David Wyatt

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...

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So true and so very sad if this becomes widespread. What's next? AI research participants (this may already be a thing but i'd rather not check and continue to exist in ignorance for the time being)

Given all the research that shows intersectional bias & stigma is baked into these LLMs, this is a troubling initiative. People are often’hard to reach’ b/c there aren’t attempts to reach them on their terms. AI isn’t going to fix that, nor will it have capacity to provide more meaningful insights.

Can some of us agree that we must not treat LLMs as replacements for real, breathing, feeling, located, relational, caring, uncaring, difficult, annoying, inefficient people?

So now they're developing AI-simulated patient & public involvement/engagement (PPIE) panels and claiming it will ensure 'more inclusive' and 'diverse' patient involvement (by simulating lived experience of those harder to recruit to panels).

www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/research-and...

Co-authored with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for a forthcoming special issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social, this essay takes Elon Musk's planned FinTech makeover of X as a provocation for a critical analysis of so-called 'embedded finance' and the evolution of FinTech
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THIS! Inclusive PPIE matters, but simulating lived experience just completely misses the point. PPIE seeks input and partnership but also builds community, trust and relationships that shape research over time. It involves (and should involve!) a lot of ongoing work and effort.

This makes my heart sink.

S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️

We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

We want robust, enormous research that is SUCH good research, you already know how important and right and insightful it is before you even start it. We want research so predeterminedly world-changing that there is hardly any point actually doing the research at all.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”'

Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Friction and Promise in Data Labor" by Minna Ruckenstein + Tuukka Lehtiniemi #datafication #friction #datalabor #prison #human-fueled #automation #aspiration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action Abstract. Patient and public involvement is increasingly advocated in health policy, research and practice. Patients and people with lived experience, care

Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action

Marita Hennessy, Tom Fahey, @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

@healthpromint.bsky.social

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If it wasn’t for us, there would be no data: stakeholders’ perspectives on patient involvement in the use of health data in Ireland - Research Involvement and Engagement Legislative reform in Ireland and Europe, including the introduction of a Health Information Bill in Ireland and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation, promote strong governance of health d...

"Interestingly, the patients and public group also expressed a wish to collaborate more closely with industry, as financial resources can help to support patient organisations and therefore proliferation of PPI more widely"

⚠️ #COI #CDoH #PPI ⤵️

researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

A dachshund stands in a store, visible through glass doors marked with a "no dachshunds" graphic silhouette sign. The interior shows shopping carts and tiled flooring.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Key humanities research infrastructure under grave threat at Australian National University (ANU); jobs of 11 of 14 sociologists at Macquarie University on the line (with university proposing to cut Sociology and Politics major)

Why Walking Helps Us Think Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

This reminds me:

Submission to Workshop - From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing

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here is a short blog post by Aferdita Bytyqi and myself on the importance of data solidarity and data cosmopolitanism in the context of the European Health Data Space:

dthlab.org/the-european...

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Happy to see this out in one of my fave journals - led by @crismontenegro.bsky.social We unpack distinct contributions of PPIE & qual sociology, suggest why they are at times conflated, and why they shouldn't be.

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_soc

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology

This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026.

Read full Call for Papers below:
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Standing Together: A United Front For Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️

[Visual description: A series of three graphics showing a joint statement from Birmingham Pride, Brighton Pride, Pride in London and Manchester Pride.

Academia needs to reckon with its destructive obsession with new shiny 'future leader' 'potential' vs. nurture & maintenance.

A patient and public involvement (PPI) webcomic illustrated by Camille Aubry, work based on a study on the labour of the PPI workforce by Dr Stan Papolias.

A new webcomic developed by Dr Stan Papoulias, patient and public involvement research theme lead at ARC South London, and illustrator Camille Aubry brings to life the experiences and challenges of patient and public involvement. #PPI 👇

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...