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Kick-off in Bochum! 🎉
From Nov 5–7, 2025, we welcome 24 international partners of the EU funded HEI-TRAIN project at CAIS. Representatives from Lithuania, Latvia, Germany & Ukraine will explore how higher education can foster entrepreneurship, innovation & digital future skills sustainably.

Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com “Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

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I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.

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Laptop showing the visiual: Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting. DigiMeet2025 - 6 November. Platform Governance & Power: Between control, ethics and societal dynamics.

🤝🌎 Excited to kick off the third installment of #Digimeet today, bringing together around 80 digital researchers from 16 countries across the EU, UK, South America, the US, and India! Our focus this year is a deep dive into #PlatformGovernance & #Power.

#DigitalResearch #TechPolicy

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🚀 Today’s #DigiMeet - the joint Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting! Early career researchers gather online to discuss digitalisation, platform governance & power. Keynote by Tobias Mast + exciting presentations from young researchers.
Full program: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...

Digimeet Programme

Today at #digimeet25: Tobias Mast from @bredowinstitut.bsky.social reflects on fundamental problems of #platform #governance and on how scientists as experts can keep their independence in the EU process of co-regulation. @cais-research.bsky.social @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

🔔 Free workshop places for postdocs of all research fields of the University Alliance Ruhr! Research Academy provides support for your future career orientation and the associated decision-making processes. 🚀💡Sign up now! 👉 www.research-academy-ruhr.de/news/news004...

⌛ Reminder: Submit your contribution to the Special Issue "Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance and the Future of Digital Public Spaces" by October 15.

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#CAISdigitalfutures2025

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🍋 Realismus im Zeitalter von KI: Über makellose Zitronen im Netz und eine Mona Lisa🖼️, die vor allem auf Selfies existiert, diskutieren @jbirken.bsky.social, Chr. Welzbacher & @schalkewins.bsky.social am 22.10. - ein Blick auf aktuelle Debatten und die eigene Bildwahrnehmung.
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It’s almost time! This Thursday, our conference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures” starts at the Makerspace of Ruhr University Bochum.
📺 Join the livestream of our panel "Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future" on Friday, 9:30 AM: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...
#CAISdigitalfutures2025

📢 Register now for DigiMeet 2025!
An interdisciplinary forum for early career researchers on digitalisation & global platform governance 🌐💻We’ll discuss power dynamics, societal implications & policy challenges in a rapidly changing platform landscape!

Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society calls for papers for a special issue marking the 60th anniversary of ELIZA, one of the first chatbots developed by Joseph Weizenbaum.

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025.

More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Registration is open for #DigiMeet2025 on Nov 6!🎉
Join 16 talks & discussions on platform regulation, community building & governance with #EarlyCareerResearchers
🗣️Keynote by Tobias Mast
👉Program + Registration: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

#CfP Join the debate on:
📍 #Participatory governance
📍 (Dis)integrative dynamics of #digital discourse
📍 Imagined futures of inclusive digital public spaces

📄 Abstract due 15 Oct 25
📄 Full paper due 1 March 26
All papers peer-reviewed. @cais-research.bsky.social

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#CfP: Inclusive by design? Special issue on #participatory governance & the future of #digital public spaces! Edited by @jottbees.bsky.social @marco-waehner.bsky.social Christiane Eilders & Tim A. Majchrzak. @cais-research.bsky.social

👉 Submit abstract by 15 Oct: policyreview.info/events/call-...

Episode 30—Kenji Miyazawa - Read Japanese Literature Born into wealth, he longed to be “a real peasant”. One of Japan’s most influential children’s writers, he sold only one story during his lifetime. There is no one quite like Kenji Miyazawa. Read Jap…

Happy birthday to Kenji Miyazawa! Celebrate with the RJL podcast.

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[Must-Read Essay] How the new digital knowledge order is impacting science, By @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬'s Donya Alinejad policyreview.info/articles/ana... #impact #science

#Stellenangebot 🚀
📅 Frist: 21. August 2025

Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in PräDoc (all gender) für das Team Research Data & Methods (RD&M)

👉 www.cais-research.de/aktuelles/st...

#Karriere #Digitalisierungsforschung #TeamCAIS #CAIS #Bochum

[New Op-ed] Not greenwashing, but still… A closer look at big tech’s 2025 sustainability reports, By Thomas Le Goff of @telecomparis.bsky.social policyreview.info/articles/new... #sustainanility #GreenTech #GreenIT #CSR

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here | TechCrunch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is the "best model in the world," and aims to make ChatGPT more intuitive to use.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here

How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

Grafik mit violettem Hintergrund und dem Text: „Danke für 100.000 Lernende auf dem KI-Campus! ♥“. Rechts im Bild steht eine Gruppe aus Menschen und Robotern, die freundlich lächeln. Sie halten bunte Sprechblasen hoch, die Kommunikation symbolisieren. Im Vordergrund steht ein weißer Roboter mit großen Augen und einem freundlichen Gesicht.

WOW! Bereits über 100.000 Personen nutzen den #KICampus fünf Jahre nach dem Start im Jahr 2020. 🥳

Vielen Dank, dass ihr dabei seid! 💜

Bis 2030 möchten wir mindestens 500.000 Lernende & 100 Hochschulen mit unseren Online-Kursen, Videos, Podcasts & Tools zu KI erreicht haben. 🚀

#AILiteracy

Visual zu Digitmeet mit Hinweis zum Call for Participation und der Deadline 31. Juli

🎯 Endspurt für das DigiMeet 2025!
Noch bis zum 31. Juli könnt ihr eure Abstracts einreichen, um am 6. November 2025 beim virtuellen Netzwerktreffen für Early Career Researchers dabei zu sein!
👉 Jetzt Abstract (max. 200 Wörter) einreichen: www.cais-research.de/event/digime...

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💡 𝐖𝐢𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦 𝐊𝐈-𝐙𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧?
In unserem neuen Beitrag auf dem Verantwortungsblog beleuchten wir, wie GEMA, VG WORT und VG Bild-Kunst mit der Herausforderung umgehen, dass KI-Systeme mit urheberrechtlich geschützten Inhalten trainiert werden.

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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[New Call for Papers] Big tech in global security governance, guest-edited by ‪@mg-borelli.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social's Ksenia Ermoshina & Francesca Musiani and @gulnarazakharova.bsky.social‬
Deadline: 400-word abstracts by 21 September 2025. policyreview.info/events/call-...

🚨 Call for Participation – #DigiMeet2025 🚨 Topic: Platform Governance & Power – Between Control, Ethics, and Societal Dynamics
A vibrant forum to:
✅ Share and discuss ongoing research
✅ Connect across disciplines and institutions
✅ Spark ideas for new (ideally collaborative!) projects

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣
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@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

🔍 #CallForParticipation for #DigiMeet2025!
Are you a #EarlyCareerResearcher exploring digitalization & society? Join us on Nov 6 for insights on Platform Governance & Power.
ℹ️ About the virtual event: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
Submit your abstract by July 31:
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Meta-KI: Jetzt widersprechen oder für immer schweigen Mark Zuckerberg will wieder mal an unsere Daten - dieses Mal um seine KI zu trainieren. Bis zum 26. Mai ist Widerspruch möglich: Wir erklären, warum das eine gute Idee ist, und zeigen, wie es funktion...

Mark Zuckerberg will wieder mal an unsere Daten – dieses Mal, um seine KI zu trainieren. Nutzer:innen müssen aktiv widersprechen, das ist nur noch bis Montag, 26. Mai, rechtzeitig möglich. Wir erklären, warum das eine gute Idee ist und wie es funktioniert.
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Workshop: "From Awareness to Action: Addressing Discrimination and Power in Academia"

Please register here: 💫 eveeno.com/681429484