iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

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Science as Culture

Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We will resist the bullies with our usual courage and resolve - for the good of our students, our university, and our city. We won't allow the dismantling of higher education without resistance. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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Inga Ulnicane @ingaulnicane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📢 Looking forward to @stsvienna.bsky.social talk 'Reimagining AI policy for societal challenges' on Wednesday 1 October 16:00 Vienna time. Join us in person or online, more info here sts.univie.ac.at/en/news-even... #STS #AI

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

An excellent analysis by Nuffield PRC of exactly where Labour's so-called "lost voters" have gone, and why lurching to the right is the absolutely worst strategy for winning the next election. Now if only SOME PEOPLE ::cough:: would listen. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

That's now 10 of those "new schools" created 2 years ago up for further restructures and redundancies (including mine). Welcome back from summer, kids. 🤬

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

5 years post-pandemic and hybrid conferencing is still an adventure every time.

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Absolutely stoked to share that my @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social colleague Ryan Shum has been awarded the AsSIST-UK Andrew Webster PhD prize for his work, 'Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory ethnography'! #STS #EnvHums #geography assistuk.org/2025/06/03/2...

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2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Andrew Webster PhD Prize is awarded to: Dr. Ryan Shum (University of Exeter) for his thesis: Caring for microplastics: a multi-sited laboratory …

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

💰Ahead of the Spending Review, Policy Director, @jo3hill.bsky.social shares his thoughts on the dynamics between the Treasury and the rest of Whitehall... As a former Treasury official himself, this one is definitely worth a read👇

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Judy Wajcman, speaking at @assist-uk.bsky.social's gala to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 'The Social Shaping of Technology' has the perfect response to genAI.

STS scholar Judy Wajcman in front of slide with a quote by Joanne Mackiejewska which says "I want AI to do my dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thanks to everyone at @assist-uk.bsky.social for a great conference (special thanks to those who got up in time to make my 9am panel on robots 🤖) See you all in two years, hopefully before!

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AsSIST-UK @assist-uk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

📢 AsSIST-UK is now on Bluesky! 🌍 AsSIST-UK brings together scholars across the social sciences, humanities, and sciences to explore innovation, science, and technology in society. With 386+ members, we’re building a vibrant, transdisciplinary community.

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wonder how long it will take before they decide faculty are actually unnecessary. No worries at all in the present climate.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

ROOTS was THE television event when it had its premiere on this day in 1977. @alondra.bsky.social felt the effects of the cultural sensation and got turned onto discovering her own African ancestry and genetic genealogy.

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Alex Haley and the “Roots” Effect

By Alondra Nelson | As a wide-eyed girl watching Roots, and wondering about mine, I never could have dreamed a future where one day I’d have the surreal experience of having my genealogical results re...

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Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

SERVICE UPDATE: any newsreaders pronouncing it Storm “Eye-oh-win” are to be immediately deported to the tower of Cirith Ungol

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oh good. Something nice to RT (RS?)

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 23/12/2024

For today’s #ArtAdventCalendar - I present one of my more ridiculous #SciComm & #SciArt ideas. A hand printed canvas to demonstrate sampling using a quadrat. Thread of the process 👇🏼

Hana tosses a Quadrat, a metal grid, on to a canvas printed with green leaves and colourful bugs

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"Our tendency to imbue things with human-like minds is a fundamental fact of our cognition." Really rich account of how humans use AI to substitute for human relationships. I don't think this is a "when you've read one, you've read 'em all" thing--we'll be mining these phenomena for a long time.

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What do you love when you fall for AI?

Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One of the first great Bluesky live moments

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/12/2024

"Rather than attempt to read between the lines of the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health."

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Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”

We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering ...

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When I am hired as an legal expert, I do my own work. This includes tracking down my own citations. Given what they pay us, it seems like the ethical thing to do. It is a scandal if you get caught cheating. It is a bigger scandal -- I think -- if your excuse is that you are lazy.

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And get rid of the one for That Place, while you're at it. 🤓

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Darwin was surprisingly modern for a Victorian dad. But I didn’t know about these doodles!

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Something to keep in mind.

Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Honor the workers who deliver your mail and teach your children. Pay them a living wage and support them when they exercise their right to unionize.

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 Ensuring ministers are properly supported is critical to high-performing government. Yet too often, they report feeling overloaded - unable to drive change in line with their priorities. Today, ‘Grown up government’ sets out a new model of political support.

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

We are also delighted to welcome @acababble.bsky.social from The University of Sheffield. Dr Stevienna de Saille will be working on policy ideas around the development and use of robots and AI in England's system of social care.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Please note:

Clear out your old kids’ toys before Christmas so the charity shops have them in for people to buy

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Last MA dissertation marked. Lectures start next week. Not sure if those stomach butterflies are anticipation of an exciting new year or dread of the workload to come. Meanwhile, I procrastinate on my shiny new Bluesky. Forgive the lack of decor as I settle in (Sorry, Mastodon. It's me, not you.😘)

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

So Doudna and Charpentier are cancelling two of their European CRISPR patents - but not for the reasons you might think. The saga never ends... www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1...

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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

There’s a surprise twist in the battle to control genome editing.

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