Jenn Stroud Rossmann
@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social
MechE prof & Dean of Engineering @Lafayette College, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh, novel (7.13 Books), Engineer Reads a Novel (Public Books), Manifestos on inclusion, equity, and interdisciplinarity @InsideHigherEd
The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main
STPF Application - AAAS
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Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it. www.the74million.org/article/stud...
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
What stories do our technologies tell about us, and what other stories and tech are possible? In my new book from @politybooks.bsky.social I'm all about chasing down WHAT IFs and THEN WHATs, interrogating the history of technology in order to envision many possible futures.
What stories do our technologies tell about us, and what other stories and tech are possible? In my new book from @politybooks.bsky.social I'm all about chasing down WHAT IFs and THEN WHATs, interrogating the history of technology in order to envision many possible futures.
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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"Generative AI cannot dissociate itself from the processes of extractivism, automation, essentialism, surveillance, and containment, which perpetuate historic structures of heteropatriarchal, colonial, racist, white supremacist, and capitalist oppression” - Jasmina Tacheva & Srividya Ramasubramanian
WIRED@wired.com · 2mo agoIn a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...
Gift link @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the political level of data centers Winning political strategies can be as simple as pick something that harms people and be against it and then pick something that helps people and be for it. People HATE data centers so…
Opinion | This Could Be the Winning Issue for Democrats
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Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...
Black Mirror Survey Study — Internet Rules Lab
We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!
internetruleslab.com
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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“We must avoid the … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance.” www.theverge.com/news/936945/...
Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
AI has been a core part of Pope Leo’s papacy
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I absolutely love this updated @chronicle.com feature on who a college thinks its peer institutions are. It's always good for a chuckle (and a sense of status competition). www.chronicle.com/article/who-...
Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?
The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for over 1,500 institutions from the 2023-24 year.
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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…
sciencedirect.com
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.
The original Earthrise photo is arguably one of the most important things to have come from the Apollo mission, changing the way we see the world. Incredibly moving to finally have a new shot of our small blue dot.
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 4mo agoThis image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Women having to prove they are female is not a win for women.
Mel Woods@melwoods.me · 4mo agoOne of the reasons I covered the Olympic policy from this angle is that a lot of media is failing to cover the IOC policy for what it is. When you say athletes have to undergo mandatory testing, it's important to highlight that only women have to do it ... xtramagazine.com/culture/olym...
“To streamline future projects, the city’s Dept of Environmental Protection, which is responsible for fresh water supply as well as sewage + stormwater mgmt, has formed a Bureau of Coastal Resilience to lead responses to coastal flooding as well as spikes in stormwater volumes...”
New York City Rebuilds a Waterfront Park to Hold Back Rising Seas
After a $1.45 billion makeover, East River Park promises to use massive sea walls and earthen berms to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding. But for how long?
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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.I saw Lindsay Park — part of the East River resilience project — from the M train a couple weeks ago and decided to check it out. Tennis, basketball, water features, and lots of seating options — with more phases to come both north and south
"Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men... we argue that the homogeneity of the VC ecosystem is key to perpetuating the gender gap in innovation." academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...
Venture capital as male-lens investing
Abstract. Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men, both
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“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think
AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs
scientificamerican.com
Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.
These fields of study are empowering and liberatory; they offer tools to understand, dismantle, and rethink societal structures. In a just world they would be acknowledged as essential fundamentals.
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...
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More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
Did you know that a famous math reference – most physicists have owned a copy at some point – is the result of a New Deal project to employ scientists and mathematicians? Thread incoming.
