'Digital tech is often presented as a solution to challenges facing universities. Its use interacts w/ political & economic pressures on universities & students in ways that are sometimes problematic' Read @joenote.bsky.social's reflections on his CTMF PhD journey & future plans ▶️ edin.ac/4gnRvsV

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the viral absolute unit meme from @themerl.bsky.social has been acquired for the national collection it is the first born-digital object acquired by the National Science and Media Museum, and will go on display in January

Brill to catch up with @alexpeden.bsky.social and co at Edinburgh Research Cultures Forum. My point, #ResearchCulture work is not charity. It addresses the serious volume of waste in the system. Wasted talent, resources, time, money, goodwill, trust, and health. Is this what we want for ourselves?

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me

Charles Brooks looks inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography

Little bump for our starter pack of UK museums – as ever, if we've not spotted you, give us a wave so we can follow back and add you ✅

Next week in Edinburgh (or online)!

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

The original #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is now full, and more people are still coming over to BlueSky, so I've started a Surveillance Studies Starter Pack #2... this will continue to grow! go.bsky.app/7VhTRFP The original Starter Pack is still here: go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Jacobs starting us off w/audience round on why we're interested in teaching w/3D tech: tactile accessibility, fragile artifacts, public humanities, preservation, ways to work w/what no longer exists, speculative & reparative applications, makerspace, data viz, social justice...

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

🧵 from earlier on a new report looking at access to creative higher education

Fantastic to have Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social join here - give her a follow for political economy of higher education research. For a taster check out this big multi-authored paper that Janja led on digitalisation of HE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Speaking of this are any libraries doing audits of their research databases and any research tools they provide access to to keep track of all the GenAI features that are being added and whether they are opt-in or opt-out? Does anyone want to do a study with me? 📚📜

Whether you are a researcher in #dh , a librarian 📚, or a cultural heritage professional #glam , I would strongly recommend this _fantastic_ report out of the U of Edinburgh by @melissaterras.bsky.social and her colleagues on possible futures for digital cultural heritage: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Here it is! the final report from our Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project. Speculative methods, museum futures, it's all in there! #GLAM #digitalculturalheritage

William Gibson (abridged)

Sign up now to head from my brilliant colleague @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social at the next @braiduk.bsky.social x @designinf.bsky.social seminar on 10th October! You can join in person or online! #creativeai #ethicalai

A plea to my fellow Canadians and Americans: when we make positive arguments for #immigration, do not proclaim this land "empty," "endless" etc. This only adds to settler-colonial erasure of #Indigenous peoples. There are other ways to support immigrants. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...

"for you, turquoise is blue". Well YES, isn't it for everyone? I tried ismy.blue on two different screens and apparently I think a lot of things are blue.

We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0

Would you like to work for an exciting project to improve our #ResearchCultures? The #InFrame team are looking for a finance manager, deadline 24th September Finance Manager Grade 8, www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ (search vacancy: 151290) #ResearchDevelopment #ResearchCultures #ResearchFinance

I have started a starter pack of great people working in or thinking about the public sector, digital and culture. Wave if you would like to be added or have recommendations ✨ go.bsky.app/DkxnaRc

Possibility Studies and 'Possible Futures'. The Anticipation 2024 Conference is off at Lancaster University 🇬🇧 with a keynote by prof. Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University. #anticipation #futures #foresight

Mad? Bad? Or Dangerous to know? Let the die decide… Src: www.facebook.com/share/p/LjG7...

Apparently, we're hiring: Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Come work at Edinburgh. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

Please join me and @eddiged.bsky.social for an online talk on 15 November, 2:30UK time. Immersive media for reinterpreting heritage, from artist and educator Agnes Michalczyk, who explores the urban space and narratives of Cairo. www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/immers...

this is what globe artichokes look like if you don't harvest them at the 'middle class vegetable*' stage. I really wanted to know! It looks like a sea anemone. I grew it from seed this year. *UK-specific joke from a recent headline

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Surveillance in an Age of Crisis: the 10th Biennial @SurvStudiesNet / @SurvSoc_Journal Conference #SSN2024, 28-31 May 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Deadline: 31st Dec 2023. #surveillance #datajustice #humanrights #privacy #security easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024

Really happy to be over here on Bluesky 👋🟦☁️ We have some exciting publications coming up, including a brilliant special edition. Follow us for all the news about the latest #openaccess research around technology, culture, and education

the ACLU's report, 'Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling' is a useful resource! (you know it's good because it cites @hypervisible.bsky.social ;)) www.aclu.org/report/digit...

I love the Surveillance & Society journal and am so happy to have an article published in the latest issue, with the brilliant Anna Wilson. Surveillance Imaginaries: Learning from Participatory Speculative Fiction. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

My unit at Edinburgh Uni are hiring at Prof level for a leadership role! we are looking for a Chair in Design Informatics to co-direct and drive forward our research, innovation and pedagogy within IDI representing Edinburgh College of Art in this interdiscplinary space. More info: bit.ly/3LRe0tL

What would AI that spurs joy from within minoritized communities look like? This exciting new fellowship sponsored by MSR with Edinburgh's BRAID project seeks a creative UK-based scholar to collaborate with me and our team to help us imagine. Please spread the word! braiduk.org/fellowships/...

There is still time to submit, and I really encourage people to do so!

My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social

I'm obviously going to post about work stuff... but of all the things i'm pleased about right now this ghost pumpkin is pretty high up the list. (it's a crown prince squash, but don't you think 'ghost pumpkin' is a better name?)