Reposted by Clare SouthertonProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547751905
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Is anyone studying the absolutely unbearable proliferation of AI grifters on LinkedIn?? who find your post, lack basic comprehension and generate comments recommending their AI tools??? I feel like I’m losing my mind 🤖🤖🤖 000
Reposted by Clare SouthertonJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals... 4232681529
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026NotebookLM is not an RA. This article explains the difference perfectly: "Statistical methods of text extrusion are misaligned with users’ needs for precise, consistent results... Summarization is a decidedly rhetorical and embodied activity with a different objective." dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....dl.acm.orgThinking Smarter, not Harder? Google NotebookLM's Misalignment Problem in Education | Proceedings of the 43rd ACM International Conference on Design of CommunicationYou will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited. 010
Reposted by Clare SouthertonEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Among many great points, addresses false claims made by critics of the resolution 1) that the boycott petition excludes people based on nationality. False the boycott is of institutions. 2) that ASA hasn’t taken positions before. Also false. Ukraine, same-sex marriage and more. 03914
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 06/03/2026We are all watching the US government use AI for their war propaganda, doing military deals directly with some of the largest AI companies. AI is not neutral. Now is not the time to make AI slop for your linkedin post 🫠 033
Reposted by Clare SouthertonNat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This is clearly a strategy by Microsoft to artificially inflate the numbers of Copilot users. Once again - if these tools were half as good as they say they are they wouldn't have to force us to use them 1153
Reposted by Clare SouthertonAusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A wonderful write up from the AusSTS2024 team reflecting on decolonial practices in conference organising: What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genuinely decolonial event at a settler institution? decoloyarns.org/2025/08/11/h...decoloyarns.orgHow to (start to) decolonise a science studies conference: reflections on AusSTS 2024This is the first part of a four-part series that has come from the 2024 and 2025 AusSTS conferences. What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genu… 022
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026“Blended learning” is just me nervously shifting my gaze from the screen class then back to the IRL class, awkwardly making jokes about the “zoomies” and the “roomies” and ultimately nobody has a good time 💀 pls let’s stop doing blended #edusky 140
Reposted by Clare SouthertonPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this: 174469914
Reposted by Clare SouthertonJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics: csmapnyu.org/jobs And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub: uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g... I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested! 14446
Reposted by Clare SouthertonVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone. 5958061944
Reposted by Clare SouthertonNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Love how all these academics try to excuse their Epstein associations as owing to genuine intellectual stimulation and meanwhile his big thought-provoking questions are like "why do women live past menopause?" 210915
Reposted by Clare SouthertonSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/20264 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government 200150288200
Reposted by Clare SouthertonKate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications 46557601141
Reposted by Clare SouthertonTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 15/12/2025🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person... 89926541
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...thepoint.com.auWhat teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous educationIf you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:... 075
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025This is devastating and will have significant long term consequences. Solidarity with those impacted. 060
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Horrifying to see Victoria seeking adult jail sentences for children. 14 year old could be deemed too young for social media in Aus but old enough for a life sentence in prison. So little care for actual children, but politicians happy to invoke "protect the children" to win political points #auspol 0128
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Where's the bit in the ROPE thingo on grant applications for: I'm a renter so I have to move house every 1-1.5 years at the whim of my landlord and it consumes a month of my life 🫠🫠🫠 #🦘🎓 0100
Reposted by Clare SouthertonNewcastle Youth Studies Centre @newcastleyouth.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Hope to see you at today’s seminar on The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness at 3pm, please see details and register at the beloweventbrite.com.auThe Political Dynamics of the Weird World of WellnessExplore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences. 041
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Great to see this article is finally published! Written with the brilliant Jess McLean, we explore how young Australians think about their agency on TikTok. With the incoming ban, there's a lot of talk about young people on social media, but we need to listen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘I feel like I get something else to think about’: How do Australian young people see their relationship with TikTok?TikTok has become a significant site for youth culture and simultaneously the focus of a moral panic surrounding its impact on young people. The social media platform's content recommendation algor... 081
Reposted by Clare SouthertonBrendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 23/09/2025So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...abc.net.auNot just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teensWhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal. 53711
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 13/08/2025In awe of the bravery of @drdemography.com to expose this culture of bullying and threats from leadership at ANU. Julie Bishop should resign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...abc.net.auJulie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hearsFormer member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ... 0101
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Absolutely loved this paper from Tanja Bosch - "As a method, decolonisation demands more than critique. It requires a commitment to building alternative ways of knowing, citing, collaborating and theorising that do not extract from the margins to enrich the centre"journals.sagepub.comDecolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal - Tanja Bosch, 2025This paper argues that decolonisation in media and communication studies must be rooted in anti-capitalist praxis, not just symbolic critique. While the field i... 152
Reposted by Clare SouthertonCalla Wahlquist @callawahlquist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series. Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comThe killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocitiesExclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the... 710647
Reposted by Clare SouthertonGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comIsrael committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groupsReports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action 617898
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Awful to see ANU making these cuts to Gender Studies 0102
Reposted by Clare SouthertonDr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 21/07/2025ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com 13121
Reposted by Clare SouthertonNaomi Smith @deadtheorist.bsky.social · 19/07/2025My latest with @claresoutherton.bsky.social - on AI and Aesthetic Alienation - aka the thorny issue of ai slop. Completely open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 1104
Reposted by Clare SouthertonNewsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 13/07/2025Opinion from Victoria University: It’s not appropriate to use generative AI to produce national-level policy, especially the document that will define our approach to AI itself, writes Chris McGavin.newsroom.co.nzNZ can't afford to be careless with its AI strategy 24618
Reposted by Clare SouthertonAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...wired.comMcDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. 7930211298
Reposted by Clare SouthertonRosanna Stevens @wordress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Absolutely died that not only was Marita making a profoundly bland vision board (perfection) but it included in big font “GUT HEALTH” *chefs kiss*. #QueerUltimatum 021
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Back at Aarhus Uni, where I used to be a postdoc, to give a talk about Australia's social media ban. Wonderful to catch up with colleagues and take the opportunity to walk around one of my favourite university campuses. 020
Reposted by Clare Southertondylan‽ @audhdylan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Bluesky right now: 106122901445
Reposted by Clare Southerton🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason 4983872221
Reposted by Clare SouthertonHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it. 409277163229
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025What I can’t understand is how people think that something they couldn’t be bothered to write (and instead got AI to generate) would be worth reading. There’s already so much to read, why would I waste time on something you didn’t deem worthy of your time?? 060
Reposted by Clare SouthertonRachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to? 758128773788
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025How can education researchers speak directly to teachers? This is such a great article with incredible ideas from teachers themselves!!public-api.wordpress.comResearchers, teachers aren’t reading your stuff now. Here’s what they think would helpWe work on disseminating research through various avenues with the hopes that it reaches teachers - and contributes to change. But does it? 171
Reposted by Clare SouthertonLisa M Given, FASSA, FASIS&T @lisagiven.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Here is my latest article for @aunz.theconversation.com where I analyse Google’s announcement that its Gemini AI chatbot will be rolled out to kids under 13. This is a risky move. The system can generate fake information and mimic social behaviour, which will be confusing for young users #AIethics 02410
Reposted by Clare SouthertonHector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope 37285928054
Reposted by Clare SouthertonTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic 9400116
Reposted by Clare SouthertonSpencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The right-wing attack on universities and the widespread use of ChatGPT to replace thinking and writing are two sides of the same relentless assault on what the Greeks called paideia: the education and development of citizens as ethical beings engaged in their communities. 91146338
Reposted by Clare SouthertonPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them. 21473731142
Clare Southerton @claresoutherton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025The only thing I want AI to “summarise” is all the tedious AI slop I’m wading through these days #academia #academicsky 14912
Reposted by Clare SouthertonCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025lol if you don’t realize that teaching computers is teaching about systems of power I don’t think you should be a professor at a university 1148275
Reposted by Clare SouthertonBec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 03/05/2025"i cant see how the coalition wins from here" 430857