This is going to be a fun, engaging showcase, happening in Manchester
in June!
It's a great excuse to plan a trip to Manchester this summer!
Read about the first queer data showcase held last year in Edinburgh: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/qu...
Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world?
Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social
Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW
This image features a vibrant yellow promotional graphic for a book titled "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. The top of the graphic displays the text "PRE-ORDER NOW! COMING OCTOBER 20, 2026" in bold blue capital letters. Centered in the middle is a 3D rendering of the book cover, which includes three vertical photo strips showing people working in office settings and server racks. Below the book image is a quote in large, bold black and red font: "A GROUNDED AND UNCOMPROMISING ACCOUNT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES AND WORKERS THAT SUSTAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE." — Mark Graham, co-author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I. The bottom of the graphic features the logo and name for the University of California Press.
#PlatformExtractivism is available for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (out Oct 20)!
Thrilled to share what @geoplace.bsky.social has to say about the book: "A grounded and uncompromising account of the infrastructures and workers that sustain AI."
𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo...
#BookRecommendation #Books
📣 Postdoc opportunity with Dr Nayha Sethi, CTMF Affiliate 📣
The Medicine without Doctors Project is recruiting a postdoc fellow with a background in law/regulation/socio-legal studies to work on a case-study exploring socio-legal elements of AI.
Closing date: 8 May
Info & apply 👇
edin.ac/3Qf8VQX
CBI's MOSAICS logo, basic information on the MOSAICS Symposium, and list of the members of the Program Committee.
Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap...
Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!!
MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026
Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026
#AIstudies #histtech
📢 Just under 1 week left to apply! 📢
More info & apply 👇
3-year PDRA: edin.ac/4edC20O
2-year PDRA: edin.ac/4cjuhnQ
Closing Date: Monday, 20 April 2026
@schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @shannonvallor.bsky.social #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
Online seminar by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social starting in an hour! Join us if you're interested in digital labour, collective governance and what worker power in AI can look like! Details to join below 👇
Here's a collection of trans/queer focused papers at #CHI2026! 🌈🏳️⚧️📝
padlet.com/haimson/chi2...
The CHI Papers Explorer is back for #CHI2026! As every year, you can explore all 2,769 papers using semantic search.
Type any topic, see papers ranked by relevance, and build your schedule.
Try it and please share with everyone heading to Barcelona: johnguerra.co/viz/chi2026P...
@chi.acm.org #HCI
📢 Join us next week for an online seminar on alternative futures in AI by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social discussing "Do workers have a voice in AI systems? Worker-led AI governance and participation"
April 14 (Tues), 1.30 pm BST! Register here: 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/03189f...
100jumps.org is so addictive, I'm secretly pleased finishing it didn't unlock a 1000 jumps level 2 or something.
I hoped to join a park run this morning, less than 10 mins away from where I live. Instead, I chose jumping.
“Labor Tech Research Network invites submissions for our fifth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. The deadline is June 1.” Via @labortechresearchnetwork.org
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
Planetary AI Spring Seminar Series: Dr. Rafael Grohmann
via @ibalilebali.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/03189f...
📢 Join us next week for an online seminar on alternative futures in AI by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social discussing "Do workers have a voice in AI systems? Worker-led AI governance and participation"
April 14 (Tues), 1.30 pm BST! Register here: 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/03189f...
"The questions we are litigating now are less ‘is this AI product good or bad’ and more ‘we have seen what it can do, and do we want AI to exist in this space at all?’" writes @bcmerchant.bsky.social on the shift from rejection to refusal of AI that he documents across different domains.
🎙️ Research beyond the page!
Join our Introduction to Podcasting workshop on 18 May (online). Learn to shape ideas, find your voice, and start podcasting. Only 12 spots—hands-on & supportive.
Book here:https://buff.ly/Ks6Y236
#Podcasting #PublicEngagement #ECRs #Research
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
@commonnotions.bsky.social presents:
Raging Against the Machine: A Popular School Against AI!
Thanks to @danmcquillan.bsky.social, @zeerak.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, @melhogan.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, and @notnaughtknot.bsky.social!
some writing on AI as a war issue and war as a workers issue, and how the middle term does not simply cancel out
Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April
We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...
"Councillors agreed that no further data centres should be approved until the Scottish Government defines what qualifies as a “green” data centre."
“In exchange for a few dollars, its trainers are fueling an industry that may eventually render their skills obsolete, while leaving some of them vulnerable to a future of deepfakes, identity theft & digital exploitation” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“About 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals were striking Wednesday in Northern California over concerns that the health care giant is replacing therapists with artificial intelligence.”
Among the 1600 employees laid off (~ 10% of Atlassian's workforce), some were on the frontline of building AI into the company’s products. Some who had worked there for more than a decade. Others were on leave when they found out they were without a job.
Very excited for this talk and looking forward!
Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.
The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations.
In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
