Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Labour and Tech Editor at Rest of World
Journalist. Sci/tech/climate. Words in @NatureNews, @wired, etc.
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3 days ago |
restofworld.org | Stephanie Wangari |Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Firms that provide outsourced digital labor for big tech companies tend to be secretive. They are often bound by legal contracts that limit what they can say, allowing tech companies to distance themselves legally and ethically from their workers, experts told Rest of World. “This creates a circle of invisibility around this work,” Antonio Casilli, a sociologist at Polytechnic Institute of Paris who studies the human contributors to artificial intelligence, told Rest of World.
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Jul 29, 2024 |
nature.com | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
It seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime for AM, a young Indian graduate student who loved studying reptiles. In December 2015, she began fieldwork for her master’s thesis at a non-profit organization’s turtle conservation programme. That New Year’s Eve, the 21-year-old student attended a party with her colleagues at her male supervisor’s house.
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May 7, 2024 |
bilibili.com | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
From Nature, 2 May 2024'Orangutan, heal thyself': First wild animal seen using medicinal plantThe Sumatran orangutan used a plant known to humans for its medicinal qualities. By Gayathri Vaidyanathan“猩猩，治愈你自己”:第一个使用药用植物的野生动物苏门答腊猩猩使用了一种人类已知具有药用价值的植物。作者:Gayathri Vaidyanathanorangutan/ɔːˌræŋʊˈtæn/ n. 红毛猩猩thyself pron. /ðaɪˈself/ ( old use) ( dialect) a word meaning ‘yourself’, used when talking to only one person（用作第二人称单数反身代词）你自己medicinal adj. /məˈdɪsɪnl/ 药用的Sumatran /su'mɑ:trən/ adj.
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Jan 29, 2024 |
nature.com | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
India’s Supreme Court has agreed this week to hear arguments in a challenge to a controversial new forest law. An official request for a hearing was filed to the Supreme Court last Octoberber by 13 former officials in the forest service and environment ministry, who say the amended Forest Conservation Act is unconstitutional.
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Dec 6, 2023 |
nature.com | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
India is pitching itself as a leader of the global south at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), under way in Dubai. During his opening speech at the meeting, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a sharp rebuke to wealthy nations: “A small section of mankind has exploited nature indiscriminately.
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