To read: Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AI Research ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Looking forward to giving a keynote here at the end of the month: "A Public Sociology of Algorithms and AI?" www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday: Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

Just to say, I am a supervisor here: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student... If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out: www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

"This is a system where migrant workers are tolerated only as long as they remain silent, flexible and invisible." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is beautiful: www.instagram.com/reel/DQpuPMR...

The state's Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act took effect on Monday. Under the law, businesses have to tell customers when they are using their personal data, such as where they are and what they've purchased in the past, to determine price: www.businessinsider.com/uber-doordas...

We need more of this: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

ILO: Strengthen Global Rules to Protect Gig Workers Treaty Should Guarantee Workers’ Rights www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

This year, personally, has been absolutely brutal. Grief is awful, but I do not want this stuff.

We are at "u ok hun?" levels in UK HE. Massive restructuring plans without any planning/governance in sight. While redundancies are clearly a pressing issue, there is no long-term viability of running things this way. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just to say, I am a supervisor here: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student... If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out: www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

😂 What a very British protest - radio DJ doing a 24-hour marathon playing hits that only reached number 2 in the charts, to highlight the 'Number Twos' discharged in sewage into Lake Windermere. 🎧 See also Community Radio Environment Network @cren1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So far, we've got "lying officials," "fake data," and "those damn Dems." wapo.st/4hXntyj

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social** Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond. Applications due February 1, 2026. Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

WE TRULY LOVE TO SEE IT

Ahead of the @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Transport and Environment committee meeting on Thursday members of @edcriticalmass.bsky.social protested about lack of action on Cowgate

By the way, Wordplay.com has completely shifted me from Wordle.

Timeline refresh:

Ok, sure: Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow tech.unions.org.uk

Someone please tell consultants ramming their "contribution frameworks" through UK HE: "432 potential awards were excluded from Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list for an “extreme” level of hyper-prolific authorship over past five years" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/hyperpr...

BTW, there are three PhD scholarships available here: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War: www.sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospe...

By the way, Wordplay.com has completely shifted me from Wordle.

And what about this one too? www.politico.eu/article/hung...

The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%. This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line. www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/

Houston, we have a problem: "hundreds of millions of real transactions across groceries, restaurants, and Main Street businesses — captures what’s actually happening in thousands of neighborhoods across America, rather than depending only on traditional surveys or samples"

What's happening here? "President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce report..." www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

In "The Universal Clock" (see last post), the narrator asks something along the lines of: is the system that bad? Did Watkins need to be so hard-headed?

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy www.science.org/content/arti...

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?

I'd missed this last wk in PW abt university presses. My takeaway: the biggest challenge UPs face right now is not Tr*mp. It's sustaining the peer review process. I say this to authors all the time: Our primary crisis is yours, too, & it's A LABOR CRISIS. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Via @Staff-Student Solidarity Network at Edinburgh. Please take a minute to read and sign: "Between 1000 and 2000 people will lose their jobs if these cuts are implemented, adding up to as much as 1 in 7 workers across the university" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Someone once snapped at me "the UK isn't a NYC subway, Karen!" and well, yeah, as nasty as that was, it told me so much. And why this place stays spiralling.

Great to see @workersobservatory.org here: Bike-Powered Bicycle Stories (Havana/Glasgow Film Festival) hgfilmfest.com/2025/10/11/b...

Just sitting with the sentence: “Trump will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception, and fake news"

"Having seen the impact of restricted immigration visas for student recruitment, ... Anton is alert to the demographic problems afflicting Scotland's economic growth... calling on UK Gov to work with the Scottish on exemptions and incentives to move to Scotland." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very sad news. Arts and Humanities are vital. Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income? Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?

Early Career Researchers – get connected with the Administrative Data Research initiative, giving access to administrative datasets not publicly available for research on social problems affecting Scotland. Book now for our @bsaecr.bsky.social workshop, 13 November, online tinyurl.com/3rfrxw44

The Economist claims that Musk's $10M donation to UT-Austin's Population Wellbeing Initiative is specifically to "provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas." Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...

Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

The week of industrial action comes one year after the financial crisis at the institution put hundreds of jobs on the line.