World-first tool reduces harmful engagement with AI-generated explicit images A new online educational tool aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of AI-generated explicit imagery. Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2026...

Beautiful work by Creativity & Change in Cork this weekend. #sociallyengagedart #refugeeswelcome #immigrantsarethesunshineofcork

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Getting off US tech isn’t always an easy feat, and I don’t think it’s useful to be a purist. US tech is everywhere and it’s very hard to fully extricate oneself, which is why governments need to step in. But I still think there’s value in making the effort. www.disconnect.blog/p/getting-of...

🛠️ New article out! We reviewed 79 studies on #AirQuality communication strategies to understand what really drives #Awareness & #BehaviourChange. Spoiler: top-down info helps awareness, but real change needs participatory, multi-level approaches. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Promoting Air Quality-Related Awareness and Behavioural Change: A Rapid Review of communication interventions integrating behavioural, science communication and socio-ecological perspectives

Air pollution (AP) is a global environmental threat to human health and development. Day-to-day behaviours contribute to poor air quality (AQ) but lim…

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🚨New paper out! @maricacassarino.bsky.social @dvenables.bsky.social and I mapped #AirQuality communication needs in Cork using #DesignThinking. Findings? Strategies must inform, empower, and tackle systemic barriers Read here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Promoting urban air quality resilience through communication: A stakeholder needs mapping and prioritisation study informed by design thinking

Air pollution (AP) poses significant global health risks and exacerbates socio-economic inequities, especially in urban contexts. This study mapped st…

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Last 2 days to sign this petition to ask the Commission to ban the "conversion therapies" against LGBTQ+ in EU eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ it really takes one minute of your time

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Oliver @haimson.bsky.social kindly presented the book in one of our @patlabucc.bsky.social meetings. Highly recommended. A very important topic, even more in this period. At the link you can find a podcast with an interview to the author

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr. @haimson.bsky.social joined @embodiedwunc.bsky.social to elaborate on the impact of trans technology — from bathroom-finding apps to augmented reality — emphasizing the critical role these technologies play now and how this tech might best serve trans people in the future:

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

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🎊Happy to share a preprint of an article recently written with @maricacassarino.bsky.social and @dvenables.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... The article deals with #CommunityEngagement in creating #communication strategies to mitigate risks and effects related to #AirPollution. 1/3 👇

Not so bad

University College Cork@ucc.ie · 2y ago

UCC is is one of the most environmentally-friendly universities in the world, having placed fourth in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings. It ranks 1,477 universities from around the world on their educational, research and operational activities. www.ucc.ie/en/news/2024...

Is Misinformation starting to spread also on Bluesky?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

“The great thing about Lambrusco is that you can drink it all day, and then you can drink it all night.” Think of this as a grown-up, but not too grown-up, spritz. nyti.ms/3VzDDUJ

Job alert ‼️ We are looking to hire two post-doctoral researchers researching values and valuation in the energy transition - based in the #STS research group Human-centred Innovation at the Technical University of Denmark. #sociology #anthropology #STS Please boost 🔁

Postdoc within Science and Technology Studies and the Energy Transition - DTU Management

Are you wanting to establish your career as an academic and have a background in Science & Technology Studies (STS)? Are you interested in conducting cutting-edge research on the public engagement wit...

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Ireland’s experience with data centers is a warning to us all for the consequences of the tech industry’s ambitions. They want to do what they’ve already done in Ireland everywhere else too — and we shouldn’t stand for it. Great to speak with Brid Smith to learn more.

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2y ago

Ireland is at the forefront of the fight against data centers, as they consume more than 20% of the country’s electricity. Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is Irish TD Brid Smith! Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/crippl...

Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...

Generative AI <p>and Labor

This new primer shows that understanding how AI will affect work requires examining how work is organized, how industries are structured, and whose and what work is valued.

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A great example of how putting together technology and reflections on circular economy, sharing, commons can make things better for all 🧸

Luigina Ciolfi@luiciolfi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another great media feature for The Toy Library - led by @patlabucc.bsky.social and ADVANCE CRT PhD student Giorgia Anile (via @news.rte.ie) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

✍️Some of my recent topics: 📝 air pollution and communication doi.org/10.31234/osf... 📜 Digital public services and inequalities doi.org/10.3390/soc1... 📃 #participatorydesign #platforms Ivan Illich doi.org/10.55612/s-5... 📋 Participatory Design and #NLP doi.org/10.18653/v1/...

🎉happy to share it too, now that I'm here! We put a lot of effort into this work, connecting personal behaviours, socio-ecological dimensions, and science communication to better understand how communication on air pollution should be. 🌬️ #citizenscience #airquality #AcademicSky

Marica Cassarino@maricacassarino.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉Happy to share a preprint of a review of #AirQuality Communication strategies & their influence on #Awareness & #BehaviourChange, part of #BehaviAir ▶️Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Key results? It's complicated😕 More info about the project: behaviair.org #EnvironmentalPsychology #AcademicSky

Interested in participatory knowledge co-production, community-based research and citizen science? Some readings from our latest special issue that are worth checking out 🧵👇 #STSbluesky #STS

First message. Again that magic of being alone talking to myself. Check check, one-two. Prova, prova.