What makes a postdoctoral position different when it’s a Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life junior or senior fellow position? You will be working together with a vibrant community of interdisciplinary researchers, each of them curious about the world-making capacities of AI. Ask us a question…

Co-authored with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for a forthcoming special issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social, this essay takes Elon Musk's planned FinTech makeover of X as a provocation for a critical analysis of so-called 'embedded finance' and the evolution of FinTech www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Call for Participation! Socializing Algorithms Conference Kiel University, Germany — 7–9 Oct 2026. With keynotes from N. Katherine Hayles and Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social 📝 Submit abstracts by 28 Feb 2026 algorithmen-regieren.de/projects

To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thanks so much @eryk.bsky.social & for making this connection. The question of what generative AI does to politics - and how the prompt comes to define and circumscribe the political. We are planning an event @leverhulmecal.bsky.social 2026 on this, would be great if you can join us.

Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

5 days in from spine surgery & I’m at the “sounding off on Bluesky” stage of recovery

Travel data has historically been a correlative proxy. Early 2000s data mining used one way flights (*purchased third party) in terror algorithms. These apparent “errors” by HMRC illuminate machine learning logics: 1/ combine gov cloud data www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fuming here. I *really* wanted to go to this event on Thursday, about the history of CD ripping. But I can't, because I have to do dialysis. So frustrating. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Congratulations Dr Sydney Calkin on your Leverhulme Prize @leverhulme.ac.uk such crucial work

@joshfdean.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

Next Friday (10/31 10AM), ORG will discuss @amoorelouise.bsky.social et al's recent article, "Politics of the Prompt", addressing "the politics of prompting in machine learn­ing, at a time when bureaucratic & democratic government is undergoing trans­formation." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coming up Mon. Oct. 20 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "AI and the Digital: On Cloud Ethics and Beyond" Join Louise Amoore with Audrewy Borowski as they discuss how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms? How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state? Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Another must-read from @ludovico-rella.bsky.social #assetization #cloud #blockchain

Thoughtful read on how prompts shift the political imagination & how it may influence government decision making. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor! www.ukri.org/news/interna...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Welcome to the first day of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life. We look forward to working with you and hope that you will watch this space for recruitment, events, & more @leverhulme.ac.uk #AI #MachineLearning #SocialSciences #Humanities

“Wait though, if we use passport & visa images for facial recognition in policing, what about all the other people?” “Ah yes, you’ve a point there” “A compulsory enrollment, call it Brit card” “Great, just don’t mention the biometrics or the facial recognition “ “Sorted” www.gov.uk/government/p...

Oh dear, when Russian jets entered Estonian airspace two days ago, I may have wondered aloud why they would do that when they could hack Tallinn’s EU-LISA…. yet one more example of a visible face of war mirrored by digital and algorithmic architectures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@nannathylstrup.bsky.social #loss

Congratulations @bnjacobsen.bsky.social on the award of your ERC starting grant. Can’t wait to continue working with you and your new team @leverhulmecal.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #AI #syntheticdata #machinelearning

This is just nonsense from a man who has repeatedly shown he doesn't know the first thing about his brief and doesn't care to learn Me verifying my age does not stop any child accessing any content. Me using a VPN does not allow any child to access content. There is no causal relationship here

Same govt, recently. (Not claiming the U.S. is any better!)

university presidents think they're cutting deals to restore their funding. i get their pressures. but this is what's happening: ramping up the extortion, creating homogeneous zones of government-directed curricula, shutting down campus speech.

ICYMI Early Career Paper Prize 2026! It entails two good things in one: publication in the journal 2026 & £1000 award. Another one which the journal excels in: in-depth peer-reviews; every submission gets reviewed by members of editorial board, plus externals.

We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

Found it!

ah, didn't you see their brand guidelines? They state: "Do not use 'Beyond' conventionally. It should always be used as a subject noun or abstract noun". AAARGH.

As a linguist, I'm not supposed to be prescriptive. But I will never tire of policing the abomination of managerial discourse.

Michel Callon has died

Assistant Director vacancy alert! Apply for this newly created position within the Trust. Responsibilities include leading on specific large grant schemes, representing the Trust externally and managing key areas of policy development. Interested? Learn more: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...

My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

Just stumbled upon this young, talented woman's project called - Detectly - which is like an ad blocker but for AI content, suitable for Chrome and Firefox. detectly.xyz

I can’t remember when I felt as honoured, to have these specific people, whom I admire so deeply, write this. Thank you @profgillian.bsky.social @samkinsley.uk @mbfazi.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @oliviamason.bsky.social You are forever my inspiration ❤️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My follow-up article on synthesis in gen AI is now out 💥💥💥   Responding to @shanedenson.bsky.social response, I expand on my transcendental argument about LLMs and develop the case for a structuralist reading of Kantian synthesis. Available Open Access ⬇️ journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

Thank you so much @elkeschwarz.bsky.social & @politicalgeography.bsky.social - I am so grateful for this generous discussion of Cloud Ethics. A disc collapsing in my spine prevented me from writing a reply 😔 with 5 months sick. Thank you @oliviamason.bsky.social for continuing without me ❤️

Germany: "You can't wear this symbol reminding people of the genocide we committed in the past, because it reminds people of the genocide we're supporting right now."

“You can’t starve anyone by accident, you can shoot someone by accident but … in inflicting starvation [you] have 60 or 80 days in which [you] can remedy the error” Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Slept so badly last night, downstairs at 2am with 25 yo book @jennyedkins.bsky.social brilliant Whose Hunger? “If famine is not viewed simply as deprivation that leads to death by starvation, but 1/2 www.upress.umn.edu/978081663507...

A good start to the day reading President of @britishacademy.bsky.social @sjs1869.bsky.social letter to the Prime Minister warning of “cuts and contractions across higher education” & erosion of opportunities “in subjects that are crucial for the future” www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness

There is some really fabulous early career scholarship out there right now. It’s always the case but it’s especially important in context of the situation in universities (& in the world). Please consider submitting a paper to the @econsocjournal.bsky.social early career paper prize. Deadline 15 Dec

Fascinating article by @amoorelouise.bsky.social et al on how generative AI will radically change the future of politics. Will we witness a transformation toward an authoritarian technocracy, where algorithms dictate the boundaries of political action and knowledge? @aida.follows.technology