Aadita Chaudhury
@aadita.bsky.social
PhD. Researcher on fires, arts, eco-technosocial imaginaries/futures. Co-travelling with poetry, sound, science, nature/cultures, ceremony and embodied knowledges.
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www.aaditachaudhury.com
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Aadita Chaudhury
@aadita.bsky.social
· Aug 16
I'm on the job market! I'm seeking interesting places, projects and opportunities at the intersection of STS, political ecology, and environmental humanities. My areas of interest and research so far span these areas and as well as arts-based research and sound studies!
I know there has historically been a lot of kvetching about the SSHRC standard CV…and now I have met the EUROPASS CV!
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I know there has historically been a lot of kvetching about the SSHRC standard CV…and now I have met the EUROPASS CV!
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Broadly, humans flatten the dimension, the complexity of fish.
But @mbolotnikova.bsky.social's latest story traces the contested question of whether fish feel pain and shows how the limits of our imagination shape the limits of their world.
Smart piece from @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...
But @mbolotnikova.bsky.social's latest story traces the contested question of whether fish feel pain and shows how the limits of our imagination shape the limits of their world.
Smart piece from @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The surprisingly profound debate over whether fish feel pain
We can never prove that other animals are conscious. What do we do with that?
www.vox.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Broadly, humans flatten the dimension, the complexity of fish.
But @mbolotnikova.bsky.social's latest story traces the contested question of whether fish feel pain and shows how the limits of our imagination shape the limits of their world.
Smart piece from @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...
But @mbolotnikova.bsky.social's latest story traces the contested question of whether fish feel pain and shows how the limits of our imagination shape the limits of their world.
Smart piece from @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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You can sabotage AI with poetry, pass it on
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
You can sabotage AI with poetry, pass it on
I feel this poignant raw emotional sensitivity and attunement in my body that I have inherited either due to finally letting myself rest after years of PhD related hypervigilance or hitting my mid 30s or some mysterious witchy initiation precipitated by all of the above
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I feel this poignant raw emotional sensitivity and attunement in my body that I have inherited either due to finally letting myself rest after years of PhD related hypervigilance or hitting my mid 30s or some mysterious witchy initiation precipitated by all of the above
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Tenure at its fundamental point is that an employer cannot fire you without cause.
An investigation needs to occur according to the institutional policies around faculty conduct and then sanctions.
They have dismissed faculty before for other reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...
An investigation needs to occur according to the institutional policies around faculty conduct and then sanctions.
They have dismissed faculty before for other reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tenure at its fundamental point is that an employer cannot fire you without cause.
An investigation needs to occur according to the institutional policies around faculty conduct and then sanctions.
They have dismissed faculty before for other reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...
An investigation needs to occur according to the institutional policies around faculty conduct and then sanctions.
They have dismissed faculty before for other reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...
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Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
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And this is why you need to make sure your pension fund invests ethically. It's not just for the good of people, it's for yourself too! (When cloudfare works again I will add a link to a form letter you can use to get your pension fund to divest from Israeli companies)
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
And this is why you need to make sure your pension fund invests ethically. It's not just for the good of people, it's for yourself too! (When cloudfare works again I will add a link to a form letter you can use to get your pension fund to divest from Israeli companies)
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.
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As an author whose work was part of the training data, all I have to say is--sucks for them.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As an author whose work was part of the training data, all I have to say is--sucks for them.
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So, there’s a bubble, you agree?
Then it will burst. It can’t do anything else.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then it will burst. It can’t do anything else.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
So, there’s a bubble, you agree?
Then it will burst. It can’t do anything else.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then it will burst. It can’t do anything else.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What Ireland's uplands look like up close due to sheep: molinia deserts, with open wounds of erosion, as the vegetation that holds the soil together is stripped away.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
What Ireland's uplands look like up close due to sheep: molinia deserts, with open wounds of erosion, as the vegetation that holds the soil together is stripped away.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again.
In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.
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Wildcats - also known as woodcats - were once found throughout Britain including in the Somerset Levels. It would be wonderful to see them return to Devon, and hopefully one day soon to a wilder Somerset too. Restoration and rewilding, hand in hand.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Wildcats - also known as woodcats - were once found throughout Britain including in the Somerset Levels. It would be wonderful to see them return to Devon, and hopefully one day soon to a wilder Somerset too. Restoration and rewilding, hand in hand.
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I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.
Texas and Florida are considering similar legislation. Any other examples? What a wild time for transportation planning
Why Are Many States Trying to Ban Cities From Slowing Down Drivers? — Streetsblog USA
Texas could soon become the latest state to ban its cities from reclaiming lane space from drivers — and now that Trump is in office, some fear that more will follow.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.
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The university is not a factory.
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The university is not a factory.
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You know who didn't both-sides the Civil War? Karl Marx.
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
You know who didn't both-sides the Civil War? Karl Marx.
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
I had really divested from centering the US while living away from North America between 2021-2024 but gosh it’s really weird to be back in that bubble now.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I had really divested from centering the US while living away from North America between 2021-2024 but gosh it’s really weird to be back in that bubble now.
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Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be.
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
‘This is survival’: Jamaica leads calls from vulnerable nations at Cop30
Countries including Mauritius and Cuba reiterate life-or-death nature of cutting emissions, calling it ‘a moral duty’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be.
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
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why do things like this never happen to me
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
why do things like this never happen to me
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Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud.
Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.
My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
Chasing Flames: Racial Capitalism in Fire Ecology Research and Praxis
This dissertation explores fire ecology and its applications in settler colonial environments. It introduces the framework of pyrosociality to understand fire’s role in ecosystems, guided by an analys...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
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My thoughts this week, for obvious reasons, are with the brave, heroic women who went through hell the last time Harvard let this same problem fester for years on end.
She Left Harvard. He Got to Stay.
Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades?
www.chronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My thoughts this week, for obvious reasons, are with the brave, heroic women who went through hell the last time Harvard let this same problem fester for years on end.
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There is an excellent video of the wolf using the trap too, which is somehow both soothing and delightful
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
There is an excellent video of the wolf using the trap too, which is somehow both soothing and delightful
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The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...