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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

@ccamara@scholar.social

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Architect. Social scientist. PhD. Life-long learner. Mostly interested in cities, technology & design from a social perspective.

Research Software Engineer at the University of Warwick's @cimethods

www	https://carloscamara.es/en
Orcid :orcid:	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-0549
GitHub	https://github.com/ccamara
OSM	https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ccamara

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo 2d ago

Sky 3d ago

Welp. Between this and the earlier AI-"written" book, I am thisclose to recommending that we cease purchasing titles from Springer

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

"Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors."

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 27

Alberto Corsín Jiménez Jun 27

Over 3 years we opened Cultural Anthropology to Spanish submissions. In this time, we received ZERO manuscripts from native English speakers whose fieldwork is based in Spanish-speaking countries. Food for thinking about epistemic geographic inequalities...

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 23

danmcquillan Jun 23

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 23

steve mookie kong Jun 22

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 19

jonathan w. y. gray 🐨Jun 19

looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lbngr @gabrielecolombo, Rina Tsubaki & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! https://jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/superb-research-associate #digitalmethods #STS #mediastudies #environmentalhumanities

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@datascience Thank you for flagging this! I didn't know about case_match(), and I can see it being very useful for most of the cases where I use case_when()!

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Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 11

@amapanda @twm @Geochicas sadly it won't, but I hope to share slides after. Will yours be recorded? I'd love to watch it, too!

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo Jun 10

Tomorrow, I'll be presenting at #STSItalia "Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate #OpenStreetMap’s #equity: The good, the bad and the neutral", the work I've been doing with @twm and Selene Yang, Alejandra Canclini and Silvia Ribera Alfaro from @Geochicas

📆 11 June 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
🗺️ Panel 71. Mapping Public Space through Participatory Data Narratives and Cartographies – Session 1

Come and say hi!

https://stsitalia.org/event/panel-71-session-1/