@ikkibop.bsky.social
Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST
We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
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couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work!
w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
The cover of The Lancet with this quote from our commentary: "If we in academic medicine give in to the campaigns against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the consequences will include resegregation and fewer opportunities for marginalised groups."
Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
06.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 2034 🔁 461 💬 48 📌 11We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
02.06.2025 12:26 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We have some news to share with you. 🥄
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
EU tech law
EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Tonight Danny Snelson told me about his forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats — and I am so incredibly stoked for this 💥
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Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
28.04.2025 13:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Book in windowsill
What a lovely Monday present ! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social for sending the physical copy of the very good looking Feminist Digital Humanities edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman! The good news is that it’s also OA: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
28.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0"Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is."
25.04.2025 00:41 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
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A baked lasagna in a white dish, with text overlay "20 Dishes to Make For Someone Going Through A Hard Time."
Divorce, death, a big move, illness: Food may not fix anything, but these lovingly prepared meals can bring some much-needed comfort and nourishment. nyti.ms/3EpVEPW
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Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
07.04.2025 10:55 — 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Questions sent by the national court. Full text in the link.
CJEU, new cases, data protection law
Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register?
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested.
Deadline 9th of May
#digitalcriminology #surveillance
jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
A bald white man wearing black rectangular glasses leans against a wall. He is wearing a red linen button-down shirt. His arms are crossed and he is smiling mischieviously.
Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.
We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
The politics of #dataloss ... This is the insidious violence of infrastructural erasure.
16.03.2025 19:11 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Interested in publishing a special issue with @jird-jour.bsky.social? We have now an annual call for special issues - have a look at our website for more details.
13.03.2025 09:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for the generous mention @nannathylstrup.bsky.social + already thanks for the other links @miriamposner.com. I d say that Francis Hunger is the right person to reach out to (www.irmielin.org) when it comes to the history of databases!
09.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One more example of how much the relation between statecraft and (data) infrastructures is THE political challenge of our polities.
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Great project at VUB! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
09.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.
06.03.2025 06:17 — 👍 90 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 2BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
🚨🚨 #Greenland: “We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory ‘one way or the other. Trump's respect for a any state's or region's self-determination only goes so far... 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
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04.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
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