sees if readers can spot if short stories were generated by artificial intelligence.

bbc.co.uk

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

What does a good digital society look like? is a two-day conference taking place in Sheffield, on 10th and 11th June 2027. We invite proposals for papers, panels and workshops from researchers from any discipline and stakeholders from any sector. digitalgood.net/conference-2...

Call for submissions for #OxFOS27 are now open! Do disseminate widely: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/open-researc...

Original poems by Corry Area High School students came to life in Corry City Park this weekend as part of the Rain Poetry project “Finding the Light," supported by PA Humanities.

What a world we could have if liars in power had consequences to face for their actions.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.