Reposted by Jen RossCentre 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 2145
Reposted by Jen Rossmaxwell 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 1041363
Reposted by Jen RossKay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Brill 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? 262
Reposted by Jen RossBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024What'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...doi.orgNear future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experimentPublished in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024) 13620
Reposted by Jen Rosslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The 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. 1022036
Reposted by Jen RossKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.metroubling-ai.glitch.metroubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 03225
Reposted by Jen RossDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Charles 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 710717
Reposted by Jen RossMuseums Association @museumsassociation.org · 18/11/2024Little 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 ✅ 104413
Reposted by Jen Rossannebeatehovind.bsky.social @annebeatehovind.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Next week in Edinburgh (or online)!efi.ed.ac.ukFuture Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures InstituteA panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library. 101
Reposted by Jen RossJen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I'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...efi.ed.ac.ukFuture Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures InstituteA panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library. 082
Reposted by Jen Rosskeep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 15/11/2024The 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 5217
Reposted by Jen RossSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others. 672298685187
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I'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...efi.ed.ac.ukFuture Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures InstituteA panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library. 082
Reposted by Jen RossProf Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 13/11/2024🧵 from earlier on a new report looking at access to creative higher education 034
Reposted by Jen RossBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 01/11/2024Fantastic 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....tandfonline.comDigitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concernsHigher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige... 182
Reposted by Jen Rossvalerie @vfo.northsky.social · 02/11/2024Speaking 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? 📚📜 43415
Reposted by Jen RossCarol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · 24/10/2024Whether 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...doi.orgInfrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural HeritageThis 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... 31414
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 24/10/2024Here 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 1217
Reposted by Jen RossDennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 13/10/2024William Gibson (abridged) 5187701967
Reposted by Jen RossNicola Osborne (they/them) @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social · 02/10/2024Sign 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 021
Reposted by Jen Rosskeep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 02/10/2024A 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...smithsonianmag.comThis Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live OnThe nonprofit behind the tool wants people to learn the history of the spaces they inhabit 044
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. 250
Reposted by Jen RossPip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social · 14/09/2024We 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 1156
Reposted by Jen RossAlex Peden @alexpeden.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Would 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 011
Reposted by Jen RossRob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social · 13/09/2024I 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 92212
Reposted by Jen RossMikkel Stein Knudsen @mikkelsknudsen.bsky.social · 11/09/2024Possibility 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 012
Reposted by Jen RossDoctorMikeReddy @doctormikereddy.bsky.social · 04/09/2024Mad? Bad? Or Dangerous to know? Let the die decide… Src: www.facebook.com/share/p/LjG7... 001
Reposted by Jen RossKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 11/04/2024Apparently, we're hiring: Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Come work at Edinburgh. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comLecturer (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. 32317
Reposted by Jen RossKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023I 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 14750902007
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 31/10/2023Please 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...de.ed.ac.ukImmersive media for reinterpreting heritage | Digital Education 152
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 16/10/2023this 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 080
Reposted by Jen Rosskeep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16/10/2023CALL 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 11310
Reposted by Jen RossDigital Culture & Education @digitalculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Really 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 0114
Reposted by Jen Rossrom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 06/10/2023the 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...aclu.orgDigital Dystopia: The Danger in Buying What the EdTech SurveillanceDigital 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) 0147
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023I 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... 11910
Reposted by Jen RossMelissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 09/10/2023My 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/3LRe0tLbit.lyNew Job Posting - Chair in Design Informatics - Design Informatics 11110
Reposted by Jen RossNancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 02/10/2023What 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/...braiduk.orgJoyful AI Challenge - Braid UK 01610
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023There is still time to submit, and I really encourage people to do so! 035
Reposted by Jen RossSian Bayne @sianbayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2023My 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 63920
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social · 09/10/2023I'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?) 071