Angela Cassidy

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science, society + policy; humans - animals - environments; #STS #HistSTM #scipol #scicomm
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Today's hidden gem: Yayoi is a Japanese artist who works in watercolours, painting a variety of subjects from real life. #art 🐡🦑

Jellyfish #watercolor #art

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Hive #HistSTM mind = I'm teaching a graduate-level readings seminar (10 week) course next AY; it's a survey of the history of technology. The theme to make it manageable is "Networks and Infrastructure." Any suggestions for books beyond the sample shown here?

Europeans, waking up this morning..

I love how our political discourse took a look at the David-Cameron-on-a-pig story, stared into the middle distance, spat once, and said, “I can beat that.”

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We've all heard about the problems with our streams, rivers and lakes here in the UK, and I often get asked what we can do personally to help. Here's something that sounds promising: a big citizen science project to measure local water quality that we can all join in with: earthwatch.org.uk/gr...

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ChatGPT can’t summarise documents. It shortens them, misses key conclusions, adds errors, makes stuff up, and ignores actual summary sections. Use it to summarise important texts like meeting discussions at your peril. ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/w...

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.ea.rna.nl One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn't summarising at all, it only looks like it. What it...

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CALL FOR NEXT YEAR'S @eseh.bsky.social IS OUT! ESEH Conference 2025 – Climate Histories 18-22 August 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden eseh.org/cfp-13th-bie... Deadline: 31 October 2024 #envhist 🌿

CfP: 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference – European Society for Environmental Historyeseh.org

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Trump would be down on his cluck with the giant chicken of doom pursuing him. Wonder if a lettuce can last 106 days?

If it was the UK, someone would now be following Trump around to every campaign stop dressed in a chicken suit.

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President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

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Biden clearly just managed a coordinated exit from power. Biden is good at politics and hasn't lost his understanding of how things work. I would imagine that its aging that made his speech impediment worse and lost the stamina to be POTUS and campaign.

Main thing that I found annoying about Twitter consensus is that it immediately went to “Biden senile/braindead” as opposed to the much more sensible “he has a speech issue that’s gotten much worse recently”

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This was fascinating and something I knew absolutely nothing about.

"In the summer of 1942, as German troops encircled the Russian city of Stalingrad, Nazi commanders began to receive bizarre reports of dead bodies disappearing from German field hospitals..." Fascinating extract from Tom Ireland's book The Good Virus

Book Club: The viruses that helped win the Battle of Stalingradjonn.substack.com An extract from Tom Ireland’s The Good Virus: The Mysterious Microbes that Rule Our World, Shape Our Health and Can Save Our Future.

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How does that #sound (in a #museum)? Please join us in Hamburg in December 2024 for a conference on how sound is used, produced, exhibited, explored & experienced in museums. The event is part of @valuepast.bsky.social & organized by the German Port Museum & the German Maritime Museum & partners.

CFP: Exhibting the Sound of History: Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communication http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145332 Hamburg, 09.12.2024-10.12.2024, Deutsches Hafenmuseum; Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum;Deutsches Museum; Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien; …

Exhibting the Sound of History: Practice and Theory of Acoustic Historical Research and Communicationwww.hsozkult.de

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Job 3. Researcher on 'Governing Sustainable Futures' project in Exeter Geography. Contact my excellent colleague Rebecca Sandover if you're interested #sts #easst4s2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR561/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeterwww.jobs.ac.uk Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Job 2. Researcher in Social Studies of AI, also in @UofESPA and Egenis, working with my excellent colleague Niccolo Tempini. Deadline 24 JULY (!), contact Niccolo if you're interested! #sts #aiethics #easst4s2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIQ464/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Social Studies of Artificial Intelligence) at University of Exeterwww.jobs.ac.uk Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Social Studies of Artificial Intelligence) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Job 1. We are looking for someone to continue embedded #STS study of #interdisciplinary & #transdisciplinary collaboration in RENEWing #Biodiversity project. You'll join research communities @UofESPA, Egenis, @CRPRExeter Need someone to dive straight in! #easst4s2024 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIT840/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate or Research Fellow (RENEW) at University of Exeterwww.jobs.ac.uk Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate or Research Fellow (RENEW) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Good morning #easst4s2024 people. Sounding a TRIPLE #jobklaxon for #STS #scipol #hps adjacent research jobs here at Exeter! Deadline dates unfortunately tight, so please spread the word ASAP if you know someone who might be interested. Will thread job ads below..

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Americans are like: "Oh no we have no time only 100 days until the election." That's 2.5 times as long as Liz Truss was Prime Minister over here.

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Please enjoy these extracts from the official Council road and lighting team 2006 pin-up calender I came across while sorting uncatalogued items in the archive. 📜

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Eesh www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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'Anne Longfield, the former children’s commissioner whose Centre for Young Lives has been working with the Labour education team, said: “Looking at the data and talking to young people it is clear that a large group of kids have been made to feel school isn’t for them and that has to change.'

English schools to phase out ‘cruel’ behaviour rules as Labour plans major education changeswww.theguardian.com Policy will move to keeping vulnerable pupils in school as focus shifts to root causes of exclusions

Our RENEWing Biodiversity @uniofexeternews.bsky.social/British Library team had a blast at #EASST4S2024. So many great conversations + input into WiP (sharing env/ag stories of collaboration; thinking together across #oralhistory #sts #histstm). Thanks to organisers+hosts for a fabulous conference!

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This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIwww.thebookseller.com Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

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Thanks everyone for liking and reposting. Please continue. 😁 #sound #museum P.S.: We got funding, so travel & accommodation will be covered for speakers.

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It's cool that the UK now has an onshore wind taskforce, but extremely uncool that it doesn't have any public engagement people on it. Getting engagement right can make or break projects.

UK announces Onshore Wind Taskforce - Energy Live Newswww.energylivenews.com The Energy Secretary has announced a new taskforce to double the UK's onshore wind capacity by 2030

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#AcademicSky time to reevaluate your research skills component.

So! Google just isn't a search engine anymore. No I mean literally. They're no longer indexing the entire Internet. Intentionally. It's more like they're assembling a "WOW Best Of The 90's" album of the internet. www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-d...

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Contentwww.vincentschmalbach.com Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…

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douglas adams knew that relentlessly cheery doors would be among the most obnoxious things in the universe, but he didn't even imagine doors that would require US to perform the artificial happiness before they do their job

This is being presented as 'feelgood' and charming, when it is actually the most dystopian thing I've seen in quite some time. And that's a high bar to clear. www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Actual email!

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities asked me to write about my recent book, Spectacles of Waste @politybooks.bsky.social I don't think they were expecting this (be careful what you ask for?): #histsci #STS

Spectacles of waste – Australian Academy of the Humanitieshumanities.org.au Our society is obsessed with our own waste; removing it, stepping in it, laughing at it. Warwick Anderson tells us why.

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Fab job here. Apply!

Blown away by glorious #easst4s2024 Forest Festival (conference dinner!!) under a glorious pink moon! Unbelievably good to reconnect with #sts friends once again.❤️