Happy to share our latest book chapter, published in Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. It looks at how neurotechnology is portrayed in the media and how those narratives influence public understandings of BCIs across different linguistic contexts 🧠🗞️
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvz49ClDl...
As a team, they are keen to incorporate concerns of health and social inequalities, the perspectives of marginalised communities and a conceptual focus on care (what is care?) and voice (whose voices are heard?).
@biomedselfsoc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social
📣 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
📢 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
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Delighted to share our work on some of the sociophonetic cues reproduced in commercial TTS with @lhlew.bsky.social last week at BAAP (the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians) - thanks for having me! Really enjoyed some fantastic talks 🗣️🎙️
The 2-year PDRA project will focus on interpretability & explanation methods for explaining complex ML models. We will investigate conceptual issues surrounding idealizations present in interpretability & explanation methods.
Learn more and apply 👇
edin.ac/4cjuhnQ
#PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
The 3-year PDRA project will focus on issues in modelling surrounding how machine learning models idealize, represent, explain phenomena, and enable scientific understanding.
Learn more and apply 👇
edin.ac/4edC20O
#PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
More info & links to apply on our website: edin.ac/4bPXUNb
Closing Date: Monday, 20 April 2026
@schoolofppls.bsky.social @uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
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Come work with the Philosophy department @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social with affiliation to the CTMF!
Applications are open for two Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science & Philosophy of Machine Learning as part of the ERC Project: Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy?
Read more from the University of Edinburgh: www.ed.ac.uk/news/leading...
Read more from the Royal Society of Edinburgh: rse.org.uk/global-leade...
📸 Photo of RSE in first post by Ryan Johnston
Professor Vallor has been elected as RSE Fellow as part of the 2026 cohort made up of 43 individuals (15 based at the University of Edinburgh!) deemed excellent in their field. It's wonderful to see @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social represented by so many of the fellows.
@uoe-cahss.bsky.social
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We are excited to share that Professor @shannonvallor.bsky.social, Co-Director of the CTMF, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh! Congratulations to Professor Vallor on this very well-deserved honour!
@royalsoced.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social
See above for the three-year post description and link to apply, and below for the two-year post (on interpretability and explainability methods for complex ML models in science, experience in formal methods preferred for this one): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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
Hear from @ftollon.bsky.social and @enricogalvagni.bsky.social (part of our CTMF research community) on this podcast episode! 👇🔊
Deeply grateful to the UK AI and Robotics research community for this Leadership Award. So many wonderful researchers were honoured with me tonight - my own award would not be possible without my amazing @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social colleagues
The Centre for Technomoral Futures is about bringing together the technical, moral, social expertise that's needed to secure the future of human flourishing.
Watch to learn about our first 5 years, and let us know where you think the next few years might take us! 👇
youtube.com/shorts/GUU70--ftkg
Call for EOIs: Join @braiduk.bsky.social and Ada's Stakeholder Forum to help shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Forum members will inform BRAID's activities and priority areas, and explore challenges and opportunities for Responsible AI.
braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...
📅18 March 2026
The PhD will research how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use.
Find out more & apply by 16 March 👇
edin.ac/46cHXPd
@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social
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Text reads: ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning. Applications are open for this funded PhD Studentship, to begin in September 2026. Application Deadline: 16 March 2026, More info: edin.ac/46cHXPd
Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science!
Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?
Dr Suzanne Black is joining us to give a paper from her upcoming book lsupress.org/9780807186428/between-no... on March 25th. Join us for "Preserving digital cultural heritage: Archive of Our Own and issues of structural bias?" Register here: https://edin.ac/3MgQsSA #EdCDCS
✨ How can model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data? And how might it perpetuate notions of real data as 'gold standard'? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social will discuss this in his talk on March 18th - sign up ⬇️
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📸 photos 1 & 2 by @chrisdonia.bsky.social!
@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @ginahelfrich.bsky.social @ftollon.bsky.social
A full audience in a lecture theatre, listening to Professor Vallor's Inaugural Lecture. Photo by Chris Scott.
Professor Shannon Vallor is stood behind a lectern in front of a full audience, mid presentation. Photo by Chris Scott.
Members of the CTMF community presenting their research posters and networking.
Shannon Vallor introducing Meenakshi Mani's presentation at the CTMF PhD Showcase. Meenakshi's slides read: The trifecta of colonial "isms": AI, Big Tech & Indian education.
📢 We've published our latest Annual Report! 📢
In 2024-2025, we celebrated 5 years of the Centre, 4 of our PhD Fellows submitted their theses, we were joined by @zeerak.bsky.social and 4 new PhD Fellows, and our public events reached nearly 1000 attendees!
Read about our year 👇
edin.ac/3N0WLKm
During this event, @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social will each reflect on recent scholarship they have completed which examines different facets of algorithmic life, and how they met the challenges of researching algorithmic lives (and deaths).
Algorithmic technologies, including AI, are transforming our lives – for better or for worse. How can social scientists adequately investigate their transformative effects? What does this mean for our political and social theoretical concepts and understandings of human society?
Last few tickets remaining for 'Researching Algorithmic Life – A Conversation on Method and Substance’ with @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social!
🗓️ Wednesday 18 March 14.00 – 16.00
📍 Old College, Edinburgh
🎟️ edin.ac/3Njvgf1
@leverhulmecal.bsky.social
This PhD studentship will look at how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use.
Find out more & apply by 16 March 👇
edin.ac/46cHXPd
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Controversies in the Data Society 2026 Seminar Series
Scams, bubbles and the financial technologies of data societies
06 March 2026 / 3:10pm - 5:30pm
With Professor Liz McFall and Dr Lana Swartz
Find out more and register your place:
edin.ac/4af78BQ