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Freelance digital anthropologist, PhD from @oiioxford, previously @digianth @UAL ethnography on digital detoxing 💻she/her #altacademia

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My thesis has reached 400 downloads!! To celebrate, here are some useful nuggets you might not expect to find in a thesis on digital detoxing… ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd…
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Let Gaza live. Free Palestine.
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My team at @AISecurityInst is hiring! This is an awesome opportunity to get involved with cutting-edge scientific research inside government on frontier AI models. I genuinely love my job and the team 🤗 Link: civilservicejobs.service.gov… More Info: ⬇️
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27 more people have been killed in Gaza - whilst collecting aid. Our government will say sad words and make sad faces. Forget the words. Stop selling arms that are actively fueling a genocide.
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Finally, if you like vignettes where you just get to know someone and revel in descriptions of people living with technology in San Francisco, Chapter 9, “intention” is for you 😄
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Welp, I didn't think my chapter about coping with an onslaught of bad news while under a Trump presidency would be relevant for a second time, but here we are:
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My thesis, Digital Re-Enchantment, is (I think?) the first academically documented example of people describing feeling traumatised en masse by right wing politics and endless “bad news” cycles - which they kept receiving via their devices.
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Delighted to share this screenshot is now peer reviewed! @BroekerFabian and I have spent the past year putting together a special issue on 'dating apps beyond dating', which is now available open access with journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/…
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Just got my NHS physio referral that I asked for in April 👍
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A great opportunity to work with @SianJMBrooke - couldn’t ask for a nicer supervisor!!!
🚨Fully-Funded PhD Opportunity!🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student at @UvA_Amsterdam to work on inclusive design with Artificial Intelligence! 🔗 bit.ly/3ZOFqrO If you’re passionate about AI and its impact on society, this is for YOU. 🧵What you need to know 👇
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ITS THE FIRST DAY OF FALL. 🍂
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Chuffed to be cited across 7 chapters of this awesome new book on digital disconnection by @Krisalbris @Faltink @anne_kaun @stinelomborg @trinesy. The intro chapter describes my work on digital detoxing as "seminal!" 😍 nordicom.gu.se/en/publicatio…
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Twitter is dying but before we all leave, just want to flag that I’m on the lookout for roles in the broad spectrum of research/writing/policy on technology and society. Keen to chat to anyone who can help out or direct me to something! (Bonus photo of me for the algorithm)
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There was a time when we respected the computer
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Imagine having terminal cancer, arriving at A&E with suspected sepsis & being forced to lie on the FLOOR because the hospital hasn’t got a single bed. This happened to Madeleine Butcher this week. In Britain. In 2024. Because the Tories have destroyed our NHS. Simply barbaric.
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Looking forward to this today! I'll be talking about my thesis chapter "Broken America", where I discuss how people feel a need to escape the "bad news" they experience via their digital devices.
Coming up later today (6pm CET): the second session of the reading group on Positive Luddism, co-organised with @romelealberto and @criticaldatalab. Today, we'll be joined by @theodorasutton who will share her research on digital detoxers with us!
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The IDF’s attack on a tent camp of innocents in Rafah is an indefensible atrocity. This was done in open defiance of @POTUS’s red line and the ICJ’s call for a ceasefire. It is long past time for the President to live up to his word and suspend military aid.
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