Delighted to be at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social today with our #DesigningResponsibleNLPCDT sharing our brilliant students work as part of Doors Open Day!

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

So pleased that the new #ekip Knowledge Bank has gone live - and delighted it includes a series of resources from the The @edinburghup.bsky.social ekip team and case studies and companies supported through #CreativeInformatics. #creativeindustries #openinnovation knowledge-bank.ekipengine.eu

Still time to take part in this survey - if you watch TV (in any sense including streaming, free to air etc) then we’d love to hear from you!

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

Let's try this again. New research from myself and my lovely colleagues about dealing with unexpected AI when collecting research data:

I'm pleased to share that Louise Connelly, @suzannerblack.bsky.social, @melissaterras.bsky.social & my 'Guidance for Research Ethics Committees and Researchers on Designing Research in the Age of AI' is out now under CC license: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Read, share onwards and give us your feedback!

My last show at this year's #edfringe is 11:25 tomorrow (Wed 13th) at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social. Join me to hear about #virtualproduction, #CoSTARNetwork, how film and TV is being made in new ways - and why thats interesting, challenging and exciting! Book now: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...

Due to Storm Florian cursing my lovely co-speaker's travel 😱 this is now going to be a solo show! So, join me for a full hour on all things virtual production and what new tech means for the kinds of ways we tell stories on screen! Still tickets available here: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Tomorrow! Still time to book here: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

In @edfringe.bsky.social DI Manager @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social imagines what stories we’ll be watching as tv and film made with virtual production technologies make almost anything possible without ever leaving a studio! 📅Mon 4 Aug ⏰5:40– 6:40pm 📍Stand 4, Stand Comedy Club 🔗https://edin.ac/3HaKHD9

Join me at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social at @edfringe.bsky.social for my #theprovocateurs2025 show, No Location, No Location, No Location! exploring the R&D possibilities of virtual production! Book now for 4th Aug: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/... 13th August: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...

Nicola will also perform on 13 August: 📅 Wed 13 Aug 2025 ⏰ 11:25am– 12:25pm | Ticketed 📍 Stand 2, The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh 🔗https://www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/the-provocateurs-voices-of-hope-no-location-no-location-no-location

We are delighted to share this special edition of our Newsletter which features our upcoming Summer Festival’s programming as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival and @edfringe.bsky.social. Read here ➡ edin.ac/3TtPEd5 @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social

If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to hear updates from us then sign-up here: 🔗https://forms.office.com/e/ZrqT88ryZN Image Credit: The Sounds of Deep Fake exhibition at Inspace. Photography by Beth Chalmers @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social

Wonderful to be in Glasgow for the (I think) final #CreativeInformatics supported event, @scottishaialliance.bsky.social’s “AI Can’t Write Symphonies and Neither Can You”. Fab opening talks from Lily Higham and Jess Aslan so far! Looking forward to the exhibition www.scottishai.com/ai-cant-writ...

Huge congratulations to @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social of @designinf.bsky.social for this well deserved recognition 👏

@suchprettyeyes.bsky.social received the Impact Festival 2025 Research Impact Prize. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership in managing Creative Informatics. Their expertise has been central to the transformative impact of this initiative on Scotland’s creative industries. edin.ac/4ncIszD

We’re delighted to meet-in person today the BRAID-commissioned artists (see photo!) to see work-in-progress of the seven new artworks commissioned by @braiduk.bsky.social for the upcoming exhibition ‘Tipping Point’ in Inspace for the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival this August Read more edin.ac/4kydJea

With 7 new innovation fellows, we are not only able to support crucial policy and regulatory work being done across the public sector, but we also hope to facilitate unique opportunities for knowledge exchange across academia, industry and government by bringing our two fellowship cohorts together.

Coinciding with our gathering, today we announce that the wonderful BRAID fellowships cohort is expanding. An exciting new partnership with the British Academy marks a significant step in our shared commitment to promote Responsible AI in the UK. #AcademicSky #AHRC @ukri.org

You can find the reports here: attitudestoai.uk and www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/ai-pu...

Dawn Greenberg from #AHRC pressing the button to showcase the promo video for BRAID's new MOOC for SMEs: An Introduction to Responsible AI for SMEs. Register interest using the QR code. @christophersmith.bsky.social @ukri.org @shannonvallor.bsky.social @ewaluger.bsky.social #SME #ResponsibleAI #AHRC

More info on @dynarch.bsky.social project www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d... and @judyrobertson.bsky.social blogs.ed.ac.uk/youngpeoplea...

In Manchester all day for our AHRC funded BRAID program on responsible AI. Partnered with BBC, Ada Lovelace Institute, and others.

Which jacket was designed by AI? ‘Unbelievably Creative’ asking the BRAID community questions about the role of AI in creativity @braiduk.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

AI harms & talking about sustainable AI and its interplay with science fiction writing. Also BRAID will work with the British academy in the next phase. @braiduk.bsky.social

Martin Parker from @edincollegeofart.bsky.social introducing his sound/sculpture collaboration with Elena-Ira Panourgia and Datamind Audio at @braiduk.bsky.social’s Community Gathering in Manchester!

Thoughts from the @braiduk.bsky.social event thus far (shaped through my own interests and thinking) People's desire to shape AI in society was very present (but I missed a sense of grassroots work eg AI4LAM in GLAMs, other equivalents) ...

Published today: The Responsible AI Ecosystem: A BRAID Landscape Study. @ftollon.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social introduce us to the report in the latest BRAID blog braiduk.org/the-responsi...

Fantastic expert panel on the deep challenges AI poses for Public Media and Democracy with Kate Wright, Bahareh Heravi, BBC’s Rhianne Jones and Bronwyn Jones, led by @ewaluger.bsky.social at the @braiduk.bsky.social Community Gathering in Manchester today!

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

It was wonderful to be at The Lowry today for the @braiduk.bsky.social Community Gathering - celebrating 3 brilliant years of the project so far, and three more exciting years ahead! Just a wonderful collection of people doing important and diverse arts and humanities framed #ResponsibleAI research

We are delighted to be welcoming industry partners, students and supervisors to our UKRI Designing Responsible NLP CDT and UKRI NLP CDT Partner Summit today to talk Trustworthy and Responsible Natural Language Processing! We are kicking off with a keynote from Fred Langford of @ofcom.bsky.social.

Delighted to be in Rotterdam at #TheaterZuidplein for our #ekip Policy Lab on Inclusivity in the Video Games Industry

Going to be in Edinburgh this summer? The French Institute is holding a free-to-attend comic festival on July 5-6, in partnership with excellent local shop La Belle Adventure, celebrating French & Scottish comics! 📚 www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

An unbelievably charming episode. A palate cleanser for your week!

Operation Biodegradable Late Event invites you to join an evening reception celebrating the exhibition and to meet the researchers, designers, artists, students and graduates behind the work on display. 📅 Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 ⏰ 5– 7pm 📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB 🔗 edin.ac/42EQNDL

Material Shadows: Performance and Panel Discussion brings together researchers at the University of Edinburgh and joined by researchers at Lancaster University to discuss embodiment, materialism and technology. 📅 Tues, 22 Apr, 2025 ⏰ 6– 8pm 📍 Inspace, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB 🔗 edin.ac/4cuwQD8

Great to see our third year BA (Hons) Textiles students exhibiting at @inspacegallery.bsky.social as part of Edinburgh Science Festival! It's a fascinating collab with a consultant neurosurgeon: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/textile... 19-27 April (not 22), with evening events bookable on link above!

Delighted to kick of Material Shadows event @inspacegallery.bsky.social @designinf.bsky.social part of our #EdSciFest Operation Biodegradable exhibition. Exhibition continues this all week until Sunday

Time to fill in those forms / change those settings…

New practice guide from Foundations on mentoring and befriending care experienced children launched today!

Had a great time today exploring our brilliant @designinf.bsky.social student exhibition ‘Design, Data & Beyond’ @inspacegallery.bsky.social, part of #edscifest, with my 7yr old scientific assistant. Open today until 5pm, and tomorrow (Monday 7th), 10am to 5pm

Delighted to have been part of putting together this important piece of work and proposal around the role, impact and need for better infrastructures to activate, collaborate and further develop Research Software Engineer expertise across the UK. Researchers and research managers read it & feedback!

Watching this online. Amazing.

Thrilled to be at @melissaterras.bsky.social’s @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Inaugural lecture this evening, entitled Why Digital Innovation Needs Art Schools: observations, Priorities, Opportunities

There's still time to register for our #ekip Open Innovation Factory on Inclusivity in Gaming, Thurs 20th March (10am GMT, 11am CEST). Join us to hear from expert speakers & explore innovation to support better diversity & inclusion in games. Register (for free): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-innov...