London book launch for "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" with Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, and Patricia Hamilton, chaired by Seth Anziska @sprc-ucl.bsky.social x @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social Sign up: bit.ly/demographic-...

Thoughtful exploration of the emotional conflicts and suffering that arise as AI is deployed in universities. Resisting AI requires realistic conversations about how we feel about it - anxiety, betrayal, anger, shame - and the impact it has on our relationships with colleagues, mentors and students.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3d ago

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

It’s actually not so complicated. The article itself quotes a lawyer who says “it would be a ‘no brainer’ to file a lawsuit against OpenAI or Anthropic” techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/w...

Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks? It's complicated | TechCrunch

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...

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Interesting but not surprising. These are the human aspects of research that automated science will inevitably lose. Especially judging what kind of research is worth pursuing - that really doesn't come from THE CALL OF KNOWLEDGE'S FRONTIER but scientists' desire for prestige, love, recognition..

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

This is exceptionally cool. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ann...

Absolutely love a phat Freud footnote. Separately, whoever came up with endnotes needs to be cancelled. Why go to end of book in frenzied search when eyes can simply be cast downward!

It’s as if we need to study the emotional conditions that allow the denial of this reality!

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

The strategy shift is towards "automat[ing] parts of the scientific process". The fantasy of automated science ignores the contradictions inherent to science as a form of labour. Science takes place in a reality of power, limitations and conflicts that can’t be automated. www.ft.com/content/61b2...

Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift

Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery

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We are 100 years into the future from when Freud wrote this and psychiatry has largely still not acknowledged the fundamental obscurity of the mind. Doing so would be to admit that mental life, suffering, and treatment are inherently mythic (based on meaning making).

Very interesting tension in UK conspiracy theories between ENVIRONMENT // NATURE. Environment is associated with unrealistic sustainability fantasies that impose order, control & domination. It is technologised nature. Nature itself is viewed as a grounding & cohering space for pure freedom.

I mean if I had to choose which hegemon to live under. "A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems" fortune.com/2026/05/03/c...

Chinese court rules firms can’t lay off workers on AI grounds | Fortune

The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused to take a demotion when his job was automated by AI.

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DRAFT MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Thanks to everyone who helped out! Now I go into hole and recover! Bye!

Who's being deceived? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a708...

Human Consciousness Is an Illusion, Scientists Say

The entire universe may have an internal mind—or the whole idea of consciousness could be a sham. Here’s why scientists still can’t agree.

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Heritage trust guy on Radio 4 just described Glasgow "in comparison to its competitor cities". What competition?? Heritage Wars?

Excellent STS analysis on the competing energy imaginaries between China and the US - Trump sees electrical infrastructure as private companies' responsibility while China has a long established and much more advanced national programme. Power really is power here. www.ft.com/content/47da...

Power failure could undermine America’s AI ambitions

Spiralling electricity demand threatens to hold the US back in its technological race with China

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The dialectics of automation

The best electoral strategy against Reform would simply be to paint them as impotent progressives. Slogan would obv be "we want revolution not Reform!!!!!!!!!"

Viz is a totally underrated cultural resource

A wild failure in science communication has been its inability to generate public support against the madness of academic publishing where unis can't afford access to resources needed for learning, teaching, research that its own researchers have produced www.timeshighereducation.com/news/silent-...

‘Silent decoupling’ under way as Elsevier talks near crunch point

York and Swansea latest to decline publisher’s offer, with latter also walking away from Springer Nature deal

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No idea if this is true or not but 🤣🤣🤣 "An Al chat-assist created and offered a customer an 80% off offer. Customer has now placed an order of £8,000+"

Kleinians hoping they see a good and bad breast. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience

Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...

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1) This public attitudes to science report contains troubling (but familiar) insights about public relationships with science. It reinforces what I and others have been saying about a deteriorating relationship between science and society marked by conflict, ambivalence & uncertainty. pas.ipsos.com

If only we had experts in the fucked up ways that capital, power, and human bodies are tied up together

Is it possible that silicon valley could disrupt whiteboard markers and innovate one that lasts for more than 3 minutes

UK AI regulation using the old "let's allow tech companies do what they want and ad hoc legislate as the horrors unfold" playbook.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7mo ago

BREAKING: The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who are the psychoanalysts who agreed to this??? And why is Nature now a tabloid??

Mad how there is about, in total, 2 articles about Palantir across all of the main STS journals.

Still waiting for a good piece to discuss the castration anxieties that Chat-GPT is creating for lecturers and alleviating for students.

Wonder if teenagers laugh about shite media discourse about generative AI the same we laughed about the "information superhighway" or Lawnmower Man-esque depictions of virtual reality.