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Sally Wiggins Young @profsalwiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Fab blog post on unpacking the notion of 'collaboration' between humans and robots, including video footage.

😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 1d

short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?)

#EMCA #CSCW

(paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social)

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration

It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…

medium.com

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 2h

It seems to me that without the human intervention, the robot might have violated Asimov's "First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm". Also, what if the push chair would have been robotic as well? #emca #cscw - thanks! great post!

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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 1d

short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?)

#EMCA #CSCW

(paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social)

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration

It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…

medium.com

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 22h

arbeiten Sie 5 Tage die Woche in ihrem Büro? als Akademiker?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 5d

*Did you know that a high-tech typesetting machine bankrupted Mark Twain?

*Authors seizing control of their means-of-production, man, that scheme sounds cool but it never works out

www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 8d

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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · 9d

Online Course

Starting 13 Oct: an online, asynchronous 10-week course for learning how to do conversation analysis.,https://bedsidemanners.thinkific.com/products/courses/conversation-analysis

dlvr.it

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 13d

"War is a Virtual Hell" Bruce Sterling @bruces.bsky.social in Wired's inaugural issue in 1993 www.wired.com/1993/01/virt...

War Is Virtual Hell

Bruce Sterling reports back from the electronic battlefield.

www.wired.com

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 21d

Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 26d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration FT (£) on.ft.com/3K9ciGb

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 26d

what was it like?

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 28d

We are presenting our data and analysis on the impact of disposable nappies on child health, school readiness, and pollution to MPs in UK Parliament on 5th Nov. If you want your local MP to attend please do contact them. Details here: senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

The Big Toilet Project

Crunching the numbers on single-use nappies and their impacts on child health, school readiness, and the UK's sustainability targets Wednesday, 5 November, 9:00 to 12:30, Jubilee Room, Westminster Boo...

senseaboutscience.org

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · Sep 14

Two very important graphs.
Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved.
The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers.
Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Speaking to the #PlanningBill, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment

bit.ly/fulldebatehere

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Sep 1

Something I wrote a year ago that’s infuriatingly relevant

Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: it’s here for good | Gaia Vince

It’s time to resist the right’s narrative of immigration as aberration. Nations thrive on it – and they always have done, says author Gaia Vince

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Whalen @jackwhalen.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

www.thelancet.com

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 30

Mobile eye Tracking provides such interesting data! Good luck with the experiments!

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 29

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 28

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social looks like BVB will come to Tottenham again this autumn/winter 😃👌

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Listen to this success story! 💙
It's a decade since Syrian refugees arrived in Germany. Today, they're an indispensable part of the German workforce – especially in medicine! This is what the media SHOULD be showing you, instead of constantly pandering to the racists who just spread doom and gloom.

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reviewed Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal.bsky.com) by Jason Turowetz (UCSB) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 24

Und eine Ente?

DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 24

Auch die Goethe-Institute im Ausland #onleihe

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · Aug 22

From the Archive: Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, 'Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements' - an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · Aug 21

Advertising campaign on IG promoting #lewisham by @lewisham.gov.uk

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