iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ammagaad de lagde til og med en yotube short (jeg har for mange tenåringer i huset, nå føler jeg meg famous) NB jeg sa også i samme sammenheng at akkurat det poenget har jeg fra @lukasrawilde.bsky.social !

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Hvor intelligent er KI?

YouTube video by Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mamma ble overrasket da hun hørte at jeg hadde en annen sjef enn meg selv på universitetet. Som professor er jeg jo på mange måter min egen sjef, men dermed ofte også min egen eneste medarbeider. Og noen ganger må vi to ta en prat for jobbe bedre sammen. www.campuslivet.no/hvordan-ta-e...

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Hvordan ta en medarbeidersamtale med deg selv

Ikke la din indre sjef legge planer uten å ta din indre medarbeider med på råd.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My piece was stuck in production for a few months so it reads a bit outdated ... but nevertheless, the special issue as a whole is great: Hogan, M. (2026). "Rotting empires". European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1367...

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how your email finds me today.

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026

The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

<<cackles darkly>> How much of this tech bro shit is driven by the disappearance of female secretaries, who, let's be honest, kept a lot of companies running, and ability of wives to now say "No, time, honey, got a board meeting then school pickup, you gotta make the res for your mom's bday."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm 😡 of being told I should take seriously these unserious people whose *only* skills are technical. Even worse, I hate living in a society that fetishizes, elevates, incentivizes, and materially rewards these very particular skills, despite their inverse correlation with other critical skills.

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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nobody in their right mind would say Midjourney or other image generators had developed sentience. But it's the same technology, the output is just visual not language

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Jeg vet ikke om noen trenger å høre det men... I forskningsetikk ligger også det å gjøre vurderinger av hvilken programvare man benytter seg av. Hva du tar i bruk til å _gjøre_ forskning er et forskningsetisk spørsmål du må kunne forsvare i en fagfellevurdering.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Skal du bevare evnen til å tenke selv må du bli KI-resistent! Her er fem regler for å unngå kognitiv overgivelse! www.khrono.no/fem-regler-f...

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Fem regler for KI-resistent forskning

Det er helt nødvendig at vi forskere lærer å gjenkjenne typiske KI-feil både som lesere og som skribenter, skriver KI-forsker Jill Walker Rettberg.

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Flink og snill Vegard @rakettkirurg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Det var sannelig godt KI endelig kom på banen, så vi omsider kan illustrere ting som skjedde for hundrevis av år siden

- Produksjonsselskapet har brukt Kl for a teste ut korleis ein kan illustrere noko som skjedde for hundrevis av ăr sidan, forklarer sjef i innkjopsredaksjonen i NRK, Fredrik Færden.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fancy an excuse to come to Stockholm in September? Open seminar on PICTURE CULTURES with various folks involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/VR). Speaker list in the comments!

A poster of various AI-generated cats accompanied by the following invitation to an
OPEN SEMINAR
PICTURE CULTURES

17 Sept. 09.30–16.00

Klockan Konferens

Olof Palmes gata 29-31

Welcome to a seminar where researchers as well as the advisory board involved in the project Selling Pictures: Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020 (IFFS/Vetenskapsrådet) will present recent and ongoing research on various of aspects of how mass-produced and mass-reproduced pictures can be interpreted, datafied and studied.

Speakers:

Realism revisited. The persistence of photography in the age of AI
–Estelle Blaschke

What Did the Victorians See? Using Multimodal AI to Analyze 72,000 News Illustrations
–Thomas Smits

What Are Artificial Intelligence Models Models Of?
–Fabian Offert

Picturing Baskerville’s Punches
–Caroline Archer Parré

Proto-photographic Reproductive Phantasmagoria
–Wolfgang Brückle

Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020
–Nina Lager Vestberg & Anna Näslund

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the most captivating reads I have come across in 25 years of subscribing to @lrb.co.uk – I am setting my calendar for March next year when I gather the book-length version is due.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Og en av disse organisasjonene kan man mistenke for å være Bane Nor...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“In the 1990s + 2000s, gov’ts, uni’s, + libraries—the institutions that historically bore responsibility for organizing + preserving public knwldg—declined to, or were prevented from, bldg the digital infrastructure plainly required by an age when democracy seemed ascendant + universally desirable”

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The first two opportunities for my new ERC project are now being advertised. Both have an emphasis on critical AI studies, creative research practice and photography/ visual AI. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/f8jnxynv PhD (UK/Irish applicants): www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/ai-a...

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Job Specification

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"The book didn't get done in the length of time I wished. It took much longer, but I'd rather get it done right, than... I was also switching academic fields. I wanted to be accurate. You can be accurate, or you can be fast. Rarely can you be both.” - Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries in new interview

jovanevery.co.uk

Why it took 16 years to write a book with Anna O. Law

It takes a long time to write a book. Anna Law took 16 years. We discuss why it was worth persisting through career pressures, time pressures, and the needs of the research.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just saw an intriguing new article about digital enclosure, planned obsolescence, and extractive big tech… in a Springer journal. Please, academics, stop publishing in journals controlled by commercial publishers that embody the worst of Silicon Valley! Think abt the means of knowledge production!

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This! Which somehow made me think about when software used to have "authors". Remember how every new version of Photoshop had an increasingly long list of names credited on the label thing that was displayed while the programme was loading? (I am ancient)

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

1/ Information literacy has a confidence problem. We often teach novices to “evaluate the evidence” as though a checklist can turn them into temporary experts.

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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem @stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Jeg kunne lagt til: erkjenn at du neppe får jobb i akademia, og kjenn etter om du fortsatt er motivert.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Dette er så nær jeg noen gang vil komme en "gratitude journal" – en liste over ting som ikke er prestasjoner eller resultater, men som likevel har gitt meg glede i jobben dette semesteret 🙏 Anbefales for alle som føler seg bakpå før ferien! www.campuslivet.no/hva-har-gjor...

Fareskilt som viser skiløper i utforbakke mot en bakgrunn av grønne løvtrær og elektrisitetsledninger.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies, eating, breeding, failing to do the reading and not bringing us enough money. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams." Read the whole thing 🔥

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The only thing worse than summarising other people's research is summarising my own research. (I suspect I have to write chapter-by-chapter summaries of this thesis I'm examining because the college wants to ensure I have read all of them, and right now I find that professionally offensive.)

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Anyway, the last interesting thing here is the way he describes his daughter as a General Purpose Nerd, and I think what he's describing here is probably a person with a humanities degree who has high levels of autonomy and confidence - which is exactly the thing people are no longer educated for

My other daughter is a bit more of a generalist. In the age of a new general purpose technology, AI, we need general purpose nerds, the GPN. The general purpose nerd is someone who can master the latest AI over the weekend. On Monday and Tuesday they can interview real people face to face and learn things. On Wednesday they can read a
50-year-old book that has not yet been digitised, make sense of it and figure out how you're going to use it. On Thursday they can run a podcast. On a Friday they prepare a one-page memo for the minister.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today

It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

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Anne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Kom og jobb med meg! Dette er et rått prosjekt med veldig hyggelige folk på en utrolig bra arbeidsplass! Lik og del!

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Til alle som hele tiden snakker om tidsbesparelser: "Vi har ikke sett betydelige tidsbesparelser. I noen situasjoner gir KI raskere oppstart, men behovet for gjennomgang og kvalitetssikring reduserer ofte den sparte tiden, og kan i enkelte tilfeller føre til merarbeid."

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“SpaceX's IPO… is almost certain to be the biggest in history. I've mostly heard that framed as a business story… but here on the Gulf Coast, the SpaceX story has always been about the land.”

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Poor Man's Beach

The biggest IPO in history is also about what the Gulf Coast should be [The weekender: 06.05.26]

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Den viktigste begrunnelsen for medvirkning ved et universitet er ikke at ansatte skal føle seg hørt. Den viktigste begrunnelsen er at beslutningene blir bedre når relevant kunnskap trekkes inn før de fattes." www.universitetsavisa.no/ansatt-ledel...

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Derfor har jeg endret syn på valgte ledere ved NTNU

Jeg trodde tidligere at bedre styring først og fremst handlet om tydeligere ledelse. I dag tror jeg at bedre styring først og fremst handler om å bygge institusjoner som gjør det mulig å oppdage egne ...

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Subskeeting MIT news but it could be any number of places. 📚

The "prove me wrong" meme which is a guy with a coffee mug sitting outdoors at a table and the sign in front of him has been altered by a meme generator to say "There is no university without the library. Change my mind"

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David Brax @davidbrax.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Många goda poänger här. Jag skulle jättegärna vilja göra en undersökning av människor som fått lämna akademin. Jag tror att de har mycket att säga om forskningens villkor som många framgångsrika forskare inte förstår.

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Update: now I'm wondering what the prevalence of refs to Stuart Hall and Jürgen Habermas in media studies BA dissertations can tell us about LLMs. How stochastic is that parrot?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

EdTech: rich kids get humans poor kids get tech EdTech: you’re welcome

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They’re at it again. None of this is valuable historical research. It’s about exploiting historical artifacts and historians to develop computer vision further and to make a soft cultural argument for surveillance tech. This nonsense has been going on since c2010.

Screenshot of a NYT headline

A 16th-Century Sketch Claims to Depict Anne Boleyn. A.I. Says It’s Her Mom.
Using facial-recognition technology, scholars have concluded that a 500-year-old drawing labeled “Anna Bollein Queen” more likely showed her mother, Elizabeth Howard.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

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A dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLM

Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen...

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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Amazing how much Marx and Gramsci the media studies undergrads are able to drop in casual into their dissertations these days. Very much looking forward to our in-depth discussions during the accompanying oral examinations!

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Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Deadline this Friday!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Vil du jobbe med digital forskningsstøtte ved OsloMet *OG* jobbe med et av verdens beste mennesker (dvs @supercamilla.bsky.social)? Universitetsbiblioteket ved OsloMet har ledig to stillinger som seniorrådgiver ved seksjon for forskningsstøtte:

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Kunne ikke vært mer enig. Derfor jeg alltid har bedt studenter tenke seg godt om før de går for spørreskjema som innsamlingsmetode på bachelor. Det gir sjeldent noe bra

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Spørreskjema gir en illusjon om måling

Spørreskjemaet har lenge vært en bærebjelke i forskning på mennesker. Har metoden blitt en snarvei som gir mer trygghet enn innsikt? spør Sigve Høgheim og Eirik S. Jenssen.

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