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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This holds entry points of how to make visible the work of opacity mitigation as a contingent, relational and situated process. Let me know if it resonates with you!

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Including how they consider transparency and work to turn it into practice, showing also the hopes and hesitations towards #XAI as the solution. Inspired by Knorr Cetina’s conceptualization of scientific tinkering, I introduce a framework of #Transparency Tinkering.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How can we study and understand AI transparency, not as a governance ideal, but as a practice? The aim of my new article in Big Data & Society is to increase the knowledge of how AI experts working on medical AI deal with opacity and make sense of their models... doi.org/10.1177/2053... #STS #AI

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Transparency tinkering: Working with opacities in the development of medical artificial intelligence - Charlotte Högberg, 2026

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly researched and applied in medicine and healthcare. The high stakes of these applications have raised ...

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This holds entry points of how to make visible the work of opacity mitigation as a contingent, relational and situated process. Let me know if it resonates with you!

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

how they consider transparency and work to turn it into practice, showing also the hopes and hesitations towards XAI as the solution. Inspired by Knorr Cetina’s conceptualization of scientific tinkering, I introduce a framework of Transparency Tinkering.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We argue for the concept of `situated reliability' which includes articulating the limits & strengths of models & their truth claims. Finally, paying more attention to the construction of ground truths can help achieve transparency & accountability & support interdisciplinary work in ML development.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Focusing on the situated and context-dependent nature of ground truths can improve reliability by enabling a better informed perspective on where, when, & how the datasets, & the models they have shaped, can best be used.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We argue that ground truths are not neutral objective measurements naturally given, but constructed by arrangements of humans & technologies. The ML community will benefit by articulating & discussing these often invisible or unreported choices & acknowledging that reference datasets are contingent

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Full paper: portal.research.lu.se/files/253015... ICML page: icml.cc/virtual/2026...

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The International Conference on Machine Learning #ICML is currently taking place in Seoul and online. I am very happy to have a paper accepted: "Position: Every Ground Truth is a Human Construction, not an Objective Truth" co-authored by Kiri L. Wagstaff & Ericka Johnson.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our position paper "Every Ground Truth is a Human Construction, not an Objective Truth", co-written with Kiri L. Wagstaff & Ericka Johnson, at ICML: icml.cc/virtual/2026... The full paper is available here: portal.research.lu.se/files/253015...

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ICML Poster Position: Every Ground Truth is a Human Construction, not an Objective TruthICML 2026

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Very inspiring talk by Arvind Narayana @randomwalker.bsky.social at #ICML today, giving much food for thought about AI capabilities, simplified discourses, diffusion barriers, accuracy vs reliability & evaluation as the skill for the future – resonating a lot with our position paper on ground truths

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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Glöm inte att de ska utbilda hela Sveriges befolkning i AI specifikt nu också!! :)

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Publication alert! New article out in Big Data & Society on digital phantoms and synthetic data in medical physics. We explore the making of digital reference objects for human bodies and how they are used in construction of ground truths, as known, & even perfect truths. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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Digital phantoms in medical research: Synthetic data and the pursuit of ground truth - Charlotte Högberg, Peter Winter, 2026

Digital phantoms are virtual representations of the human body used in medical research to test equipment, train medical professionals and develop or validate a...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Are you interested in synthetic data? Join us at the EASST conference in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026. The call for abstracts is open until end of Feb. Hope to see you and engage with your work in Kraków! #STS #EASST #syntheticdata nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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CB027: Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices

Synthetic data are touted as fixes to technical, ethical, and political challenges. But what do they mean for the politics of representation in knowledge

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Fia Ewald @fiaewald.se · 21/11/2025

"To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Just catching up with this amazing bit of London Centric reporting and this is such an excellent description of the weird epistemic ambiguity produced by AI: "There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is." www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

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London's giant AI artwork to be torn down

The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

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easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Call for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland easst.net/conference/e...

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EASST2026 Home

The conference will take place on the main campus of AGH University of Krakow, walking distance from the Krakow’s vibrant city centre.

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

A worker sorts through a large pile of e-waste in an industrial facility,
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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

statyn skulle driva runt i en båt i älven i Lycksele, intill fiskargubben www.vk.se/2022-05-10/n...

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Klart: Nu har fiskargubben fått ett namn

39 namnförslag lämnades in - det här ska gubben heta

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

One could also really question if it is knowledge and if it is for free

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

What exactly is meant by formatting here? Because a lot of the time it is just journals requiring difference reference styles, which could be easily adjusted in no time if you just use an old-fashioned reference managing system or similar coded referencing.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/10/2025

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Verkligen! Plus att uppmärksamma att mer resurser och erkännande av bibliotekens roll behövs borde väl verkligen ligga i chefernas intresse.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Har också häpnat över den där diskussionen och hur det misstolkats till att handla om klagande bibliotekarier. Problemet är väl att biblioteken kommit att få ett brett uppdrag för att andra instanser stängt, utan att få ett officiellt breddat uppdrag eller att resurser följt med, vilket är bananas!

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

When you re-read a submitted manuscript and finds that you have accidentally written 'the shit towards' instead of 'shift towards'... #academiclife

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Struggles when being in academia: The constant battle in your (or maybe it is just my) mind about whether to do the very necessary admin stuff or to read Simondon in the sun when one unscheduled hour approaches. #STS #academia

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Statssekreterare tex. Annars kanske mest administratör eller assistent nu för tiden?

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The most inspiring read of my summer. James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the entanglement of humans, nature and technologies, and ideas about what intelligence is and how to build ”smart” machines. #STS #AI

A paperback copy of the book Ways of being by James Bridle.

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Thank you very much for pointing me in the direction of your work. Certainly seems like what I was looking for!

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Tack för tipset! Ja, väldigt intressant på temat!

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Hi #STS peers and other ethnographers! I am looking for good work on ethics of ethnographic research. In general but also particularly in healthcare/medical settings. Do you have any suggestions? Please, let me know! #STS #ethnography #research #researchethics

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Lost genre identified on my dad’s old book shelf: The academic conference CD-ROM #academiclife

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Charlotte Högberg @chogberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The cold river and the hot sun in my hometown in Northern Sweden right now ❤️ #Lycksele

A sandy beach by a river, surrounded by trees, and a sunny blue sky

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