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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hmm. I am confused didn't the investors listen to the last instalment of Mystery AI hype Theatre 2000 with @AdamBecker , apparently this won't work. I will add this to the Orbital Urbanism article I am working on. Another imaginary that entangles the urban with the orbital.

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Data Centers in Space? Faster-Than-Light Spaceships? Big Dreams Abound.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Two requests to review for palliative care journals in two weeks. I am interdisciplinary but palliative care is not one of my ticks. Does not compute, or does it?

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I cannot wait for 2035! www.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2436835 (Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).

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Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

www.dejongeakademie.nl/communities/... If you are allowed to vote please do.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

PAPER ALERT! "From remote monitoring to local action" short commentary piece in Nature Cities co-authored by Karin Pfeffer & me. Reflecting on advances in scaling the mapping deprived urban areas with earth observation. We need #CriticalRemoteSensing and local engagement. Link -> rdcu.be/ezRK8

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Teaching myself how to teach ethics, I learned case studies are a powerful tool. But really, wtf - a refugee chatbot to teach you in a sanitised way about ethics in the field? There is so much wrong with this that even starting the project probably should not have passed ethics review. #Ai4Good ?

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Turns out transparency and explainability are probably not going to be protecting us from unfair automated systems. Interesting research into what happens when you explain how an algorithm makes decisions to users - they find it even harder to spot problems: www.fca.org.uk/publication/...

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'm on 🟥 strike 🟥 today with my colleagues and students at the University of Twente to fight against the Dutch government's cuts to the higher education budget ✊

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you interested in Humanitarian Engineering a possible Masters Programme - if so why not come (online) and test if this new Masters programme @utwente.bsky.social. is for you Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... the taster lesson is 10-Apr-2025 so sign up quick. @mnagenborg.bsky.social

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 10/03/2025

#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Complementing Steven Vertovec's social organisation of difference framework with a focus on techno-material entanglements will propel research into urban difference and diversity.Article by @tilmannheil.bsky.social @fmeissner.bsky.social Nikolaus Vertovec: buff.ly/g6dUQt5

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Two chapters I co-authored for our #OxfordHandbook of #Superdiversity are now open access. Intro: Superdiversity and Complex Social Transformations research.utwente.nl/files/480240... & Afterword: Superdiversity Futures research.utwente.nl/files/480240... @nandosigona.bsky.social #StevenVertovec

Book cover Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity, Cover picture shows a beige background picture of complex networks against a blurry background that looks a bit like a crowd of people, in the right top corner it lists the book editors. Bottom of cover has a black banner with the book title. T

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Happy data privacy / protection day.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Chapter on #Urban #DigialInfrastrutures and the reproduction of #privilege is out! Publishing it as a writers collective acknowledging that our expert informants made the chapter possible. Convincing the publisher of this was harder than writing the chapter! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Urban Digital Infrastructuring and the (re)production of Privilege

A global digital and data revolution governs future urban strategies and profoundly influences the infrastructures built in cities. Numerous digital urban infrastructures remain hidden to city dweller...

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Friday was the book launch of the 2nd Ed. Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (@williamlallen.bsky.social & @cvar-sil.bsky.social) featuring a chapter on Migration Research Ethics and large scale data written by @linnetelwin.bsky.social and myself. Article: doi.org/10.4337/9781... (OA soon).

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Book Launch: Handbook of Research Methods in Migration | COMPAS

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Busy day! As we are finishing our #DroneDataEthics course for the African Drone and Data Academy, today was the final valorisation panel of our #NWO-MVI project Disastrous Information: Embedding do no harm principles in geo intelligence workflows. Good turn and talks! www.itc.nl/about-itc/sc...

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