- Jan 2024
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cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
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https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1
Some of Newton's other papers are held by The Morgan Library & Museum.
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- Nov 2023
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Classical texts the green and yellows from Cambridge contain highly detailed introductions that don’t require any original language knowledge.
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research.sociology.cam.ac.uk research.sociology.cam.ac.uk
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Iris Pissaride (PhD student profile at University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology)
Contact Information: ip290@cam.ac.uk
Iris Pissaride's PhD research explores coloniality and identity in Cyprus, with a focus on colonial knowledge production within museum practice. Her research is funded by the ESRC DTP and the Cambridge Trust.
Iris was born and raised in Kaimakli, Cyprus. She holds a BA (Hons) in Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. Along with academic research, Iris also practices a more visual sociology through collaborative work. In 2016 she worked with the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam as a guest-curator, and joined the editorial board of Kunstlicht — an academic journal for the arts affiliated with Vrije Universiteit. She was editor-in-chief of the journal from 2018-2019 where she oversaw the production of four thematic issues on the intersections of visual culture, contemporary art, and sociology. She organised events and collaborations with FramerFramed, SMBA, OT301, NieuwLand, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and the Tropen Museum’s Rituals Series. Her latest ongoing interdisciplinary work “Re-signifying views: an exercise in decolonising on/for/from Cyprus” was launched at Phaneromenis70 Cultural Research Foundation in Nicosia.
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research.sociology.cam.ac.uk research.sociology.cam.ac.uk
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Simone Schneider (PhD student profile at University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology)
Contact Information: ss2633@cam.ac.uk
Simone Schneider is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge with an interest in intimacy, sexuality, gender, and social theory. In her dissertation, Simone explores infidelity in intimate relationships.
Simone studied Sociology, European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, and Communication Science at the University of Cambridge (MPhil), the University of Amsterdam (MSc), and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (BA, BA). She is a first-gen student. Alongside her academic training, Simone gained experience in social research, including working for the Scottish Government, the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality.
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/simone-schneider
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research.sociology.cam.ac.uk research.sociology.cam.ac.uk
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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza Zevallos
Contact Information: grb49@cam.ac.uk
Rafael is a PhD Student in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the emergence of experimental evidentiary practices in the context of environmental disasters. His project inquiries how the fishing communities impacted by the 2022 La Pampilla oil spill in Peru are repurposing sensing media and articulating epistemic habits to document the disaster, and in that way engage with regulatory agencies, the Peruvian administration and the private oil company to advance their claims. Hence, he seeks to interrogate how public matters regarding environmental harm evolve from the contentious assemblage of different technical, social and legal veridictions.
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/rafael-barrio-de-mendoza-zevallos
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research.sociology.cam.ac.uk research.sociology.cam.ac.uk
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Scarlet Harris (profile at University of Cambridge)
Contact Information: sh2232@cam.ac.uk
Dr Scarlet Harris is a Teaching Associate in the department of Sociology.
She received her BA in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh and her MRes and PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow. Dr Harris has held various research posts at the University of Manchester, including with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).
She is currently writing a book based on her doctoral research, entitled 'Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left', which will be published by Manchester University Press.
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-scarlet-harris
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- Jan 2023
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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https://hypothes.is/groups/9nrQXp3z/cambridge-univ-press
While reading https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19, I came across a suggested Cambridge University Press Hypothes.is group. Oddly it only has one annotation fro February 2020.
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Local file Local file
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the majority of Geniza documents are found in the Taylor-Schechter (T-S) collection in the Cambridge University Library
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- Apr 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Dr. Deepti Gurdasani. (2022, January 24). When did 4.5% of children in any age group being infected every wk become ok for any disease? [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1485670994320793602
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
- Nov 2021
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dictionary.cambridge.org dictionary.cambridge.orgdemo1
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an example of a product, especially a computer program or piece of recorded music, given or shown to someone to try to make them buy or support it: a software demo
I prefer this to the Merriam-Webster definition.
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- Apr 2021
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www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN.
Ein neuer britischer Report stellt fest, dass das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung doppelt so viel CO2-Emissionen verursacht wie die ärmsten 50% zusammen. Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change
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- Feb 2021
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www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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‘Why wouldn’t I get it?’: The experts leading the battle against COVID anti-vaxxers. (2021, February 7). https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-08/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation-inoculation-theory/13125164
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- Oct 2020
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People come to Google looking for information they can trust, and that information often comes from the reporting of journalists and news organizations around the world.
Heavy hit in light of the Facebook data scandal this week on top of accusations about fake news spreading.
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We’re now in the early stages of testing a “Propensity to Subscribe” signal based on machine learning models in DoubleClick to make it easier for publishers to recognize potential subscribers, and to present them the right offer at the right time.
Interestingly the technology here isn't that different than the Facebook Data that Cambridge Analytica was using, the difference is that they're not using it to directly impact politics, but to drive sales. Does this mean they're more "ethical"?
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- May 2020
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www.thenakedscientists.com www.thenakedscientists.com
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Smith, C. (2020, May 12). Hospital staff carrying COVID-19.https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/science-news/hospital-staff-carrying-covid-19
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- Oct 2019
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, claims that Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, successfully campaigned for The Guardian to scrub her name from one of their bombshell data-abuse stories.
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- Jul 2019
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niklasblog.com niklasblog.com
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British election laws are not fit for purpose
More about this is found here.
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asked “So you are the victim in all of this?” and answer “Yes”
Here's a Rolling Stone article on the matter.
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Alexander Nix
His Wikipedia page is here.
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Project Alamo
The Wikipedia page for this is found here.
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CA enabled Ted Cruz’s campaign trail
More on the matter is found here.
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SCL
SCL is an acronym for Strategic Communication Laboratories; even the name is shady. Here's their Wikipedia article.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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“Urgent action must be taken by the UK’s governments to ensure that the tools used to regulate political campaigning online continue to be fit for purpose in a digital age,” said Sir John Holmes, chair of the Electoral Commission.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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According to Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, the Cambridge Analytica scandal was a landmark moment, because it revealed a micro version “of the larger phenomenon that is surveillance capitalism”. Zuboff is responsible for formulating the concept of surveillance capitalism, and published a magisterial, indispensible book with that title soon after the scandal broke. In the book, Zuboff creates a framework and a language for understanding this new world. She believes The Great Hack is an important landmark in terms of public understanding, and that Noujaim and Amer capture “what living under the conditions of surveillance capitalism means. That every action is being repurposed as raw material for behavioural data. And that these data are being lifted from our lives in ways that are systematically engineered to be invisible. And therefore we can never resist.”
Shoshana Zuboff's comments on The Great Hack.
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- Jul 2018
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locusmag.com locusmag.com
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Cambridge Analytica are like stage mentalists: they’re doing something labor-intensive and pretending that it’s something supernatural. A stage mentalist will train for years to learn to quickly memorize a deck of cards and then claim that they can name your card thanks to their psychic powers. You never see the unglamorous, unimpressive memorization practice
The comparison between Cambridge Analytica (and big data in general) with the stage mentalist is intriguing. I am left wondering about the disappointment and disbelief in the truth. Sometimes there is a part of us that oddly wants to be mesmerised and to believe.
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Facebook doesn’t have a mind-control problem, it has a corruption problem. Cambridge Analytica didn’t convince decent people to become racists; they convinced racists to become voters.
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Cambridge Analytica are like stage mentalists: they’re doing something labor-intensive and pretending that it’s something supernatural. A stage mentalist will train for years to learn to quickly memorize a deck of cards and then claim that they can name your card thanks to their psychic powers. You never see the unglamorous, unimpressive memorization practice.
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- Apr 2018
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www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
- Mar 2018
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hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com
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In 2008, Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time, presided over the unveiling of a clockmaker’s monument to time. The Corpus Clock, created by the inventor and horologist John C. Taylor, does not look like a clock. Its shiny gold disk features 60 notches that radiate from its center. Lights race around the edges of the disc, and a spherical pendulum swings slowly beneath it.
This clock is so strange--you won't be able to stop staring at it...
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