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Jussara Rowland

@jussararowland.bsky.social
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Sociologist | participatory and creative methods, digital technologies, and science communication @INESC-ID

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
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Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🚨my wife saw a BABY porcupine crossing the road today 🚨
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A touching memoriam about Raul Pacheco-Vega jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...
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In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega - Jo VanEvery
Raul had been conscious of his mortality for a long time. Many years ago he came to terms with his workaholism and took serious steps to change his behaviour for the sake of his health. I know he stil...
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm so proud of this project I did two years ago with Jonathan Ashley. It's an essay and web comic about how historical archives deserve to be treated as more than just fuel for AI training. I wrote a scripting system for the web comic, and also spent nearly a full year with writing and research.
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A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning and legacies of care
Machine learning models are hungry for content from libraries and cultural insitutions. How can we imagine ways these technologies might help people and communities, while also being mindful of risks ...
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
⭐ Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ top three articles from recent issues. Access the Editors' Choice Collection until 30 April 🔓 Congrats to all featured authors! @sarahjtracy.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/jcrm...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
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Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation
Photo by Henrik L. on Unsplash Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” This term refers to references of academic publications that do not ex…
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
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Part 1: How do LLMs work?
YouTube video by Andrew Perfors
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New publication on the reception practices of science communication in Portugal, co-authored with @anadelicado.bsky.social e João Estevens, In Análise Social.
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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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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Are you interested in creative research design? Then we are the journal for you! Learn more about publishing in the Journal of Creative Research Methods bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #RC33 #11ICSSM
We accept submissions of: 
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.
Journal of Creative Research Methods cover art.
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My daughter is twelve and is always looking for AI in images and ads. She nods critically: ‘That’s AI'
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📣 new deadline: 30 September 📣
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Nos dias 2 e 3 de outubro, o ICS-ULisboa recebe a primeira Animal Day Conference of the HAS-Hub, que terá como como título "Following the more-than-human: multimodal methods and approaches". Para saber mais: tinyurl.com/y2phu7ew
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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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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Looking for something to read as you travel to #ICRMC2025? 🚆 🚴‍♂️ 🚌 Take a look at the first ever issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods! Did we mention it’s free to read? ❤️ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #ICRMC
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📢 RN24/SSTNET invites submissions 👉 Call for Papers: Technology in the face of global challenges".
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025). We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research! More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I think people have underestimated the anti-intellectualism of the technofascists as one of the key drivers of the spread of authoritarianism. The clear benefits of the post-1960s expansion of higher ed is being destroyed by the most parsimonious thinkers.
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Yarden Skop @skoopit.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Our article about the hallucination metaphor is out, in case you're interested link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Between fact and fairy: tracing the hallucination metaphor in AI discourse - AI & SOCIETY
Large and powerful language models such as OpenAI’s GPT model family, Google’s LaMDA and BERT or Meta’s LlaMA are integral to many applications, such as translation, summarization or language generati...
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michael veale @michae.lv · 06/05/2025
How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...
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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Muito contente por estar a organizar esta escola com a artista gráfica Júlia Barata. www.instagram.com/julia_barata/ Tem como principal objetivo explorar, de forma prática, o potencial da narrativa gráfica enquanto ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais. Online em junho!
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Abriram as inscrições para a Escola de Métodos Criativos: Narrativa Gráfica para as Ciências Sociais. Esta escola tem por objetivo explorar a narrativa gráfica como ferramenta metodológica e comunicativa nas Ciências Sociais: tinyurl.com/48fsy5b5 Com @jussararowland.bsky.social #socialsciences
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Announcing the Journal of Creative Research Methods! A peer-reviewed journal devoted to everything from creative research designs to innovative data analysis and dissemination approaches. We're creating space for boundary-pushing methods so follow us for updates as we launch later in 2025!
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ESA RN24 - Science and Technology @esarn24.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The ESA RN24- Science and Technology is now on Bluesky!
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Doing focus groups about new energy technologies with @jussararowland.bsky.social Some days I love my job.
Room with a table and chairsTwo rooms divided by a glass wallBlue and pink post-itsFlipchart with written sentences
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Slow science. Three years after starting a project on the social dimensions of IoT, the first peer reviewed publication is finally out. Meanwhile, we published a research brief, a zine, a fortune teller (!), multiple blogposts. With @jussararowland.bsky.social @monicatruns.bsky.social et al.
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Privacy in the Age of the Internet of Things: : Perceptions and Practices in Households | Privacy Studies Journal
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New chapter with @anadelicado.bsky.social
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
On February 27th, we’ll be discussing the challenges, ethical dilemmas, and opportunities that AI brings to research with (and for) animals. This online event is part of the ABIDE project and follows an invitation from Verónica Policarpo to reflect on these critical issues. Link in the thread 👇
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Ana Delicado @anadelicado.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My research group just published a book addressing the environmental advances (and setbacks) after 50 years of democracy in Portugal. Me and @jussararowland.bsky.social wrote about participation. In 18 months time it will be in open access. www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/50-an...
book cover with title of the book and drawing of trees, factory and city
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
O livro "50 Anos de Abril. Questões ambientais, sociais e territoriais" está disponível na Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. Mais informação: tinyurl.com/57av95ya #ambiente #territorio
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ryanlammi @ryanlammi.com · 04/02/2025
Tech media is leaps and bounds ahead of the traditional newspapers covering Trump. I highly recommend subscribing to @404media.co @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy (follow @mmasnick.bsky.social) @wired.com They are putting in the work and not dancing around what's really happening.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NEW: Amid promises to improve platform safety for minors, Character.AI sent a marketing email directly to a Gmail account we'd used to register as a 14-yo CAI user -- imploring us, a presumed teenager, to engage with a chatbot based on a real and deadly school shooting. futurism.com/character-ai...
"Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters"

"It's marketing this stuff directly to kids."
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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEW: Quartz’s news-generating AI is already publishing misinformation. It claimed yesterday that the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts' mission was intentionally prolonged for ISS maintenance. Completely wrong. Again, they're *stranded* -- their rocket didn't work. futurism.com/quartz-ai-ge...
Headline: "Quartz Just Published an AI-Generated Article That Absolutely Butchers the Situation With Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts"

Dek: "Is any part of them embarrassed?"

Image: Nine red robots standing against an orange background, with the word "NO" in capital letters behind them.
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Nautas @nautas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
People are looking for concrete action to take today. Donate to Wikipedia! donate.wikimedia.org and consider becoming a volunteer editor in your area of expertise!
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How can researchers balance creativity with rigor in data analysis? 🎨📊 Jess Miles chats with me, Dawn Mannay, & @alistairroy.bsky.social, editors of The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis, about innovation, ethics, & anxieties around creative methods. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/14/p...
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PODCAST: How to be creative with data analysis - Transforming Society
Jess Miles talks to Helen Kara, Dawn Mannay, and Alastair Roy about the role of creativity in research, its benefits for analysis and communication, and the anxieties and difficulties people might exp...
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Pediram-me um post para o blog do @IcsShift e resolvi por em papel (digital) algumas ideias sobre a relação entre tecnologia e método e sobre 'Inteligência Artificial, Ferramentas Digitais e Reflexividade na Investigação em Ciências Sociais' 🎄🎄🎄 ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2023/12/20/p...
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Para Além dos Riscos e Benefícios: Inteligência Artificial, Ferramentas Digitais e Reflexividade ...
Por: Jussara Rowland Ao longo do último ano, assistimos a um aumento significativo nas discussões sobre o uso da Inteligência Artificial (IA) na academia e os seus potenciais impactos. Este debate,...
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Jussara Rowland @jussararowland.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
The call for papers for the 2024 EASST Conference in Amsterdam is open. Ana Delicado, Clara Venâncio, and I have organized a panel. Looking forward to your proposals :) Creative methods in STS: Innovative perspectives for citizen inclusion and engagement. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Would you like to see the critical tech zines my students made? Of course you do! They’re really good! First up, a photography zine, reminding people what they miss if they are always looking at their phones.
A zine cover with a color picture of Georgetown campus with the words SUNRISE TO SUNSET AT GEORGETOWN TOLD IN PHOTOS The back cover of a zine with a photograph of a moon behind clouds and these words underneath it 9PM: THE NIGHT HAS COME AND THER GEORGETOWN STUDENTS ARE MOST LIKELY IN THEIR ROOMS WATCHING NETFLIX OR SCROLLING THROUGH INSTAGRAM REELS. THIS IS WHAT THEY DONT SEE. TECH BLINDS US FROM WHAT IS IN FRONT OF US. YOU JUST NEED TO LOOK.
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
O período de inscrição com desconto para a Pós-Graduação em Métodos de Investigação Social termina a 𝟐𝟎 𝐝𝐞 𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐨 Inscrições: tinyurl.com/3txkays6 #ResearchMethodology #socialscience #methods
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/01/2025
Bad Bunny dropped a new album this morning, and the visualizer slides are a crash course in anticolonial history youtu.be/uvfDaZ4ZT80?...
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BAD BUNNY - LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii (Visualizer) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
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