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Jen Ross

@jenr.bsky.social
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Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh. www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-je…

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
'Digital tech is often presented as a solution to challenges facing universities. Its use interacts w/ political & economic pressures on universities & students in ways that are sometimes problematic' Read @joenote.bsky.social's reflections on his CTMF PhD journey & future plans ▶️ edin.ac/4gnRvsV
Blue to green gradient graphic, with a headshot photo of Joe Noteboom. He has short brown hair, is wearing a dark blue shirt, and is smiling at the camera. There is text overlayed: Joe Notebom, PhD Fellow, paving the way for more ethical approaches to technology in higher education. The image is part of our 'Technomoral Futures in Focus' campaign celebrating the success of our students.
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maxwell museums @maxwellmuseums.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the viral absolute unit meme from @themerl.bsky.social has been acquired for the national collection it is the first born-digital object acquired by the National Science and Media Museum, and will go on display in January
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Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Brill to catch up with @alexpeden.bsky.social and co at Edinburgh Research Cultures Forum. My point, #ResearchCulture work is not charity. It addresses the serious volume of waste in the system. Wasted talent, resources, time, money, goodwill, trust, and health. Is this what we want for ourselves?
Screenshot of a slide headed: waste in the system. A list reads Talent pipeline
Groups of people
Research resources
Research data
Mental resources
Time
Knowledge
Money
Health
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...
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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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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me
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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Charles Brooks looks inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 18/11/2024
Little bump for our starter pack of UK museums – as ever, if we've not spotted you, give us a wave so we can follow back and add you ✅
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annebeatehovind.bsky.social @annebeatehovind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Next week in Edinburgh (or online)!
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Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...
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Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 15/11/2024
The original #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is now full, and more people are still coming over to BlueSky, so I've started a Surveillance Studies Starter Pack #2... this will continue to grow! go.bsky.app/7VhTRFP The original Starter Pack is still here: go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...
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Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🧵 from earlier on a new report looking at access to creative higher education
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Fantastic to have Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social join here - give her a follow for political economy of higher education research. For a taster check out this big multi-authored paper that Janja led on digitalisation of HE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...
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valerie @vfo.northsky.social · 02/11/2024
Speaking of this are any libraries doing audits of their research databases and any research tools they provide access to to keep track of all the GenAI features that are being added and whether they are opt-in or opt-out? Does anyone want to do a study with me? 📚📜
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Carol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Whether you are a researcher in #dh , a librarian 📚, or a cultural heritage professional #glam , I would strongly recommend this _fantastic_ report out of the U of Edinburgh by @melissaterras.bsky.social and her colleagues on possible futures for digital cultural heritage: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
This report presents the findings of a study focused on infrastructure futures for digital cultural heritage, considering the processes and practices of preserving, managing, sharing and maintaining t...
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Here it is! the final report from our Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project. Speculative methods, museum futures, it's all in there! #GLAM #digitalculturalheritage
Cover of the report, with images representing each of the eight scenarios created for the project.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
William Gibson (abridged)
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Nicola Osborne (they/them) @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Sign up now to head from my brilliant colleague @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social at the next @braiduk.bsky.social x @designinf.bsky.social seminar on 10th October! You can join in person or online! #creativeai #ethicalai
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 02/10/2024
A plea to my fellow Canadians and Americans: when we make positive arguments for #immigration, do not proclaim this land "empty," "endless" etc. This only adds to settler-colonial erasure of #Indigenous peoples. There are other ways to support immigrants. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...
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This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On
The nonprofit behind the tool wants people to learn the history of the spaces they inhabit
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
"for you, turquoise is blue". Well YES, isn't it for everyone? I tried ismy.blue on two different screens and apparently I think a lot of things are blue.
my ismy.blue result: my boundary is at hue 174, greener than 55% of the population. For me, turquoise is blue.
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Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0
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Alex Peden @alexpeden.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Would you like to work for an exciting project to improve our #ResearchCultures? The #InFrame team are looking for a finance manager, deadline 24th September Finance Manager Grade 8, www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ (search vacancy: 151290) #ResearchDevelopment #ResearchCultures #ResearchFinance
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Rob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
I have started a starter pack of great people working in or thinking about the public sector, digital and culture. Wave if you would like to be added or have recommendations ✨ go.bsky.app/DkxnaRc
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Mikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Possibility Studies and 'Possible Futures'. The Anticipation 2024 Conference is off at Lancaster University 🇬🇧 with a keynote by prof. Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University. #anticipation #futures #foresight
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DoctorMikeReddy @doctormikereddy.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Mad? Bad? Or Dangerous to know? Let the die decide… Src: www.facebook.com/share/p/LjG7...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
Apparently, we're hiring: Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Come work at Edinburgh. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Lecturer (Computational Sociology)
We are looking for a Lecturer in Computational Sociology to contribute to teaching and research on digital and computational sociology in the Sociology Subject Area.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023
I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Please join me and @eddiged.bsky.social for an online talk on 15 November, 2:30UK time. Immersive media for reinterpreting heritage, from artist and educator Agnes Michalczyk, who explores the urban space and narratives of Cairo. www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/immers...
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Immersive media for reinterpreting heritage | Digital Education
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
this is what globe artichokes look like if you don't harvest them at the 'middle class vegetable*' stage. I really wanted to know! It looks like a sea anemone. I grew it from seed this year. *UK-specific joke from a recent headline
artichoke flower
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16/10/2023
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Surveillance in an Age of Crisis: the 10th Biennial @SurvStudiesNet / @SurvSoc_Journal Conference #SSN2024, 28-31 May 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Deadline: 31st Dec 2023. #surveillance #datajustice #humanrights #privacy #security easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024
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Digital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Really happy to be over here on Bluesky 👋🟦☁️ We have some exciting publications coming up, including a brilliant special edition. Follow us for all the news about the latest #openaccess research around technology, culture, and education
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 06/10/2023
the ACLU's report, 'Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling' is a useful resource! (you know it's good because it cites @hypervisible.bsky.social ;)) www.aclu.org/report/digit...
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Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance
Digital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech Surveillance Industry is Selling, an ACLU research report, examines the EdTech Surveillance (educational technologies used for surveillance)
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
I love the Surveillance & Society journal and am so happy to have an article published in the latest issue, with the brilliant Anna Wilson. Surveillance Imaginaries: Learning from Participatory Speculative Fiction. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
lens zooming in on leaves of a houseplant. cover image for surveillance and society issue 21/3.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
My unit at Edinburgh Uni are hiring at Prof level for a leadership role! we are looking for a Chair in Design Informatics to co-direct and drive forward our research, innovation and pedagogy within IDI representing Edinburgh College of Art in this interdiscplinary space. More info: bit.ly/3LRe0tL
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New Job Posting - Chair in Design Informatics - Design Informatics
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
What would AI that spurs joy from within minoritized communities look like? This exciting new fellowship sponsored by MSR with Edinburgh's BRAID project seeks a creative UK-based scholar to collaborate with me and our team to help us imagine. Please spread the word! braiduk.org/fellowships/...
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Joyful AI Challenge - Braid UK
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
There is still time to submit, and I really encourage people to do so!
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Sian Bayne @sianbayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social
snip from Elysian Fields by https://oliverbrookes.co.uk/
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Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
I'm obviously going to post about work stuff... but of all the things i'm pleased about right now this ghost pumpkin is pretty high up the list. (it's a crown prince squash, but don't you think 'ghost pumpkin' is a better name?)
crown prince squash growing in my allotment
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