For those at @uoe-sps.bsky.social: Feb 17th: CAHSS Network for the Study of Work www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

We’re dropping the final four interventions with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, Chenai Chair, and @chinasa.bsky.social. In Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026, we’re reframing the narratives that shape AI discourse, policy, and power today. 🧵

Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities. Reposts appreciated!

Genealogies aren’t nostalgia, they’re accountability tools. Panel 2 asks how historical continuities can inform more critical approaches to data politics. Feb 18 uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105 #DataGovernance #STS

🚲 Are you a delivery rider in Edinburgh? Come to the next ROOM´s monthly gathering! 📩 Any questions? Just drop a message: [email protected]

CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series Rethinking sustainable AI Labour and environmental perspectives from the Global South Friday, Feb 13 3:10pm - 5:30 pm Srravya Chandhiramowuli and Dr Beatrice Bonami Booking: edin.ac/4tejumk

Working at the University of Edinburgh? Researching work & labour (including labour markets, employment policy, ethnographies of work, digital tech, AI & automation, etc), and want to meet others? Well you're in luck! Feb 17th 10am: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cahss-netw...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What does it mean to build a career in research and academia when the two seem to be in flux and under strain? We will discuss this in detail at this panel discussion in a couple of weeks. Please come along, February 18, 2.30PM! registration link below 👇

🎯 Getting Gig Work on Scotland's Political Agenda Food delivery workers joined the Workers' Observatory workshop this week to build political momentum towards fair and safe gig work in Scotland. You can read the workers' principles and policy demands here: workersobservatory.org/documents/WO...

"Starbucks announced the rapid rollout of a tool called 'automated counting' that... aimed to replace hand-counts of some products with automated ones that are faster and more accurate... But the app frequently miscounts and mislabels items" www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

In the most desolate, American techno-fascist story one can imagine: ICE descends on a data center construction site in Louisiana to abduct workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In making work visible (1995), Lucy Suchman writes: "Work has a tendency to disappear at a distance, such that the further removed we are from the work of others, the more simplified, often stereotypes, our view of their work becomes"

Found in the children's section of a book store, alongside ABCs of nature, animals, action words,etc. Why, just why!

“We call it the ‘Love Boat,’” he said. “We spend more time with each other than with our own families, so we have formed strong bonds. We look out for one another.” A glimpse of life on Africa’s only undersea internet cable repair ship https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship

🎓🇪🇸 Fully funded PhD in Digital Humanities at King’s College London The King’s–Ramón Areces Foundation scholarship supports Spanish nationals with full tuition, an annual stipend (£22,780), and research funding. 📅 Deadline: 13 February 2026 #PhDFunding #DigitalHumanities www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Returning from the most fantastic @stsindianetwork.bsky.social conference this week! An engaging set of panels and discussions that showed the rich histories of STS in India, that I'm now eager to dig deeper into! It was equally refreshing to be in discussions that barely mentioned any AI.

Data work companies hire “white-collar professionals rocked by mass layoffs & hiring freezes, forcing them to make the same cryptic tradeoff: take a volatile job that will temporarily help pay bills to train the next gen of AI that could one day replace them.” financialpost.com/technology/b...

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...

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research. ⬇️ sign up below! shorturl.at/Yj91W

while I'm at it, also sharing this 5 year postdoc at ANU (Australia) mostly because I find the project - the cultures of the cryosphere - fascinating & a really #histSTM coded theme... www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Want to add your voice to UK discussions around responsible AI? We @braiduk.bsky.social are looking for people interested in joining our stakeholder forum.

NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement. Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program

oh yes, encountered this frustrating chatbait a few weeks ago when I tried using chatGPT for some Latex queries. It would annoyingly keep asking follow up questions and offers to create templates and what not, like it is designed to never let the conversation end.

✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance. "We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..." Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

Ugh, frustrated to see warnings like these on Wikipedia. Encountered this on a page about switchboard operators, that I had opened with some excitement and curiosity. The irony of this warning under a section on Reality and Fiction is not lost on me.

Another good job out there: "The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy" tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!

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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.

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?" It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!

Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org . restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor

Important development from the alliance above: content moderators around the world with support from @uniglobalunion.org released a new report and are calling on tech companies “to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains” uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...

🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-... A Sociology of Dragons:

“In Australia, Canada, Greece and the US, call center agents say they’ve been repeatedly mistaken for AI. These people, who spend hours talking to strangers, are experiencing surreal conversations, where customers ask them to prove they are not machines.”

🚨 TIME exclusive: Content moderators shield us from the darkest parts of the internet—but suffer PTSD, burnout & trauma. A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now. #TechWorkersRising

this is a very interesting and useful compilation on the data work sector, published by @techequity.us! check out: dataworklandscape.org/landscape