I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

People living with disabilities or through poverty and racism develop deep practical knowledge of how institutions function. They should be seen as experts.

Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertise

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A new analysis article for the @aunz.theconversation.com from Snita Ahir-Knight and I: theconversation.com/lived-experi... (1/2)

Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertise

People living with disabilities or through poverty and racism develop deep practical knowledge of how institutions function. They should be seen as experts.

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on the destruction of New Zealand Science open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...

on the destruction of New Zealand Science

and earthquakes

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This looks like an interesting conference happening next week - free, online & sessions are being recorded. Might be of interest @meshedlight.bsky.social @drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social accessibilityconference.org#hero

"we must not allow AI, neither as bully nor so-called tool, to redefine our roles as educators or researchers. It is not our job to chase hype. What this means is by all means educators should feel empowered and inspired by the urgency to uplift students, but not to use AI to do so."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8mo ago

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

> LLMs are labor intensive, are economically infeasible, and pollute the environment, and these properties may outweigh any proposed benefits. For example, poor quality air directly harms human cognition, and thus has compounding effects on educators' and pupils' ability to teach and learn.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4mo ago

@samhforbes.bsky.social and I wrote about this exact thing with air pollution and iirc back when we were all on twitter more than a few bros got upset we said it To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models doi.org/10.1111/cogs... pdf: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...

The final set of papers in the Special Issue for @herdjournal.bsky.social is not a set but one paper on lived experience as knowledge. Find your way to the first, second, and third sets of papers via the quoted post. (1/8)

Hazel Godfrey@drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The third set of papers in the Special Issue for @herdjournal.bsky.social explores views on, or approaches to, lived experience teaching in higher education. Find your way to the first and second sets of papers via the quoted post. Happy reading and thinking about your teaching! (1/4)

The Transport Minister has confirmed that the Total Mobility subsidy is being cut - disabled ppl use the subsidy to do ordinary things like meet-ups with friends, shopping for groceries, and attending health appointments. #savetotalmobility open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Total Mobility: Disabled people lose out in the funding choices being made

The Transport Minister, Chris Bishop, has confirmed that the Total Mobility subsidy is being cut from 75% down to 65%.

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Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."

Migration is our collective human history. People have always moved. Whether it’s from rural to urban, country to neighboring country, or straight up continents, this is what we do. Social stability is not at risk because people moved it’s at risk because you are a hater.

The third set of papers in the Special Issue for @herdjournal.bsky.social explores views on, or approaches to, lived experience teaching in higher education. Find your way to the first and second sets of papers via the quoted post. Happy reading and thinking about your teaching! (1/4)

Hazel Godfrey@drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A second subset of papers for you to read together today 🤩 from the Special Issue on lived experience teaching for @herdjournal.bsky.social The focus of the authors is on asking how we can support integration of lived experience in higher education teaching through: (1/)

Long Covid has become one of the most common chronic diseases, as common or more common of conditions "such as ischaemic heart disease, gout, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and rheumatoid arthritis." Yet it remains poorly addressed and treated #LongCovid newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/14/t...

The Long Covid paradox: everywhere but nowhere

Comment from Victoria University: In 2022 NZ’s Long Covid response showed promise, but it’s hard to justify our business-as-usual approach now

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“… when disabled people are missing from decision-making tables, governments make decisions they would never survive themselves. They cut disability supports because they have never relied on them. They build inaccessible housing because stairs have never excluded them. They underfund healthcare”

Disabled People Are Good Enough to Vote, But Apparently Not Good Enough to Govern

By Dr Huhana Hickey MNZM

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A second subset of papers for you to read together today 🤩 from the Special Issue on lived experience teaching for @herdjournal.bsky.social The focus of the authors is on asking how we can support integration of lived experience in higher education teaching through: (1/)

Hazel Godfrey@drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You could read these sets of papers together. First, we highlighted how authors draw on their own lived experience explicitly in their higher education teaching and/or to shape their teaching decisions, by starting and ending the Special Issue with this focus on direct lived experience voice. (3/7)

If you can help, please do. Women's health is _horrendously_ underfunded. thespinoff.co.nz/science/06-0...

Siouxsie Wiles: Menstrual cups are a great invention. But how safe are they?

They're a game-changer in terms of reducing waste, but only a handful of contradictory studies have been done on their safety.

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The Special Issue on lived experience teaching for @herdjournal.bsky.social has been out for six-weeks now 🎉. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting some further thoughts on the papers in the Special Issue and what conversations they extend. (1/7)

Is this the Big Tobacco moment for Big Tech? An American jury found Meta and Google knew the design or operation of Instagram and YouTube was likely to be addictive when used by a minor, and that the platforms failed to adequately warn of that danger theconversation.com/jury-finds-i...

Jury finds Instagram and YouTube addictive in lawsuit poised to reshape social media – platform design meets product liability

A lawsuit against Meta and Google avoided the issue of liability for content and focused on allegations that social media platforms themselves are harmful by design.

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The Special Issue of @herdjournal.bsky.social on lived experience in higher education teaching is out! See: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cher20/4... Please share widely. (1/4) #EduSky #LivedExperience #HigherEd #Universities

Higher Education Research & Development

Benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education. Volume 45, Issue 2 of Higher Education Research & Development

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The first NZ data from MOH on #longcovid numbers is out It's based on data collected in the 2024/2025 health survey Around 1 in 11 NZ adults reported having at least one Long Covid symptom for over three months www.health.govt.nz/publications...

COVID-19 and long COVID 2024/25: New Zealand Health Survey | Ministry of Health NZ

This page presents a summary of data from questions about COVID-19 and long COVID added to the New Zealand Health Survey (NZHS) in 2024/25.

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My March story for @forbes.com has just gone live. It's all about pedestrian crossings and how the timings they're based on no longer match the demographics of our cities ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬 www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Fewer Than 2% Of Older Pedestrians Can Cross The Street In Time

The length of the green signal on pedestrian crossings assumes that people can walk at a speed of 1.2 m/s. Scientists find that very few older people can walk that fast.

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Ōtepoti: Centre for Medical Humanities at Otago Uni is funding Chronic Illness & creative writing a free Ōtepoti Dunedin community workshop programme for people with ME/CFS or Long Covid Applications open till 13th March 2026 (will put link in following reply) image: poster, same info as above

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Please read these responses!

Science Media Centre NZ@smcnz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Government halts new puberty blocker prescriptions – Expert Reaction

“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself. She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them” If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up

Thank You Alice Wong

Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.

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As a reward for supporting @siouxsiew.bsky.social I've donated 6 signed copies of #TheCovidResponse. And if you want to know how important Siouxsie's case was for academic freedom in Aotearoa, I've written a piece for the NZSR on what I think it means: ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...

Shaun Hendy@hendysh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey team - @siouxsiew.bsky.social's university spent > $1.5m defending a case that their lawyers largely conceded in court. This was a huge waste of public $$$, but despite Siouxsie's win, she remains out of pocket. Please support Siouxsie after she supported us: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

New, old, percolating writing about pain, suffering and stigma pinchesofpain.com/2025/10/17/y...

“You hurt too much”: pain, suffering, and stigma

Ngā mihi nui, thank you very much, to family, friends, and colleagues who have read and responded to this piece over the last three years. Ngā mihi nui to the students of SCIS 314 whose feedback an…

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