✨ 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 ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/trash-in-t...
✨new post!
@srravya.bsky.social and Aditi Surana reflect on navigating the shifting landscape of academia - with all its uncertainty, politics and challenges. Reflecting on a recent panel event, they chart messy realities and suggest ways forward
Read more here:
www.ai-ethics.org/reflections/...
Looking forward to speaking here on Wednesday:
✨ Co-organised with the Planetary AI Project, and the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Digital Economy and Society cluster
📣our next event “Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-led dialogue”, is happening in Edinburgh Feb 18th - a panel discussion featuring @karengregory.bsky.social, Nelson Oppong and Adam Badger, and chaired by @srravya.bsky.social
👀 sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...
✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research.
⬇️ sign up below!
shorturl.at/Yj91W
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥
Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.
🗓️ 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome
With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research.
⬇️ sign up below!
shorturl.at/Yj91W
Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟♀️🧑💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!
Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Grateful to the organisers @velocitygravity.bsky.social Ans Sona Gachayeva at @stir.ac.uk and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the opportunity to pre-launch the book 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 and exchange with academics and authors on the challenges that AI brings to universities
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE
Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.
🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
#data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer
🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Co-organised with the wonderful @kevinguyan.bsky.social and the Gender and Sexuality Data Lab, and kindly supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE!
Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception
⬇️ sign up
shorturl.at/QlMfx
📣 Come join us on Nov 7th for the launch of the European Trade Union Institute’s new book on AI in Higher Education and Research, edited by @aida.follows.technology who will join us for a book talk! Followed by a fascinating discussion chaired by Dr Sona Gacheyeva
⬇️ info & sign up shorturl.at/8oZ4Z
✨ Join us Oct 22nd for Beren Sekerci's talk exploring material agency and hybridity in biohybrid robotics - artifacts which are neither fully living nor fully robotic, designed by both AI and humans
⬇️ Find out more and sign up below!
shorturl.at/cm4uP
Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning
🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm
⬇️ sign up:
shorturl.at/OqQGf
if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!
👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts
Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva
got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew!
Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️
📸Daniel McGowan Photography
🌈ran out of space but also many thanks to co-organiser @benedetta.bsky.social and of course all of you who joined us for this whirlwind of an evening!!
✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social
I am at this event right now and it's fucking incredible.
Queer Data Showcase has started! Massively excited about this @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social x Gender & Sexuality Lab collab.
@sj-bennett.bsky.social
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
@srravya.bsky.social
@meg-fereday.bsky.social
@mystikaglamoor.bsky.social
en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night!
Tickets here 👇
www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!!
Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻
🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻
🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A
🖊️ sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...
