Patricia Owens

@whitproject.bsky.social

History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased

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

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

Delighted and honoured to be elected a Fellow. I am also thinking of earlier generations of women in my field without comparable recognition. Not even Susan Strange was elected an FBA. Their scholarship deserves to be remembered, read and honoured, and I receive this recognition with them in mind.

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x

Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

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Reports of domestic violence increase by 26% when England play a World Cup match, and 38% if they lose.  With England’s first World Cup game just around the corner, we want to highlight the support available to anyone experiencing domestic violence.

House front draped with St George's cross banner stating "He's coming home"; Women's Aid logo referencing domestic abuse.

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