fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

We are seeking feedback on measures to alleviate pressure on the housing market, which will help shape the Affordable Housing Act. Interested parties can respond to a questionnaire by 29 March 2026 and answer a call for evidence by 3 April 2026↓ link.europa.eu/JKbmrT

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/ Already available online and introducing the new issue of the NNJ, we can read the letter from the editor-in-chief Michael J. Ostwald (UNSW) 'Foregrounding Geometric Thinking,' highlighting geometry as an active method instead of exclusively a descriptive tool: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The planet is getting hotter, but one factor makes it hard to tell how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/climate-phys...

Since people are talking about the backflip & the amazing Surya Bonaly, I'm adding something else. I loved her and mentioned her in my book #AfricanEuropeans in 2020. #WinterOlympics2026 #SuryaBonaly

so called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input futurism.com/advanced-tra...

“In a caustic twist of history, while the first Colossus was built to decode and disrupt Nazi messages, the second seems inclined to recast and amplify them.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Call for ECC 2028 host (deadline extended to 16 February 2026)! ECREA opened a call for proposals for the hosting and organisation of the 12th edition of the European Communication Conferences.

The #ACMBookClub is back! We’re kicking things off on Sunday, Feb 22, w/ a deep dive into Melanie Mitchell’s acclaimed Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, and a finale conversation w/ the author on March 24. Register today: buff.ly/a8L7qzA

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Don't forget! Today is the last day to submit your abstract to ECC2026!

⏰ A friendly reminder to our ECREA Media, Cities and Space section members and non-members that there is only one day left to submit your abstracts for the upcoming ECC2026 conference in Brno, Czech Republic! 🇨🇿 Don't miss it!!

🎁 Dear ECREA MCS Section members and followers, 📝 As we wrap up 2025, we would like to update you on our past and future events and to ask for your feedback so that we can improve collaboration, networking and engagement. 🎄Have a lovely festive season! mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/e...

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. This is on full display in Quanta’s Year in Review math round-up: www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-...

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

It is done! We published our VGC '23 book, consisting of 10 papers from our conference in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2023🎉 Many thanks to our editors and everyone who contributed! More Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...

We’ve extended the deadline by a week! More time to send in your abstract for potential inclusion in a special @mediapolis.bsky.social dossier on ‘The Synthetic City’!

EXTENDED DUE DATE for Abstracts: 7 December 2025 Call for Papers: The Synthetic City. We have extended the due date by an extra week, so you still have time to submit your proposals!

⏳ Only a few days left to submit your proposal for a #ECC2026 pre-conference! Design your own event in Brno (5–7 Sept 2026) and bring scholars together around your theme. Submit your 500–800-word proposal by 30 Nov → ecrea2026brno.eu/call-for-pre...

shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview

REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism. 📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30 🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

🥽🎮🕹👾 Excited to share that my recent study co-developed with Daniel Riha, "Environmental storytelling and planetary thinking in Prague’s video game scene" has been accepted for presentation @videogamecultures.bsky.social (VGC) 2025: Gaming Landscapes conference!! #VGC25 #storytelling #VR #AI 1/

Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs. 👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

🇪🇺 Europe for Culture. Culture for Europe. Culture connects us, strengthens communities, and sparks creativity and innovation.

1/ 📚 From the series 'Mathematics and the Built Environment', read the latest book by J. H. Lee, M. J. Dawes and M. Ostwald (UNSW) 'Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture - Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Eisenman' (2025), published by @springernature.com: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card www.wired.com/ai-issue/

1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social: The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

1/ Anticipating the forthcoming Nexus Network Journal: #Architecture and #Mathematics Volume 27, Issue 4, read the most recent letter by the Editor-in-Chief Michael Ostwald (UNSW), "Fabrication-Informed and AI-Adaptive Design", published by @springernature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues. mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c... Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.

Call for Papers: The Synthetic City We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism. 📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30 🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

🌍🌐 Today’s “AI for Weather & Climate Preparedness” event showed how AI can boost Europe’s resilience to climate change. Digital initiatives like #DestinE, AI Factories & EuroHPC prove that collaboration is key to a resilient European future.

We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...

Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!! #videogames #gaming #EA www.euronews.com/business/202...

Thank you everyone for being part of our VGC conference 2025! We had a great time with the contributions, chats, and, most importantly, all the presenters! By now, everyone should have arrived at home safely, and we're looking forward to next year ✨

🇨🇦🎮👾Call for abstracts until 10 October 2025 for the HCII 2026 conference & affiliated conferences, such as the 8th International Conference on HCI in Games, to be hosted in Montreal, Canada!! More info at: 2026.hci.international/hci-games #HCI #games #play #design #impact #VR #AR #XR #AI #HCII2026

Did you know that less than 15% of the global military spending could help developing countries adapt to climate annually? Nearly half the world's population are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and yet $2.7 trillion were wasted on militaries in 2024. #NuclearBan

🥳 Join us next week on Tues, September 23 at our usual time. We're thrilled to be joined by an amazing line-up of speakers: 🔹 Annie-May Gibb of Transparency International 🔹 Carter Draper of @hotosm.org 🔹 Christine Charles, of Ottawa Public Health - Santé publique Ottawa

This is exciting. I was expecting to add maybe 4 or 5 titles to my list. But there are loads (see responses). We're seeing a renaissance of proper local journalism, not among the big companies, which mostly remain dire, but among independent publications founded by local people. Hope lies here ⬇️

NEW: Preparations for the EU’s code of practice on labelling AI-generated content are moving forward. While no launch date has been set, the preliminary results of technical studies meant to inform the code will be discussed at a workshop next week. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

Our publication for VGC 2023 is on its way! You can already check out the wonderful cover and website here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...

⏰Reminders that every August (when many of our colleagues in Europe are on leave), we take a break from our monthly IWG meetings. We'll be introducing a new way in which we are organising them in the next few weeks, whilst preparing for our 10th Anniversary. Stay tuned!

The game, a sequel to 2003’s “Kirby Air Ride” on GameCube, launches in November.

A history of nuclear blasts since 1945. AFP Infographic charting known nuclear blasts around the world since 1945, according to data collated by the Arms Control Association, and checked with UN documentation

At exactly 8:15 a.m. JST, around the time you’re reading this, 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...

LIVE: 80th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing www.youtube.com/live/pK-xi3s... Candlelight vigil held in Hiroshima to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing. #Hiroshima #anniversary #atomicbomb #nuclear #war #live #Reuters #News

Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’

Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...