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Welcome back party for the Centre of Gender and Diversity
On Wednesday 21 September 2022 some twenty-five people gathered together at the welcome (back) party, hosted by the new director of the CGD, Eliza Steinbock Associate Professor of Gender and Diversity.
Click, clique, radical chic
Some videos on the internet are even naughtier than others. Thomas Frissen researches if the flood of information, ideas and visual stimuli digital technologies expose us to could help radicalise individuals and polarise societies.
Rules for robots - towards a more civil robot apocalypse
UM’s Katleen Gabriels is a moral philosopher, specialised in computer ethics. She looks into how morality and computer technologies influence each other. Her new book Rules for Robots. Ethics and Artificial Intelligence asks some questions that will need to be answered very soon.
Students for Climate – building a community
Students marching against climate change? Not really news, is it now? That’s the sort of thing students do anyways. Aware of the stereotype, Students for Climate chose to prick the student bubble for their latest march.
Green Impact: driving change one lightbulb at a time
UM’s commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and its aim to be a sustainable university by 2030 is taking shape. Green shoots are visible everywhere - metaphorically that is; winter continues as scheduled…
Call the bluff, prime minister (part one)
With an Implosion of the Conservative Party becoming increasingly likely, Theresa May must stand up to extreme Brexit advocates before it’s too late.
To PhD or not to PhD
I knew the letter would arrive in June. Every day I walked towards the front door and quickly glanced at the mailbox. No letter. Then, on a sunny Saturday morning, it was there. I felt like all those high schoolers from all those movies who applied for these fancy universities, waiting for their...