Marcela Suarez

"The purpose of the system is what it does" -- Stafford Beer These alleged mathematical 'results' are in no way intended to advanced knowledge, but to destroy science. It is just part of the ongoing technofascist attack on our institutions

"Dutch research institutions will adopt a new Code of Conduct for Research Integrity with effect from 1 January 2027." www.nwo.nl/en/news/revi...

So nice to see this out! > The five core principles – honesty, Scrupulousness, transparency, independence and responsibility – remain unchanged. www.nwo.nl/en/news/revi... Image from: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I was beyond lucky (almost missed on it due to a health emergency) this summer to have spent a week learning Critical AI literacy approaches from&with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science & @marentierra.bsky.social now I hope to spread this knowledge further 🙏🏻🥰

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ADHD is disabling & esp so for us who can't take meds. On this, there's something a bit upsetting when people insist it's a superpower *just* because they are impressed by the output. Do they see us as a machine or a chatbot which has value because of the nature of the output? Feels dehumanising.

Will share more about the wonderful festival organized by @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social 🩷 but for now, just sharing my drawing from the amazing workshop by @marentierra.bsky.social and @joostvossers.bsky.social to create situated and social depictions of AI to decolonize public representations ✨️✨️🙏

Thanks so much to my wonderful colleagues Marieke & @marentierra.bsky.social for setting up at @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social's amazing festival: reject AI instead reclaim the future! 🫚 💞 💥 Posters are here: zenodo.org/records/1736... & you can read more here: olivia.science/ai about our work.

Much enjoying @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social 's Reclaiming Our Futures festival together w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @ethicsofai.bsky.social @markdingemanse.net @joostvossers.bsky.social and many more not on Bluesky reclaimingourfutures.org

My representation of some of the discourse about @irisvanrooij.bsky.social her work 🤣🤣🤣

Reminder...

The same paper by @olivia.science, @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026): zenodo.org/records/2008... also explains how "Knowledge production is ... safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018)." 🧵

I've read plenty of great academic articles over the years. Many that have challenged my thinking. A few that had me nodding along. This is the first I've ever wanted to cosign.

See also irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

This man needs to learn how to read. Basic skill. It doesn’t take weeks to read some articles. Besides, the summaries are already there.

Postscript: This thread is brought to you by someone who just learnt that a full professor of AI declares in a Dutch newspaper that it is A-Okay to not read 30 papers, but instead fine to ask CLAUDE for a "summary". 🧵 archive.is/VYIKn

The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵

"my hands are tied" feels like a "this is what I say when I am caught just doing whatever the racist wanker wants because I am a loser too"

Journalists need to stop letting "our commitment hasn't changed" slide without context. Emissions continue growing, companies are getting worse at reporting and are increasingly building with (dirty, inefficient) behind-the-meter simple-cycle gas. The Target is a decoy irrelevant to decision-making.

And it also solidifies patriarchy and white supremacy within academic spaces going without critique or as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social say being white washed using critical language but 0 actions. It's a great strategy within such leftist (in name) spaces.

Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work.

UPDATES ON THE COLORS: - Laborwashing (red) - Openwashing (orange) (Thanks @ethicsofai.bsky.social!!) - Memewashing (yellow) - Greenwashing - Accessibilitywashing (cyan) (Thanks again Soerjadi!) - Ethicswashing / Philosophywashing (blue) (Philosophywashing fellowesin.neocities.org/turing/criti...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Yup. I think this fits their trajectory, indeed. Part of a wider attempt at claiming that we should just find ways to use these "tools" through some pragmatic acceptance. See: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

For more thoughts on the role of 'critical thinking' see our CAILs framework, by @olivia.science, @marentierra.bsky.social and me. 📝 Full paper: zenodo.org/records/1778...

Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things. It's ok not to both side things. It's ok to ask colleagues who are experts.

On the other hand, I want to highlight my work that is about cognition, models, theory (see: olivia.science/theory/) & understanding how we think about them. Sometimes a good starting point is to zoom out: What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good? doi.org/10.1007/s421... 4/

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.

We cannot scale up AI to human-level cognition, but we sure can scale up inhumane practices and harm

Hi all, @ethicsofai.bsky.social @dim-ah.bsky.social @francescaorfw.bsky.social @octopusfiles.bsky.social @josemariacasas.bsky.social @ethankutlu.bsky.social hope you are well ✨ New CAIL paper you may find of interest, too 😊 cc @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @joostvossers.bsky.social

You may also enjoy this paper and/or talk bsky.app/profile/iris... (scroll down for full thread)

“Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative.” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006) h/t @olivia.science dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

So in other words, coming up with strategies, algorithms, programs etc. is the creative part (as we did in class w/ coming up with sorting strategies). Executing a program once specified is what a machine can do. But the, analysis, creativity and specification is our achievement, not the machine's.

El contrato estrella de la implementacion de AI utilizado por la @urv.cat es el que mantienen con MicroSlop, justificando cualquier problema de uso en que dicho contrato le garantiza que Copilot cumple normativa europea. Pero y las demas variables? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

La adopcion a-critica de AI realizada por la @urv.cat la expone al incumplimiento absoluto de sus objetivos de sostenibilidad ambiental y la aleja de cumplir al menos 6 de los objetivos de la Agenda de Desarrollo Sostenible con los que se habia comprometido.

☀️ 📚 A joy to be at this week’s Summer School ‘Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming’. Grateful to our amazing and brilliant team 🙏 @marentierra.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @altibel.bsky.social, @joostvossers.bsky.social 1/🧵

That! @olivia.science

Not a small part Olivia!! 🥰 Honestly, we wouldn't have critical AI literacy at Radboud if it were not for you 🔥 Sorry you could not physically join ❤️‍🩹 We all learnt a lot from your keynote and all your CAIL materials 🙏 Your CAILs pentagram was a red thread through the week ✨

this looks so cool, wow

☀️ 📚 In the evening of Day 3, we had a screening of the documentary film "Ghost in the Machine" 🎬 This event was co-organized with students from the School of AI. The audience was students from our BSc course Sustainable AI & MSc course Bias in AI, in addition to Summer School participants. 5/🧵

I have had the privilege and honor to attend the Critical AI Literacy Workshop offered at the Radboud Summer School. The workshop was organized by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science along with @joostvossers.bsky.social and @altibel.bsky.social.

I will have more thoughts to share but I am still processing the information. The #Radboud University is extremely lucky to have scholars who are leading this work and who are helping many scientists to achieve conceptual clarity about AI. Please read the OP by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social.

☀️ 📚 Day 2 of the Summer School, @marentierra.bsky.social lectured about critical intersectional perspectives on AI and I lectured about AI and cognitive science. Each of us bringing distinct but complementary frames for resistance. 3/🧵