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Rita Mota

@ritamota.bsky.social
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Academic. Doing research in business ethics, human rights, and organisation studies. Ecofeminist, vegan, melomaniac.

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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The next round of R:ETRO seminars starts soon! Register now for 4 fascinating talks on AI at work, the institutional structure of business ethics, corporate responsibility in the Anthropocene, and AI and moral agency: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/cen...
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R:ETRO webinars - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford | Saïd Business School
Information about upcoming R:ETRO webinars and links to recordings and abstracts from past webinars. To be added to the mailing list, email reputation@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Junior Business Ethics scholar? How cool would it be if you could be mentored by one of your academic idols? ✨ Learn about & express your interest in the SBE DEI Committee’s Icons mentorship programme: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Deadline is Sunday, 6th April, so submit your response now!
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I keep coming back to this card today. [“There isn’t a place to which we can escape. It is therefore time to invent it.”]
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
No vull flors, vull igualtat. (I don’t want flowers, I want equality.) #8M #8MBarcelona #IWD
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Here’s a nice list of words to inspire new paper titles. (And some extra motivation to use them 10x as often as usual.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How do you think about the trade-off between efficiency gains from using AI for teaching prep (e.g., creating slides) and protecting your intellectual property (and/or donating your knowledge and creativity to the tech companies that then train their models using your input)?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Could we call it the difference between narrow self-interest (which she voted for, as a promise of free IVF) and a commitment to the broader good (which she voted against, and turns out it included her govt. job)? Should we know that the narrower good may be too narrow for ourselves & what we love?
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We’re closing this term’s R:ETRO seminars with the wonderful Tanusree Jain from CBS: “Unpacking the status of token women in corporate boardrooms.” This is a necessary and urgent conversation. Don’t forget to register! @drtanusreejain.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Tanusree Jain
The last of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“You don’t promote growth in a garden by allowing all the pests to feast on the fruit and flowers, and you don’t promote growth in an economy by allowing all the AIs to feast on the fruits of our creators.” - Stephen Fry www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“We have been handed a huge list of words that may lead to a grant being pulled, including advocacy, biased, gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), diversity, inclusion, marginalised, and underserved.” www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Wanna learn more about what constitutes the wrong of exploitation? Join us on Thursday for a R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey from The Wharton School. So looking forward to it! www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Brian Berkey
The third of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Macklemore strikes again. (We need more protest songs.) youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...
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MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Without even thinking, I asked if I could have pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) in a restaurant in Mexico that didn’t have many vegan options. The addiction is real. 🍅 #paambtomaquet #catalanfood
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So excited about tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson! Don’t forget to register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Elizabeth Anderson
The second of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
So looking forward to tomorrow’s R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro (IESE Business School): “Still standing tall in the face of adversity: the formation of organizational character”. Register below to join us! #businessethics #webinar #oxfordsbs #RETROseminars www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Antonino Vaccaro
The first of our Hilary term 2025 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I don’t have the words to express all my anger (at least not yet, not without being rude). So let me share Thandii’s new album, which is the slightly sorrowful musical hug I needed. open.spotify.com/album/0IcpxP...
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Halo
Thandii · Album · 2025 · 10 songs
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A lovely compilation of indie covers, and all proceeds go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. 🍉 @billboard.com.web.brid.gy #musicforgood #solidarity somethingmerry.bandcamp.com/album/number...
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Number Ones! A Tribute to the Billboard Hot 100, by Something Merry
15 track album
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 18/12/2024
Merci Gisèle Pelicot !
"Liberté égalité sororité". Gisèle Pélicot d'après la Marianne de Shepard Fairey (Obey).
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
“How can we live with this? Never again, It’s happening again.” 💔 open.spotify.com/track/0KwMTC...
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Never Again
Thomas Azier · Never Again · Song · 2024
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Used this article in class this week and the debate was incredible - from business ethics to policy, touching upon some metaphysics and metaethics. We, as a society, need to talk more (and more effectively) about this sort of tech and what we want it to look like. www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
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Nancy E. Landrum @nelandrum.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
go.bsky.app/UqCWWBj
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Closed the Racial (In)justice MBA elective in fantastic company: Flavia Ladino (MBA Student’s Association VP of DEI), Anita Abaisa and Vivian Acquah (AmplifyDEI), and my partners-in-crime Naomi Williams and Alejandra Linares-Figueruelo. Thank you (and all the students) for such a special experience!
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Not (too) surprised to find out that I spent almost 4000 minutes listening to @idlesband.bsky.social in 2024… Thank you for keeping me company!
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation. It's a landmark win for the reparations movement. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Belgian Ruling a Landmark Win for Reparations Movement
On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparat...
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The more I learn #Catalan, the more I love it. Did you know that there’s a Catalan word to describe a display of affection whereby you caress someone’s face with your hand? It’s “moixaina” and it sounds as tender as it feels 🫶 #Català #amormésgran #languagenerd #languagelearner
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Some really interesting points in this podcast about how #plantbased food systems can help us to fight the #climatecrisis, with Anita Krajnc and my dear friend Juan Pablo Casadiego: open.spotify.com/episode/1M9l... #plantbasedtreaty #pbt #climateaction
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Eating our way out of climate collapse
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Join us next week for the last R:ETRO seminar of this term, with Alison Taylor (NYU Stern): “Higher Ground: Stakeholder Trust and the Limits of Reputational Risk Management” 💡 @followalisont.bsky.social #businessethics #oxfordsbs #stakeholdertrust #reputation www.eventbrite.com/e/retro-semi...
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R:ETRO seminar with Alison Taylor
The last of our Michaelmas term 2024 R:ETRO webinars – Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Next time I teach #intersectionality, I’ll tell my students about Saya Gray’s remarks to @pitchfork.com in March: “People would be like, ‘You’re a hot Asian—why don’t you just wear a bikini all the time?’” (“H.B.W.” is 🖤) youtu.be/2ka4W6_O89c?... #femaleartists #womeninmusic #endgbv #newmusic
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Saya Gray - H.B.W (Visualiser) (Official)
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On this International Day for the Elimination of #ViolenceAgainstWomen, I was going to post a song or two to celebrate women’s strength and resilience. Instead, I thought I’d crowdsource a playlist. Will you give me a recommendation? 🤓 #womeninmusic #femaleartists #fightlikeagirl #endgbv #niunamás
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“The despair you feel because of the dying of the ash trees and the lessening of birdsong, the dwindling number of insects, these are the signs of your capacity to love the world. Do not deny that love. Let it be the fire that drives you to act, not the burden that crushes you.”
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Such a beautiful song. Can’t wait to watch Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. #newmusic #songoftheday youtu.be/vpVlXGbUZVo?...
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Omar Apollo, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Te Maldigo (From "Queer") [Official Video]
YouTube video by Omar Apollo
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Today I’m facing the world with a little help from @fatherjmisty.bsky.social Father John Misty’s new album: fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/mahash... #newmusic #albumoftheday
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Mahashmashana, by FATHER JOHN MISTY
8 track album
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’ve been waiting for this compilation for a long time, and it’s finally out today: redhot.bandcamp.com/album/tra-a 🫶🏳️‍⚧️ #musicforgood #artistsforgood #transawareness #transrights #nonbinaryrights #lgbtqia+
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TRAИƧA, by Red Hot Org
46 track album
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How can I ever thank @hjvb3.bsky.social enough for yesterday’s wonderful BHR workshop and today’s fascinating seminar at Esade? 🥹🙌 #bhr #bizhumanrights #businessandhumanrights #barcelona #academicfriends
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last call for scholars in and around Barcelona with an interest in human rights. This is a double gift: time with the great @hjvb3.bsky.social and a chance to build community. Register here before the end of the day: forms.office.com/e/bJSpBB14SS #bizhumanrights #bhr #Barcelona
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wow, suddenly there’s so much movement in here! What a joy to see so many interesting people on this platform 🫶
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Yup.
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
So excited about next week's R:ETRO seminar with Helet Botha: "Simone de Beauvoir and Grand Challenges: An existentialist ethics that can overcome barriers to trust when death, danger and vulnerability loom large." To join us online on Tuesday 17th @ 4pm, register here: web.cvent.com/event/4d40bd...
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Invitation - R:ETRO seminar with Helet Botha
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
This is so good. #youth4climatejustice #climatelitigation #climatejustice #humanrights #climatechange
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Rita Mota @ritamota.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Hi BlueSky! Let's see if I can figure out how this works... any other business ethicists out there?
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