Adopting AI made internet artists much more productive & greatly boosted the appeal of their art... but also lowered the novelty of most folks' work. However, the most creative artists are able to use AI to become much more creative, exploring new options academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

🎉 New #JIED article: ''Exploring the ‘Blurred Boundary’: Human Smuggling and Trafficking on the Central Mediterranean Route to Europe'' by Dr Alex Bish, Dr Ella Cockbain, Peter W. Walsh & Hervé Borrion 👉Read it here: doi.org/10.31389/jied.…

🔔New essay! As part of POMEPS Studies, edited by @gtsourapas and Marc Lynch, my article titled "The Intersection of Refugee Rentierism and Domestic Politics" has been published! 1/2 pomeps.org/the-intersecti…

My new essay for POMEPS, edited by @gtsourapas and Marc Lynch is out. I introduce the concept of #MigrationProxyWarfare: how states can leverage militias to externalise and outsource their fight against #migration. Give it a read! #Libya pomeps.org/migration-prox…

Long live the Entente Cordiale, Vive l’amitié franco-britannique !

Interested in anti-smuggling, border enforcement and its impacts? We’re delighted to welcome key experts to @UCL on 22nd May. Co-organised with Oxford University @BorderCrim & openDemocracy Beyond Slavery . Registration open & space is limited - don’t forget to sign up👇

Massive congratulations to Dr Alex Bish who passed his PhD viva yesterday. It’s a great thesis on migration journeys on the Central Mediterranean Route to Europe. Very proud supervisors in me & Hervé Borrion . Big thanks to examiners Profs Sheldon Zhang & Shane Johnson.

@AlghraniT Dr Alex Bish Hervé Borrion UCL Crime Science UCL SECReT Society Thanks. Don’t want to reply on Alex’s behalf as congrats are all his but he’s probs too modest to point you towards his first published paper from it, so here’s the link in case it’s of use for your course! jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31…

🧵🚨New analysis showing ALL tweets mentioning both "Muslim" & "UK" with over 500 retweets since 29 Jul. Graph shows which accounts got most impressions over time. Red/pink dots show anti-Muslim &/or anti-immigrant tweets, brown=neutral, green=tweets defending Muslims #UKRiots

Happy to share my latest piece promoting a recent journal article for World Humanitarian Day

We have increasing evidence that today's AIs can, indeed, generate novel ideas This paper shows that the AI generates research ideas that are more novel and exciting (to other researchers!) than experts in the field, with no significant difference in the idea's feasibility.

Umm pretty weird that “political economy” means like eight different things and it takes a decoder ring to figure out how it’s being used in any specific context

📢 New study finds #AI-generated research ideas were rated as more *original* than those from scientists. At MyRA, we’re taking this a step further—helping researchers tackle one of the toughest aspects of #qualitativeresearch: drawing actionable implications from your findings.

Just published an unedited blog fully generated by myra ! I used 8 articles on #GenAI in #socialscience, analysed & categorised in minutes. Read it here: myraresearch.com/blog/asking-my… #AI #ResearchInnovation #research #AIResearch

This study’s findings are alarming. At MyRA, we’re committed to making researchers’ lives easier by transforming the #qualitative #analysis process. Let’s work towards making #research a sustainable, rewarding career! trymyra.com

🚨New study alert!🚨 We dive into the complex journeys of #migrants travelling from #Libya to #Malta along the #CentralMediterraneanRoute, detailing the series of routine steps and harms on their journeys. Read here (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Great methodogical paper for those interested in #crimescripts. UCL Crime Science

Combine this with a study from last year showing that GPT-4 could autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation. Systems for automated LLM research aren’t there yet, but there is real progress.

The originally targeted boat was an unseaworthy iron boat, which in the meantime was sheltered by a tanker. The approximately 40 people on board were also rescued. The Italian authorities assigned the distant port of Genoa for the disembarkation of the survivors. 2/2