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Amina Soulimani

@soullimani.bsky.social
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phd-ing @university of cape town. doctoral research fellow @humauct.bsky.social | medical anthro. STS. algorithms. futures. ethics of care 💭 alternatives.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They survived the bombs, but not the virus: Fatal illness spreads in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-sur…
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They survived the bombs, but not the virus: Fatal illness spreads in Gaza
Doctors struggle to save patients as impact of starvation and healthcare collapse accelerate deaths from treatable illnesses
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Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We published a short piece last September on #Ventilators with my supervisors @fanny-chabrol.bsky.social & @divinefuh.bsky.social in Anna Harris' The Matter of #Hospitals: An Alphabetical Investigation 📘 book on open access: library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/resources/ma...
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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📚We’re opening nominations for our two flagship segments. Your own work, a colleague’s groundbreaking paper, or a powerful synthesis from a major conference. Amplifying research that puts #humanrights & inclusion at the core of the #code. Nominate here → forms.gle/a2H8pokSbV4D...
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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We are launching a Festival of #Ideas (May 14 & 15), and calling for enthusiastic community members to organize and lead the thematic and #curatorial direction of the festival. ⏰Deadline: Feb 8 🚀🚀Apply now: forms.gle/6h97SUsmhJmA...
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Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Excited to learn and engage in Phase 2 of "The #futureofhospitals, from the South. Epistemologies & Experimentations" Workshop next week in Paris 😊 💭 Workshopping a paper "A Hard Believe Future: When the utopia of rules takes over medical care" in #Morocco.
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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 18/11/2024
My first book is called "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of AI." Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-... Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky
Book called The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence lies on top of papers and brochures collected over 6 years of research Strawberries in a plastic container from Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, with a sticker that reads Palestine, Gaza Production (one of the few exports from Gaza possible in Spring 2023)Wall with rust and black paint runs along the El Camino Del Diablo at the US-Mexico border in ArizonaMurals and artworks of women, boats and symbols below a fence with barbed wire, inside the old refugee camp in Vathi, Samos, Greece
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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We’re excited to kick off the 2025 Summer School in Responsible AI and Human Rights with an incredible new cohort of participants! From insightful keynotes to hands-on workshops, the energy and curiosity in the room are already setting the tone for a transformative week. @umontreal-en.bsky.social
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
📚 Apply for the HUMA Visiting Fellowship Programme The HUMA #VisitingFellowship Programme is intended to create supportive and productive relationships with a particular emphasis on appropriate partnerships in other parts of the #South. Visit our website: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/huma-vi...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our Director, Assoc. Prof @divinefuh.bsky.social inaugurated the 40th Anniversary of the Centre of African Studies at the #UniversityofCopenhagen with a keynote lecture "Africa as Theory: A Proposition for #AfricanStudies" Photo credits: Freja Wille
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Is AI Worth It?" @jathansadowski.com @wolvendamien.bsky.social @danmcquillan.bsky.social and I say... hrmmm, maybe? Just kidding, we say definitely not. www.nobhillgazette.com/feature/is-a...
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Is AI Worth It? A Growing Number of Artificial-Intelligence Skeptics Is Raising Doubts About a Utopian Future
If you listen to the heads of artificial-intelligence companies, the venture capitalists investing in them, the researchers and software engineers developing new models and apps, or the numerous techn...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We are pleased to announce that @humauct.bsky.social Director @divinefuh.bsky.social will be delivering the keynote lecture of the #Universityofcopenhagen Centre for #AfricanStudies' 40th Anniversary on April 25 💫 Read more: teol.ku.dk/cas/news/cal...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Reminder 📣📣 Only 3 days left to send your submissions for the #ASAA2025 6th Biennale | Come join us in Praia #CaboVerde this September 🌍 📝 CfP Submissions: forms.gle/ShBanbTdw7TV... ♦️ Creative Submissions: forms.gle/RtbwkfaKJ8s7...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our upcoming Ataya Seminar will host Marcelo C. Rosa ( #UFRRJ - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro) | Ontoformativity: ontological politics, land struggles and theoretical challenges for the social sciences 🟥 March 13 | 13:00 SAST Read more: humanities.uct.ac.za/.../marcelo-....
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In this op-ed our #HUMATeam Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tigist Shewarega Hussen and co-author Munira Abdelmenan reflect on their participation at the AfWID Conference in January Published in Feminist Internet Research Network 🔗Read: firn.genderit.org/blog/african...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The #HUMATeam would like to send a big thank you to all who make our work and research possible -- especially to our funders and supporters💫 Watch the full video on the HUMA YouTube channel! youtu.be/Bghdt8h9EqE?...
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Thank You from HUMA!
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This week at #HUMA, Professor Matheus Gato (University of Campinas) presented research & public intervention projects he initiated in #SãoPaulo aiming to disrupt #Eurocentric curriculums and deploy the #digitalhumanities to rethink anti-biased technologies for the welfare of #blackBrazilians.
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Digital Humanities Tackling Discrimination and Racism: Brazilian Professor Matheus Gato Speaks to the HUMA Team
On Tuesday, 11th of February, Professor Matheus Gato presented two research and public intervention projects he initiated in São Paulo to the HUMA Team.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 13/02/2025
Review: Coming right after the Los Angeles fires rattled the film community, the vibe at this year’s Sundance Film Festival at the weekend was understandably muted. With features from Kenya, Sudan, and Tunisia, Africa had a charming, if sparse, showing.
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Review: Africa at Sundance: libraries, war, and road trips
Of the 94 feature films at the festival, only three were African – and yet, vital voices still emerged.
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Have you submitted your panel, abstract or workshop proposal to #ASAA2025? The 6th Biennial Conference of the #AfricanStudies Association of #Africa is hosted by the University of #CaboVerde (Uni-CV), in Praia. 💡Theme: African Responses to Global Vulnerabilities: Building Hope for the Future
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ASAA2025 Call for Submissions
ASAA2025: 6th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa Uni-CV – Praia – Cabo Verde, 24–27 September 2025 Deadline: March 15, 2025
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Heartfelt congratulations to our #HUMATeam Doctoral Research Fellow Naledi Maponopono on her appointment as a board member of the PAN #SouthAfrican Language Board (PanSALB) 🎊 🎊 🎊 Read about Naledi's Appointment: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/article...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Doctoral Research Fellow Billan Omar published her first book: "Soomaali Mi'yaa? Exploring Somalinimo in South Africa" through Langaa RPCIG.📚 The book is based on fieldwork in the #Somali community in Cape Town. @carnegiecorp.bsky.social africanbookscollective.com/books/soomaa...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC
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Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What an incredible thinking and growth journey! You can find my book chapter 'We Sent Your Blood to France’: A Moroccan Study Case of Genomic (Im)mobility as part of the Future Hospitals: #4IR and ethics of care in Africa research cluster- exploring #Datamobility & French-Morocco biomedical politics
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Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A delightful thing to have Reader (MIT Press) publish this excerpt from Numbered Lives and to have Pop Sci, The Verge, and Slate pick it up! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/surveillance...
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Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech
From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.
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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
one of the beautiful but difficult aspects of doing really great anti-colonial interdisciplinary work is knowing and sharing your limits without hiding your rigour and love of reading and research. it is a painful requirement: one must hit a wall and also keep moving, lovingly.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/01/2025
Every time I think I have a grip on how genius this book is, it turns out there’s more and more and more Endlessly thankful for @demonicgrounds.bsky.social

DEAR SCIENCE and Other Stories
KATHERINE MCKITTRICK
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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📚📚📚New Book Review! 📚📚📚 Tomoki Fukui reviews //Nuclear Ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima's gray zone// by Ryo Morimoto 2023 @ucpress.bsky.social #AnthroSky #Anthropology Find it here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/01/2025
‘Around 5 per cent of global trade goes through the Panama Canal, 2400 miles south-east of the southern tip of Texas, and 74 per cent of the total volume of cargo is carried to or from the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on Trump’s trade routes, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
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Laleh Khalili | Trump’s Trade Routes
While Trump’s schemes to impose tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, Mexican and European imports have been taken seriously...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025
My latest for @newscientist.bsky.social is a response to a reader question about how we know that dark matter isn't just dust! It's a nice thing to take a break with, given everything else happening in our corner of the universe. Ask your library for access! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Why we should talk about invisible matter, not dark matter
The word "dark" is misleading when it comes to dark matter, because it suggests there is some kind of absorption of light happening, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Richard Fisher @richardfisher.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
If you're an academic who might like to write a longform essay for @aeon.co, I'm accepting pitches! I specialise in physics/astronomy/space, earth science, environment, and technology + more. #science, #physics ⚛️, #geosciences, #paleontology #astronomy, #philtech, #histsci, #SciComm #science
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Maersk helps both to arm the Israeli regime and export the spoils of its colonial project." The Palestinian Youth Movement reveal the global shipping giant's role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in Mondoweiss.
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Report: Danish company Maersk exports cargo from illegal Israeli settlements to the U.S.
A new report details a shipping and logistics giant’s role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine and Syrian territories.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2025
🔭🧪⚛️ mondoweiss.net/2025/01/geno...
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Genocide has rendered Gaza a space-time exception
The Israeli onslaught has disfigured space and time in Gaza leaving a physicist like me no other choice but to use my understanding of the universe, as well as the wisdom of the ages, to navigate and ...
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Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I had the unique opportunity to present a paper this past Tuesday on "Patient-Machine Interaction and #Decoding Medical Imaging" as part of a panel on Emerging Intersection of Computing and #Health at the University of Cape Town's Digital Health Summit.
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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 18/09/2024
A new episode of the politics podcast WEIRD by social scientists Vito Laterza and @lromeranth.bsky.social, discussing Tenet Media, the Russia-funded influencer operation on the U.S. right, and Dave Rubin's journey from left to "libertarian-conservative" commentator, among other topics.
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EPISODE 2 - From Russia with love: Putin's interference in the US election
Listen now | Russian agents continue to meddle in American politics. Libertarians ally with Trump. JD Vance weaponised the "white working class". Harris shouldn't avoid the press.
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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Excellent book! Here are a few favorite quotations— "We must, in a sense, continuously deprogram ourselves, challenging the hierarchies that place us above or below, and decode the imaginative justifications that make those social hierarchies seem natural, durable, and deserved” (p. 64)
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/01/2025
I'm reading *Imagination: A Manifesto* by @ruha9.bsky.social and discussing it with a reading group spanning a few platforms. I'm going to post a few quotes and start some conversations here and there about it. Hope you'll bear with me (and maybe better yet, join us)
the cover image of the book "Imagination: A Manifesto" by Ruha Benjamin
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here is todays counter programing, a free pdf of different ways of understanding and resisting our current moment. imbricate.press/book/capacit...
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Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism
<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...
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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field? The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“I take #anthropology seriously. I have always looked to a time in which we can center both Africa and the #decolonial project in re-imagining the discipline. I am looking forward to bringing the world to the continent for anthropology" —@divinefuh.bsky.social
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HUMA Director Appointed to Head Anthropology at UCT
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
[New Visiting Fellow Alert] 🎊 We at HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa are pleased to welcome Prof. Antonadia Borges from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social in #Brazil as a 2025 Visiting Research Fellow #Humateam More: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/about/p...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
[New Visiting Fellow Alert] 🎉 Our #HUMAteam is pleased to be hosting Prof. Marcelo C. Rosa from the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University (CPDA/UFRR) in Brazil as 2025 Visiting Research Fellow. Read more: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/about/p...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“Despite decolonization, labels like North and Sub Saharan Africa continue to be used today and have limited our conception of Africanness. Is it not time to change this?” republic.com.ng/december-24-...
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An Africa Beyond the ‘North’ and ‘Sub-Saharan’ Divide
Geography is political. Over the centuries, the borders of ‘sub-Saharan’ and ‘North’ Africa have shifted to serve expansionist agendas. Despite decolonization, these labels continue to be used today a...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The #AfricanStudies Association of Africa (ASAA) invites scholars, researchers, activists to submit papers for its 6th Biennial Conference #ASAA2025 in Praia from Sept 24 to 27, 2025. Co-hosted by the Universidade de Cabo Verde (Uni-CV) Deadline: March 15th More: drive.google.com/file/d/1LWm2...
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🎉 Heartfelt congratulations to #HUMA Director @divinefuh.bsky.social on his new appointment as head of Anthropology at UCT starting January 2025! Read the full announcement: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/article...
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. ...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/11/2024
Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie
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AI Accountability Lab
Stewarding a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As part of #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth, we're sharing the #IdentitiesBlog by @alikassem.bsky.social: 'Where can Others turn? On (de)coloniality, messy refusals and alternatives to Eurocentric modernity' www.identitiesjourna... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
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Where can Others turn? On (de)coloniality, messy refusals and alternatives to Eurocentric modernity
Over the past years, decolonization has emerged as a key project, discourse, and buzzword across academic and public debates.
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Amina Soulimani @soullimani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A piece, and somewhat an ode, a long monologue, perhaps. About what we encounter in and out of ourselves in the search familiarity. Thank you @evergreenreview.bsky.social!
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On the foreignness of familiarity
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Charlie Taylor @charlietaylor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Abeba Birhane, the acclaimed researcher who was named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time Magazine last year, is to lead a new research lab based in Trinity College Dublin www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ab...
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Abeba Birhane to lead new AI lab in Trinity that will hold the likes of OpenAI accountable
The former Google Deepmind scientist told the Business Post the lab will ensure there is a culture of accountability around the creation of AI systems
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