Louise

Elec engineer, sci/tech policy, 100% lurker/liker

[Lauren Gilbert @notanastronomer]

Discourse about AI and job loss is omnipresent right now. But what do we actually know about AI job loss in developing countries?

@oliverwkim and @oliverhanney do (to my knowledge) the first analysis of AI's effects of IT in India in @indevmag: https://t.co/08DsZaLg70

[Lauren Gilbert @notanastronomer]

I really need to commission some more women for @indevmag - it’s feeling a bit lonely on the contributor list.

dev women with hot takes, where are you?

[Will Stone @willecstone]

We asked researchers, funders, and institutional entrepreneurs for the biggest barrier to building independent British research orgs.

They told us: there’s a de facto ban on UKRI supporting them.

Our proposals, out today, would fix that. 🧵

[Louise @ludunsb]

@notanastronomer @indevmag Absolutely not weird

[Ben Johnson @ersatzben]

➡️ PLEASE SHARE ➡️

Do you work for a research organisation, or a lab/unit within a larger org, that is doing something different from mainstream academic science?

We are looking for examples! (survey link below)

[Laura Ryan @Lyan82]

🚨Today we launch Reorganising Research – a @sci_works initiative to chart what mix of organisational forms British science needs & how to get there.

Lots to come, but we're kicking off with two open calls: a call for evidence with @wellcometrust, & a £3000 essay prize... 🧵

[Will Stone @willecstone]

New @sci_works essay 🧵

British innovation strategy is fixated on a simple story: unis generate ideas, start-ups commercialise them, government helps them scale.

This is legible, politically attractive, & wrong.

Policy built on it will deliver neither breakthroughs nor growth.

[Laura Ryan @Lyan82]

I love the idea of British AI for science missions.

But can they work? Are they even real? Could they be?

me and @ersatzben ponder

[Louise @ludunsb]

@notanastronomer As recommended by Chopin and Miró. (Avoid Shagaluf.)

[Louise @ludunsb]

@notanastronomer Mallorca.

[Louise @ludunsb]

@notanastronomer We think all white goods will burn our homes down as soon as our backs are turned - dryers are the most mischievous. We don’t have time to keep an eye on them because no one has invented a dryer that can dry things in <5 hours without shrinking them to Sylvanian family size.

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

[Louise @ludunsb]

https://t.co/9CTrhHbbRX

[Anthony Finkelstein @profserious]

Techno-optimists vs neo-luddites https://t.co/OLpp6aKYHx

Which side are you on? @profserious explores ...

[WiTT Forum @WiTTforum]

Great to see so many WiTT members at Lauren’s inaugural women in science & tech policy meet-up @nwspk - do sign up to our mailing list to hear about future events!

🔭🥂

[Lauren Gilbert @notanastronomer]

reminder: women in science and tech policy drinks @ newspeak house tomorrow

there will be wine, biscuits, cheese, etc

[Louise @ludunsb]

@notanastronomer This is normal in offices.
At home we test the smoke alarm by regularly burning our toast. On which we put marmite.

[Ben Johnson @ersatzben]

Great to see detail of UK Defence Innovation in the SDR. As we argued for in @BritishProgress "Security and Prosperity" report, UKDI will share problem sets with industry to stimulate the market and tap into the wider innovation system.

https://t.co/6Wrx2EiVPR

[Haydn Belfield @HaydnBelfield]

Essential reading!

[Sam Currie @Sambutd1fferent]

National prosperity and security depend on strategic capabilities – eg vaccine production. Britain’s capabilities have been allowed to wither.

I wrote for @BritishProgress with @ersatzben, @ludunsb + @andrewjb_ about how the Industrial Strategy can rebuild them.