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

🙋‍♀️ Come work at my department! We are nice and friendly, in the hwart of London, UK! 🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice. 🌟 full time, permanent! 🌟salary £42,882-£60,907. Deadline for applications 24th July 2025! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is this Fri, June 13 @ 11am (ET US). Oliver Haimson will join us to discuss "The Political Economy of Trans Technologies: Trans Capitalism, Investment Funding, Mutual Aid, & Anticapitalist Approaches." For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

The MSc HCI Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social, now in its 20th year, is open for final applications for entry in Oct 2025! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-... #UX #HCI

Comics & AI: Critical Prompts, a one-day conference at City St George’s, 4 Sept 2025 ernestopriego.com/2025/05/15/e... -deadline for abstracts: 10 July. #ComicsStudies

We are hiring a postdoc! Looking for a scholar interested in doing qualitative research on news experiences and perceptions of AI, to join the Imagine project and Media use research group in Bergen #CommSky

"But for inexperienced programmers, the result of introducing A.I. can resemble the shift from artisanal work to factory work in the 19th and 20th centuries." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨 Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization. Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization. Feel free to DM for informal chat. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A 🖊️ sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...

Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices by @benedetta.bsky.social in Digital Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...

unions across nine countries coming together to raise issues faced by data workers!

“To survive working in neonatal & paediatric intensive care, nurses develop a professional detachment while remaining caring. It is difficult to cultivate the disconnect between where the patient ends and ‘you’ begin.’ What’s in a Name: sociological fiction by @profdphd.bsky.social. buff.ly/ignTAgA

Visiting museums in the UK often leaves me wishing for something similar in India, to record overlooked histories, explore ongoing concerns. This piece shares a vision for one! TIL that Delhi had a Natural History Museum until it was destroyed in a fire in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/d44...

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

Calling PhDs & Postdocs! Want to share your research on gender & sexuality with wider audiences? Join Academic Writing for the Public, a hands-on workshop by GENDER.ED! 29 April, 10am - 1pm Apply by 28 March: [email protected] Spots are limited—apply now!

Come work with me! 1 year postdoc opportunity to work with me on workers' roles in AI safety. Social science and participatory methods a must, experience working with trade unions a + More info & apply here --> qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

We are excited to announce a new, funded PhD studentship opportunity, alongside the School of Informatics @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing. Apply ▶️ edin.ac/40PAXEq

Job Klaxon! We're hiring at Edinburgh Uni: Research Software Engineer (CoSTAR Foresight Lab). Grade 8, 0.6 FTE, 4 years. Supporting novel approaches to data analysis and sharing about creative industries R&D. Closes 15th Jan. Please share! #CoSTARNetwork elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Less than 1 week until our Technomoral Conversation on what the Majority World can teach us about AI! 📍 Edinburgh & online 📅 19 Nov 6-7.30pm GMT 🎟️ Tickets: edin.ac/4dC6tKo Co-chaired by our Director @shannonvallor.bsky.social & CTMF PhD Affiliate @srravya.bsky.social, this event will feature...

Especially keen for doctoral and early career researchers to participate in the critical edtech studies conference next year - to help build the community and sustain critical edtech scholarship into the future More on why we're doing it here codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/c...

The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto offers fully funded PhD student positions to study with Prof. Vera Khovanskaya @saysvera in the areas of Labour Studies, Future of Work, Data Justice, and Social Movements. Deadline is Dec. 1: ischool.utoronto.ca/phd-in-infor...

Get involved with the ISP! Apply for our 2025-26 roles: 1⃣ Resident Fellowship 2⃣ The Majority World Initiative (MWI) 3⃣ Wikimedia Initiative On Intermediaries and Information (WII) Deadline for applications: Dec 18! law.yale.edu/isp/join-us#...

Hello! I've been working on a starter pack for labour and technology scholars on Bluesky. 🤖💪📘 I started with a bunch of folks from @labortech.bsky.social and have been expanding outwards. Reply or send a message to me directly if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3