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Ana Delicado

@anadelicado.bsky.social
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STS scholar, cat lover, epicurist. Researcher at the University of Lisbon.

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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Billionaires like Elon Musk are racing to replace humans with AI. Please sign the pro Human AI Declaration: action.eko.org/a/support-pr...
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@jussararowland.bsky.social and I have a new chapter on the evil data centres (in Portuguese) livros.fcsh.unl.pt/icnova/catal...
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Entre Dados e Poder: Infraestruturas Digitais e Vida Quotidiana | Livros ICNOVA
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is cultural suicide and intellectual vandalism. In an era where humanities-illiterate tech bros have unearned god-like powers, we need historians, philosophers, ethicists, classicists more than ever.
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cienciaviva.bsky.social @cienciaviva.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ainda não se inscreveram na Ocupação Científica de Jovens nas Férias? Até 11 de setembro, estudantes do 3.º ciclo do ensino básico ao ensino secundário podem participar em estágios científicos e tecnológicos, dias abertos, visitas a laboratórios e cursos de verão. www.cienciaviva.pt/ocupacao-cie...
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STS-CAT @stscat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We're thrilled to announce the 1st international conference of STS_CAT! "STS Encounters in the Mediterranean" 📅 3-5 Feb 2027 | 📍 Barcelona 📢 Call for Panels OPEN until 15 June 2026 👉 Send proposals to informacio@sts-cat.org #STS #STSCAT #CallForPanels More info: www.sts-cat.org?page_id=113
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STS encounters in the Mediterranean – sts-cat.org
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Andrés Krakenberger @andreskrakenberger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Por favor, repostead esta publicación de @asocpabloibar.bsky.social‬ y difudid. La Fiscalía de Florida lleva meses sin mover ficha con nuestra moción sobre el nuevo testigo que exonera por completo a #PabloIbar. Hemos pedido al Juez que tome cartas en el asunto. #PabloIbarJuicioJusto
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 07/05/2026
"The distribution of their stickers suggested a very strong commitment to the NHS, action on climate, compassion, tolerance and an end to billionaire power. But many of the same people have voted or intend to vote for Reform..." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine a technique that can heal Britain of division and keep out the hard right. I call it ‘radical listening’ | George Monbiot
In my constituency, a group of volunteers chats with people – most of whom find they are to the left of their voting intentions, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr. Pedro Amorim @eusouzarolho.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Olá, queria partilhar isto convosco: os poluidores e os seus aliados políticos estão a enfraquecer, pela calada, as leis que protegem a nossa água potável, natureza e saúde. Afeta-nos a todos Se estiveres interessado, só precisas de um minuto para assinar. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.pt/handsoffnatu...
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HandsOffNature - WWF Portugal
Na Europa, temos leis ambientais sólidas que funcionam e nos protegem, a nós e à natureza. Vamos mantê-las assim.
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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Policy Studies Journal @psjeditor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Examine this PSJ article how institutions and shared beliefs shape advocacy coalitions across democracies. By: Keiichi Satoh, @anttigronow.bsky.social ronow, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, @anadelicado.bsky.social, Luisa Schmidt, Pradip Swarnakar, Paul M. Wagner, Sun-Jin Yun. Read here: lnk.ua/lyA7zLK5P
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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structure...
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Couldn't agree more.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here's my Halloween Smithsonian piece about a #Renaissance painting of hell. Sign up for my free newsletter to receive the story of the making of the essay! 3/3 www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this...
A painting detail showing a winged figure with a skull-like face, dressed in full-body feather costume and headdress, sits on a chair in front of the edge of a cauldron, a long horn in one hand, inkpot and paper by their side. Two heads of people bobbing in cauldron at bottom-right.A painting detail showing a horned, winged demon has an animal skin wineskin over their shoulder, and is force-feeding someone at their feet.A painting detail showing a green, winged demon with a shaved head, beard, wings, and breasts with wind instruments sticking out of them force-feeds a coin into someone’s mouth. A three-eyed demon peers over their shoulder.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We're organising a workshop on Political Geology in May. Come and join us.
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Call for Papers - Political Geology Workshop.
The Political Geology Workshop will take place at ICS-ULisboa (room 3) next 5th May. Despite the criticism, Anthropocene, as a proposed current geological era, has brought attention to the entanglemen...
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Applications open for our PhD in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. It's an opportunity for studying in Lisbon with some of the best researchers in the field. Taught in English. alteracoesclimaticas.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/
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Programa de Doutoramento – Alterações Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Also 👂🎧👂 when you have a few mins! Oral history is a powerful means for learning from emotions & experiences, critical for building bridges and collaborating beyond disciplines. Drawing on lived memories of RELU, Valuing Nature, STEPS research & beyond #HistSTM #envhums #STS #sustainability #scipol
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Webinar 'Citizen Engagement in PilotSTRATEGY: What Communities Are Telling Us'. Key findings from PilotSTRATEGY's citizen engagement activities across France, Spain and Portugal. Registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/869285...
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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fascinating.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
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AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Finally some scholarship on what we've all been watching unfold. But I would use a word other than junkification, borrowed from Doctorow.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
that's me.
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
📣 Add your name to demand the EU suspend trade with Israel. Because every euro traded means more weapons, more suffering, more lives lost. 👉 Sign the petition: go.wemove.eu/NoDealWithIs...
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No EU Business with War Criminals
They call this a “peace deal.” We call it a cover-up for crimes no ceasefire can erase. Call on the EU to suspend its trade deal with Israel, stop arms exports, and sanction perpetrators of human…
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New publication (in Portuguese) with @jussararowland.bsky.social and João Estevens, the final article of the CONCISE project. It's part of a thematic issue we organised on science communication. revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocia...
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Next week we will be talking about social acceptability of a low TRL technology. Come and give us feedback: 748dd9f9.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAL...
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Science is always political.
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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18/09/2025
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
THIS is what’s happening in Gaza: - Destroying homes - Cutting off aid - Taking children’s lives - Starving an entire population Yet in Europe, Israel is still welcomed to play football, as if nothing is happening. Italy and other countries are preparing to host them for the World Cup qualifiers.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Worth a reading: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
At a conference half a world away (online). Yesterday @jussararowland.bsky.social took my place in presenting about our current CCS projects very late in the evening, today it's my turn to replace her on a presentation on AI and governance.
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
People love it
The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Since the majority of academics don't want to limit their privilege of conference tourism to protect the planet, the warming planet will force them to do it. "We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Heatwaves, wildfires and the hot summers that could change how we holiday
With rising temperatures causing chaos worldwide, what does it mean to be a tourist in a world on fire?
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ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📢 Call for Papers 📢 RN24 Midterm Conference call for papers: Technology in the face of global challenges RN24/SSTNET invites submissions on the role of technology in addressing today’s global challenges, with a special focus on Europe 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 19 Sept 2025 🗓️ Conference: 26–27 Nov 2025
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Rita Maestre @ritamaestre.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
La plaza del Ayuntamiento de París se ha transformado por completo. Árboles, sombras y un espacio mucho sano para sus vecinas y vecinos. Claro que es posible no tener plazas que se conviertan en una sartén durante el verano, solo hace falta querer hacerlo.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/07/2025
here's the blogpost as promised aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
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AI for Good [Appearance?]
Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025
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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Epá, que artigo absolutamente extraordinário. É raro ler algo que muda ou solidifica de imediato o meu ponto de vista sobre um assunto. Este é um desses casos.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Same.
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
O projeto de investigação "Inovações Democráticas em Portugal", coordenado no ICS-ULisboa pelo investigador @robertofalanga.bsky.social esteve recentemente em destaque na RTP Notícias. Para ler na íntegra: tinyurl.com/mvpb5xr4
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Useful.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New article from our IoT project. The first version was submitted a year and a half ago. Much improved by several rounds of revision. Slow science. doi.org/10.1332/2046...
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Care and surveillance of children through domestic Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a range of technologies through which mundane objects are connected to the internet, collecting data about their environment and being able to be remotely operated. In ...
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
So well said!!! The people making these cuts just want to live in a fantasy world.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Technology vs humans.
theguardian.com
‘We’re losing eyes on the coast’: death of Canadian lightkeeper casts doubt on future of shoreside guardians
The keeper’s death led to questions over safety, rattled the tightly knit group of sentinels and renewed de-staffing fears
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Read this this morning. All too familiar.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The wonderful new world of AI Part II. I could go on all afternoon, if I didn't have better things to do. I should add luddite to my bio by now.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The wonderful new world of AI.
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In the aftermath of the Portuguese elections, we have to fight back with love and solidarity.
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