Dr Scenario
LightNews LightNews
banner
scenario2020.bsky.social
Dr Scenario
@scenario2020.bsky.social
140 followers 190 following 160 posts
Data Science | Scenario Planning & AI Integration
First-gen university graduate
#FARvisions
farhub.org
Posts Replies Media Videos
scenario2020.bsky.social
I and 112 of my closest strangers just individually and uniquely won this year's “Research Excellence Award” in Sensing Technology hosted by Gmail. How thrilling!🤣
👩🏿‍🔬 🧪 🌎 📚💙
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
#ScotRail re-established their on-train catering service this month. For everyone who asked in 2020, the answer is "5.8 years". Who guess correctly?!

#GamesScenarioPlannersPlay #commute #coffee #FARvisions #TakingBets #WinningSillyPrizes #Ladbrokers
First Class seat on a Class 170 train. Blue chair with arm rests. White table with travel cup of coffee or tea and a small package of two buiscuits. Window shows train station outside.
December 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
There’s too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see this is a land of confusion?

#genesis #PhilCollins
Phil Collins fathering a neo-Nazi spy was not on my Life BINGO card. Phil Collins fathering a neo-Nazi spy turned antifa spy was also not on my Life BINGO card. Phil Collins fathering a neo-Nazi spy, turned antifa spy, who is currently Head of Intelligence for one of the biggest global anti-fascist anti-racist groups wasn't on anyone's BINGO card.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Historical help needed!

Trying to find their names.

A university didn't want to award a doctoral candidate his #PhD because he wore a computer throughout his studies.

#AI #computer #HumanComputerInteraction #HCI #student #LongLostArchives #HistoricalData #help #ComputerScience #university
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
The ongoing debates never fail to entertain.

Personally, I don't think there are easy answers to a lot of AI-related impacts, but I do appreciate the debates.

#AI #food #creativity #innovation #uniqueness #garbage 🧪💙
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Evolution of a field:

Does anyone remember the wild snake-oil commercials in the early 00s that guaranteed to teach you how to get "over 1000" citations in your research papers?

#papermills #snakeoil #research #science #ethics #profiteering #informercial #PredatoryPractices
"as seen on tv" slogan inside a red rectangle against a blue background. a logo from the 90s
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
The latest social framework that warrants public reminder, aqui y ahora!

The 10 Steps to Autocracy and Authoritarianism

Further resources in the comments...
#FARvisions #Scenarios4Tomorrow #autocracy #democracy #RepresentativeDemocracy #FirstPastThePost #GlobalCitizens #government #policy
screenshot of the 10 steps to autocracy from the website https://10stepscampaign.org/. the pic is 10 cream colored blocks in front of an orange backgrouns, with the the steps in each box in black sans serif font.
October 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
The little comfort I take with our guaranteed future of #AI fabrications is that I was pretty stellar at #photoshop detection as soon as it hit the market.

But the question will always bounce around in the back, how do you know when you don't know!?!? #PufferPope
The most recent stupid pope wearing an oversized white puffer coat. AI generated.
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Population statistics in action:

It makes no sense to link dropping #BirthRates on the newest adult generations (e.g. #4B movement) because birth rates started to drop the second the Baby Boom was over.

#Boomers were the OG #celibates

#PopulationStats #demographics #DataScience #WomenInSTEM
Bombed out building background, everyone is outside. Young black mother fearfully clutching her newbord baby. Both dressed in dirty layers of old clothing and blankets. Taller white man with cuts on his face has a protective arm around the mother, leading them out of the building and down the alleyway. Surrounded by soldiers who are looking upon the miracle baby in awe. All weapons are facing down. One black soldier in the back is on his tiptoes trying to get a better look. The sun is just rising, making a blue light. There are dead bodies lying in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
From a publication c. early 2000s. The passage discusses the 1999 #US #PresidentialElection. I know it's a typo, but... was it? Also, it reminds me of the incredible #campaign spinoffs that year. The "Bush and Gore race" was well received by the #American public.

#BushAndGore #PresidentialHonors
the next president would be either George W. Bush or All Gore
October 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
If you're interested in cooperation research, I recommend signing up for the Cooperation Colloquia

Bi-weekly virtual sessions with leading researchers

FMI simoncolumbus.com/cooperation-...

#CooperationColloquia #SciComm #forum #interdisciplinary #research #science #FARvisions
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Another solid effort towards #sustainability from #ScotGov. When a #goverment has control over their own purse strings, better futures are possible.

#ScotRail #tickets #subsidies #train #PublicTransportation #EuroTravel

FMI: www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/peak...
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
September's newsletter is out!

Follow the link to learn about events, both public and academic, around the UK and EU farhub.org/wp-admin/adm...

Sign up for future announcements farhub.org/signup/

#FARvisions #newsletter #funding #AcademicSky #DeafAwarenessMonth #SuicidePreventionMonth 📚🧪📰 👩‍🔬
september 2025 new frontiers new faces. white font on dark blue background
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
I'm excited to make today's surprise(ish) interview with Bill Bailey, interviewed by Mhairi Black. Last week of @edfringe.bsky.social 🤘🏽
#edfringe #fringe2025 #comedy #politics #secular #Scotland

tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:590...
August 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
This year's Adam Smith Panmure House debate was great fun to be a part of. And a full house, to boot! A big thank you to all involved.

"AI & Education"
What is our future?

@thusha.bsky.social
@edfringe.bsky.social
@adamdixon.bsky.social (photo cred)
#AI #debate #FARvisions #education #edfringe
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
August's newsletter is out!

Don't miss our many performances across the @edfringe.bsky.social

FAR Hub just launched two huge projects, as well!

FMI farhub.org/wp-admin/adm...

Sign up for future announcements farhub.org/signup/

#FARvisions #newsletter #Scenarios4Tmw #edfringe #AcademicSky 📚🧪📰 👩‍🔬
August 2025. New frontiers, new faces.
August 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
The so-called leaders of #GreenEnergy #sustainable & #rebuilding efforts for our natural #ecosystems are the same companies that have been/continue to be the overwhelming causes of destruction of these same ecosystems
#ShellEnergy
#ExxonMobil
#BP
#Valero
etc...

Failures all around
#FARvisions
Congolese little boy squatting in the afternoon sun, covered in mining dirt, manually hammering cobalt from mining quarry. "Overhead picture from helicopter of two ships dragging a surface scraper to attempt to clean 11 million gallons of oil spilled into Prince William Sound after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spillChris Wilkins—AFP/Getty Images"
June 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Given the large-scale pushes for #AI driven *everything* the fact that #ResponsibleAI is not top of everyone's list is a failure in #leadership #democracy and #HumanRights

#AIgovernance #government #EthicalAI #AIjobs #TechForGood #AIforGood #FARvisions
June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
June's newsletter is out!
Happy Pride 2025

Follow the link to learn about events, both public and academic, around the UK and EU farhub.org/wp-admin/adm...

Sign up for future announcements farhub.org/signup/

#FARvisions #newsletter #research #events #funding #ResearchLab
June 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
By the end of 2020 we had the largest known repository of global #COVID19 #scenarios (including high-level pandemic scenarios from 2018/19). #Pandemic research discoveries & recommendations deserve regular revisits... a thread.

#ScenarioPlanning #FARvisions #disruption #WickedProblems
Chart with six columns. Column 1 - Proactivity. Governments, city councils, and businesses establish dense channels of communication. Develop hierarchy of stakeholders. 67 million potential stakeholders in the UK. Column 2 - Flexbility. Adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. Find your standby communities. Establish defensible, replicable, structures, and transparent methods. Column 3 - The 4 Rs. Revisit, review, revise, and repeat. No immutable driving forces. Appoint facilitation team to recruit and R4. Column 4 - Multiplicity. Redevelop multiple scenarios illustrating multiple futures. Growth. Collapse. Normative. Worst case. Wild card. Transformational futures. Column 5 - Stakeholders. Include self-interested actions of powerful stakeholders. Maximise complex narratives of target communities. Column 6 - Implications. Create actionable impact for communities and organisations.
June 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
#FakeNews on #SocialMedia
People Believe What They Want to Believe When it Makes No Sense At All (2019)
www.jstor.org/stable/26848...

The last #extreme-right pres popularized 'fake news', which in turn popularized new fact-checking services that are the norm today. Does #fact-checking work?
Figure 4 from the article. The top left and middle panels show alpha activation for headlines we theorize cognitive dissonance (ones that supported the participant’s\nbeliefs and were flagged as false (middle panel) versus all other headlines (left panel); cooler colors (i.e., blue) indicate greater cognition\n(i.e., greater event-related desynchronization). The right panel shows significant differences (in red) between the two panels, at p = 0.01\nwith a false discovery rate correction for multiple comparisons. In the scalp map, red regions in left and right frontal cortex] indicates the regions identified as being active (i.e., contributing the most variance) in the cluster.
June 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that I have been invited back to #TechTuesdaysUK to join an expert panel on #AgenticAI. Event to be held at the International Centre for Sustainability #ICfS. It's an open-discussion format with Q&A.

FMI: book.stripe.com/cN27ti0Rh88Q...
#Technoplat #FARvisions #TechTrends
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
scenario2020.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
Celebrating my research lab's 10th funding bid rejection with all my colleagues.

>£400K in 4yrs! Well done team!

#science #WomenInSTEM #FARvisions #funding #grants #DEI #research #AI #ML #FindYourJoy #WineIsAFruit @edinburghnapier.bsky.social
Woman scientist sitting at the head of a table. Pencil figures drawn around her because most of the team was too busy too celebrate.
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
scenario2020.bsky.social
"And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse."
Napoleon Trump pig
February 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM