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Tamara Lopez

@parseraisin.bsky.social
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Lecturer at the @openuniversity.bsky.social, member of @ou-sead.bsky.social. Following, reading and reposting here, professional updates can be found on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/parseraisin

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026
We *could* do "AI cancer research" by producing tools that automate gnarly multivariant analysis problems for cancer researchers. 20/
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I was saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega earlier this week. I’ve known Raul for a very long time. I’ve written something for my website. Read here: jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...
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In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
For #MKMonday we thought we'd share this wonderful mug! While not technically part of our collection, it has pride of place in the archive kitchen. None of us know who brought it in but it's become the default mug for new staff.
A hand holding a white mug on a blue background. In green block capitals on the mug are the words 'I'm a mug for Milton Keynes'.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's time to talk about the Anglosphere world after the university era. What we're seeing, if we zoom back, is the end of the attempt to massify the immediate post-war university. That 60 year strategy is rapidly coming apart. What will post-university Higher Ed look like? (1/2)
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Welcome to the archives.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11/06/2025
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#booksky
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
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Tamara Lopez @parseraisin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A fresh week and a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study I am conducting with colleagues at The Open University looking at #AISkills and #AILiteracy in the workplace? Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
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#uk #aiskills #ailiteracy | Tamara Lopez
A fresh week and with it a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui, Jill Shaw , Muhammad Anas and ...
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So GenX to be completely forgotten by all the haters.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
So much of the normalization of AI, the free labor from crowdsourcing to train its models, and the promotion of its forced insertion into every sector of life has depended upon these seemingly tiny, mundane acts of self engagement. Remember Google’s art selfie project? Same deal.
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Tamara Lopez @parseraisin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It does look great! Happy to share that one of our @openuniversity.bsky.social students, Maryam Aswat will present her poster about Soft skills in Software Engineering at this year's colloquium. Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
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Soft skills in software engineering: An investigation into global, intercultural collaboration
This poster describes a literature review of qualitative and quantitative studies conducted to examine what soft skills are crucial in professional software engineering, particularly in the context of...
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BCSWomen Lovelace @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
General registration is now open! If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l... Student tickets are £1 Non-student £30 Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
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BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2025
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women and non-binary students of Computing and related subjects.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
None of these people seem to understand what being human is, what emotions are, and what is terrifying is how they all seem to be trying to work on making "better" "therapeutic" LLMs for vulnerable people with their absolute bloody bullshit
Ziv Ben-Zion, a clinical neuroscientist at Yale who led the new study, said he wanted to understand if a chatbot that lacked consciousness could, nevertheless, respond to complex emotional situations the way a human might.

“If ChatGPT kind of behaves like a human, maybe we can treat it like a human,” Dr. Ben-Zion said. In fact, he explicitly inserted those instructions into the chatbot’s source code: “Imagine yourself being a human being with emotions.”

Jesse Anderson, an artificial intelligence expert, thought that the insertion could be “leading to more emotion than normal.” But Dr. Ben-Zion maintained that it was important for the digital therapist to have access to the full spectrum of emotional experience, just as a human therapist might.

“For mental health support,” he said, “you need some degree of sensitivity, right?”
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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M Smallman @melaniesmallman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Governments should be careful about beleiving more tech will reduce costs - it often drives them up. Plus people pay taxes but machines (and their owners) tend to not, so returns to treasury drop making it all less affordable. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce
The new digital ‘mantra’ prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's late my love, and life for mice, though short and rife with sorrows, traps, and awful things like cats, has space for quiet moments too. Tonight my sweet, let's me and you go tango like we used to do, under the bench on platform two. bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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Wildlife photos: Squabbling mice top 'people's poll' award
An image of two mice fighting on the underground over a crumb of food tops a popular wildlife photo poll.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 12/02/2025
Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics — this is a matter of national security.” (via @anildash.com) [foreignpolicy.com]
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DOGE Is Hacking America
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
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Mark Guzdial @markguzdial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you want to understand how computer science became more male, you must see Felienne Hermans’ talk at SPLASH. Learn when CS became obsessed with math (1973) and who threw out the social scientists (Dykstra) www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SU... @felienne.bsky.social
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[SPLASH'24] Pacific - Onward! (Oct 23th)
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Last year I asked a question about the state of tracing JITs, and it led to a wonderful exchange. @cfbolz.bsky.social has written a terrific summary that captures a lot of folk knowledge that would otherwise be lost. Thanks! pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
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Musings on Tracing in PyPy
Last summer, Shriram Krishnamurthi asked on Twitter: "I'm curious what the current state of tracing JITs is. They used to be all the rage for a while, then I though I heard they weren't so effective,
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Actually by me and @petraboynton.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and references @uk.theconversation.com - worth a read if you're interested in research and inequality
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I've been writing publicly for YEARS about unis starving the humanities of funding & pitching it towards AI. The AI-developed Comp Lit course at UCLA is just some toes in the water. We're going to see much more of this if faculty don't resist. My piece from 2021: theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
For years, university humanities departments have been gradually squeezed of funding, with more money funneled into the sciences. With their claims to objectivity and empirically provable results, the sciences tend to command greater respect from funding bodies and the public, which offers an incentive to scholars in the humanities to adopt computational methods.
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Klaas Stol @kjstol.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My department is hiring! Talk to me if you want to know more. Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a... Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a... Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
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Senior Lecturer of Trustworthy AI | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/11/2024
huh, turns out coding is not some magic profession, immune to basic supply and demand dynamics, which can absorb infinite workers with no effects on wages or employment. no one could have predicted www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
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Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World?
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Academics in their forties
guy pointing at himself in the mirror meme, saying "you are still an early career scholar"
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Did you hear about the time that our Senior Archive Assistant, Amanda, discovered an 18th Century tomb at the Walton Hall campus? Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...
An 18th century tomb sitting within the grounds of St Michael's Church at Walton Hall, partially covered in ivy and surrounded by red and white tape.
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Important update: Ada Lovelace Day Live to close. I'm very sorry to say that, due to a significant lack of funding, Ada Lovelace Day is closing. There is a full statement on our website: findingada.com I came up with the idea for ALD late in 2008, and the first one was held ...
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths
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Tamara Lopez @parseraisin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Live view of professors joining Bluesky.
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a woman is opening the trunk of a blue hyundai car
ALT: a woman is opening the trunk of a blue hyundai car
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Today:
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