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Wahiba Chair, MBA @wahibachair.com · 13/07/2026

SO nice to finally meet @harrytdyer.bsky.social @estebanmorales.bsky.social (who took our photo - thank you!) and @devinasarwatay.bsky.social "in person"! This is where social and @bsky.app in particular can be a great ice breaker ❄️ #SMSociety

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 10/07/2026

An international conference that puts the spotlight on social media & society will take place at UofG. @socialmediaandsociety.org is one of the first conferences on social media in the world, with a reputation for shaping the future of social media research. More: gla.ac/4eT3l0B #SMSociety

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Najia Z. Nazir @najiaznazir.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Six days from now, I will present my paper, 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗿? 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, at @socialmediaandsociety.org To examine how private Facebook groups become rehearsal spaces for embodied intercultural learning. #SMSociety #Affordances

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International Conference on Social Media & Society @socialmediaandsociety.org · 12/03/2026

Join us this summer in Glasgow and be a part of an inclusive, rigorous research community focused on real-world impact. Posters submission (extended abstracts) 1-1.5K words are due Mar. 13, 2026. socialmediaandsociety.org/smsociety-20... #SMSociety #ComSky #PHDSky #AcademicSky #SocialMediaResearch

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thrilled to see this chapter and book out in the world finally! The first edition of this book, published over a decade ago, was a pioneering collection of awesome, field-defining research and scholarship that was super important to me as I was working on my PhD.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

All we did was fake a simple email from a fresh new ProtonMail address (so it’s clearly not from a bank) posing as a message from a Wells Fargo investment manager. Inside was a link to a genuine phishing page, active in the wild for several days, and still unflagged by Google Safe Browsing.

When Comet received the email, it confidently marked it as a to-do item from the bank and clicked the link without any verification. There was no URL check, no pre-navigation warning -just a direct pass to the attacker’s page. Once the fake Wells Fargo login loaded, Comet treated it as legitimate. It prompted the user to enter credentials, even helping fill in the form.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If it does burst, I wonder how our administrations in universities are going to justify their all-in-no-questions-asked attitude to incorporating AI into every aspect of university life, whether needed or not, whether harmful or helpful

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just got home to find the first of two books I have coming out this year (!) has arrived! This has been years in the making, dreamed up during COVID, developed under multiple governments, edited during ongoing wars, and finished after one of the editors, Geoff Hinchliffe, sadly passed away.

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Under a month until the 2nd edition of the Routledge Companion of Mobile Media comes out! The 1st edition was such a brilliant collection that was a vital resource when I was doing my PhD, so it's really wild to me that a decade later I've got a chapter in this with the brilliant Crystal Abidin.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/06/2025

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life.
If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test.
OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/08/2025

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Very excited to see this book out in the world soon - a brilliant resource for anyone interested in youth research! Was honoured to be invited to add a small case study to this collection, and so happy to see it coming out very soon! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...

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Researching with Young People

Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth work and psychology. This book introdu…

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

During the pandemic lockdowns, I began chatting to some of my colleagues about what an odd time the pandemic was for citizenship, and how education could respond to the uncertainty of the moment we were in. (1/4)

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A very exciting day - not only did the new Madonna album drop, but (arguably more importantly) so did our Save the Date for #SMSociety 2026! come join us in Glasgow! CFP coming soon, we're really excited to see you there! socialmediaandsociety.org/2025/cmon-ta...

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C’mon tae Bonnie Glasgow! Save the dates: #SMSociety July 13-15, 2026 – International Conference on Social Media & Society

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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Excited to announce that the FULL PROGRAMME for the British Academy-funded 'Speculative Machines and Us' symposium at Lancaster University on Thursday 17th July is now available 🤖 ✨ 🧐 . Registration still open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

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Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI

We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I see it in real time everyday. I study teenagers in particular, but we overestimate our media literacy. In some places in the US (most) we allow kids to exits k12 with nothing but a “don’t give your info to strangers” media literacy education.

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Truly awful reporting here by The Guardian. The fact that 38 men in the manosphere thought that it was just banter and open debate shouldn't be reported as 'overblown fears'

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Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say

Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests

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David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“The internal documents seen by NPR show that employees were notified about the revamping not long after the company ended its fact-checking program and loosened its hate speech policies.” Worth noting they are taking a different approach in Europe due to the DSA.

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I am BEYOND excited to announce my upcoming book, 'Researching Digital Society' is now available for pre-order! It's a comprehensive textbook that explores current research, methods, and theories for understanding digital technologies & their impacts on society uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/re...

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Researching Digital Society

An Introduction

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

If you’re into AI ethics you’re probably super excited about Andy Weir’s new novel The Last Algorithm! … if only it actually existed instead of just being yet another LLM fabrication. www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I'm about to head into a 3 hour advertising seminar about how to sell HE courses... So for no reason at all here's a brilliant piece about AI and universities. Everyone be nice to the Giant Plagiarism Machine www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

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Nadine Zubair @nadinezubair.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

On International Worker's Day @uea-ucu.bluesky.social began 9 days of strike action to save jobs & avoid compulsory redundancy. We have already given the university considerable savings via "voluntary" measures. Now mgmt needs to do the right thing & call this off. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

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University of East Anglia staff begin strike action today over threat of compulsory redundancies and lack of financial transparency

Staff at the University of East Anglia (UEA) will begin nine days of strike action today (Thursday 1 May) in a dispute over compulsory redundancies, financial accountability, and transparent governanc...

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Dr Amanda Dillon @oddityofwings.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Management could end this. Tens of people remain at risk and are undergoing a brutal process unnecessarily. Lest you think full on strike action is excessive for a handful of people: we would go out even for a single person. We are all safe, or none of us are. #saveuea #weareuea

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"The loss of knowledge and expertise when staff goes lasts not just years, it can last generations." Thank you Alice Macdonald MP for calling for jobs and students at UEA to be protected. #SaveUEA @ucu.org.uk

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!

The black and white flyer for UEA UCU strike action aimed at students. It has an image of the famous ziggurats and text saying save jobs, save UEA, and our working conditions are your learning conditions

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A group of researchers at the University of Zurich have got into real trouble after subjecting a subreddit to participation in an experiment without their permission. My latest for @newscientist.com gets the university's response www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

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Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly using the site for an AI-powered experiment in persuasion

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Update: Reddit the platform is considering legal action against the researchers, their university has stated that their ethics review did NOT actually tell them that the research was okay, and the researchers are not publishing the work. www.404media.co/reddit-issui...

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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users

Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Want to learn about a platform that claims to have “old Internet energy”? For the #britsoc25 early birds, I’ll be presenting a paper on historical social media nostalgia in the Culture, Media, Sport and Food session at 9am, Room 4.209.

This is an image of an academic abstract for a paper titled “From Personal to Platformed Nostgka: Tumblr Nostalgia, Crisis, and the Commercialisation of Historical Social Media Nostalgia”.

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The doctoral seminar I delivered for SENSS unpacking critical theoretical perspectives on AI is now live on YouTube if you want to check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxkp...

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SENSS Scholar Series: Theoretical Perspectives on AI

YouTube video by SENSS DTP

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It has always been the most transparent, obviously disingenuous part of the gen AI push, "oh it's amazingly time-saving and efficient but also we refuse to be legally liable for you believing anything it says so you have to double-check what it tells you which makes it ... not at all time-saving"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/04/2025

This Yougov survey contains an important finding: people who rely heavily on ChatGPT rate it as being "good" at tasks that we ABSOLUTELY know for sure it is very bad at imo, this is a strong piece of evidence these heavy users simply do not ever check outputs yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

While many critics of AI might hope that familiarity with the tools – with their frequent hallucinations and often outdated knowledge bases – would breed contempt, the opposite appears to be the case. Those Britons who use AI chatbots more frequently are the most likely to think they are good at pretty much all of the tasks listed.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Beth Tapster @bethtapster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Brilliant keynote from @elinorcarmi.bsky.social - definitely going to read the report on my way home! openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31...

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City Research Online - What Mobilises People Against Big-Tech?

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Hi all! I'm helping arrange a panel on political influencers (broadly defined) for NCA - we're looking for one or two more people to round us out. DM me if interested!

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Trustworthy Infrastructures postdoc: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr... This is ideal for an infrastructure studies, rural studies, STS person: it's about the impact of tech industry infrastructure like data centers, amazon warehouses, semiconductor plants on local areas. Remote!

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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Trustworthy Infrastructures

New York, NY

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk

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Tori Cann @canndo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A joyful morning at the @uea-ucu.bsky.social picket line, with staff, students and pups out in support of staff at risk of redundancy. Calling for greater transparency from our executive team and good faith negotiations on mitigations to save jobs and #SaveUEA!

A group of people hold picket signs and smile in the sunshine

Two papier-mâché turds smirk and frown with a sign that reads ‘things are a bit…’

Tori and Georgia smile with two students and a puppy

Tori and Michael smile into the camera wearing UCU branded clothes

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Out with colleagues in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, fighting against massive staff cuts here at UEA. We don't just teach education, we defend it! #SaveUEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A beautiful morning for a day of industrial action! Give UEA UCU a follow & support our picket @uea-ucu.bsky.social 🌹

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚩Our students get it! 🎨UEA SU are running a placard making event to support the strike! 📍11am-4pm this Mon & Tues at the Hive on campus. 👋Pop by and say hello! #SaveUEA

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We're on strike tomorrow at UEA. Nearly 200 jobs are currently targeted for redundancy. Over 600 staff will have been cut since 2023 if these redundancies go ahead. Fewer staff = heavy workloads, poor morale, more stress & burnout & bigger classes. We can't do more with less @uea-ucu.bsky.social

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Harry Dyer @harrytdyer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

UEA is trying to fire hundreds of my colleagues and insist that they "don't think that students and staff will notice... these are modest changes to our overall budget." I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE

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