We’ve been running a community of practice for people trying to engage the public around data & AI. Gavin Freeguard has summarised those events & looked at what may be next. 📄 A summary of the sessions: connectedbydata.org/... 🔮 The future of the community of practice:

Are you a UK researcher looking to deliver innovative public engagement projects working in partnership with GLAM organisations or a performing arts organisation? Apply now: https://bit.ly/43JR4oA

NEW REPORT: How to deliver digital transformation in public services. Successive governments have looked to digital solutions for problems facing public services – with varying success. We’ve looked at past examples and drawn out 7 lessons for people working on future programmes:

UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years ft.trib.al/Q0Gpzjw

Boosting impact & visibility - the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD has joined the Goethe-Institut at its premises in South Kensington. In the #KensingtonTreaty spirit, these giants of 🇩🇪 soft power are creating new momentum for cultural & academic cooperation & exchange.

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

Our "final" IMPETUS event was Ars Electronica 2025 - but 10 months of impact followed! We teamed up with @ecs.ngo for two June 2026 events celebrating our citizen science legacy 👇 impetus4cs.eu/the-final-im... #citizenscience #citsci #IMPETUS4CS

📣 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧! The 2026 Conference of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, co-organized with @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de and @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social, invites presentations, lightning talks, and posters. 👇 See the next post for key dates and how to submit.

Can't make it to the #SummerScience Exhibition this week? We'll be featuring talks daily online, starting from 19.10pm this evening with a fascinating panel on our future with AI. Watch here: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/watch-online/

Tech CEOs want AI rules — it may be too late ft.trib.al/nNiA7bP | opinion

Deadline approaching! The #ISWC2026 Industry Track submission deadline is 7 July (23:59 AoE). Share your real-world applications of #KnowledgeGraphs, #SemanticWeb, #LLMs 📍 Bari, Italy | 📅 Oct 25–29, 2026 🔗 lnkd.in/dXrvr5DJ

🚨New publication 🚨 Today my group at Cambridge, the AI & Geopolitics Project, launches our first anthology. It’s a bold new collection of essays bringing together 10 thought-leaders to challenge the dominant narrative that AI is an existential, zero-sum battle between the US and China (1/3)

The AI company plans to give about two dozen partners access to GPT 5.6 before a broader rollout, amid US government efforts to harness the power of the technology while limiting its risks. ft.trib.al/mPUSZWU

“But in a recently updated NHSE page outlining the methodology behind the figures, the health service stated it could not “draw conclusions about cause and effect as other variables have not been controlled for” www.ft.com/content/9348...

Facial recognition is entering classrooms and campuses. We are tracking its spread and impact on privacy rights. pvcy.org/frtmap

The APEX Awards are now open for applications. In partnership with @britishacademy.bsky.social and @raeng.org.uk and supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk, the scheme offers independent researchers the opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary research. Find out more: royalsociety.org/grants/apex-...

Some Anthropic and OpenAI customers are cutting AI costs by 90% or more as cheaper models prove good enough for more tasks. Full story: https://thein.fo/4wqiUTx

Last chance to book our free webinar looking at how to make your data AI ready for your enterprise. We’ll be talking you through our new framework and its practical and real-world applications, with @p-groth.bsky.social and @elenasimperl.bsky.social buff.ly/osujpNz

✨ Our international conference 'Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital' begins tomorrow! We look forward to welcoming ~500 participants from across the world for four days of discussion, marking 25 years of our Department. Programme & info: kcldigitalconference.com

Getty Images shows the inimitable value of an OpenAI photobomb ft.trib.al/Bo4Gui5 | opinion

Head to our website to find information and guidance for both strands, including eligibility, FAQs and how to apply 👇 bit.ly/4o3yxNA

Have you booked our free webinar looking at how to make your data AI ready for your enterprise? We’ll be talking you through our new framework and its practical and real-world applications, with @p-groth.bsky.social and @elenasimperl.bsky.social buff.ly/ic7Qx0E

Ministers to make YouTube and Meta boost prominence of UK news ft.trib.al/VJV6i6t

Have you seen our latest funding opportunity? Grants of up to £500,000 are available for researchers, academics, charities & others working on racial diversity, inequality & inclusion. Interested? Find out more 👉 https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/funding-for-research/racial-diversity-uk-fund

At Nesta, our innovation work is underpinned by research. As well as bringing innovation to our mission areas, we also bring it to our methods. We've been experimenting with AI in qual analysis. Our conclusion so far, occasionally useful but mainly very faillible. www.nesta.org.uk/blog/six-rea...

Join the @cropscs.bsky.social and @impetus4cs.bsky.social workshop - Protocols for Scaling #citizenscience🌍 Help shape tools for scaling #citsci across Europe. 📅 25 June 2026 ⏰ 14:00 CEST Review protocols & share feedback 🔗 lnkd.in/eBsNacbg

“Turbulence” is the theme of our next Open Interval program, which supports trios of artists, scientists and arts organizations ready to think outside their disciplines: https://bit.ly/4uEMOC5 #science #art #math

We are delighted to announce that @p-groth.bsky.social will be joining @elenasimperl.bsky.social at our free webinar looking at how to make your data AI ready for your enterprise. buff.ly/ic7Qx0E

CommonLID, a community-built language ID benchmark, has a new website and interactive leaderboard. Its paper was accepted to ACL 2026, with a poster session on 7 July. Source code, a PyPI package, and the dataset are now available. commoncrawl.org/blog/commonl...

Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? In a new article in @issuesinst.bsky.social Dryad ED Jennifer Gibson and @investinopen.bsky.social ED Kaitlin Thaney investigate what it will take to keep research data alive. 🧪 bit.ly/43NEEMw #opendata #datasharing #openresearch

Our #AI case studies show how local authorities are using artificial intelligence responsibly while protecting equality and human rights. From Camden's resident-led data charter to Hounslow's automated translation services. Read here: https://ow.ly/Yt9X50Z9SzL#AI #aiequality

Tried out the UK government’s official new AI chatbot for jobseekers. Its advice: work in the US. Quick, which public service can we add AI to next

More than a third of UK workers and an even higher share of students do not check AI generated content or citations, as our @aiatkings.bsky.social and @policyatkings.bsky.social study pointed out, www.kcl.ac.uk/news/one-in-...

Innovation Fellowships 2026-27 – Route B: Policy-led is now open for applications. This call will enable researchers to work with a policy partner for 12 months. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3S0rNEg

"Not everyone wants AI for everything". As Google leans into AI overviews and summaries in search results, Microsoft just launched a "kill switch" extension for Edge and Chrome to disable AI entirely in Bing searches.

UKRI Policy Fellowships 2026 are now open!🚨 Apply for an 18-month fellowship to work in a UK or devolved government host partner, an arm’s length body or What Works Network member, to address pressing national and global challenges. Deadline 10 September 2026: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Do you work on research that tackles the UK’s biggest social challenges? Our Main Grants fund offers up to £500,000 for research that addresses one or more of our priorities: The fund is open until 5 October 2026. Read our updated Guide for Applicants to find out more: https://ow.ly/lEMs50Z9tmx

The British Academy will host a one-day workshop for UK-based social sciences and humanities (SSH) researchers seeking to engage with Horizon Europe Pillar 2 opportunities in the 2026-27 Work Programme. Register now: https://bit.ly/49IaQED

Join us for the Informatics Annual Lecture and explore the future of science in the era of AI. Prof Mihaela van der Schaar, @cam.ac.uk, will discuss how AI and human collaboration may unlock new forms of discovery. 📅 25 June, 5pm 📍WC2R 2LS Register ⬇️

Polly Toynbee highlights our forthcoming study with @senseaboutsci.bsky.social on the state of trust in science in her Guardian column ➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @bobbyduffy.bsky.social

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Fantastic work by the team

📚𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? Join Jerneja Grašič, Bárbara Rivera López, and @msphelps.bsky.social at #OR2026 to explore findings from a pilot survey of institutional repositories. 🗓️ 10 June 2026 | 18:00–18:50 CEST or2026.openrepositories.org

AI is reshaping work in the UK in significant and divergent ways. But less is known about how the public perceives these impacts, and how these perceptions affect democratic attitudes and behaviours. This recent Knowledge Hub shelf explores recent publications on workplace AI and democracy.

if you're interested in data politics from the global south, join us for a workshop with @silvanavf.bsky.social at 3pm on 18th june 2026: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

I can highly recommend @sarahoconnorft.ft.com's new book: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...

Our Entrepreneur in Residence scheme is open for applications. The scheme provides opportunities for industrial scientists and entrepreneurs to spend one day a week at a university, raising awareness in UK universities of cutting edge industrial science. #RSGrants https://bit.ly/3Q4QmiL

“It’s two or three times harder than pure translation work, and they have the barefaced cheek to pay you half as much.” - fascinating on how AI has changed translators' work @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com:

Higgledy piggledy – that's how young people describe the complex mental health support system that's failing them. Young people are turning to AI, family, friends, schools and everywhere but a system that clearly isn't meeting their needs.

🚀 Collaborating for impact : Building capacity for public engagement in health data 📆 17 June, 12:00-13:30 🖥️ Online 🔗 Register here 👉 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ccbc69... (1/5)