Cofounder | Research Director @SenSoundSpace. Advocate for responsible research & innovation (#RRI), esp. via humanities, arts, and social sciences (#HASS).
Washington, DC
Joined July 2011
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For a thriving #innovationecosystem, TREEs need robust SOIL. Find out more in my #DayOne proposal.
dayoneproject.org/ideas/till…
Hi, @bunq. For the 2nd time in a month, my account has been restricted (pending "security" review) making it impossible for me to pay my bills on time. I have been given no reason for why these restrictions have been put in place. Please explain.
"It is tempting to view physical violence as the ultimate harm, doing so makes it easy to forget pernicious ways our societies perpetuate #structuralviolence."
technologyreview.com/2023/10…
"Are we doing the right kinds of #engineering? How should we invite the public in to discuss it? And how willing are we engineers to be provoked?"
issues.org/creative-intolera…
"Tech Bro warnings feel more like a coordinated money grab"
rushkoff.medium.com/ai-panic…
"The more we focus on how smart #AI could be someday, the less we focus on all the ways it falls short today."
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm…
One of my favorite quotes is from Freeman Dyson: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."
Yet how much of our focus is on creating better tools versus "creating the conditions for the will to change to emerge?"
Great insights about what it takes to shift from incremental innovation to transformation - "an approach that would aim not only to work within existing systems, but explore their evolutionary potential to collectively reimagine" By @ElaMi5 & @gquaggiotto medium.com/@undp.innovation/…
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But mostly this was a spectacular failure of scientific communication. Sanctioning discussion of a theory that's popular and seems intuitive is usually going to backfire. And the "misinformation" label isn't helping.
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In the accompanying @Business article, Alloway and Weisenthal run down examples in which executives boast of how real crises - war, climate events, Suez Canal blockages, bird flu - provide ready-made excuses for raising prices and keeping them high:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 25/
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“To take on challenges which rely on collective and collaborative efforts, we need to…understand how relational infrastructure is built, shaped and maintained, whilst acknowledging that it can also be degraded and destroyed.”
The wonderful @sam__rye samrye.xyz/on-relational-inf…
"We don’t need the status quo tones, they’re actually worse from detectability, and these new tones can increase detectability, they don’t interfere with speech comprehension and best of all, they’re less annoying.”
‘We would just do a better job as clinicians,’ @DrJazz615 on research suggesting replacing ‘horrible beeps’ in hospitals can improve patient, clinician experience | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/9514940/r…
"There isn’t much money in responsibility or safety, but there’s plenty in overhyping the technology." #SNAFU
wired.com/story/chatbots-got…
"Some of the strengths that many people with autism have is looking at systems that are done because we've done them that way forever and calling it out as BS."
NPR: #Transgender and #nonbinary people are up to 6 times more likely to have #Autism.
npr.org/2023/01/15/114931866…
'Invoking the notion of “#tribalism” for the world’s current problems is misleading at best and insulting at worst.'
bigthink.com/the-well/tribal…
"When researchers from #china and the U.S. collaborate, they produce higher quality #science than either one alone."
theconversation-com.cdn.ampp…
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I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before, but the juxtaposition of “experts” vs “people with lived experience” really irks me. It highlights the deep bias towards preferencing certain ways of knowing over others. People with lived experience *are* experts.
Congratulations to NYC #nurses!
BREAKING: NYC nurses strike to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals were reached with both @MontefioreNYC and @MountSinaiNYC Hospital. Nurses won concrete enforceable safe staffing ratios in both deals and will be back on the job.
🔗: nysna.org/press/2023/breakin…
