Isabel Sargent PhD CSci MIScT (she/they)

see the way we gaze at each other @oew1v07 ! Happy memories 💗

I had occasion to watch this youtube.com/watch?v=DNldTA… again. We gave this talk in 2018. I believe cloud compute hasn't changed a bit.

Just adding to this with a perspective on the impacts of the (lack of) thinking by technologists youtube.com/clip/UgkxJY5em…

This one sentence expresses in words the unease I've experienced for quite some time "AI research is embedded in a socio-economic system that is divorced from anything deeper than winning its own game" I love and hate AI at the same time. How about you? beiner.substack.com/p/reality-eats…

Tune in to ‘The Business Show’, Monday at 8pm on Bloomsbury Radio. Arif’s guests are Tristian Christie, Laura Herren and Clelia Cothier - Masters students at UCL who discuss Innovation and Public Purpose and why it matters today. Listen here - bil.ac.uk/about-us/commu…

@jharrisonoram @ProfMHWhitworth but what has survived makes quite a compelling collection of words

@ProfMHWhitworth Today's reading material:

Coming from the #environmental sciences, it feels like the worlds of #AI and #industry exist in a parallel world The @McKinsey_MGI assessed impacts may make sense in a world with a stable #climate and #society But the actual world is volatile, complex and radically uncertain

Too many organisations behave as if the future is going to be like the past It evidently will not twitter.com/LeonSimons8/st…

The science is clear, we have to send our #emissions over a cliff before the end of the decade if we want a hope of avoiding catastrophic #GlobalHeating Who does it serve to pretend that we are not going to undergo a massive #economic discontinuity over the coming decades?

@mapmakerdavid Turns out Britainese is tonal language - the meaning is in the tone, not the word Could be anything from "crikey, that's blown my mind and I need to think about it before I respond" to "I was distracted by some drying paint and failed to hear what you said"

What does "interesting" really mean in Britainese?

Are you in #academia? Could you take part in a survey my colleagues are running on eco-anxiety in HE Staff? Link: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5h… You must be “employed to deliver teaching and learning, research or in academic leadership within a higher education setting"

@RupertHough That'll be the carriage that the lairy drunk joins And they'll sit right opposite you

My office for the next 8 hours… Should I be disconcerted that I have this carriage all to myself 👀

Are you a Home student finishing your course or graduating soon? Consider applying for this PhD. It explores the use of quantum technology gravity sensor data in buried utilities by integration into GIS. Only Home applicants eligible. Link details & apply findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

@Jackstilgoe Ha yes, indeed. The behaviour of organisations as optimisation machines - even non-profits

Great reporting. But it would be a surprise if they weren’t doing exactly this.

Great PhD opportunity still open for a UK student with data science / maths modelling interests - great blend of using cutting-edge sensor technology to solve real-world problems in buried asset mapping! And @OrdnanceSurvey support too! RTs welcome please!

@ProjectHarmonia This may be of interest ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/repo…

@ProjectHarmonia is a collaboration between municipal urban planners and #EarthObservations experts, focused on developing a new generation of decision-making tools to help improve urban #climatechange resilience and adaptation.

@JKSteinberger Vary it - start light (pink/lavender) or quick-fading (blue/turquoise/green) and gradually add deeper shades as the the old grows out - purple, orange, red. Well, that's what I do!

I've decided to go gray (what my hair is now, really) in dignity and style at the end of the summer. Nah, just joking! Internet poll time! While growing gray out, should I go: 1. 🩶 silver-platinum 2. 💜 purple 3. 💙💚 blue-green 4. 🌈 ?

A promising appointment In ft.com/content/03895d… @soundboy wrote: "[people at the AI frontier] are competing rather than collaborating...many admit they have not yet established a way to slow down and co-ordinate. I believe they would sincerely welcome governments stepping in"