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Susan G Sterrett

@sgssgssgs.bsky.social
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I work in History & Philosophy of Science, esp on Models (Physically Similar Systems), Analogies and Principles, and metrology. Philosophy of AI and Phil of Mathematics, too. Models in Wittgenstein. I love learning about plants. susangsterrett.com

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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Because I heard this paper's claim in Science cited so often as evidence that chatbots can be valuable, I'm posting this news about it from Retraction Watch. retractionwatch.com/2026/06/11/s...
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Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories
Science has issued an expression of concern for a highly publicized study looking into whether conversations with AI chatbots could convince conspiracy theorists to abandon their beliefs. The move …
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Notice the attorney says her firm does not permit the use of AI. More common than people seem to think. "Ridgeway, [. . .] said that though she had not verified the citations in her co-counsel's filing, she herself did not use AI and her firm did not permit its use." www.law360.com/articles/248...
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All Attys In Miss. Suit DQd For Back-To-Back-To-Back AI Flubs - Law360
A Mississippi federal judge who found herself in the "unusual scenario" of reviewing briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors filed by both parties in a lawyer's fee dispute against a Magnol...
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Important. Glad to see this. zenodo.org/records/1706...
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
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 col...
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
People often write as if 'Fukushima' is in the past. But: Fuel debris removal from Fukushima reactors now seen to be delayed until 2037 at earliest. url:https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fuel-debris-removal-from-fukushima-reactors-delayed
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Geometric modeling of knitted fabrics | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Geometric modeling of knitted fabrics | PNAS
Knitting can turn a one-dimensional yarn into a highly ramified three-dimensional structure. As a method of additive manufacturing, it holds promis...
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LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🏆 We are pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” Congratulations! 👏 👉More about the award: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...
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Mazviita Chirimuuta wins the 2025 Lakatos Award!
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce the 2025 Lakatos Award winner Mazviita Chirimuuta, who receives the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted:…
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Give this episode of @alleghenyfront.bsky.social a listen! It features our own Megan McDonough, talking about our opposition to Pennsylvania's HB 502, which would make it harder for municipalities to pass ordinances to protect themselves from the fossil fuel industry.
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Episode for June 13, 2025
The approval of a coal mine expansion in Western Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands has residents worried. Also, more than 100 mine researchers and engineers at a federal office in Allegheny County are s...
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Almost no one – and apparently, not even fossil fuel corporations – wants Trump to sell off our public lands for oil and gas development 😠
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Trump Is Freeing Up Public Lands for Big Oil. It Doesn’t Want Them.
The president is seeking to open up national monuments for drilling. But more land isn’t what oil companies need right now.
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Delaware Riverkeeper Network @delriverkeeper.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
URGENT! PA's HB502 would fast track approval of energy generating and energy storage facilities by replacing the role of local gov with a hand-picked State Siting Board. The PA House Energy Committee vote is tomorrow, Wed 10am. Call now to stop this bill! delawareriverkeeper.org/urgent-actio...
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Urgent Action Needed to Stop Energy Industry Takeover – Please make calls today! – Delaware Riverkeeper Network
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Huge issue in Pennsylvania, a bill limiting public participation masquerading as being environmentally positive. Hardly any press about it, so posting it here. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/06/09/p...
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25 PA Enviro Orgs Condemn Bill That Would Fast Track Gas Projects
HB502 seeks to fast-track fossil fuel projects by overriding local government control and public input; hearings begin Monday
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...
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Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem
If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications you use each day.
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This piece in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ed Lyman discusses the White House's new EOs and explains, among other things, why they are counterproductive even acc to the industry's own aims. (As well as the public's). thebulletin.org/2025/05/the-...
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The NRC’s new Mission Impossible: Making Atoms Great Again
President Trump has signed executive orders that tranform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from a nuclear safety agency into a promoter of nuclear power, a Union of Concerned Scientist nuclear expert...
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Why it's important to talk openly and often about the limitations of genAI instead of irresponsibly recommending its use at work, even in work that affects others: "California Supreme Court orders return to Multistate Bar Examination, lowers bar pass score" www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
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California Supreme Court orders return to Multistate Bar Examination, lowers bar pass score
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Going to the 2025 APA meeting in NYC? You're in luck - you can catch lectures by the two most recent winners of the K. Jon Barwise prize: Gabriele Gramelsberger (2023) and Oron Shagrir (2024). Both give talks on January 9th. Bios & talk titles: philosophyandcomputing.wordpress.com/barwise-prize/?
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Barwise Prize
The K. Jon Barwise Prize is for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing by an APA member. The prize serves to credit those within our profession for th…
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
This week's ep features Kirsten Walsh, philosophy lecturer at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, on the topic of 'Rethinking Newton through his Archive' Kirsten takes us into newly digitised documents & how they can better illuminate Newton's research interests & everyday practices #hps #histsci #philsci 🧪
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S3 Ep 6 - Kirsten Walsh on 'Rethinking Isaac Newton through his Archive' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Today's guest is Dr Kirsten Walsh, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter.Kirsten’s research primarily focuses on Isaac Newton and his methodology, but she is careful to consider philosophi...
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
This is lovely and wonderful, both in the points Kristin Andrews made, and how the filmmaker illustrated them. youtu.be/M68DgpRTsZc?...
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Unlocking The Secrets Of Animal Minds | ONsite
Philosophy professor Kristin Andrews thinks a lot about how animals think. We talked to her about why understanding dolphin babysitters, and whether rats hav...
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Susan G Sterrett @sgssgssgs.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Open for comments. Anyone may comment. Read this and consider it. www.nrdc.org/bio/michele-...
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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
My book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, will be available in April 2024! This project has been in the works for a long time, and I'm thrilled that it will be out in the world soon. You can find a brief description at the link below. #Lumbee @uncpress.bsky.social
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On the Swamp — Ryan E. Emanuel, Ph.D.
Environmental scientist Ryan Emanuel shares stories about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival ...
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