Dawn NafusIt's out! Properly now. Our paper on the cultural and structural reasons why AI developers believe ethics is someone else's problem. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231177620
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Higher Ed Lecturer FHEA. Focuses on equity, academic literacy, critical pedagogy, & research-informed teaching. Working class, anti-racist, intersectional feminist. Views are my own. She/her. https://sciences.social/@Research_FTW
Doc ImpossibleWow. This is actually pretty big news.
The first RCT trial for immediate access to HRT--testosterone to transmascs--has published its findings. In it, 52% of those given immediate access to testosterone had an **IMMEDIATE CESSATION** of their previously-present suicidal ideation, compared to 5% of those given a placebo. A treatment being *ten times* more effective than placebo is pretty much as decisive as it gets.
https://www.miragenews.com/testosterone-treatment-boosts-mental-health-of-1029278/
StephenIceland have outlawed Conversion Therapy.
#GoodNews #Iceland #ConversionTherapy #Law #Equality #LGBTQ #Safety
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/iceland-outlaws-conversion-therapy-in-landslide-vote/
Research WhispererLovely guide to visualising the literature, comparing Connected Papers, Dimensions Database and Open Knowledge Maps, plus good old Mind-Mapping.
Thanks, Anaise Irvine of Thesislink (& GUPSA, who put us onto it).
https://thesislink.aut.ac.nz/?p=9801
We Test 3 Tools for Visually ‘Mapping’ your Research AreaThesislink « Thesislink
If you're a visual person, the text-heavy terrain of academic research can be a foreign landscape. Piles of papers promise deep insights into your research area, but sometimes it's hard to see the bigger picture. For visual learners, a research 'map' can be a great way to get a mental picture of the overall research area, and of the connections
Prof Prachi SrivastavaApplications for the SSHRC Post-docs are now open for any social sciences and humanities field. Deadline 13 September 2023.
#PostDoc #PhD #HigherEducation #Academia @phdstudents @phdlife @academicchatter
Gabe OrtízThe need to welcome with dignity has never been more urgent. “The number of refugees worldwide increased from 27.1 million in 2021 to 35.3 million at the end of 2022, the largest yearly increase ever recorded,” UNHCR said. More here at America’s Voice 👇🏽#WorldRefugeeDay https://americasvoice.org/blog/on-world-refugee-day-un-urges-hope-opportunities-and-solutions-as-ship-tragedy-shows-ongoing-dangers-facing-migrants/
On World Refugee Day, UN Urges “Hope, Opportunities, and Solutions” As Ship Tragedy Shows Ongoing Dangers Facing Migrants - America's Voice
On World Refugee Day, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is urging nations to do more to offer “hope, opportunities, and solutions” to people displaced from their homes due to armed conflict, environmental disasters, and persecution. In just one example, he said Kenya has shown what’s possible when refugees are welcomed into communities. “Today… Continue »
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.
Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas
Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…
Karthik Srinivasan"Men release powerful changes into the world with cavalier disregard for consequences … they begin to “use” apparatus, technique, and organization with no attention to the ways in which these “tools” unexpectedly rearrange their lives … they willingly submit the governance of their affairs to the expertise of others … they begin to participate without second thought in megatechnical systems far beyond their comprehension or control … they endlessly proliferate technological forms of life that isolate people from each other and cripple rather than enrich the human potential … they stand idly by while vast technical systems reverse the reasonable relationship between means and ends."—Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology (1977)
Relevant then, even more relevant and prescient now.
#Philosophy #Technology #AI #inequality #PoliticalEconomy #GlobalWarming #SilconValley #Critique
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MikeFAmazonian childcare
A really interesting piece by an anthropologist and feminist whose partner is an indigenous Ecuadoran. The couple went with their child to live in her partner's village. The resulting clash of child-rearing concepts may illustrate the view that it "takes a village to raise" a socially engaged child.
"Following current orthodoxy, Runa childrearing – with its casual breastfeeding, abrupt weaning, no extensive parent-child play, no lengthy adult-child talk – would be described as ‘lacking’ in so many respects. And yet, my Runa friends and family thought my own childcare practices were conspicuously inadequate to raise a child in the context of their community life. Their observations, their puzzlement and their quiet defiance of my own childcare practices remind us that, whenever we talk about childrearing, we are not talking about achieving some objective child development based on irrefutable scientific evidence, but rather about a moral project: a moral project about what kind of people we would like our children to become, what society we would like to live in, and what kind of economy we would like to serve. As my Runa friends and family have subtly but relentlessly demonstrated, there is more than one way to flourish as humans in this world."
https://aeon.co/essays/why-runa-indigenous-people-find-natural-parenting-troubling?
#anthropology #IndigenousPeople #Amazon #nativepeople #childcare
