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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️

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👉 Inactive account, find me on www.linkedin.com/in/andreaballatore Senior lecturer (~Associate Prof) at Dept. of Digital Humanities at King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social 🏛️📊🌎 Director of Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab

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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
👋 Taking a break from Bluesky to focus on LinkedIn for now. Feel free to connect with me there! www.linkedin.com/in/andreabal... 👈
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I frequently present data on population change but hadn't seen a visual that shows population loss in such a dark way. The short video shows population loss of Indigenous American populations over relatively short periods. Source: buff.ly/elJtXa0
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
With Giovanni Quattrone (Middlesex University): 📽️ 🌎 President Trump’s erratic protectionist drive has turned toward “movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands”, with proposed tariffs aimed at non-American productions... aballatore.space/2025/05/08/m... #cinema #geography
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Movies from foreign lands: Computing the geographies of cinema
The article discusses President Trump’s proposed tariffs on foreign film productions, aiming to boost domestic cinema and challenge “woke” Hollywood. With a decline in traditional…
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il Post @ilpost.it · 07/05/2025
Nel grafico è indicato da dove provengono i cardinali e da chi sono stati nominati. Qui abbiamo messo insieme altre mappe e grafici per capire chi sono, quanti sono, che facce hanno e quanti anni hanno: ilpost.link/Ve6Ij21duQ
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/05/2025
Yay! Buttons & knobs forever.
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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"...Skype was right: we don’t need another social platform or suite of work apps... We need something that operates between apps + devices, that doesn’t care where you’ve registered an account[,] that doesn’t force us to put all our trust in a company that has quarterly results to worry about."
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RIP Skype — you were right about almost everything
Skype saw the future of video and messaging before almost everyone. It also probably never had a chance.
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🎓👉 I am incredibly excited to be part of this groundbreaking £10 million Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War established by King’s College London in partnership with the University of Nottingham #slavery #digitalhumanities #history aballatore.space/2025/04/22/n...
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New Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War
I am incredibly excited to be part of this groundbreaking initiative to tackle one of the most enduring and troubling issues in global affairs: slavery. As the lead of the Cultural Geo-Analytics La…
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Here’s a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 In this study, we explore how over 50,000 Eventbrite listings reveal the patterns of urban cultural events at a very granular level #UrbanStudies #CulturalAnalytics aballatore.space/2025/04/17/c...
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Charting cultural events on Eventbrite
Here’s a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang, to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 Abstract: This study explores the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of cultural life by in…
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised. Deadline 6th May 2025 Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...
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Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education) at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Human Geography and Gender (Education). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
👏 Professor @s-tanner.bsky.social and Dr @aballatore.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social and experts from King's Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk 🔽
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Digital research led by Kings to forecast the emergence of slavery in war zones
Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities and King’s Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War.
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be participating in the upcoming panel discussion titled “Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing”, scheduled for 20th of May 2025, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰 🎓🗣️ aballatore.space/2025/04/14/p...
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Panel discussion on Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be participating in the upcoming panel discussion titled “Digital Placemaking and Soft City Sensing”, scheduled for 20th of May 2025, hoste…
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In this new article in GeoJournal, I explore the role of place ratings in shaping our digitally augmented experiences of place. It was fun to write and I hope it's also fun to read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #digitalplace #ratings #onlinereviews #place #geography 👉 aballatore.space/2025/04/09/p...
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Place ratings: platforms, effects, discontents ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Everywhere we go, we’re asked to rate our experience—5 stars for a coffee, a thumbs-up for a park, or maybe just a smiley face at the toilet. Place ratings have become a routine part of digital lif…
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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just in time for the final day of the @dataculture.bsky.social project, our experimental article, ‘Reading Maps at a Distance’ is published (OA) in Imago Mundi: doi.org/10.1080/0308..., which was a blast to write with @kmcdono.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen and Rosie Wood… #dh 🗃️ 1/2
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Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data
Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2024)
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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
You're making a map project. You find a perfect primary source. There isn't any location data. ARGH! In our latest blog we ask Humappers how they create story maps with imperfect spatial data. Take a look at humap.me/blog-community/blo... #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities #StoryMaps #EdTech
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Creating story maps with imperfect spatial data | Humap
Story maps need locations - but what if you don't have perfect spatial data? This blog explores the different solutions used by Humap clients
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Katya Danziger @katyadanziger.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"At least for another decade or two and probably more, big projects are always going to require software architects who know what they are doing. If hype deters kids from learning to code, we are screwed." - @garymarcus.bsky.social
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Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose
His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now. But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Found this in the abandoned draft drawer. I don't even remember what this was for... #place #GIScience #geography
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Today, I had the privilege of speaking at SMAU | Italy RestartsUp in London, an event dedicated to the Italian startup scene 🇮🇹🚀 Great to feel the energy and creativity in the room! aballatore.space/2025/03/20/s...
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SMAU London 2024: AI, geographic data, and the future of innovation
Today, I had the privilege of speaking at SMAU | Italy RestartsUp in London, an event dedicated to the Italian startup scene 🇮🇹🚀 — the panel I contributed to focused on the impact of digitalisation…
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GISRUK: GIS Research UK @gisruk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The programme for #GISRUK2025 is now live! See whats happening at this years conference in Bristol, April 22-25th. Registration is still open for if you haven't yet registered! gisruk.org/gisruk-2025 @levijohnwolf.bsky.social @caitrobin.bsky.social
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GISRUK 2025 : University of Bristol – GISRUK 2025
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Exciting news! The Mapping Museums Lab data has been incorporated into the latest ONS dataset on UK museums—and I’m proud to have contributed to this effort over the years with Fiona Candlin et al. 🏛️📊 aballatore.space/2025/03/14/m... #museums #mappingmuseums
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Mapping Museums data used by Office for National Statistics
(AI image source: Dall E) Exciting news! The Mapping Museums Lab data has been incorporated into the latest ONS dataset on UK museums—and I’m proud to have contributed to this effort over the years…
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Openly licensed cultural heritage vs GenAI: institutions are increasingly spooked re the few bad actors scraping content, so shutting off access to everyone. This is a clash of values: we're going to see more and more memory institutions trying to roll back on access to out of copyright material 😞
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National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This perspective map shows invasion routes into Russia from the Russian perspective. This is the type of logic that the Kremlin pushes to justify their war in Ukraine. The map hints at what other plans Putin might have.
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Martin Tomko @dinomirmt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Looking forward to seeing you at Spatiotemporal Causal Analysis (#STCausal2025), stcausal2025.spatial-causal.org with @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social and Cecile de Bezenac!
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STCausal@GIScience2025 – spatial-causal.org
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Is the regional GDP higher or lower than the EU average? Germany (as to be expected) is split in two, so is Italy. The high Irish GDP doesn't necessarily translate into high average wealth. Spotting capital cities is easy in this map too.
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Claire Hartnell @cjhartnell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This essay, mentioned by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in his latest article, is chillingly relevant. Written in 2017, it is the warning we all downplayed back then. An unbearable depiction of the hatred for nature, vulnerability & femininity that has taken over in the US aeon.co/essays/the-m...
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The macho, violent culture of Italian fascism was prophetic | Aeon Essays
The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A huge thank you to Ross Parry, Stef De Sabbata and the fantastic team at University of Leicester for organising such an inspiring hackathon for the Museum Data Service (museumdata.uk)! It was fun to explore innovative ways to work with millions of museum object records #museumanalytics 🏛️🧑‍💻
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Museum Data Service
A free new service that aims to bring together and share all the object records of all UK museums.
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Jakub Nowosad @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025
Thank you to everyone who has already supported our work on open-source spatial analysis resources like Geocomputation with R and Geocomputation with Python! 🙏🌍 If you’ve found our books helpful, consider supporting future updates and free resources […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 28/02/2025
Procrastination ∝
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Michael Gould @mgould.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Subtle but important change in the IGN (France) name. From geographic info, to geolocalization/geolocalized info. Hoping to open the tent to more people. cnig.gouv.fr?lang=en Also of note, they refer to a wider "ecosystem" of geodata! cnig.gouv.fr/qui-sommes-n...
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Conseil national de l’information géolocalisée
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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every... @kingsdh.bsky.social
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Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The government's consultation on AI and copyright closes today.
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Creative industries protest against UK plan about AI and copyright
Government’s proposals could make it easier to train artificial intelligence models using artists’ works
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Andrea Borruso @aborruso.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Ora e sempre, resistenza
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Nukeador @nukeador.com · 25/02/2025
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a close up of a woman 's face and the words happy now
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face and the words happy now
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am delighted to welcome visiting PhD student Laura Dunne (University College Dublin, Ireland) to the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab. Her research focusses on optimizing bus networks using machine learning 🚌 aballatore.space/2025/02/24/n...
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New visiting PhD student at the lab: Laura Dunn 📊🚌
We are delighted to welcome visiting PhD student Laura Dunne (University College Dublin, Ireland) to the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab at King’s College London for a research visit from February to Ma…
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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🗺️ Hi Bluesky! We're Humap, a map platform built with and for #GLAMA, #DigitalHumanities, and #CitizenScience Here are some of the amazing projects on our platform 🧵 An archival history of #Tampa #Florida created by the University of South Florida tampa-through-time.humap.site #USHistory #USA
A screenshot of a trail on Tampa Through Time
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Harrison Ford gets us better than anyone!
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 12/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on campus cuts: academics pay a high price for Westminster’s mistakes | Editorial
Editorial: The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
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Andrea Ballatore 🗺️ @aballatore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Knowing something, even a lot, about computers guarantees no knowledge about the world beyond them." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
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Jami @justjami.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I think most of my #GISChat friends have heard of and used colorbrewer2.org tools for their maps - but have any of you checked out mapcolpal.org yet?
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MapColPal - your pal for cartographic color palettes
MapColPal is a tool to help in working with color palettes for thematic maps.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL
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The UK should take a leaf from France’s book to boost arts funding
Tax breaks for corporate sponsors can benefit the creative sector at a time of dwindling public funds
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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Dorothy summaries the issues with Frontiers/MDPI well but for those who still aren't convinced here are a few basic things worth considering 1/
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Michael Gould @mgould.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
One of the highlights of 2024 for me was meeting with UN Maps people in Valencia, where (among other things) we ideated a Humanitarian GeoAI webinar delivered by colleagues Rami and Lisa. Check it out: aiforgood.itu.int/event/unlock...
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Unlocking the Power of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for humanitarian use cases
Join us for a webinar and demo to discover how to leverage GeoAI capabilities to perform advanced analysis, automate workflows, extract patterns and
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 25/12/2024
I’m a frequentist, when I give a movie 7/10 it means if I watch it 10 times I enjoy 7 of them
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Raphael Viscarra Rossel @ravr19.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness
Scientists need more time to think
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il Post @ilpost.it · 24/12/2024
Spotify ha abituato i suoi utenti a usare le sue playlist come sottofondo, scegliendole in base al “mood” e non per gli artisti o le canzoni. In questo modo, Spotify ha potuto riempirle di canzoni “finte” commissionate appositamente:
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Come Spotify usa gli artisti “finti” per riempire le sue playlist e pagare meno diritti - Il Post
Un'indagine pubblicata da Harper's racconta la strategia della piattaforma per abituare gli utenti a un ascolto passivo e di sottofondo
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/12/2024
The algorithms running the world are a lot more sinister, and harder to untangle from our everyday lives, than the ones making every coffee shop look the same, writes T.M. Brown: theatln.tc/Snt5w4qD
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World. The most dominate algorithms aren't the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you. By T.M. Brown.
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).
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Assistant Professor in Sociology
Assistant Professor in Sociology, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and…
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