📢 PhD Studentship Opportunity The #UniversityofBristol is inviting applications for a funded PhD project exploring: Collective Intelligence for LLM-Driven Financial Agents APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 31st March 2026 Learn more about this studentship here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/ #FinancialStability

🎇SPOTLIGHT: Tatsuya Mitomi Tatsuya has been working with Prof. Alison Heppenstall on creating geospatial urban simulations, with a particular emphasis on agent-based models and machine learning to analyse and model complex urban systems. Learn more about Tatsuya's work👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

AI4CI welcomed Dr Tom Wilkinson, Chief Data Officer #ScottishGovernment to discuss Scotland’s approach to data & public participation. Listen to this fascinating presentation on how data could be utilised for collective intelligence and better government decision-making 👉 youtu.be/1yW1omYoxYw

🎇SPOTLIGHT: Mahdis Tourian Mahdis is building smart agents & AI tools for nature recovery planning. Working closely with partners at Natural England & Natural Resources Wales, she aims to improve how biodiversity evidence is collected, accessed, and interpreted. 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

Spotlight⚡Adham Enaya Adham's current focus is exploring how AI methods, particularly transfer learning and graph-based technologies, can be used to democratise access to advanced analytical tools. Click through these slides to learn more, or read the full article here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

The Edinburgh Public Forum - AI in the City (30/10/25) was such an insightful evening that we've decided to tell you all about it! Read our in-depth event write up here 👉 shorturl.at/yN6eE Hungry for more? Well, you can also listen to the full unedited recording here 🎙️ shorturl.at/7gVb2

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Bid Oscar Hountondji, PhD Candidate, Environmental Intelligence #UniversityofExeter Since joining AI4CI Oscar has been focusing on Smart Agents for Complex Environmental Data Analysis. Learn more about Oscar by reading the full article on our website 👉 👉 lnkd.in/e5ycn_xi

Join us in Bristol on 14 Nov for the LEAP Community Sandpit! An interactive event bringing together health, academic, tech, charity & community professionals to co-create digital health solutions. 🔗 leap-hub.ac.uk/leap-communi... 1/3

Also, our first workshop on cultural evolution at #alife2025: thanks to invited speakers James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social for their talks in session 1! In session 2, we had an interactive generative game with some creative creatures and cultures emerging. Thanks to all who came along 👾🫟🦠

#AI4CI, #A&DS and #EFI are delighted to be hosting a #PublicForum on ‘AI in the City’ in historic #Edinburgh 📆 30th Oct 🕰️ 6pm-7.30pm 🏰 Edinburgh Futures Institute Join us for a broad and rounded discussion between expert panellists Get your FREE tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-...

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Eva Christodoulaki Since joining the team Eva has been using bond market transaction data from our industry partner #Propellant.digital identifying & categorising reporting errors & market anomalies Read the full article on our website👉 lnkd.in/et-VGWUp #FinancialStability

🦄 #TeamSmartCityDesign🦄 Prof. Alison Heppenstall gave a keynote talk at the European Colloquium of Quantitative and Theoretical Geography in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia. Alison's talk was on 'Learning the City: AI-Driven Approaches to Complexity'. A great event!

🦄 #TeamSmartCityDesign🦄 Prof. Alison Heppenstall & Dr. Yahya Gamal attended the Social Simulation Conference at TU Delft, Netherlands Presenting research on agent-based model of housing & advances in methods for quantifying spatial uncertainty. Big thanks go to Delft University of Technology!

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Yahya Gamal, Research Associate, Smart City Design Yahya joined Prof. Alison Heppenstall at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in 2024. To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Thomas Griffith, Research Associate, Human-Centered Design Thom joined Prof. Philip Morgan at @cardiffuni.bsky.social back in 2024. To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Beatrice Taylor, Research Associate, Smart City Design Bea joined Prof. @adamdennett.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk back in Oct 2024. To learn more about what she's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

AI4CI Rapid Response Funding recipients!🥁 👉 Understanding Bias for Organisational ESG Behavioural Profiling. Lead: Dr R. Arthur #UniversityOfExeter 👉 WARM-AIR: Wearable Assisted Respiratory Monitoring for Integrated Recognition of COPD Exacerbations Lead: Prof. J. Dodd #UniversityOfBristol

AI4CI Rapid Response Funding recipients!🥁 👉 Using collective intelligence to model the cryptocurrency circular-economy. Lead: Dr P. Corcoran #CardiffUni 👉 Embedding EDI in the Distribution of Research Funding: An AI-assisted Collective Intelligence Approach. Lead: Prof. E. Pournaras, #UniofLeeds

Harnessing AI and Data Science in Congenital Heart Disease 📆 09:30–15:30, 9 July, Wills Memorial Building 📝 Registration: tinyurl.com/4jvs9u7w Collaborators: @ebibristol.bsky.social, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, @leap-dh-hub.bsky.social, and University Hospitals Bristol & Weston

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Ensor Palacios, Research Associate, Healthcare Ecosystems Ensor joined Dr. Theresa Smith @uniofbath.bsky.social back in Sept 2024. To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

#TeamSmartCityDesign Dr Beatrice Taylor at #UCL has written a great blog: London’s permanent accommodation crisis Bea breaks down: - What happened to all the state owned housing - What analysing the planning applications has revealed - Comparing local authorities Check it out! 👇 lnkd.in/extVJFQc

We've (begrudgingly) released AI4CI Director Seth Bullock to join the Collective Intelligence Assembly hosted by sci.um6p.ma We're delighted (and not at all jealous) that he will be meeting with other experts within the topic of AI, democracy, governance and group decision-making.

📢 Bookings are now open for the Festival of Digital Health! The Festival will run from Monday 30 June - Friday 4 July with events taking place in Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. View the full programme here: leap-digital-health-hub.github.io/festival/ Keep reading for some regional highlights 👇

Join our celebration event to honour @bristoluni.bsky.social recent win as AI University of the Year with a keynote talk from ‪@sanakb.bsky.social‬ 🗓️ 17:00 - 20:00, 4 June, Victoria Rooms Open to all interested in data science and AI. Get your free ticket now: tinyurl.com/2s3tv6jy

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Hailun Xie, Research Fellow, Environmental Intelligence Hailun joined Prof. Hywel Williams @University of Exeter back in October 2024. To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article (with links) on our website 👉 lnkd.in/et-VGWUp

We are hosting the SCRIBE Hackathon, a collaborative event aimed at developing the Strategic Rapid Integrated Biothreat Evaluation data tool. 🗓️ Kick-off workshop: 17 June, 9:30am–4pm 🗓️ Half-day review workshop: 1 July, 2–4pm Info: jgibristol.github.io/scribe-hacka... Register: tinyurl.com/39e2vrma

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Sachii Weerawardhana, Research Associate, HCD Welcome to the 2nd post of our spotlight series! Where we will be shining a light on the talented researchers in our team You can find the full article including links to papers on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/

Bristol Data Stories Episode 1: AI for Collective Intelligence Join us for the first episode of Bristol Data Stories, where we talk to Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social, Director of AI4CI hub @ai4cihub.bsky.social, University of Bristol. Listen now: tinyurl.com/nhkpy8xf

There were some fantastic @bristoluni.bsky.social demonstration stands at #AIUK. With stalls from @ai4cihub.bsky.social, INFORMED-AI Hub, PrO-AI CDT, Bristol Centre for Supercomputing and School of Computer Science 🖥️ You can read more in our latest blog post: tinyurl.com/8zw6tthz

🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Sam James, Research Associate, Healthcare Welcome to the 1st post of our spotlight series! Throughout the coming months we will be shining a light on the talented researchers in our team You can find the full article including links to papers on our website 👉 lnkd.in/ehgwq_PJ

This afternoon at 2pm we'll be joined by Phil Kunovski for our Digital Health Seminar Series. Phil will be talking about the challenges and opportunities of transitioning academic research into a successful commercial venture. Register for a place: www.tickettailor.com/events/leapd...

📆 SAVE THE DATE: 10TH APRIL 2025, 10am-1.30pm The Health Data Research Network are hosting a workshop on interpretable machine learning, NLP and shopping baskets data. Theresa Smith will be delivering the keynote, so you know it's going to be good! Click 👉 lnkd.in/e6Z_-jg6 to get registered!

📢 NOBODY PANIC! You only have a few days left to apply for this exciting PhD studentship in Modelling human mobility within Cities and machine learning approaches. Okay, maybe panic just a little... For more details on this studentship click 👉 lnkd.in/ewGyVXXE DEADLINE: 1st April 2025

We have 3 PhDs available with Dr Theresa Smith, #UniversityofBath. 1 Defining immunosuppression phenotypes using machine learning 2 Machine learning to identify clusters of patients with immune mediated inflammatory illnesses 3 Health applications of Dynamic Bayesian Networks 👉 lnkd.in/ewGyVXXE

📢 PhD Opportunity within our #SmartCityDesign Theme. @uofglasgow.bsky.social is offering one PhD position working on Modelling human mobility within Cities and machine learning approaches. For more details click 👉 lnkd.in/ewGyVXXE DEADLINE TO APPLY: 1st April 2025 START DATE: October 2025

PhD🧑‍🎓 🚢 Opportunity! #UniversityofBath is inviting applications for a funded PhD project exploring: How Generative AI can Create Tipping Points for Psychological and Behavioural Change. APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 27th April 2025 START DATE: Sept 2025 Enquiries should be directed to: lnkd.in/eEgnmCW7

We are excited to announce our Data Visualisation in Python training session by Laura Gemmell (Taught by Humans) for International Women's Day. 👉 5 March, 10:00 - 12:00, Online 👉 Ideally confident with Python, but beginner resources provided. Get your free ticket now: tinyurl.com/3r632n24

We've got our tickets!🎟️🎟️🎟️

📢 AI PhD Scholarship Opportunities! We are offering an exciting AI Hub PhD Scholarship in Novel research contributions to Human-Computer Interaction in the context of AI and care with the fantastic Dr. @aislingokane.bsky.social DEADLINE TO APPLY: 26TH FEB 2025 POTENTIAL START DATE: SEPT 2025

ONE YEAR OF AI4CI!! 🎉 🎉 On the 6th Feb 2024 #UKRI and #EPSRC announced the launch of our super awesome research Hub! It's been a wonderful 12 months setting up our team, building partners, working on research and launching our £1M Rapid Response Fund - lnkd.in/eNZS8P5E #CollectiveIntelligence #AI

📢 📢 📢 AI PhD Scholarship Opportunity! We are offering not just one but TWO AI Hub PhD Scholarships in Developing AI methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. For more details click 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/ POTENTIAL START DATE: SEPTEMBER 2025 DEADLINE TO APPLY: 6TH MARCH 2025

There ain't no party like an AI4CI club party! 🎉 Remember that team we've been building over the last 10 months? Well look at it now! We were lucky enough to get most of our team together this week to meet in person, share some of their research and plan for the future! #CollectiveIntelligence

New Year! New Opportunities!! We have a ONE MILLION POUNDS (*Dr Evil voice) pot of Rapid Response Funding available! Check out our website for eligibility 👉https://lnkd.in/eNZS8P5E 💰💰💰 Stay in the loop with our mailing list👉 shorturl.at/6mA0N #UKRI #EPSRC #AI4CI #CollectiveIntelligence

Recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join the AI4CI hub @ai4cihub.bsky.social! Interested in #HCI & #AI enabled care (social care, informal care, end of life care, parenting, etc.)? Join us at the University of Bristol & BIG @bristolhci.bsky.social. Deadline is 26 Feb: ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/

This week we attended The Future of Seasonal Pressures Workshop hosted by the #UniversityofBristol and #CabinetOffice. The workshops aim was to kick-start a cross academic-government working group to support evidence generation and innovation to address seasonal pressures on health services.

Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/ £1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗! Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply. If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research

📣 AI4CI RAPID RESPONSE FUND LAUNCH! 🎉 🎉 Today is the day! Our Rapid Response Fund is now OPEN TO APPLICATIONS!💰https://lnkd.in/eNZS8P5E 💰 Visit our BRAND NEW WEBSITE! 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk to learn more about the wider Hub: The Team, The Themes, Our Research & more! Stay in the loop👉 shorturl.at/6mA0N

📢 The AI4CI Hub’s first joint paper, Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence: A National-Scale Research Strategy, will be published in the Knowledge Engineering Review! 🎉 Find it on arXiv: lnkd.in/gKV9QQUs If you're curious about the Hub's mission check out our website: ai4ci.ac.uk