Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswickgalgosdelsol.bsky.social @galgosdelsol.bsky.social · 26/01/2025As hunting season comes to end Galgueros will now get rid of, in their eyes, their unwanted tools. Rarely do they donate to protectoras across Spain who save their dogs. And it never changes. Good people to pick up the cost for abandoned Galgos relentlessly bred to hunt. Yet they feel no shame. 22912
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/02/2026Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study findstheguardian.comAid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study findsModelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed 68138
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉 🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c) 🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk) #CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC 077
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/09/202596% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women. Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:prospectmagazine.co.ukThe new misogynyCulture changed in the 2000s—and, with some technological support, it has led us to some very dark places now 22119
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025UK can't afford to help old people with winter heating but wants to subsidise failing LLM industry just at the point everyone has started to realise their product is basically crap www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comDeal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and ministerExclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman 214946
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025More 'humanities-led' sponging of funds from UK research for Turing-validated bs. As if it's OK to waffle about systems producing "multiple valid perspectives" when actual AI can't even produce one valid perspective! Clown show. www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica..., www.ukri.org/opportunity/...turing.ac.ukDoing AI differentlyArtificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming global infrastructure – shaping decisions in healthcare, education, industry and everyday life. 1102
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025The goal is to make these systems both unavoidable and unaccountable. They want to turn “ai is inevitable” from hype into actual policy.ft.comBig Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AICall by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party 1019697
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickDr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 07/06/2025Read more on the bigger picture of AI in Trump's education plans here www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...indexoncensorship.orgCan academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally 053
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Halfway there! 🎉 Over 50% of tickets for #ICRMC are already sold. Join us for keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social, along with a host of inspiring presentations. Lock in your spot today: www.creativeresearchmethods.com 031
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickNicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025 10854511007
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Follow for rational thought! #HTLGI25 010
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 20/05/2025ICYMI: Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? helenkara.com/2024/01/23/w... #CRMethodshelenkara.comWhy Bother With Creative Research Methods?Conventional research methods are good methods. Creative research methods, in themselves, are not better than conventional research methods. Sometimes all you need is to do some interviews and, if … 044
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 20/05/2025AI is routinely making stupid, nonsensical mistakes that even the most incompetent employee would never make. #socialwork open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...open.substack.comA Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't ExistThe AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up 011
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/04/2025🚨 Tickets are officially on sale for the International Creative Research Methods Conference! Join us for powerful keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social. Lock yours in here 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC #CreativeResearchcreativeresearchmethods.comCreative Research Methods Conference 2025The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research. 086
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Tickets are live for this years International Creative Research Methods Conference! 🎉 With keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social , you won’t want to miss this. Grab yours now 👉https://creativeresearchmethods.com/ #ICRMC 042
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 26/04/2025New blog post from the Cumbria Youth Co-Research Collective www.linkedin.com/posts/carlis... Do have a read, and share #youthwork #youngpeople #coresearch #researchlinkedin.com💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉… | Carlisle Youth Zone💥 New blog published 💥from the Cumbria Youth Co-research Collective! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP_A4SPh This is the second blog in our "Get Research Ready With Me" series, and shares more of our ... 021
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickNorthumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The Technology Empowered Dementia Independence (TEDI) Network Plus is a collaboration between Northumbria, @cumbriauni.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and will also involve health professionals, charities, local authorities, industry, people living with dementia, and their families. 021
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Delighted to be one of the Profs taking this work forward. #dementia #TEDIplus 030
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickCarla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneurSilicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e... 96836
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Read and weep. 320593
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickKim Insley @kiminsley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Bravo, Harvard. About freaking time. The emperor has no clothes on! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...nytimes.comHarvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands (Gift Article)Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful. 19430
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/03/2025www.instagram.com/reel/DG0wwdh... @jon ronson on psychopaths leading our world!instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 011
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickResearch in Practice @researchip.bsky.social · 27/02/2025@amltaylor66.bsky.social: If you're procuring technology, you need to be able to understand what it does and be able to explain it clearly. Automation can't come at the expense of relationships #PartnershipC 112
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHelen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for #ICRMC: Amanda Taylor-Beswick (@amltaylor66.bsky.social) from the University of Cumbria! 🎤 More updates coming soon! #ICRMC #CRMethods 052
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Really honoured to be involved in this brilliant annual #researchevent #ICRMC 140
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi... 1360260159294
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Very much look forward to welcoming @jamesbedford.bsky.social on Wednesday at 8pm GMT as #LTHEchat guest joining us from Australia. 0155
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 09/01/2025I cannot begin to imagine being able to spend nearly a million dollars on a *watch*; having so much money that you run out of things to spend it on so you buy million-dollar watches. I thought I was being profligate buying Aesop handwash, FFS.theguardian.comMark Zuckerberg sports $900,000 watch as he calls time on Meta fact-checkingTech giant CEO wore Greubel Forsey ‘Hand Made 1’, which retails for $895,500, as he announced policy overhaul 13716
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/01/2025Ressa said “Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a ‘world without facts’ and that was ‘a world that’s right for a dictator.’”theguardian.comMeta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winnerMaria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US 313650
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025“He has now adopted the same bad-faith characterizations of his employees’ work that the political right did, which used it as a bludgeon to force Facebook to allow ultraconservatives to promote things like targeted harassment and intentional misinformation.”wired.comNo Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGAMark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship. 25821
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Coffee with the authors! Do have a look, share, come along! #phenomenography www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-a...linkedin.comProf Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick on LinkedIn: Coffee with the AuthorsDelighted to have been invited, alongside my co-author Eva Hornung, to talk about our Doing #Phenomenography book! Do have a look, share, come along. Thank… 241
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit. 1243940617
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/01/2025”It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”F Jameson 030
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Great new blogpost from the FTC, highlighting the fakeness of "AI safety" and highlighting harm from facial recognition, revenge porn, and false promises about making the web more accessible. www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...ftc.gov 511952
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Outstanding, as always #booksky 040
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 03/01/2025What a headline “Firm led by ex-UK envoy on ethics made £13m on not-for-profit visa services” apple.news/AF-qTe1rZTAW...apple.newsFirm led by ex-UK envoy on ethics made £13m on not-for-profit visa services — The GuardianCloud Bai-Yun was asked to resign from Ecctis, which runs language and qualifications tests for UK visa applicants 26037
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 20/12/2024If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, Sam, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...futurism.comOpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for FreeOpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them. 10137811284
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 26/12/2024These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024tcrn.chThese were the badly handled data breaches of 2024Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 14917
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickThe Verge @theverge.com · 26/12/2024Even Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024buff.lyEven Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024Glasses seem like the way forward, but Apple might be a long ways away from making them. 10779
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Happy #Jolabokalflod Bluesky friends and followers 020
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/12/2024“Fundamentally, the engine of generative AI is fill-in-the-blanks, or what I like to call ‘autocomplete on steroids.’ Such systems are great at predicting what might sound good or plausible in a given context, but not at understanding at a deeper level what they are saying…”wired.comGenerative AI Still Needs to Prove Its UsefulnessThe hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer. 412440
Reposted by Prof Amanda ML Taylor-BeswickDr Alison Purvis @dralison.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A couple of days on from #SocMedHE24 I've reflected on what I learnt. Thank you again to Liz Mossop for her welcome address, @amltaylor66.bsky.social for her thought provoking keynote, and to @suebecks.bsky.social for being such a wonderful co-organiser! www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflec...linkedin.comReflections on SocMedHE24: Fragmentation and the Role of Social Media in Higher EducationThe 10th Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference #SocMedHE24 took place at Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 19 December 2024. The conference began in 2015, led by Alison Purvis... 273
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 19/12/2024What an amazing 10th year of #SocMedHE24 Met a number of people who attended #SocMed15. And got home to the most amazing gift, peppered with local histories I had no idea about #StrongandNorthern Thank you SO much @suebecks.bsky.social @dralison.bsky.social and the #SocMedHE community 040
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 19/12/2024This is epic! Thank you so much @debbaff.bsky.social #SocMedHE24 061
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 19/12/2024What a fabulous day and legacy you’ve created… @suebecks.bsky.social @dralison.bsky.social and Helen. #SocMedHE24 0102
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 19/12/2024So pleased to be connected @alererou.bsky.social Hope to speak again soon #SocMedHE24 030