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The Centre for Democratic Futures is an interdisciplinary research network collaborating internationally from the University of Southampton email us: cdf@soton.ac.uk www.southampton.ac.uk/research/inst…

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Public Policy | Southampton (PPS) @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Strengthening sex and gender integration in health research 📚 Imperial has launched a CPD on Integrating Sex and Gender in Health Research and Policy. Prof Claire Clarkin, Biology @unisouthampton.bsky.social, contributes a session from our Bias in Bones work 🌍 🔗 buff.ly/0wDM8MM
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John Hansard Gallery @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
ARTIST OPPORTUNITY! 👀 Calling Hampshire & Isle of Wight artists! Join Creative Conceptions, a @unisouthampton.bsky.social project focusing on the voices of women of Black and South Asian background in pregnancy care. More information and how to apply here >>> jhg.art/events/open-... #OpenCall
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John Hansard Gallery | What's on | Open Call: Creative Conceptions
Creative Conceptions, led by the University of Southampton, is a partnership built around the voices of local women with past or current pregnancy experience. UK maternal and neonatal outcomes are wor...
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Brilliant PhD project developing novel technologies for UTI treatment 🔬🦠🧫 31k pa enhanced stipend! 💵 Oct 2026 start Apply now 📝 👇🏼@unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #womenshealth #healthequity
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
CfP: Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures. Get your papers in for this ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, led by our co-director Zohreh Khoban and Olive Mendoza, a collaboration that emerged from our symposium last summer. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #polisky
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Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale. Check out this new policy paper from our visiting fellow Tiago Peixoto. eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/ #polisky
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The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale - ePrints Soton
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
CfP: Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures. Get your papers in for this ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, led by our co-director Zohreh Khoban and Olive Mendoza, a collaboration that emerged from our symposium last summer. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #polisky
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Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale. Check out this new policy paper from our visiting fellow Tiago Peixoto. eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/ #polisky
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The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale - ePrints Soton
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Great opportunity for musculoskeletal researchers!! Help us grow more inclusive research across regenerative medicine, prosthetics, epidemiology, preclinical research, clinical trials & global health 🦴🏃‍♂️🌎 Grow your profile, networks & have real impact! Apply now 👇 #Dsxhe #datascience #FortisNet
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Help Shape Inclusive Musculoskeletal (MSK) Research: Volunteer Resource Curator Wanted
Bring data scientists and interdisciplinary musculoskeletal experts together to tackle health inequity for the benefit of the wider community.As people live longer, musculoskeletal (MSK) disease and i...
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DrVCardo @drvcardo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Super excited to share the launch of a new book series: Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media with @uexeterpress.bsky.social which I am coediting with @krossings.bsky.social Details here: www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...
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Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We are very excited to be part of #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 this weekend @SouthamptonGuildhall Sat 23rd Sun 24th August! Learn all about our #sotonbeans 🫘🫛 ☀️research @unisouthampton.bsky.social @rsb.org.uk Have fun play games & take a plant home 🌿 #citizenscience sign up below 2 👇 #sotonpride #scienceforall
Soton beans project with Professor Mark Chapman
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Fantastic day yesterday first in series of #inyourbones workshops coproducing policy info & educational resources 4 skeletal health with local communities. Part science 🔬🧑‍🔬 part art 🎭 🎨 @artcareuk.bsky.social Gr8 timing with call 4 evidence in mens health now open 👇 👇🎉 www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Global Citizens' Assembly Network @glocan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Can, and should, the principles of deliberative democracy be applied to how global citizens’ assemblies are organised? This week, @rikkidean.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social and Flynn Devine tackle questions of values and practice in Research x Practice Exchange #2 ➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...
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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Helpful new GlobCit report on the global state of citizenship: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...
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Global State of Citizenship Report - Global Governance Programme
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Tomorrow is our PSA Women & Politics 2025 conference: Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. Organised by @psawomenpol.bsky.social. 📆 17 - 18 June. At the Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre, Southampton. ➡️
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Women and Politics | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st CenturyPSA Women and Politics Conference, June 17th/18th 2025Hosted by the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at the University of Southampton…
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're excited that it is now less than a month until our symposium 'Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary'. With a keynote from Ariana Markowitz, ‘Now you see it: Using art to practise democracy amid violence’. You can still register for free at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdf-sympos...
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CDF Symposium: Reimagining Democratic Politics
Two-Day Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Democratic Thought and Practice. 3rd and 4th of July, 2025.
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Diego Gomez-Nicola @dgnlab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“Prioritizing inclusivity in research will broaden our understanding of AD/ADRD, leading to greater awareness, earlier and more accurate diagnosis, and ultimately to equitable treatments and interventions that benefit all communities” I say BRAVO to this, refreshing to see this clarity&commitment
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Join us at @cdfuos.bsky.social for a two-day conference on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary, 3-4 July. Free to register. Just sign up here: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...
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Symposium on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary
At a time of growing concern over democratic backsliding, authoritarian tendencies, and the erosion of civic imagination, this two-day symposium brings together scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore how democratic life can be rethought, enacted, and sustained.
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Next #DSxHE MSK seminar #FortisNet 7th July 4pm GMT Dr Lucy Gates and Awa Touray @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Equitable Fracture Care Pathways in The Gambia #healthequity #fracture 🦴 🇬🇲 Register now! 👇 www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...
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Musculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar: Dr Lucy Gates and Ms Awa Touray | DSxHE
Integrating traditional healing with modern health care for more equitable fracture care pathways in The Gambia
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25 cidns-cdt.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Politics at Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
You can join us for: 🧠 Mixed methods training 📝 Qualitative training 📊 Quantitative training See how 👇
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Check out this qualitative methods workshop from our colleagues @polethnography.bsky.social. Get your proposals in by 30 May. #polisky @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
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Rob Johns @robjohns75.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Tomorrow there's a big White Paper on immigration (www.gov.uk/government/n...). Whatever else it does, it's bound to refuel Labour’s internal debate about net migration -- a debate full of assumptions about public opinion. Strap in for a long thread about a survey testing some of those assumptions.
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Radical reforms to reduce migration
Britain's failed immigration system will be radically reformed so the system is controlled, managed and fair under a landmark White Paper.
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Scottish Election Study @scotvoting.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This year's Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture, delivered by our outstanding colleague and @britishelectionstudy.com Co-Director @profjanegreen.bsky.social, will take place a week on Monday in Edinburgh! 👩🏼‍🏫 Details and sign up below 🔽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-e...
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Scottish Election Study annual lecture 2025
We welcome Professor Jane Green to give the annual lecture for the Scottish Election Study
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Orestis Katsamenis @katsamenis.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
First post on an initiative that means a lot to our team! We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at @uhsft.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx... @uosmedia.bsky.social @biu-em.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
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Dying Matters 2025 | μ-VIS X-ray Imaging Centre (muvis)
We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT. On 6 May, our 3D X-ray Histology team, and the Biomedical Imaging Unit will be joining forces wit...
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Come and join us for a free summer school 🌞🌞🌞
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jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
very much looking forward to this (virtual!) event with @hertieschool.bsky.social and Columbia World Projects, where i'll be talking how to design & govern digital platforms to promote democratic practice, incl. new thoughts on things like decentralized platforms/protocols & crowdsourced moderation!
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social. *The deadline is the 28th* (not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Rebooting Democracy welcomed international guests and collaborators to a project workshop last week in Southampton. Sessions focused on climate democracy, using AI in deliberation, political behaviour, co-production, and democratic oversight of emerging technologies. www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning. With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous. 7 May, 12pm UK. Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
On the left is the book cover for Empathy and Political Reasoning. On the right is headshots of Lala Muradova and the three discussants and date and time of the event.
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Now that you are finishing up your teaching it is time to start dreaming about the exciting summer conferences. We have extended the deadline for abstracts for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary until 18th April.
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Time for #Fortisnet 2025!🥳 Advancing Inclusive MSK Research First Social Factors in MSK from osteoporosis with Sarah Jarvis MBE🦴, then to lower limb conditions in Nepal and Adventures in prosthetics and orthotic design 🦿 #healthequity #inclusiveresearch @cdfuos.bsky.social
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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social. It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future - Political Behavior
Expectations of what the future holds are a significant driver of political behavior. It is therefore important to understand the sources of those expectations. In this paper, we explore the psycholog...
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...
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Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of Southampton
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) on jobs.ac.uk!
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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌾💡 #Bluesky Starter Pack of the Weizenbaum Institute 🚀 We've gathered the Bluesky accounts of Weizenbaum researchers for networking and connecting on #digitalization research: go.bsky.app/NH1NhmS @wzb.bsky.social @fokuspublic.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social
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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🎙️New podcast! A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy I spoke to @alondra.bsky.social about AI, democracy, DOGE, and how to plan for a different future: techpolicy.press/a-conversati...
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A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Nelson was key to the Biden administration’s AI strategy. Justin Hendrix spoke with her about today’s developments and her vision for the future.
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A few spaces still remaining for #FortisNet 2025 Advancing Inclusive MSK health 🦶🦵🦴🏃 Registration details below 👇 Packed programme of brilliant speakers and pilot funding available on the day to kickstart new partnerships and ideas 2🤩 Join us! #healthequity
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CfP: Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary. Join us 3-5 July for a symposium to discuss: - Fugitivity & the politics of refusal - Anticolonial imaginaries - Artistic practice & performance - Democratic innovations Deadline for abstracts: 4 April www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...
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Call for Papers Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary
Democratic politics today faces an acute global crisis. Whether couched in terms of democratic backsliding, the rise of right-wing anti-democratic movements, or a transformation of the paradigms of liberal-democracy towards democratic authoritarianism, democratic institutions, political projects and forms of life are under attack. On the one hand, rapidly accelerating ecological collapse driven by neoliberal logics of exploitation and accumulation intensify and exacerbate this crisis. On the other, routinised procedures of politics ‘as usual’ - couched within the paradigm of liberal-democracy – prove inadequate for countering these threats to democratic politics. The concern is, therefore, as much an impoverishment of democratic politics as it is an impoverishment of democratic imagination.
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Join us for 2 sunny* summer days at CDF (@cdfuos.bsky.social) for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary. Deadline for submitting your paper ideas is 4th April. More info on themes at: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve... *sunny weather not guaranteed.
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Call for Papers Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary
Democratic politics today faces an acute global crisis. Whether couched in terms of democratic backsliding, the rise of right-wing anti-democratic movements, or a transformation of the paradigms of liberal-democracy towards democratic authoritarianism, democratic institutions, political projects and forms of life are under attack. On the one hand, rapidly accelerating ecological collapse driven by neoliberal logics of exploitation and accumulation intensify and exacerbate this crisis. On the other, routinised procedures of politics ‘as usual’ - couched within the paradigm of liberal-democracy – prove inadequate for countering these threats to democratic politics. The concern is, therefore, as much an impoverishment of democratic politics as it is an impoverishment of democratic imagination.
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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Less than a week to go before our first event! Details below:
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NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) @nihrarcs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Inspirational collaborative event 2day hosted by @cdfuos.bsky.social on AI and Democracy with Simon Wallace #suffrago Nick Almond #Londonvoice Huge congrats esp @unisouthampton.bsky.social anniversary fellow Dr Yu Shan Tseng for organising 😍👏🙏 🎉 @r-mestre.bsky.social @rikkidean.bsky.social
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our final presentation is from Nick Almond, CEO of Factory Labs, on London VOICE. An attempt to create a community LLM controlled and owned by the people.
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We now move on to Simon Wallace CTO at Suffrago, introducing their approach to using generative AI to build next generation polling.
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our third Lighting Talk is from Sebastian Stein, asking how we can ensure AI systems are citizen-centric. They need to be: citizen-aware, citizen-beneficial, citizen-sensitive, citizen-auditable, and citizen-owned.
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Next up, Mbang Young examines the issues of data security in the AI present, from Syri to Deepseek. Who do we trust government or private companies? Who is control of this data?
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Kicking off our AI and Democracy Knowledge Exchange event with @richardgomer.bsky.social discussing participatory visions for the AI city. How can we ensure that the adoption of AI has a citizen-centric rather than a corporate-centric design?
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A vital new book on empathy and political reasoning. Congratulations Lala! 🎊 👏
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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Great work from our Co Director @r-mestre.bsky.social Huge congrats to all and @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social too 👏🎉👍
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