Grateful to the organisers @velocitygravity.bsky.social Ans Sona Gachayeva at @stir.ac.uk and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the opportunity to pre-launch the book 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 and exchange with academics and authors on the challenges that AI brings to universities

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception. Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

📣 Come join us on Nov 7th for the launch of the European Trade Union Institute’s new book on AI in Higher Education and Research, edited by @aida.follows.technology who will join us for a book talk! Followed by a fascinating discussion chaired by Dr Sona Gacheyeva ⬇️ info & sign up shorturl.at/8oZ4Z

✨ Join us Oct 22nd for Beren Sekerci's talk exploring material agency and hybridity in biohybrid robotics - artifacts which are neither fully living nor fully robotic, designed by both AI and humans ⬇️ Find out more and sign up below! shorturl.at/cm4uP

Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning 🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm ⬇️ sign up: shorturl.at/OqQGf

if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!

👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva

got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew! Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️ 📸Daniel McGowan Photography

✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social

I am at this event right now and it's fucking incredible.

Queer Data Showcase has started! Massively excited about this @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social x Gender & Sexuality Lab collab. @sj-bennett.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social @meg-fereday.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social

en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night! Tickets here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!! Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻

🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻

🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A 🖊️ sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...

✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva 👇🏻 Sign up here below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva 👇🏻 Sign up here below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

This first-of-its-kind event spotlights a curated selection of artists, academics and activists working with – or interested in – queer data as a material, concept, process or problem. Co-organised by @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, @prideinstem.bsky.social and the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.

✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

This 2-year post in the Edinburgh Law School will also work closely with me, Emily Sullivan, @zeerak.bsky.social and others in EFI’s Centre for @technomoralfutures.bsky.social! Come join us - apply by 2nd May

🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations ⬇️ sign up here: shorturl.at/uVTdO

👀 last week to apply for our Doctoral Collquium, which will be held in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (complete with delicious catered lunch 🍱)!

🎤Applications are open for our annual AIES Doctoral Colloquium! 🚨 The colloquium is an opportunity for Edinburgh-based students to discuss their research on the social or ethical facets of AI with experienced mentors and other students. Apply here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/doctoral-col...

🚨🚨Two more days to submit an abstract to our 4S panel on care and repair in times of broken machines! The conference will be ✨ hybrid ✨ Share your work with us!

Don’t miss this BRAID event with the amazing Alex Taylor! You can join online or in person for free - get your ticket at the link below! And follow us @braiduk.bsky.social to hear about more events in Responsible AI with an arts/humanities focus

🙌 Looking forward to our first reading group meeting of the year, taking place in Edinburgh next Tuesday! We’ll be discussing the paper ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Conjectural Sciences’ 👉Sign up here surl.li/oaqoul

Join us in person on Tuesday 28 January, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, where we'll hear from Dr Anissa Tanweer (University of Washington) on understanding data ethics as situated practice. Tickets and more info ▶️ edin.ac/4fXTCmS @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone else who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas. 📢 The Call for Presenters is now live: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #data #Scotland