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Maria Wolters

@mariawolters.bsky.social
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She/her. Digital inclusion, accessibility, HCI, communication, eHealth, citizen empowerment. Cats, reading, yoga, lifting. Views own.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oha! @malteengeler.de hat zusammen mit Aline Blankertz ein Buch geschrieben: »Digitale Solidarität. Zur Überwindung kapitalistischer Technologie«. Es kommt bald raus & ihr könnt es jetzt schon vorbestellen. Bin sehr gespannt: dietzberlin.de/bald-lieferb...
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Bald lieferbar: Digitale Solidarität - Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin
Digitale Technologien prägen unseren Alltag – und verschärfen zugleich Ausbeutung, ökologische Krisen und gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit. Doch welche Alternativen gibt es zu Big Tech, Plattformkapital...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fully cross referenced digital laws, including EU. Need this for #accessibility #a11y
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When the desire to cut university funding runs so deep that beloved and truly foundational courses face the axe.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
During a time when effective science and scholarship communication is more important than ever, job cuts devastate public facing scholarship
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
also: the finger
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New paper on the state of democracy today.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is a good and important suggestion - every major dataset housed in the US (which is a *lot* of great data) can be considered under threat right now. One way researchers and institutions elsewhere can help limit the harm is finding ways to mirror host/backup a lot of that data.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 29/03/2025
"No, Mr Vance. No polar bears out there. And don't worry if you do meet one. They're very friendly. Feel free to go up and pet them! Totally safe! Absolutely won't eat you, honest!"
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
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List of Terminated NIH Grants as of 3-22-2025 (Source: https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf)
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
On #AI and the "threat" to #ScientificPublishing: Read "Chaos in the Brickyard" (1963). It takes just 2 minutes. It's a 1-page letter in Science. AI makes bricks. What we really need are edifices. Those come from people who choose only quality bricks to build their edifices. #ResearchIntegrity
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Chaos in the Brickyard
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thread on the potential for abuse of AI in government, by a GovTech AI developer. Cc @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/03/2025
Support deck.blue! And if you haven't checked out deck.blue now's as good a time as any. It's like TweetDeck for Bluesky.
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Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%. While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired. Let's learn more. 🧵1/10
The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm not just blowing smoke, I'm involved with this academy
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US sponsorship of Pacific disinformation workshop ends after dispute
An NZ-run programme has been caught in the crossfire of the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity and countering disinformation.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs: strategy (4) female gangs are OK. Networking is fine. Let’s lift each other up (5) empower yourself and others #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs: Female Forward mode ideas. (1) control your visibility. Watch the cost - what feels right. (2) digital resilience - control your exposure (3) balance is calm focus #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs calls for digital self determination and digital detox, if needed. #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs: what stresses women? Echo chamber traps, swathes of information, gender specific challenges #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Fits well with #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs: Women are well networked and well informed, but we feel isolated and overwhelmed #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ringen-Jacobs: we are living in difficult times. Austerity, diversity under attack. What can we do? How can we be an agent of change? #womenup
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At #womensup, a Digital Media Women event. Keynote: Female forward: effective in digital times by Lisa Ringen-Jacobs
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 03/03/2025
Read about the new additions to the Data Rescue Tracker! Thank you so much to @icpsr.bsky.social, EDGI, and others for participating in this effort. If you are doing data rescue, please get in touch. We'd love to track where the data are going. www.datarescueproject.org/dr-tracker-d...
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The Data Rescue Tracker Grew Overnight
Are you looking for a specific dataset? Are you curious if someone somewhere has rescued it? You aren't alone! We created the Data Rescue Project (DRP) as a way to encourage communication across the m...
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Some changes to Google‘s AI principles.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Information about the federal workers' resistance. Link to a Verge article with a picture of a "doge" dog on orange background.
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Dr. Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · 22/02/2025
"So ein herrlicher Tag, und ich soll gehen. Aber was liegt an unserem Leben, wenn wir es damit schaffen, Tausende von Menschen aufzurütteln und wachzurütteln" (Sophie Scholl) Heute vor 82 Jahren wurden Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl und Christoph Probst von den Nazis ermordet.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Great idea - light maps for theatres. Lighting can be a barrier for folx. The link comes with a picture that shows a mind map, with bubbles of design requirements, and a few design ideas. All visual. Might benefit from a text version?
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In welche Unternehmen haben die Großspender der AfD investiert, wo sind sie leitend involviert? (VOLT ist eine liberal-progressive Partei.)
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
3/ Examples of potential harm: 🔹 South African women with vaginal rings with no follow-up care. 🔹 interruption of oversight of Malaria vaccine trial participants 🔹 HIV PrEP users in CATALYST trial risk drug resistance. 🔹 Ugandan children in a TB trial lost access to life-saving medication.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Accommodations are sometimes simple measures that can benefit many
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Alex Karne @alexkarne.com · 08/02/2025
Indie Book Spotlight is one of the few big accounts that regularly posts new authors, and might be the only chance of discovery some people get. Help her out, buy a book. Send her some money on Ko-fi. If you can't do that, pass the word along.
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Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Penn is getting a lot of questions about Data Refuge. That effort no longer exists, but several efforts are currently active. I've created a doc from what I & others have suggested. I'll update as I hear more. Feel free to share or suggest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Data Rescue Efforts
Data / Website Rescue Efforts End of Term Crawl - The main coordinated effort to archive websites, but datasets have been more of a challenge. EDGI - They have been focused on environmental data. A ...
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
Screenshot of an email that reads: "Dear Authors, 

As you may know, the new presidential administration in the United States has issued Executive Orders, including one that impacts foreign aid.  

As part of these Executive Orders, USAID-funded projects have received stop work orders. Given the circumstance, we must stop all work on Global Health: Science and Practice. As such, I regret that we will have to postpone processing submitted papers. We know that a lot of work has gone into preparing your paper. Please feel free to take your manuscript elsewhere.  

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation during this challenging time.   

Sincerely,

Natalie Culbertson
Managing Editor
Global Health: Science and Practice Journal"
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The deferred resignation agreement that is used to get rid of federal employees.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Your annual reminder to donate to archive.org
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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NPR @npr.org · 31/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
How to make AI more climate friendly - the Chinese way
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
He’s Führious.
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Gregory Travis @gregorytravis.com · 18/01/2025
IMPORTANT The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline "Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year @evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
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Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Social Media is so much more than doomscrolling and hate. It can be a safe haven for marginalised communities
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is really important if you use google workspace for anything sensitive or creative (client names, student grades, any original writing, etc). The embedded LLM content scraper may put you at risk even if it is apparently turned off.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/01/2025
Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde
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Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently | Marina Hyde
It’s easy to process allegations against textbook scumbags like Harvey Weinstein. When it is beloved authors and ‘allies’, less so Draw near, allies, for these are dark days for “kink-shaming”. At best, this is one of the whiniest, most pathetic and…
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
In Sex Is a Spectrum, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social explains why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male. Bringing clarity and reason to a contentious issue, this lively book is out May 6. Preorder yours: bookshop.org/p/books/sex-...
Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about all the fine art in the Palisades not protected inside the Getty Villa.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Happy Covid Day, I guess.
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