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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

✨Are you interested in exploring how artists, activists and academics work with queer data as material, concept, process and problem? 🌈 Come join us on June 10th at HOME Manchester for an evening of talks and performances ⬇️ sign up below www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-data...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

✨ How can model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data? And how might it perpetuate notions of real data as 'gold standard'? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social will discuss this in his talk on March 18th - sign up ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trash-in-t...

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Trash In, Trash Out? Synthetic Data and the Politics of Degenerative AI

This talk discusses how phenomena such as model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

✨new post! @srravya.bsky.social and Aditi Surana reflect on navigating the shifting landscape of academia - with all its uncertainty, politics and challenges. Reflecting on a recent panel event, they chart messy realities and suggest ways forward Read more here: www.ai-ethics.org/reflections/...

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Navigating the shifting landscape of academia — AIES

Across the higher education sector, research and teaching staff are increasingly contending with shifting funding landscape, engaging with multiple disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research,...

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Looking forward to speaking here on Wednesday:

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📣our next event “Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-led dialogue”, is happening in Edinburgh Feb 18th - a panel discussion featuring @karengregory.bsky.social, Nelson Oppong and Adam Badger, and chaired by @srravya.bsky.social 👀 sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...

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Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-Led Dialogue

A wide-ranging discussion about moving between disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and responding to funding uncertainties

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

✨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

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Data-Driven Healthcare

Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

Three smiling people (l-r: Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Alice Ross (me!) and Dr. Oliver Haimson) standing in front of a colourful screen displaying the title 'Panel Discussion'

A photo of buildings at George Square, The University of Edinburgh, with text overlaid on a bright green background. The text is the title of last week's event, Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥 Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

A poster for the Gender and the Machine event on 20 November 2025.

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Data-Driven Healthcare

Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'

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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

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Aída Ponce Del Castillo @aidaponcedelcastillo.com · 07/11/2025

Grateful to the organisers @velocitygravity.bsky.social Ans Sona Gachayeva at @stir.ac.uk and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the opportunity to pre-launch the book 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 and exchange with academics and authors on the challenges that AI brings to universities

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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...

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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

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Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

📣 Come join us on Nov 7th for the launch of the European Trade Union Institute’s new book on AI in Higher Education and Research, edited by @aida.follows.technology who will join us for a book talk! Followed by a fascinating discussion chaired by Dr Sona Gacheyeva ⬇️ info & sign up shorturl.at/8oZ4Z

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Book Launch: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and Research

Join us in Stirling for a book launch of Dr Ponce Del Castillo's forthcoming edited book on AI in Higher Education!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

✨ Join us Oct 22nd for Beren Sekerci's talk exploring material agency and hybridity in biohybrid robotics - artifacts which are neither fully living nor fully robotic, designed by both AI and humans ⬇️ Find out more and sign up below! shorturl.at/cm4uP

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"A New Class of Artifact?"

Exploring Hybridity and Intersecting Agencies in Biohybrid Robotics with Beren Sekerci

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning 🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm ⬇️ sign up: shorturl.at/OqQGf

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Fine-Tuning as Repair? Discussing and Testing a Large Language Model

Join us for a discussion on the practice of fine-tuning Large Language Models and test a model fine-tuned on Edinburgh-based perspectives!

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew! Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️ 📸Daniel McGowan Photography

Meg (they/them) is standing at a lectern looking down at their notes and laughing. They're wearing a short-sleeved black turtleneck and iridescent-pink blue jeans. Behind them is a PowerPoint slide showing a close-up of some network graph data. A person with mid-length turquoise hair sits in front of the camera to the left of Meg, watching their presentation.

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social

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Kate @rebelraising.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I am at this event right now and it's fucking incredible.

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night! Tickets here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!! Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🎆 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...

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Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future

All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva 👇🏻 Sign up here below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-places...

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The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work

Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work

Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This first-of-its-kind event spotlights a curated selection of artists, academics and activists working with – or interested in – queer data as a material, concept, process or problem. Co-organised by @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, @prideinstem.bsky.social and the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻

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Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations ⬇️ sign up here: shorturl.at/uVTdO

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Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

👀 last week to apply for our Doctoral Collquium, which will be held in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (complete with delicious catered lunch 🍱)!

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🎤Applications are open for our annual AIES Doctoral Colloquium! 🚨 The colloquium is an opportunity for Edinburgh-based students to discuss their research on the social or ethical facets of AI with experienced mentors and other students. Apply here 👇 www.ai-ethics.org/doctoral-col...

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DC — AI Ethics & Society

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🚨🚨Two more days to submit an abstract to our 4S panel on care and repair in times of broken machines! The conference will be ✨ hybrid ✨ Share your work with us!

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don’t miss this BRAID event with the amazing Alex Taylor! You can join online or in person for free - get your ticket at the link below! And follow us @braiduk.bsky.social to hear about more events in Responsible AI with an arts/humanities focus

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🙌 Looking forward to our first reading group meeting of the year, taking place in Edinburgh next Tuesday! We’ll be discussing the paper ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Conjectural Sciences’ 👉Sign up here surl.li/oaqoul

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AI Ethics & Society Reading Group | AI and the Conjectural Sciences

Join us for our first reading group of 2025, where we will discuss whether Machine Learning represents a kind of conjectural science

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Join us in person on Tuesday 28 January, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, where we'll hear from Dr Anissa Tanweer (University of Washington) on understanding data ethics as situated practice. Tickets and more info ▶️ edin.ac/4fXTCmS @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Edinburgh is hosting a QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone else who works with – or is interested in – queer data to share their ideas. 📢 The Call for Presenters is now live: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s... #data #AI #tech #LGBTQ #queer #data #Scotland

A poster for the Queer Data Showcase's Call for Presenters. The poster includes information about the Showcase host (Mystika Glamoor), its date and location (5 June, Pleasance, Edinburgh) and co-organisers (Pride in STEM and AI Ethics & Society).

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