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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ATLAS: Harnessing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by James Smithies, Glen Berman, Karaitiana Taiuru, Martin Spychal and John Moore www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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ATLAS: Harnessing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) | Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core

ATLAS: Harnessing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - Volume 2

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🍂 If you’re looking for some fall reading, may I recommend the amazing new scholarship published in a second batch of articles from our big special issue on AI and Archives with @universitypress.cambridge.org Forum on AI: Culture and Society.

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So thrilled to have @emae.bsky.social’s brilliant work on provenance and critical A.I. studies in the SI, where she calls for more direct engagement with archival theory “which has evolved for two centuries to consider sociocultural relations between records and creators” ! Read more ⬇️

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Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🚨 New piece “Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure“ Together with Bokar N’Diaye, @ktmac.bsky.social, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social, we trace how tech oligarchs access, merge, and dismantle public data infrastructures. 👇

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

✨I have a new article out in Platforms & Society! ‘Archiving platformed community: The temporal politics of platform(ed) archives’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

found a website on a hard drive from 2011 but the images corrupted

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

✨I have a new article out in Platforms & Society! ‘Archiving platformed community: The temporal politics of platform(ed) archives’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AI & Archives

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

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Emily Maemura @emae.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This panel foregrounds the politics of storage as a key site through which the material, temporal, and environmental dimensions of data are negotiated. It invites papers that approach data storage through the lens of DEEP TIME. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📢Call for Abstracts: "Deep Time and the Politics of Storage" (Open Panel) at EASST in Krakow, Sept 8-11 2026. Calling all storage-heads! Let's talk deep time!🦕 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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P245: Deep Time and the Politics of Storage

This panel foregrounds the politics of storage as a key site through which the material, temporal, and environmental dimensions of data are negotiated. It

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

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Katie Mackinnon | Library Innovation Lab

InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

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When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's 10.40pm here in Copenhagen and we've just entered the third session of this panel series on data loss at #4S2025! Here's are some ongoing reflections on the amazing papers in the series! #STS #DataLoss

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Panel 1: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro... Panel 2: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro... Panel 3: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This Sat. Sept 6 we have three very exciting #dataloss panels at #4S2025! While some of our team won't be there in person, we are all thrilled to host these critical discussions examining loss and erasure as constitutive forces in digital systems. Join us tomorrow through the links below!

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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 04/09/2025

Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!

Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling.

Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.

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Will Orr @willo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My new paper examines the history of data infrastructures and how they grapple with absent and incomplete information. Exploring the tension between the desire for certainty and acknowledging partiality, I advocate for recognising the ‘ghosts’ that haunt data systems. doi.org/10.1177/0894...

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Ghosts in the Data: The Contested Politics of Absence in Data Infrastructures - Will Orr, 2025

Absences are inescapable in data. Data collection always focuses on some elements while occluding others. Yet, how absences are considered and recorded within d...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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netpreserve.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣 netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/ 🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15 🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM 20-23 APR 2026 #webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Deadline for proposals July 27

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s been such a wonderful week hosting @whkchun.bsky.social as part of the #dataloss @erc.europa.eu project. Last night we were treated to a brilliant talk at the @aicentre.dk on shared archeologies of LLMs and lit theory, co-hosted with @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨✨

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

@ktmac.bsky.social presenting her amazing @erc.europa.eu research on GitHub's deep time preservation initiatives in the Arctic World Archive and beyond #RESAW2025

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

headed to #RESAW25 this week ✈️ Super excited abt the program and all the cool research ! catch me in a double feature on Thurs, 7C: Data Loss panel (on GITHUB ARCTIC VAULT) also w @louravn.bsky.social @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @esmeec.bsky.social and 8C on ROBOTS.TXT with @emae.bsky.social 🤖

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ECHOlab @echodtu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Event announcement: Join us for a #workshop on June 2nd, 10am - 3pm! Together with team #DALOSS (KU), we are hosting a workshop on tools, practices, and ethnographic experiences related to destruction of data Limited spaces! For sign-up, detailed agenda & questions please write to sarfe@dtu.dk

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My colleagues and I are doing a bunch of cool events on making sense of AI from a critical social science perspective over the next two months. First up, our event on visual AI literacies on May 30th: digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/05/10/s...

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Seeing AI – a series of research and public engagement events - Digital Society Research Cluster

Understanding the impact of AI on social, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative – the AI Literacy working group. “AI literacy” (or even […]

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society. Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

@alondra.bsky.social exercising exit and voice by resigning from two prestigious positions whose role is being distorted and rendered useless, if not worse:

"This is not to condemn those who remain. There is value in continued presence, in bearing witness, in working for reform from within. But there comes a point when presence itself becomes an endorsement, when working within the system becomes indistinguishable from working for it.

In her Nobel lecture in 1993, the writer Toni Morrison observed:

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek—it must be rejected, altered and exposed."

The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions."

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 12/05/2025

Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.

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Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

✨The first two papers in our Topical Collection on the 'Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation' are out in Digital Society! The collection is edited together with @dluitse.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke, with the great support of Digital Society and Federica Russo. link.springer.com/collections/...

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Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation

Is the data good enough for training purposes? Does the model perform accurately enough? Is the error rate low enough? Such questions of ‘good enough’ are at ...

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