Great-looking internship opportunities at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Tell your students! [@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific _production_. 🧵

The innovation hype cycle graph but it's my ability to maintain focus and enthusiasm at the beginning, middle, and end of writing a paper

Very excited to launch this new collaboration between our BRAID programme and the NEH! Apply by 20 March for funding for US-UK teams of humanities researchers on Responsible AI. Academics in RAI please share in your networks!

Come work with us at Penn State! 🐾🦁🐾 Please help us spread the word! #pennstate #datascience #ai #ica #nca #academicsky psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Basically the best things anyone could write about my book just dropped. Grateful to be a #PhilTech scholar working alongside folks like Robert Rosenberger, our current Society for Philosophy and Technology President. journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article...

Interested in how science, #tech, politics, and policy intersect? Apply for #4S2025 panel #16, Analyzing and Influencing Public Policy: #STS Intersections with Governance (I'm organizing w/Jason Delborne and Gwen Ottinger). Apply by January 31! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... #scipolicy #techpolicy

2 new USC Annenberg #communication #academia #job postings: 1) TT (Asst/Assoc) in media industries & economics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... 2) non-TT (Assoc) in public diplomacy: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... (I’m not on either hiring committee, just sharing.) Please spread the word!

Pleased to report the book of my dissertation on the #philosophy of #peerreview is coming out next week from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, just in time for the holidays! Featuring anonymity, trust, and variations on a theme of openness of review and access. brill.com/display/titl...

The Annenberg School has uploaded a really good interesting history of Oscar Gandy's life and work. Oscar is simply one of my favourite people. It's very much focused on #communication rather than #surveillance, but there's a lot here for surveillance scholars too. www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...

The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Super excited to have a short paper — "Critical Provocations for Synthetic Data"* (co-authored with Jeremy Seeman) — in this new Surveillance & Society dialogue! *A little homage to @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social :)

Cornell's Center for DS for Enterprise and Society is hiring Assistant Research Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows! independent, 3-year, non-tenure track, working w/ Cornell mentors of your choice. Apply by Dec. 1 for full consideration datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/job-postings/

We're looking for a new interdisciplinary PhD researcher to join the Centre for Technomoral Futures (w/ 4 yrs funding!), appointed to U of Edinburgh's Law School, working with Dr Emily Postan on the ethics of AI-constructed health categories. Details to apply here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...

We're hiring! ✅ Permanent employment ✅ Manageable teaching load ✅ Nice colleagues ✅ Surprisingly functional interdisciplinary environment ✅ All the benefits of living in a Scandinavian welfare state #Sociology #AcademicSky

We're hiring at Associate prof level in the iSchool at UW-Madison. Topics are broad in Info Sci, can include ML/AI/NLP. We are as a dept always interested in "human factors" of information, computational social science, computational humanities. Energy around ?s of labor, youth, elderly lately.

I'm very happy we can finally announce this new initiative to fund AI-related research. It is part of a larger effort to make the case specifically for the importance of humanities research and the perspective it can bring to addressing contemporary issues. Please do spread the word.

My department is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in Popular Culture and Media Studies. Please share among relevant networks. Thank you so much! apply.interfolio.com/134148

🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥 calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/... reposts much appreciated 🙏

We wrote a thing: on the UK's AI Safety Summit, and the lessons we still need to learn from the history of safety engineering. TL/DR: AI safety is not a *technical* problem #philtech #sts #philsky #histsci #AI&HCI #AIethics braiduk.org/a-shrinking-...

My Platform Transparency & the First Amendment article is finally and fully out! It’s in the Journal of Free Speech Law and it is very very very timely for anyone weighing in on the Supreme Court’s review of TX and FL social media laws in NetChoice. 1/ www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller2.pdf

When I write my tech manifesto it will be titled "Sending an Email Should Cost $1"

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

New_Public released a directory of "prosocial" digital spaces - "a list of spaces that have taken at least some notable steps to build a public-spirited user experience" newpublic.org/directory

💥We're Hiring in Philosophy of Science @ BU!💥 Assistant Prof, Tenure-track Philosophy Dept, Boston University AOS: Philosophy of Science AOC: Open,Applied Ethics preferred Writing sample, 3 LoR, CV, Research, Teaching, & Diversity Statements 💥Due Nov 1st 💥 philjobs.org/job/show/24278

Job: UNC Chapel Hill Assistant or Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the School of Data Science and Society--specialization in data justice unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/267...

Job opportunity Pew's Science & Society program #STS #PhilSci #SciPol

JOB at Utrecht University PhD position in Philosophy and Ethics of Techno-Science (0.8 – 1.0 FTE) www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Not sure if promotions work here, but I just found out that my JOTWELL post on @jennifercobbe.bsky.social @michae.lv and Jatinder Singh's excellent "Understanding Accountability in Algorithmic Supply Chains" is up, and their piece deserves celebration. Available here: arxiv.org/abs/2304.14749

We all have our own unique special talents and it is not my place to question why the goddess, in her divine wisdom, decided mine should be getting recruited onto search committees

The new "show posts from my feeds" option is really amazing when combined with a healthy selection of custom feeds. 💚 My home feed is now a really lovely mixture of news, social interactions and memes, really feels like Twitter before it all went downhill.

JOB POSTING: We're looking for 2024 summer legal interns. You'll support ground-breaking First Amendment litigation. If you're a law student interested in free-speech advocacy in the digital age, this may be the internship you’ve been waiting for. Apply here: knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...

Job call (via @TodVanGunten): "Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative social research is more important than ever, as is addressing new ethical challenges in research and teaching in the age of artificial intelligence..." www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit...

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Research fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Toulouse, France. Fellows are provided with office space, computer facilities and a contract for two years, renewable for a third year. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Two postdoc positions on AI & Politics at the University of Amsterdam: www.academictransfer.com/nl/332516/tw...

JOB ALERT: open rank search at Northeastern University in technology and democracy. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

finally getting some classic replies on here. the Didn't Read the Post, the Maximum Bad Faith Reading, the Hostile Non Sequitur, and who can forget my personal favorite, the Are You Surprised??

The IACAP CfA is out! Join us for the 2024 International Association of Computing and Philosophy conference at the University of Oregon. Important dates: - Abstracts/Symposium Proposals: January 5 - Notification: March 31 -Conference: July 8-10 #philtech #philsci

Hey #philtech #STS #histtech #philsci #philsky folks - there's a new tenure track job in philosophy of technology/ethics of AI at University of Utah - check it out and pass the word around! Courtesy of Thi Nguyen: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/153...

One of the great things about working on a team with sociologists, statisticians, programmers, and economists is that you have no clue what you’re in for when you get an email with the subject line “Macro question”

How did Apple engineer the AirPods case to slide so perfectly into a backpack’s deepest, darkest crevice so as to be unfindable and also why

This paper is amazing Goal: To understand how philosophical education impacts philosophical intuitions Method: Tracking a sample of undergrad philosophy majors across their entire college career, giving them the same thought experiments each semester www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨🚨🚨 JOB ALERT! The Journal of Law and Political Economy is hiring a managing editor! Don't miss this opportunity to work with an incredible group of interdisciplinary LPE scholars. https://lpeproject.org/events/jlpe-is-hiring/

I asked my class if anyone knew what happened to bring the game industry back to life after the Atari crash and someone sincerely said "the Nintendo GameCube"

2023 Colloquium: Data Practices and Digital Social Worlds bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2023/09/coll...

A new feed for Philosophy of Technology, which picks up hashtag #PhilTech bsky.app/profile/did:... #STS #philsci #philsky #histtech #Sociology #bioethics