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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick

@amltaylor66.bsky.social
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Professor of Digital and Social Science. Working at various sociotechnical intersections. Also on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/prof-amanda-ml-…

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galgosdelsol.bsky.social @galgosdelsol.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As 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.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/02/2026
Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds
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Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds
Modelling 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
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Both #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
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Such a lovely surprise at #ICRMC25 Thank you for the link - I’m really keen to learn more about Victorias work
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/09/2025
96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women. Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:
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The new misogyny
Culture changed in the 2000s—and, with some technological support, it has led us to some very dark places now
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
UK 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...
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Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
More '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/...
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Doing AI differently
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming global infrastructure – shaping decisions in healthcare, education, industry and everyday life.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
The goal is to make these systems both unavoidable and unaccountable. They want to turn “ai is inevitable” from hype into actual policy.
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Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 07/06/2025
Read more on the bigger picture of AI in Trump's education plans here www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...
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Can 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
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Must get a time to go 🙏🏻
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Miss book group lots
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Oh wow! Thank you SO much - for taking the time to come online - it was a bit of a blur and the hardest talk I’ve ever had to deliver
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Apols this goes back to the ‘other place’ but will be on BBC sounds x.com/bbcwomanshou...
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Wow you live there! And these are interesting insider reflections! @hayfestival.bsky.social player has the talk on the production available - your view on the construction and decisions about what to include and where would be a great coffee conversation!
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
That is very kind of you to say Penny, thank you. Interestingly, Isabelle spoke at my inaugural in Sept and made some similar observations - which I found quite overwhelming to hear back youtu.be/Ib4IIPfIlRU?... it’s been a journey and continues so with emerging technologies
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Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series 2024 - Professor Amanda Taylor Beswick
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Oh do let us know how you find the film Lisa… heard the production team speak at Hay festival - the thought that went into this work was really profound.
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Morning Penny 🫶 have been having similar reflections lately - and missing the many great connections and conversations of that time. Nice to e-see you and thank you for reaching out. Sat morning as my desk working - after a busy research week 🙏🏻
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Halfway 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
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Follow for rational thought! #HTLGI25
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
ICYMI: Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? helenkara.com/2024/01/23/w... #CRMethods
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Why 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 …
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
AI is routinely making stupid, nonsensical mistakes that even the most incompetent employee would never make. #socialwork open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist
The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up
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Helen 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 #CreativeResearch
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Creative Research Methods Conference 2025
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tickets 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
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New blog post from the Cumbria Youth Co-Research Collective www.linkedin.com/posts/carlis... Do have a read, and share #youthwork #youngpeople #coresearch #research
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💥 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 ...
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Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The 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.
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Delighted to be one of the Profs taking this work forward. #dementia #TEDIplus
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Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Very 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....
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‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon 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...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Read and weep.
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Kim Insley @kiminsley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bravo, Harvard. About freaking time. The emperor has no clothes on! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Harvard 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.
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DG0wwdh... @jon ronson on psychopaths leading our world!
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Research 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
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thrilled 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
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Really honoured to be involved in this brilliant annual #researchevent #ICRMC
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
NEW: 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...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Also Claire Keegans Foster ❤️ - her work is wonderful
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Outstanding, as always, Alan Bennett
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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Very much look forward to welcoming @jamesbedford.bsky.social on Wednesday at 8pm GMT as #LTHEchat guest joining us from Australia.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 09/01/2025
I 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.
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Mark Zuckerberg sports $900,000 watch as he calls time on Meta fact-checking
Tech giant CEO wore Greubel Forsey ‘Hand Made 1’, which retails for $895,500, as he announced policy overhaul
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
They are on to you! You know too much!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/01/2025
Ressa 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.’”
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Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Wow! How did I miss this… congrats 🥳 Dez 👏
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fab!
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Hypervisible @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.”
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No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Coffee with the authors! Do have a look, share, come along! #phenomenography www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-a...
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick on LinkedIn: Coffee with the Authors
Delighted 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…
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.
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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
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Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
cc @evahornung.bsky.social
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