Rosina Marquez Reiter
@mar-8.bsky.social
Ever wondered what happens when a human telemarketer calls a bot? In this paper we explore how trust (or the illusion of it) is built with bots designed to intercept spam calls doi.org/10.1177/1750...
May 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ever wondered what happens when a human telemarketer calls a bot? In this paper we explore how trust (or the illusion of it) is built with bots designed to intercept spam calls doi.org/10.1177/1750...
We’re holding an IPrA pre-panel conversation on agency on 3 March. If interested you can register here:http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unleashed-agency-for-social-transformation-tickets-1095375380249?aff=oddtdtcreator
February 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We’re holding an IPrA pre-panel conversation on agency on 3 March. If interested you can register here:http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unleashed-agency-for-social-transformation-tickets-1095375380249?aff=oddtdtcreator
Reposted by Rosina Marquez Reiter
🧉 #YerbaMate makes the third most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
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February 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🧉 #YerbaMate makes the third most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine.
https://buff.ly/4jnWk82
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global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Delighted to find a few copies of the volume on Morality in Discourse. Great start to 2025
Delighted to find a few copies of the volume on Morality in Discourse. Great start to 2025
global.oup.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Delighted to find a few copies of the volume on Morality in Discourse. Great start to 2025
Delighted to find a few copies of the volume on Morality in Discourse. Great start to 2025
December 5, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Shocking number of cuts at universities in the UK qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 27, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Shocking number of cuts at universities in the UK qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Instead of focus groups?! www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
AI simulations of 1000 people accurately replicate their behaviour
Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, in an effort to create an alternative to focus groups and polling
www.newscientist.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Instead of focus groups?! www.newscientist.com/article/2457...
www.nature.com/articles/d41... interesting read
Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.
www.nature.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:15 PM
www.nature.com/articles/d41... interesting read
www.theguardian.com/education/20... certainly not new and not the only university - have these reporters just woken up?
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:37 PM
www.theguardian.com/education/20... certainly not new and not the only university - have these reporters just woken up?
Lovely little piece. I for one loe the likes of Gail’s www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
You say bap, I say bread cake, but do delivery apps mean regional food names are becoming a thing of the past? | Rachel Cooke
A sourdough-and-rocket monotony is spreading outwards from the M25. I worry about what we’re losing
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Lovely little piece. I for one loe the likes of Gail’s www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...