Jacqueline Alderson
@jacqalderson.bsky.social
🦴 Professor of Biomechanics
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adjunct Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Visting Fellow, RegNet, ANU
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adjunct Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Visting Fellow, RegNet, ANU
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
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Black women told you this in 2018.
Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Black women told you this in 2018.
The Arts. Yrs we need them.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Arts. Yrs we need them.
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More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
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It’s a year since Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI employee who spoke out on copyright, died.
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s a year since Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI employee who spoke out on copyright, died.
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
In the brief time in which I got to know him, it was immediately apparent that he was an incredible person.
🧵 1/8
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
careers-nyit.icims.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT!
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po...
The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.
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Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.
Hit for six: why India’s Women’s Cricket World Cup win is victory for equality
Sacrifices made to reach final – defying social stigma, lack of resources and juggling jobs between training – makes victory still more extraordinary
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.
Feel like we all need this currently ...
These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Feel like we all need this currently ...
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
Harry - "yeah this feels familiar, back home Freddie F was always hitting it over the fence to close out the game against one of the colonies"
IYKYK
IYKYK
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Harry - "yeah this feels familiar, back home Freddie F was always hitting it over the fence to close out the game against one of the colonies"
IYKYK
IYKYK
Why tech concentration is bad for us 101. Cheers for the free public upskilling @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Why tech concentration is bad for us 101. Cheers for the free public upskilling @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
I don't believe Walter Herzog is on BlueSky but this feels very him ... + @jonasrubenson.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social!
#biomechsky
#biomechsky
We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I don't believe Walter Herzog is on BlueSky but this feels very him ... + @jonasrubenson.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social!
#biomechsky
#biomechsky
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The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education
(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.
Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.
I'm not sure there's a more perfect aptronym example than this wonderful conservationist and educator. Thank you, and go well Dr Jane Goodall 🙏.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I'm not sure there's a more perfect aptronym example than this wonderful conservationist and educator. Thank you, and go well Dr Jane Goodall 🙏.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
Additional bubble wrap now required for David Attenborough and Dolly Parton please.
I don't have dentist anxiety but would fake it to attend this dentist!
This is Annie. She is a dental therapy dog. Her job is to help patients experiencing anxiety by providing emotional support. While dentists go through years of schooling to treat patients Annie is able to lower their blood pressure and reduce anxiety just by being there. 14/10 (TT: funny.bunny9215)
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I don't have dentist anxiety but would fake it to attend this dentist!
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
👇 Your daily reminder that science works and scientists can do amazing things.
Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
👇 Your daily reminder that science works and scientists can do amazing things.
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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it’s wild to see how often politicians talk about “ai and quantum” as though quantum is having or is even poised to have any real impact in the near future. which lobbyists are feeding them these talking points?
September 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
it’s wild to see how often politicians talk about “ai and quantum” as though quantum is having or is even poised to have any real impact in the near future. which lobbyists are feeding them these talking points?
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We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA -
Biomch-L
The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...
biomch-l.isbweb.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Please repost!
We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky
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sometimes I'm in love with America
this
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
sometimes I'm in love with America
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New academic job opening
June 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New academic job opening