Burkhard Schafer

📢New Article Published in Law, Ethics & Technology
📜AIWitness testimony: visual neuroprostheses, AI-mediated perception and the law of evidence
🔎Claudia González-Márquez, Burkhard Schafer
@gonzalezmarquez.bsky.social @burkhardschafer.bsky.social
www.elspub.com/doi/10.55092...

Yay, would be so brilliant to have you here!

YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation Innovation funding brought these musical instruments to life

As the UK's largest public funder of research and innovation, we support a huge range of bright ideas and world-changing inventions. But did you know this includes music technology?

📽️➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Jm...

AI-generated image of an iPhone with alert.

Border searches aren’t just about your phone—they can reveal deep digital footprints. Staying safe means more than just powering down. When traveling, plan ahead, know your rights, and limit what’s accessible to protect your privacy. More tips here: cdt.org/insights/pro...

Never come across 'WindowsCentral' as a media outlet but this piece is powerful and dense and absolutely spot on about where we are with AI and business models right now. Putting bigger outlets to shame. www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

Are you an Edinburgh Law School graduate based in the Munich area?

Then meet with your fellow alumni at an informal gathering held at Hofbräuhaus München on Friday 21 November, 8pm - 10pm.

Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/47v8siz

I've been considering changing my name to Aaron Aardvark for some time...

Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field.

#neuroskyence

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I was at her Edinburgh gig last night, and it was wonderful (AND we repaired an unstable timeline involving one copy of Poyums Annaw, a space time anomaly and the Edinburg Book Festival, but that's a story for another day) - if you want to treat yourself, and there is one near you, get a ticket!

she said, voice shaking: I think I just understood my PhD! (she had passed her Viva 14 years ago...) We never found out how pickled gherkins on rye bread had triggered that epiphany

I remember an evening email with my parents and brothers, some day in the late 70s. Among the usual chatter, my mother's face suddenly went vacant, and she stared silently at the wall. My father asked if everything was all right....

This is brilliant news, and what a great project!

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton We Have AI Now

Eleanor Morton's latest take on AI - worse than Craig
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Whoops, that should've been @4sweb.bsky.social, my bad!
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Only 10 days left to apply:

We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
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Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity.

While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control.

Learn more:

privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...

"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Letting Google set the narrative about the environmental costs of "AI" is like letting tobacco companies set the narrative about the effects of second-hand smoke by measuring the health effects of sitting through one neighbor smoking one cigarette.

Sign the Petition Convince Audible to revise it's New Royalty Model

While many get overexcited on AI and copyright Audibe quietly finds low-tech solutions to rip off authors and redistribute money from creators to billionaires. An important petition here: www.change.org/p/convince-a... and for background, this video helps: www.youtube.com/@Elisabeth_W...

Exactly one month til I'm heading across the UK with POYUMS ANNAW. Already so many of yous have bought books and tickets, and been so supportive of my work, thank you!! Tickets are available for most dates (if you've missed your city or you're not able to attend we're livestreaming the 24th)

Running she comes, late,
Reeling in under the last
Bronze brimmings. She sits
Among twenty whispers.

—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown (Polygon 2021)
#Orkney #poetry
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Scots Language Awards 2025 shortlist unveiled Hands Up for Trad are gled tae annoonce that amang the braw nominees includit on the shortleet for a Scots Leid Award 2025, are weel worthy fowk fae Scottish literature, theatre, eddication an busi…

The wonderful @lenniesaurus.bsky.social has been shortlisted for Scottish Writer of the Year! If you've enjoyed her poetry or tireless (and frankly incredible) efforts promoting Scots with her Scots word of the day series, send her a vote:

projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...

This sounds absolutely excellent!

Educational genomics and embryo selection startups Photo by David Matos on Unsplash Two new genomics startups have released consumer services claiming to allow parents to screen and select embryos based on polygenic scores for IQ. Both are already …

Two startups have just launched embryo selection software based on genomic IQ prediction. Both have support from "educational genomics" researchers, but some scientists say the startups are selling "snake oil." New post on genetics, IQ and education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e...

Ahhhh.... The "stand up" part threw me there. And my physio sometimes asks me to do unusual movements, to see if I can, so I'd def. done the same thing you did and thought he'd have his reasons 😆

That's...pretty much how I would have understood it too.... What were you supposed to be doing?

a painting of a bear on a monocycle, balancing lots of food, and the name "Blind bear" underneath it

So you mean you are extremely well coordinated? 😄
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