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Alex Taylor

@alex-taylor.bsky.social
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Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh. Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reminder @alex-taylor.bsky.social is speaking *this* Thursday discussing his BRAID project on red teaming & outsourcing labour in the Global South. Make sure you don't miss out - get your hybrid ticket now 👉 rb.gy/64oljm @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @uoe-gail.bsky.social
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BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Alex Taylor
Thursday, 30th January 2025 [Inspace / Zoom]
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #funding
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UK Research and Innovation
UKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system.
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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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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
HK art
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas lunch 🎄 When in Asia… 🍜
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Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Love ❤️ that Mary Douglas has a Google Scholar profile. She was and is a beacon 💡
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
👇 This short documentary video 📹 on drone delivery in Logan, Aus, is a must 🔥
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“We should be concerned abt the closure of the EngLit course at Canterbury...This is more than an institutional failure. It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic + intellectual tools provided by literature. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📣 Reflections from our *AI in the Street* project in The Conversation (@theconversation.com), by inimitable project lead @noortjem.bsky.social. theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...
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Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)
From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Our latest Special Issue is out now: Digital (mis)trust: rethinking trust in digitalising societies -eds James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c...
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Journal of Cultural Economy
Digital (mis)trust: rethinking trust in digitalizing societies; Guest Editors: James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris. Volume 17, Issue 6 of Journal of Cultural Economy
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is looking for a Senior Policy Officer in Online Safety. Full time, salary £42,593-£48,245. Deadline - 3rd December 2024 ico.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ICO/jo...
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Senior Policy Officer - Online Safety
Senior Policy Officer - Online Safety Full time / Part time Salary: £42,593 - £48,245, with potential for further progression to £54,317 with our pay progression scheme. Location: Hybrid Contracted to...
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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
📢 This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament alongside MEP Leïla Chaibi & Prof. Antonio Casilli. We’ll be joined by data workers from 🇪🇸🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇸🇾 to discuss the labor behind AI and what worker-centric regulation could look like. 🎥 Watch live, 2:30pm CET: www.youtube.com/live/U4692yg...
Event's flyer.  It reads:
The Left in the European Parliament.  Save the Date.  (Un)artificial Intelligence: Workers behind the machine.  21.11.24. 2:30 - 5:30 pm. Organised by MEP Leïla Chaibi.  European Parliament-Brussels. Room ASP 1G2.  Interpretation: FR-EN-IT-ES-DE.
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Nice @gleemie.bsky.social 🙂 1. The operationalising of responsibility in AI (w/ particular interest in capitalist global supply chains) 2. hmm, if I had the internet off switch 🎚️in front of me, would/could I do it? 💥
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📣 If you’re in Edinburgh next Monday be sure to make this👇 We’re feeling very lucky to be having danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social join us!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Looking forward to this!
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Speaking this Thursday @4pm (GMT) is the brilliant Dr Peaks Krafft. Join us online, or in person if you’re Edinburgh based!
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Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Come and work with me! I mean, that's the main draw, right?
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
📣 Call now open for fully funded PhDs in 🔥Responsible NLP at University of Edinburgh! 📣 An awesome opportunity to look at AI through a critical lens. I'm especially keen to talk w/ applicants coming to this from #sts #sociology #digitalhumanities #feministtechnoscience www.responsiblenlp.org
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The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world NLP is based at the University of Edinburgh. Applications are now open for funded PhD studentships starting as part of the September 2025 cohort. Our deadline is 9th January 2025.
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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Join our next event of the @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar Series where @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social will present her talk, ‘What is the value of integrating AI into creative processes?’. 📅 Thu 10 Oct 2024 ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 @inspacegallery.bsky.social / Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3TRU4eq
An infographic about What is the value of integrating AI into creative processes? hybrid seminar on Thu 10th October with a profile image of the speaker Caterina Moruzzi at the right bottom corner
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much we’ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Spectacular morning in #Edinburgh. Sights from Blackford Hill always beautiful.
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207
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Mercedes 🤦‍♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 6.30pm at Science Gallery London with @NoortjeMarres & @mayameme & other lovely humans. Please register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207 Thx @Braid_UK
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
The Critical Data Studies research cluster is growing-- what a crew! efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/cr...
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Critical Data Studies - Edinburgh Futures Institute
Researching the political and social dimensions of data-driven and AI technology.
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
👇 I went to Summer Hall for the first time with Karen last week. So awesome and so upset to hear there’s the risk of closure! Nooo!
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Job vacancies: 2 x Postdoctoral Researchers digitalgood.net/job-vacancie...
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Job vacancies: 2 x Postdoctoral Researchers - ESRC Digital Good Network
Exciting opportunities if you have a PhD or are in the process of submitting a PhD in a relevant area.
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
In case we thought it was all bad
Photo of our wee fury companion, Alfie, curled up on our daughter’s pillow.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
in case this helps
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
“.. yet, hopelessness is not … fatalist; a kind of radical hopelessness that dares refuse the old promissory and progressive logics of capitalist growth could open political horizons. Such openings need not be novel…” “Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism” @annakornbluh.bsky.social
Excerpt from “Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism” by Anna Kornbluh
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