Dinah Pfau

Dinah Pfau

@dinp.bsky.social

History and Epistemology of Science | Technology #histsci #histech #histstm #SciCom Practices of observation in Science | History of Computing, AI and Computer Vision | HistTech and Comics https://dinahpfau.medientheater.org/ Mostly she/her

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👀 Looking for colleagues doing research on the #history of #neurophysiology especially physiology of the sensory system in the #20th century. Anyone out here? 🙃 #histsci #histtech #sts

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Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.comChicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t existOutlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

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Dear #STS friends, Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich! You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗

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Replying to @maxplanck.de

Super wichtig! Danke für's Teilen! Was ich hier nicht sehe, ist die Erwägung von Umweltaspekten in der Verwendung von #KI. Mich interessiert, ob die Richtlinien ggf. an anderer Stelle den vergleichsweise hohen #Ressourcenverbrauch der Tools reflektieren u. wie damit umgegangen wird(?).

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Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

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Our own @arnoldke.bsky.social will host a workshop at this event on how to work with + read natural history specimens with colleagues at the Liverpool World Museum! 🪲 Information on schedule, bursaries, & sign-up available in the link below ⬇️🌿

Katherine Arnold@arnoldke.bsky.social

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨ This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available! Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

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Heute, Mo. 7.4. 18 Uhr Das Medizinhistorische Museum Hamburg in bewegten Zeiten. Rückblick von der Corona-Ausstellung über die Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus und Antisemitismus bis hin zur aktuellen Sonderausstellung in deren Mittelpunkt die Eppendorfer Krankenakte Vladimir Lenins steht.

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Man erkennt den Umstand, dass die Woken zuletzt die Republik übernommen hatten, daran, dass wir lauter BPOC als Bundesminister*innen haben, die großen Zeitungen feministische Chefredakteur*innen haben und in Talkshows immer der eine weiße Quotenmann sitzt, weil sonst keine angefragt wurden. ✨

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Replying to @amreibahr.bsky.social

Dass Arbeitsbedingungen schlecht sind, schadet nicht nur den (potentiellen) Beschäftigten. Es schadet auch der Wissenschaft selbst. Nicht zuletzt, weil der Fachkräftemangel auch hier längst angekommen ist. And it shows! #IchBinHanna (4/8)

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Writing is thinking. We get students to write so that they learn how to think and use their brains. Using LLMs to do your work is like trying to be an athlete by getting someone else to do your training for you.

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Join us next Thursday 2/16 (4-5:30 pm CET) at the Flashlab seminar’s next “AI histories” session with a talk by Dr. Apolline Taillandier @blazefutures.bsky.social entitled "An 'epistemological Perestroika': Constructionists and the end of the Cold War"

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Join us next Thursday 2/16 (4-5:30 pm CET) at the Flashlab seminar’s next “AI histories” session with a talk by Dr. Apolline Taillandier @blazefutures.bsky.social entitled "An 'epistemological Perestroika': Constructionists and the end of the Cold War"

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