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Dr Lachlan Urquhart

@mooseabyte.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Wooo wooo ! you can now pre order and request inspection copies of Law Policy and the Internet, 2nd edn! w me, @mooseabyte.bsky.social and @cgoanta.bsky.social eds and an all star line up! Lots of AI but guaranteed no AI slop! Out August! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/law-polic...
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Law, Policy, and the Internet
This innovative textbook edited by international experts in technology law and policy provides a comprehensive and accessible guide into the fast-evolving lands…
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
A quick plug that ALL the contributor chapters are in for Law, Policy and the Internet 2nd edn 🍾🍾🎉🎉🙏 and boy are we stoked, 🤣 so thanks to latest arrivals @rdbinns.bsky.social @michae.lv @jiahao.bsky.social and of course dream team co editors @mooseabyte.bsky.social @cgoanta.bsky.social !
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ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Workshop Spotlight ⭐ Regulating Sustainability: the Interplay of Laws, Policies, Norms, and Design in Sustainable CSCW
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The GIKII CFP IS HERE! Better than a large creme egg! Less miserable than a season of Black Mirror! And arguably more psychedelic than yr average weekend in Amsterdam!
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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🔥the second panel was a candid conversation about building careers in turbulent times - reflecting on nonlinearity, precarity and the role of values in our career trajectories, with inspiring panellists @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Pushpi Bagchi and @mooseabyte.bsky.social and chaired by Aditi Surana
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...
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PhD Project/ AI Governance in Healthcare Interviews - Bhargavi Ganesh
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions! more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call... #AI #criminology #digitalcriminology @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our new paper on the "Right to Repair Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things" from NORDICHI, Uppsala last month dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... + a blog post from some of our team about our time there in Sweden ftf.wp.horizon.ac.uk/2024/11/28/f...
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The Right to Repair (R2R) Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things. | Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Books by @randomwalker.bsky.social @viktorms.bsky.social @marionf.bsky.social @kjhealy.co @byrontau.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social @aramsinn.bsky.social @hideyukimatsumi.bsky.social @petramolnar.com
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@burkhardschafer.bsky.social !
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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works · 21/11/2024
Here is a preprint of "From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft" - reflecting the last year of prompt hacking for the Shadowplay project (see designresearch.works/tags/?tag=sh...) and its related Cardshark project. Get it here: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... It will be presented here: tei.acm.org/2025/
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From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft
This pictorial presents an ongoing research programme comprising three practice-based Design Research projects conducted through 2024, exploring the affordances of diffusion-based AI image generation ...
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Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Job Posting: One week to go. You can apply for our Assistant Professorship in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law) until midnight on the 24th of November. Full details at: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Assistant Professor in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law)
Assistant Professor in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law), , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p>...
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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The sixth edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing workshop is live on YT! Join the NLP community that was doing impressive research on LLMs before they were cool www.youtube.com/live/tHM__C0...
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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Consider applying to our CDT in Designing Responsible NLP at Edinburgh Uni - funded PhD studentships starting in Sept 2025 - 9th Jan deadline! These are great interdisciplinary PhD opportunities 🔗 www.responsiblenlp.org
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The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world NLP is based at the University of Edinburgh. Applications are now open for funded PhD studentships starting as part of the September 2025 cohort. Our deadline is 9th January 2025.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My short Note on the AI Act and copyright has now been published.
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The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act and copyright
The European Union's (EU's) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), published on 12 July 2024, seeks to establish a consistent legal framework for AI systems within the EU, promoting trustworthy and hu...
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