Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026. The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges. Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...

Catch up on all of our data-centric AI webinars in one place! Watch Prof Elena Simperl discuss topics from data scraping to the future of public services with a range of fantastic guests, all world experts with their research and experience. #Data #AI

With policymakers, industry heads, engineers, and educators, Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, launched @raeng.org.uk Engineers 2030 report at the #NationalEngineeringDay Parliamentary Reception in the House of Lords. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...

We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI. If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?

The profession has rocketed in size and stature. Will AI shrink it?

TOMORROW: Broke and broken? What TRAC data tells us about higher education finances With nearly half of UK universities in deficit, join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social and an expert panel to explore how TRAC data can guide more sustainable funding and policy decisions. ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/broke...

✨ Join us on 11 November for our Introduction to copyright workshop. This free workshop will cover key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching and the use of secondary data. 📅 11 November 2025 ⏰ 10:00-11:50 📍 Online 🧷

Webinar zu Reputation und #OpenScience: Wie soll sich die Bewertung von wissenschaftlichen Leistungen weiterentwickeln? Am 14. Nov wird neben Impulsvorträgen ein Diskussionspapier des Schwerpunkts "Digitalität in der Wissenschaft" der #AllianzWissenschaft vorgestellt. Anmeldung: sohub.io/wjqd

🧪 AI is revolutionising computational chemistry - but what does that look like in practice? Join @franmartinm.bsky.social (@kingsnmes.bsky.social) on 19 Nov as he shares cutting-edge research on using AI to model nature-inspired sustainable materials. Sign up ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/compu...

🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award. Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy: blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social

@anligentile.bsky.social @dgarijo.bsky.social @angelosalatino.bsky.social @oktie.bsky.social @nandana-m.bsky.social @k-e-n-f.bsky.social

Check out our newsletter for October/November 2025, with updates on what we've been up to commoncrawl.org/blog/october...

🏆 Congrats to the winners of the #SWSA Ten-Year Award 2025! 🎉 “RDFox: A Highly-Scalable RDF Store” by Yavor Nenov, Robert Piro, Boris Motik, Ian Horrocks, Zhe Wu & Jay Banerjee was honored at #ISWC2025! A landmark work advancing scalable reasoning for the Web of Data. 🌐 #RDFox #ResearchExcellence

It's almost a year to the day since Data Bites made the move from IfG to @publicdigital.bsky.social, with ten events so far - including our first outside London (in Liverpool) You can watch all those back at public.digital/pd-insights/... Sign up for future updates: public.digital/data-bites-s...

🎊 What a night! The #ISWC2025 Students’ Party in Nara 🥳 Laughter, great food & new friendships — no supervisors, no formalities, just fun! 🎉 Huge thanks to @Akaichi Ines & @Atsuko Yamaguchi for organizing an unforgettable evening 🙌 #SemanticWeb #AI #StudentParty #ConferenceLife #Nara #Japan

LISTEN NOW: As AI systems shape decisions in healthcare, hiring, and beyond, the need for transparency has never been greater. How can we document these tools in ways that are both meaningful and actionable? Tune into the latest Tech Talks podcast episode on AI Documentation: cdt.org/insights/tec...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has crossed 120 million EU users for its search feature and may fall under the Digital Services Act. Ramsha Jahangir breaks down what this could mean for the regulation of AI chatbots in Europe. buff.ly/JEFSCE5

📢New report out! How can research stay open and secure? Science Europe’s new Research Security report explores how organisations can protect collaboration, integrity, and academic freedom in a changing geopolitical landscape. 👉 bit.ly/3Ws8brx #ResearchSecurity #ResearchCollaboration

🎉The social side of #ISWC2025 is where the magic happens! 🎈 Students’ Party Nov 2 🤝 Welcome Reception Nov 3 🖼️ Posters & Demos Nov 4 🍽️ Gala Dinner Nov 5 Connect, celebrate & have fun with the #SemanticWeb community! iswc2025.semanticweb.org#/blogs/socia... #Networking #AI #GalaDinner #StudentParty

The “rip-off economy”, in which firms profit from opacity, confusion or inertia, is meeting its match. But the extent to which AI can eliminate this market depends on two things

Five past winners of the Philip Leverhulme Prize will be speaking at our event next month on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation. Book your tickets now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social

How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem) Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

📢#WCSJ2027 Founding Partners announced 👇 🎉The Royal Society, Springer Nature, Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation🎉 @royalsociety @Springer Nature @wellcometrust.bsky.social @UKRI_News 📆World Conference of Science Journalists will take place in London in September 2027

DCMS has commissioned a @odihq.bsky.social initiative to make data about volunteering more accessible

Launching Everyday AI - a project to drive innovation and growth with trustworthy AI that works for everyone⚙️ The UK stands at a crossroads. As AI transforms every aspect of our economy and society, we face a choice: let technology widen existing divides, or harness it to create opportunity for all

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

American science is in a “dark age”, says Neil Shubin, president-elect of the National Academy of Sciences. Why, then, is he so optimistic? Listen to “Babbage”

⏳️ IT'S NOT TOO LATE to join the #Livestream of The Web We’ve Built, happening today, Internet Archive Day, as designated by the city of San Francisco! 🌐 📅 Tonight, Oct 22 🕖️–🕗️ 7–8 PM PT / 10–11 PM ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-web-we... #Wayback1T

📢 Call for Abstracts: Participatory AI Development, Governance and Power at PAIRS26, taking place alongside the India AI Impact Summit in Feb 26! 🚀 www.pairs.site/ Open for papers, presentations or poster abstracts for online or in-person (Delhi) sessions. Deadline: 31st October.

How can researchers continue to access public web data in the face of new threats like robots.txt exclusions, legal demands, & bot defenses? Join the Common Crawl Foundation today for a seminar covering their latest insights and ideas for the future of the open web: hai.stanford.edu/events/commo...

Some weather forecasts can now be done on a laptop

📢 @pulsesincrease.bsky.social , winners of the 2024 EU Prize for #CitizenScience, invites abstracts for the Participatory & Citizen Science Genomics Workshop at #PAG33, San Diego, 9 Jan 2026. Submit by 10 Nov 2025! 🌱🧬 More info: [email protected] #Genomics #Biodiversity #Agroecology

AI Enigma: Search Traffic Drops to Sites, but Revenue Doesn’t—Yet Many companies say their website traffic has declined in the past year or so, thanks to AI chatbots. But most companies say revenue has not fallen. Read more from Catherine Perloff 👇 https://thein.fo/4o2BFIQ

Register is open for UKGovCamp 2026! Join us on 17 January 2026 for a free, community-led unconference where public sector people meet to share ideas, collaborate, and improve services. Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today: forms.gle/tL5q1ZBHYxAq...

Happy Data Bites (AI special) week! Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me, 6pm Thurs 23 Oct, & hear from: - @metoffice.gov.uk on AI opportunities - @scottishaialliance.bsky.social on children's rights & AI - JDAC (Cab Office) on making data interactive - Govt Internal Audit Agency on GIAA’s Engines

🚨 DATA BITES AI SPECIAL 🚨 6pm next Thurs 23 Oct: - Simon McLellan @metoffice.gov.uk on AI opportunities - @elmosmoe.bsky.social @scottishaialliance.bsky.social on children's rights & AI - James Ancell, JDAC, on making data interactive - Lauren Petrie, Govt Internal Audit Agency, on GIAA’s Engines

Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow reut.rs/46RSYGh

If you're interested in learning more about @mlcommons.org #Croissant, an open community standard for #machine-readable #metadata about #ai #datasets, I was recently invited by #National #AI #Research #Resource #Pilot to present in their webinar series: youtu.be/GhjRpvhzDkU

We’re launching a new fellowship investment framework to make fellowship opportunities clearer, simpler, and more effective. The framework will apply to new UKRI fellowship opportunities from late 2025, including those managed by councils. More: www.ukri.org/news/new-fel...

⏰ 2 months to go until applications close for the £7.5 million Longitude Prize on ALS. You could help transform treatment for neurodegenerative diseases like hashtag #ALS, the most common form of motor neurone disease ( #MND ). Learn more: bit.ly/4mlzSg5

🧠In March this year we published the Open Data Institute #AI #readiness framework, providing recommendations for updating #data #infrastructure to the #AI age. 📊The ODI’s latest report shares key insights from 10 case studies across UK councils on what it takes to make public data #AI-ready.

📢 We're seeking an exceptional leader to establish and chair our new Advisory Board. This pivotal role will strengthen @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social's position as a globally recognised leader in AI research, policy and innovation. ❌ Closing date: 12 November 2025 ℹ️: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/127225-...

Keynote spotlight: At our #AIintheNHS event tomorrow, Lawrence Tallon, CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will talk about the newly launched National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare. Find out more and register ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4pXfjK7

Informatics' Dr Nicola Paoletti and team are developing a pioneering new approach to check if Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are being biased, deceptive or harmful, thanks to a £300,000 grant from Open Philanthropy. Learn more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/project...

🎉 The Semantic Web 2025 workshop and poster proceedings are now online! We are delighted to share that the proceedings are freely accessible on CEUR-WS: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4064/ A big thank you to all contributors, reviewers, and organizers who made this possible!

Amazon merchants are shifting away from keyword-stuffed product listings as the company refines its search algorithm with generative AI. Instead, they are opting for conversational descriptions to improve visibility. Read: https://thein.fo/4mUoXdD

The share of foreign-born scientists recognised with a Nobel prize has increased in recent decades. Which countries are the biggest winners, and losers, of this scientific migration?