 
                        
                Algorithmic Decision‐Making and Harmonization in Multi‐Level Governance Welfare Practices: Empirical Evidence From Belgium | Article | Social Inclusion
                Janne Petroons, Périne Brotcorne, Martin Wagener, Koen Hermans, Wim Van Lancker
            
        
    
    
            It's out! 
Together with Périne Brotcorne, Martin Wagener, @koenhermans.bsky.social and @wvlancker.bsky.social, I wrote an article on the expected harmonizing effects of algorithmic decision-making in welfare practices.
You can read it here: www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...
               
            
            
                04.09.2025 07:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            📢 @kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social Blog Announcement!
We are launching a Symposium on #AI and #Democracy, more info below 👇
               
            
            
                28.07.2025 10:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            This week we wrapped up the 5th & last edition of the 
KU Leuven Summer School on the Law, Ethics & Policy of #AI🎓
I'm so grateful to have met so many wonderful people across disciplines & countries, and I learned so much. What a beautiful community this has become❤️
Thank you to all contributors!
               
            
            
                12.07.2025 08:50 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2                      
            
         
            
        
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                         
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Wonderful to see so many happy faces during our 
@kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social online Alumni Networking event - for the 4th year in a row🎉
Thanks to all our fantastic participants! We love the AI Summer School Community🥰
See you again soon!
               
            
            
                03.07.2025 07:07 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Tanks to everyone for the lovely and speedy conversations! See you again on Friday! 🤩
               
            
            
                03.07.2025 07:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            BIG congrats!! 🥳
               
            
            
                30.06.2025 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            📢 New blogpost at the @kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social ❗️Many thanks to @maartenbouwmeester.bsky.social who shared what we can learn from the Dutch childcare benefit scandal… taking the (constitutional position) of the right to social security seriously might be an important part of the puzzle 🧩
               
            
            
                24.06.2025 07:14 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            📢 Join KU Leuven AI Summer School Public Session – 4 July 2025!
You're invited to the panel "AI Governance in Europe and Globally" at the Faculty of Law or online, moderated by DigiSoc member Nathalie Smuha.
🗓️ Register by 1 July: shorturl.at/XnNsh
ℹ️ Info: shorturl.at/76lnh
📸 Steve Johnson
               
            
            
                19.06.2025 15:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                        
                AI Summer School Public Session
                
            
        
    
    
            In Session 2, "The Future of AI in Europe" (from 16:30 to 17:45) Lucilla Sioli, director of the #EU AI Office, will discuss Europe's future AI policy direction & the role of #AI regulation.
 
Info: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
 
Register: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
 
Join us!
               
            
            
                04.06.2025 07:25 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            In Session 1, "AI governance around the globe" (from 14:30 to 16:00) Carolina Aguerre, Aziz Huq, Zhiyu Li and Jake Okechukwu Effoduh will discuss AI governance in their region.
Info: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
 
Register: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
               
            
            
                04.06.2025 07:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            📢Event alert:
 
Join us on 4 July for our event '#AI governance in Europe and Globally' @KU Leuven or online. We'll have a session with international scholars from Africa, Latam, China & US, and a keynote by Lucilla Sioli (EU AI Office).
 
Info & Register: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
               
            
            
                04.06.2025 07:22 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            📩 One more month to submit your work for the @kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social’s #EssayCompetition on the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI!
               
            
            
                14.03.2025 08:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            🚀Registrations for the KU Leuven AI Summer School 2025 close on 17 March!
Join us 30 June – 9 July to explore the legal, ethical & policy challenges of AI.
@nathaliesmuha.bsky.social
@victoriahendrickx.bsky.social
@jannepetroons.bsky.social
 
Register: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
#KULeuven
               
            
            
                04.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
                            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            🎧 Medewerkers van Musk's DOGE zouden AutoRI-software van Defensie manipuleren, mogelijk voor massaontslagen van federale ambtenaren, zegt @wired.com. Met prof. Nathalie Smuha (KUL, Oxford, NYU) bespreken we overheidsinzet van algoritmes en bijhorende risico's. open.spotify.com/episode/5pye...
               
            
            
                26.02.2025 08:49 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Join us for the online book launch of The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI on 11 March! We'll have a lively dialogue with several contributors & discussants.
Info & registration: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
Free access to the book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...
               
            
            
                25.02.2025 11:25 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Hello, BlueSky! 
DigiSoc is here! Let’s connect and work towards an inclusive, responsible, and ethical digital society together! 
#DigitalEthics #AIforSociety #KULeuven
               
            
            
                12.02.2025 14:37 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            What is the #environmental cost of #AI? In this blogpost, @sgarsia.bsky.social argues that the combination of a #digitaleconomy and #climate-neutrality might not be as compatible as expected, despite the EU's twin ambition.
Read about it here: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
               
            
            
                18.02.2025 08:13 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                
                Welcome to the International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society (IDS2025), hosted and organised by the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute (DigiSoc) on the 15th and 16th of September 2025 in the historic and vibrant city of Leuven, Belgium.
            
        
    
    
            Will you also submit to the 1st International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society (IDS2025)? 
⏱️Deadline: 3 March (extended!)
IDS2025 provides a global platform for an inclusive digital world, hosted by @digisoc.bsky.social
🗓️ 15 & 16 Sept. 2025
📍 Leuven, Belgium
👉 inclusivedigitalsociety.eu
               
            
            
                13.02.2025 15:18 — 👍 20    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            🦋 A starter pack of academic journals in Sociology 👥
#sociology #sociologie #sociologia #demography #SocSky #PolSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky #Academia #AcademicChatter #Academics #PeerReview #BlueSky #OpenScience #PhDSky #PhD #PhDChat #EduSky #research #science
               
            
            
                11.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 36    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            To celebrate AI Summer School's anniversary, we launched an #essaycompetition on the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI.
🏆The winner will receive €250, a certificate and a publication on the Blog.
⏰Deadline: 14 April 2025
📌Info: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
We hope to read you!
               
            
            
                03.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Let’s go! The @kul-ai-sschool.bsky.social shared its first blog post on Bluesky! 🦋
               
            
            
                28.01.2025 08:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Congrats again Guido! 🎉
               
            
            
                28.01.2025 08:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            We are happy to announce the 5th edition of the KU Leuven  #SummerSchool on the Law, Ethics & Policy of #AI, from 30 June to 9 July 2025!
We'll make this jubileum edition a special one, so stay tuned😊
Apply from 10 Feb to 17 March!
Info: www.law.kuleuven.be/ai-summer-sc...
Hope you join us!
               
            
            
                27.01.2025 10:42 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            Yay! Added to my reading list!
               
            
            
                24.01.2025 09:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
                                                 
                                                
    
    
    
    
            It’s finally out! 
After years of work, I’m very glad to announce that my #book Algorithmic Rule by Law is now published @cambup-law.bsky.social.
If you’re interested in the intersection of #law, #technology and #government - with some philosophical twists - this book is for you.
               
            
            
                24.01.2025 08:27 — 👍 121    🔁 22    💬 9    📌 1                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                        
                Centre for IT & IP Law
                CiTiP is the center for IT & IP Law at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology.
            
        
    
    
            🚀 Hello BlueSky community! 
 
We’re CiTiP, leading research center on law and technology focusing on:
✅ Data protection & privacy
✅ AI, Data and Robotics
✅ IP 
✅(Cyber)security
✅ and many more
 
Join us for insights and collaborations! 
Let’s shape the future together: www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/en
               
            
            
                16.01.2025 14:35 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
    
    
            A to-the-point overview of an in-depth analysis: very impressive Daan!
               
            
            
                02.01.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
            
        
            
            
            
            
            
    
    
            
                             
                        
                Algorithmic Rule By Law
                Cambridge Core - Law and technology, science, communication - Algorithmic Rule By Law
            
        
    
    
            Algorithmic Rule By Law by @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social 
 
Examines algorithmic rule by law, or how algorithmic regulation can erode the rule of law under the guise of efficiency. 
📚 https://cup.org/3VLM3bB
#commerciallaw
               
            
            
                24.12.2024 15:02 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0                      
            
         
    
         
        
            
        
                            
                    
                    
                                            Assistant Professor University of Leuven - Putting the law in global economic history - UN, EU & WTO law - Agriculture, geopolitics & climate change - Cycling fan since '99 - Based in Brussels (BE) - Babbling in Dutch, English, German and French
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Doctoral Researcher at KUL - Law & Technology, human rights and policy studies
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Professor sociology and social data science @KULeuven
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Doctoral researcher at CiTiP KU Leuven
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            intergovernmental organisation affiliated to the United Nations 🌐
providing research and social policy expertise in the #UNECE region
https://www.euro.centre.org
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            PhD candidate, University of Groningen
Digital welfare state, social security law, rule of law
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Le plus grand centre de recherche universitaire en apprentissage profond — The world's largest academic research center in deep learning.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            phd-ing @university of cape town. doctoral research fellow @humauct.bsky.social | medical anthro. STS. algorithms. futures. ethics of care 💭 alternatives.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) develops and supports research about public management and public policy implementation amongst the international research community. 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva
#open_science@ophen.org #medical_ethics@uniw/h
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            ⚖️ LL.M Candidate in Corporate & Commercial Law @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | 💼 Privacy Lawyer | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪/🇳🇱 | views my own
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            REPAIR is a research consortium funded by the Strategic Research Council. REPAIR seeks to establish new and creative ways to research and promote sustainable algorithmic futures.
https://www.repair-research.fi/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. Studying the intersection of datafication, insurance and health.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3274-6360
www.linkedin.com/in/maiju-tanninen-446b9b142
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Journalist VRT NWS - covering tech & society (not gear or sofware) & disinformation. Docu's bij Canvas.
(Ultra)Runner.
Co-founder bxlruncrew
Virtual Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5XIU19AGsSsLZMU858GLi2
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Professor of  Social Policy at Oslo Metropolitan University. 
Comparative welfare policy, social citizenship, EU social policy, and social movements. ISA RC19 board member. 
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                                            Law and Technology Scholar🌻🇪🇺 at the University of Luxembourg & Academic Visitor at the Oxford institute for Ethics in AI #AILaw #HumanRights #EULaw #RuleofLaw PhD in Law (cum laude, highest distinction) @ScuolaSantAnna Head of Digital Rights @The_Digi_Con
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Policy advisor for the Left Group at the European Parliament’s EMPL Committee // algorithmic management & resistance, workers’ rights, social dialogue, AI and labor. Views my own (obvs). He/him