Co-organized with Niccolò Tempini (@n1c0.exeverse.net), Laura Savolainen, Benedetta Catanzariti (@benedetta.bsky.social) and James Lowe
27.01.2026 08:39 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CB186: Ground truths and the epistemology of AI
The study of ground truth construction practices reveals the contingent, negotiated processes underlying AI's epistemological claims. This track pursues
🤗 EASST2026 in Kraków! 🤗 8-11 Sept 2026
Want to address AI’s repressed dependance to referential 'ground truth' datasets? Then submit an abstract to our panel here (deadline 9 March 2026): nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
We look forward to seeing you!
27.01.2026 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
About the Conference
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
14.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 169 🔁 133 💬 17 📌 9
Argument principal: l'émergence des modèles dits 'Generative Pre-trained Transformers' (GPTs) est le fruit d'une une évolution algorithmique progressive – et non pas d'une révolution soudaine – au caractère fondamentalement contingent – et non pas guidé pas un supposé "sens de l'histoire"
06.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Université de Lausanne
Aux origines de ChatGPT: histoire d’une évolution algorithmique
On entend beaucoup parler de chatGPT ces temps-ci, évidemment. Mais savez-vous d'où vient l'architecture algorithmique qui alimente ce type de chatbots? C'est ce que j'ai tenté de retracer lors d'une conférence récente @unil.bsky.social, à découvrir ici: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6j...
06.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Editorial Board: Big Data & Society: Sage Journals
The editorial board of Big Data & Society
So honored to join the editorial boards of @bigdatasoc.bsky.social and Social Studies of Science. And quite intimidating to be surrounded by so many prestigious scholars! 🫨
#academiccommunitywork
journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo...
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08.09.2025 07:54 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Le texte dit en gros ceci: l’intégration de la génomique computationnelle dans les pratiques cliniques courantes 'personnalisées' dépend, entre autres, de la capacité de ses promoteur·rices à mettre en place, faire valoir et stabiliser des chaînes métrologiques adaptées à ses imbroglios logiciels
01.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Il y a bientôt trois mois, le journal @letemps.ch publiait mon article d’opinion consacré à la dimension spéculative de l’industrie de l’IA générative.
L’actualité venant chaque jour confirmer cette dérive, je mets à disposition une lecture gratuite de ce texte: florian-jaton.com/resources/ja...
28.08.2025 05:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Special thanks to Anna Schjøtt Hansen, Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social) and Tobias Blanke for making this text possible, both by editing this topical collection and by organizing the wonderful workshop ‘The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation’ held in Amsterdam in 2023
15.07.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Penultimate OA version here: florian-jaton.com/resources/ja...
15.07.2025 08:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣 New article out 📣 in the journal Digital Society, where I reflect on the relevance, limitation, and future challenges of studying algorithms through the lens of their referential 'ground truth' datasets
Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
15.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
14.06.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline extended until Sunday, May 18!!
Submit your papers here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
Much looking forward!
13.05.2025 07:19 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline extended! 😁 submit here ---> sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
13.05.2025 07:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2 days left to submit your papers, #STS friends!
sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
07.05.2025 11:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
10 days left to submit your papers, folks!
sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you in Zurich!
30.04.2025 06:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗
15.04.2025 05:55 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Hey #STS friends!
Quick announcement for a great panel at the upcoming STS-CH 2025 conference in Zurich (Sept 10-12):
🔥🔥 Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions 🔥🔥
To submit your papers: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
Looking forward!
14.04.2025 12:43 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Bruno Latour and Artificial Intelligence
| Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
AI madness still going strong, damn 🤦
To ward off lame conventional reflections on intelligence, autonomy, or singularity, more important than ever to (re)read Tommaso Venturini's thought experiment on Latour x AI 👊
tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view...
14.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IA et référence performative - Florian JATON
IA et référence performative par Florian JATON (Genève - Tech Hub)
Découvrez ou redécouvrez le séminaire "IA et référence performative : le cas du projet TESLA et des néoantigènes en immunothérapie personnalisée du cancer" avec @flojaton.bsky.social de @gvagrad.bsky.social
Disponible sur le compte Vimeo du médialab ⬇️
11.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Le pouvoir algorithmique ~ SILO
🔍Qu’y-a-t-il derrière l’IA? Retour sur le pouvoir algorithmique toujours plus présent dans nos vies.
(Re)découvrez le Silomag#15 👇
silogora.org/silomag/le-p...
Avec @flojaton.bsky.social, @aureliebiancarelli.bsky.social, @cedricdurand.bsky.social, @vtiberj.bsky.social et bien d'autres!
11.02.2025 09:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline extended until February 16! 🤺
Submit your panel here: express.converia.de/frontend/ind...
04.02.2025 09:09 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
10 days left! ✊
Submit here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
22.01.2025 12:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Haraway + Chuang Tzu (!) + ethnographies of algorithm construction work (+ bits of ethnopsychiatry-related stuff) = quite a strange piece I've just submitted 😅
15.01.2025 10:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Part-time teacher · full-time entertainer
Zero likes policy.
https://www.last.fm/user/Ex-Smith
PhD Candidate / Project Assistant
»Assisted Thinking« and prompting with AI models
Media Studies Dept @unibas.ch
STS scholar interested in Autonomous Weapon Systems, Surveillance Technologies, Governmentality;
Paderborn University; he/him
else: Cycling, Jazz, Dogs
Compte officiel de l'Institut des Sciences Sociales (ISS) de l'Université de Lausanne.
https://www.unil.ch/iss/fr/home.html
Sociologist (PhD) at UMR LISIS (CNRS-INRAE-Univ. Gustave EiffeI).
STS studies of markets, academic publishing & chemistry.
Team member ERC NanoBubbles
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Interested in changing foodways, edibility, cultural appropriateness, what makes things 'food'. Currently researching offal, surplus food, and 'underutilised' fish.
science & technoology & political economy
researcher @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
A people is missing - Curatorial Platform Art & Research - Based in Paris, France #curating #art #research - https://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/
Visual artist and media studies scholar. Doing art and writing about hysteria/FND, fMRI, contested diseases, medical AI and black hole imaging. Author of From Photography to fMRI: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society; tweets in English, French and German by @bialski.bsky.social and @flojaton.bsky.social
https://sts-ch.org/
Sociologue
🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes
🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique
🔧 Travail invisible des données
🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique
📟 Quantification et standardisation
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof at the University of Southern California; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
In a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles – ela/she
AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing a book about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Assistant professor at RIT.
For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
Taínofuturist nerd 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Connossieur 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
www.egconde.com
anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
