Dr Sharon Greenfield

@sharondigital.bsky.social

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Digital Anthropologist. Grief + Young People + Tech. Uni Melb + DERC + ADSS
I’m SharonG in the bad place. 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇰in🇦🇺

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Guess what guys! They found evidence for trade connections between India and Roman Egypt! A cemetery for pets! A statue of the Buddha!

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

The excellent @perceptionalize.bsky.social speaking in Australia at the RMIT Digital Ethnographic Research Centre (DERC) on the Conjunctive experience and ambivalent intimacy in the #strokesurvivor community on Instagram. Excellent #ethnographic research and talk. #ethnography #rmit

This made me laugh in IRC olde.

Pfft! I was on the front line of the First Browser Wars, and these kids nowadays with their iPoods and their TicTacs don't understand the ravages of the digital carnage WE had to go through! Why, whole websites were built out of framesets, with animated gifs for backgrounds! It was a harrowing time…

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Since I'm thinking about it, here's the reason (imho) why Seattle has the best logo in the NFL www.burkemuseum.org/news/mask-in...

The mask that inspired the Seahawks logowww.burkemuseum.org A Northwest Coast Native mask is identified as the inspiration for the Seattle Seahawks original logo after years of speculation.

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I teach classes in a political science dept about judicial politics & the fed courts as a part of the American political system. I show students the fed courts are political by presenting evidence. The ProPublica pieces on Alito/Thomas gifts, lavish vacations gets them every time. Basic unfairness.

I really believe it would be possible to build broad support for policies, removing federal judges, including SCOTUS judges, who receive this kind of largesse, from office. The public understands judges being bribed and understands it’s wrong.

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The usage of "greenwashing" (OED) showed a dramatic rise around 2021. But have you heard of "greenhushing": companies keeping quiet about climate action? That's even newer, & the topic of our first episode of a new series of Rare Earth on BBC R4 (Fri noon) & BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Israeli airstrike on refugee tents kills at least 35 with aid groups ‘horrified’ | First Thing

Israeli airstrike on refugee tents kills at least 35 with aid groups ‘horrified’ | First Thingwww.theguardian.com IDF said incident was ‘under review.’ Plus, the rightwing plan to remake Democratic cities

A very good article about the political realities in the Sudanese war. 🇸🇩 theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out | Husam Mahjoubtheguardian.com The Emirates is arming and supporting one side in the conflict, but UK and US officials have shied from confronting it, writes Husam Mahjoub, co-founder of the Sudan Bukra TV channel

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Should be an interesting lecture - but what really intrigues me is the image. @hanspols.bsky.social

One very frustrating thing about being an international working and researching in another country is the inability to get grants. Most Australian grants require permanent residency or citizenship and UK grants where I am a citizen require the research to be done in the UK.

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What’s sad to me about X are the Leaving Las Vegas vibes. No one’s there because it’s the future; everyone’s there because it’s a habit they haven’t been able to break.

Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggestswww.forbes.com Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have repeatedly said the platform’s usage has risen.

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"In the study, researchers asked psychology professors at top-tier research universities to list up to five experts in their area of study. The underrepresentation of women researchers was entirely driven by men" 😶‍🌫️ #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Sociology #Polisky #Geo ♀

Men Forget About Female Researchers, Says Study On Gender Citation Gapwww.forbes.com Researchers think they've uncovered the reason why women's academic work is cited less than men's—men forget about women's contributions.

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Late breaking news: The American Association of University Professors has announced they will be establishing a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Hurrah! Link to Twitter thread: twitter.com/AAUP/status/...

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Fruit flies fall in love through song. Scientists built a recording studio to record these love songs and map the neural networks (down to individual neurons) involved. Happy Valentine's Day - I hope someone vibrates a love song to you today, maybe Fly Me To The Moon. 🧪

Why do flies fall in love? Researchers tease out the signals behind fruit fly courtship songsphys.org Like a Valentine's Day dinner or a box of chocolates, male fruit flies have their own rituals for wooing a potential mate.

Ah, hate speech, good times.

Twitter 2019: source of useful, immediate information. TwitterX 2024: bring back “Jews are well-poisoners”

For a small fee, I will attend your enemy’s social science talk and ask, well it’s less of a question and more of a comment, that…

For a small fee, I will attend your enemy's propaganda talk and ask if they've read anything but Chomsky.

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Social media science finds a way despite the fact that X has stopped providing free research access to its data. Many hope new legislation in Europe will change that; others are exploring workarounds such as interviews Thx for your great work @katestarbird.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deepfakes, trolls and cybertroopers: how social media could sway elections in 2024www.nature.com Faced with data restrictions and harassment, researchers are mapping out fresh approaches to studying social media’s political reach. Faced with data restrictions and harassment, researchers are map...

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Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal

Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journalwww.theguardian.com Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

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This is a very important UN report that demonstrates the rapid proliferation of UAS technology: unidir.org/publication/...

The Use of Uncrewed Aerial Systems by Non-State Armed Groups: Exploring Trends in Africa → UNIDIRunidir.org The Insight examines current and emerging trends in non-state armed group's use of uncrewed aerial systems in Africa.

Should be illegal to not support for 100 years past last recipient.

These three patients, and more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight’s implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget. spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-o...

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupportedspectrum.ieee.org Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark

Well well well…

X blocks searches for Taylor Swift after explicit AI images of her go viral

X blocks searches for Taylor Swift after explicit AI images of her go viralwww.bbc.co.uk Twitter says the move is to prioritise safety, after fake explicit images of the singer went viral.

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New research highlight, found "over there" 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23294965241228875

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We need more STEM folks to write these kinds of pieces. More of this please. www.statnews.com/2024/01/24/h...

Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health carewww.statnews.com Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care.

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Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian Historycareers.pageuppeople.com Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!

First #OpenAccess article for Media International Australia 2024 comes from myself and my RMIT colleagues Rob Cover, Nicola Henry, & colleagues as we discuss the issues arising from platforms' inadequate definition (and protection) of public figures t.ly/UFwHv

Protecting Public Figures Online: How Do Platforms and Regulators Define Public Figures? - Rob Cover...t.ly Public figures are subject to higher rates of online abuse than other users in part because many digital platforms have significantly higher thresholds for inte...

Our piece in the misinformation/disinformation space will be out soon in the Media International Australia journal. It’s titled ‘Protecting public figures online: How do platforms and regulators define public figures?’ (DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231225745/ ID: MIA-23-0113.R1)

Hey misinformation folks, I'm revamping my online undergrad course and need accessible, current readings (so many of mine are covid-related!). Please share your favs!

People who provide the spark don’t often get to sit next to the fire.

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I’ve already covered this at Campaign Trails: kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpresiden...

Unpresidentedkevinmkruse.substack.com I promised that I’d use Campaign Trails to offer historical perspectives on breaking news, and we certainly had that last night with the stunning revelation that Donald Trump will soon be indicted o...

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The hyperloop is dead for real this time - https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011448/hyperloop-one-shut-down-layoff-closing-elon-musk

The hyperloop is dead for real this timewww.theverge.com Turns out the real hyperloop was the friends we made along the way.