Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 25/05/2026💫only a couple of weeks until the showcase!! still a few spots free if you want to come along 000
Reposted by Sam BennettSrravya @srravya.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This is going to be a fun, engaging showcase, happening in Manchester in June! It's a great excuse to plan a trip to Manchester this summer! Read about the first queer data showcase held last year in Edinburgh: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/qu...gender.ed.ac.ukThe Queer Data Showcase: queer data as an adjective and as a verb | GENDER.EDKaveri Qureshi reflects on how the Queer Data Showcase organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, AI Ethics & Society and Pride in STEM addressed queer data as an adjective and as a verb. 031
Reposted by Sam BennettCentre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 16/04/2026📣 Postdoc opportunity with Dr Nayha Sethi, CTMF Affiliate 📣 The Medicine without Doctors Project is recruiting a postdoc fellow with a background in law/regulation/socio-legal studies to work on a case-study exploring socio-legal elements of AI. Closing date: 8 May Info & apply 👇 edin.ac/3Qf8VQXedin.acPostdoctoral Research FellowWe are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to undertake socio-legal work in relation to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) component of the project. In collaboration with Dr Nayha Sethi (line manager), th... 142
Reposted by Sam BennettSrravya @srravya.bsky.social · 04/04/2026"The questions we are litigating now are less ‘is this AI product good or bad’ and more ‘we have seen what it can do, and do we want AI to exist in this space at all?’" writes @bcmerchant.bsky.social on the shift from rejection to refusal of AI that he documents across different domains.bloodinthemachine.comIt's open season for refusing AIThere's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI. 03012
Reposted by Sam BennettLiz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"all AI will do is require that we work more, harder, and on the parts of our job that shouldn’t even be our job" 04919
Reposted by Sam BennettRachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This is why I increasingly believe that librarians should use our limited time and resources to lobby for proper regulation and governance and not on developing 'literacy' or 'ethical use' policies after adoption, when it's far too late. It's like teaching victims of crime to be more 'ethical'. 110137
Reposted by Sam BennettShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 Aprilelxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comPostdoctoral Research AssociateThe Philosophy Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a full time, fixed term Postdoctoral Research Associate. This post is available from May 2026. 13923
Reposted by Sam BennettAlice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My university claims (despite operating at a surplus) that we need to cut jobs by £90M, but somehow has money for a contract with OpenAI, directly entangled with the US government, military, & ICE, for large language models to make the students less capable of thinking for themselves. Let's not. 1319
Reposted by Sam BennettFrank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Fantastic new paper casting doubt on explainability of explainable AI. To explain complex machine learning algorithms you need reproducibility of the explanation at a minimum academic.oup.com/ehjdh/articl... #machinelearning #Statistics #StatsSky @maartenvsmeden.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comSignal or noise? Evaluating commonly used attribution methods for explaining deep neural networks in electrocardiogram classificationAbstractAims. Attribution-based explainability methods are widely used in electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis to interpret predictions from ‘black-box’ deep n 13815
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026✨really looking forward to Ben’s online talk next Wednesday! 010
Reposted by Sam Bennett404 Media @404media.co · 08/03/2026A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. www.404media.co/this-app-war...404media.coThis App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses NearbyThe creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to… 8360147
Reposted by Sam BennettAaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...bbc.co.ukGreen Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by ReformHannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, also becomes the first Green Party candidate to win a Westminster by-election. 25919
Reposted by Sam BennettZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...you.38degrees.org.ukStop Palantir taking over our public services!Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. 11441191875
Reposted by Sam BennettAI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026📣our next event “Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-led dialogue”, is happening in Edinburgh Feb 18th - a panel discussion featuring @karengregory.bsky.social, Nelson Oppong and Adam Badger, and chaired by @srravya.bsky.social 👀 sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...eventbrite.co.ukNavigating the Shifting Landscape of Academia: An ECR-Led DialogueA wide-ranging discussion about moving between disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and responding to funding uncertainties 161
Reposted by Sam BennettSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Everything old being new again all at once is not a coincidencenytimes.comGenetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ 18732220
Reposted by Sam BennettPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comThe FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic ScienceFor more stories like this, like Slate on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. 1939001741
Reposted by Sam BennettRemmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 19/12/2025When I led local 'EA' groups, I used to half-jokingly say that effective altruism is a cult. I still like many of the well-intentioned people there. But I've left. Over time, I've come to understand how it's actually a cult. My forum bio now says this: 162
Reposted by Sam BennettAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view... 2104
Reposted by Sam BennettRemmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 07/12/2025“This was the system that let Epstein in and kept him in. It is also the system now steering the most consequential technologies of the coming century. The convergence of Silicon Valley’s elite, the techno-authoritarian right and the labs coding AI and crypto, has only intensified since his death.”bylinetimes.comHow Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI EliteThe Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles 021
Reposted by Sam BennettAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025“As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comRSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images showUp to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces 011
Reposted by Sam BennettLouise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...durham.taleo.netLeverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8Click the link provided to see the complete job description. 28154
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 27/11/2025❔Does anyone know of groups where disabled people/people w chronic conditions and working in Critical Data Studies/AI can meet up? Like a Queer in AI but for disabled folks? I constantly think about how helpful it might be to talk to other people navigating disability, who are doing similar work 011
Reposted by Sam BennettChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI. He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.thelettersfromleo.comNEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is AntichristIn a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him. 146942362
Reposted by Sam BennettDr Eddie Ungless @mxeddie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I'm officially a Doctor. I'm very proud of the work I did on the harms of language technologies, my thesis here: lnkd.in/eh6FqZkZ It is a privilege to graduate, when not a single university still stands in Gaza. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, in particular @bjoernross.bsky.social. 191
Reposted by Sam Bennettlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/11/2025My student Arlene Lo has a paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Canada's attempts to integrate Indigenous groups into its environmental impact assessments. It's now out in (appropriately enough!) the Canadian journal of philosophy. It's good, check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 35511
Reposted by Sam BennettAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/11/2025I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context 271512388
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Our final event of the semester is happening on December 3rd! Interested in critical health data studies? Come along to High School Yards :) 010
Reposted by Sam BennettNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🔔new paper alert🔔 I argue that language technologies are usefully understood as a type of language management (i.e., ways of changing how people use and think about language) -- especially in the workplace -- connecting critical work on AI with language policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDefining language and managing its use: Language technology as language managementLanguage technologies such as voice user interfaces, large language models and machine translation tools are embedded in an ever-growing range of digi… 56322
Reposted by Sam BennettOliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟♀️🧑💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...eventbrite.co.ukGender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AIJoin us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies 0188
Reposted by Sam BennettDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025'Resisting AI' foreshadowed much of our technofascist moment, but a lot has happened since publication. Why does a broken tech attract such huge commitments? How can it burn so much energy yet claim to save the planet? And can decomputing offer an escape from AI-drive nihilism? 04517
Reposted by Sam BennettNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025hear me talk about how AI is *really* ruining your job, not by taking it but by undermining your autonomy, enabling (nay, encouraging) your boss to monitor and assess you all the time, and removing everything that sparks joy in your working day Edinburgh (🥰), 28/11! 2154
Reposted by Sam BennettOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...ctvnews.caSudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents saySudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re... 2296181
Reposted by Sam BennettAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025"If de Waal is anywhere close to right, this conflict will have killed 7.5 percent of the prewar population of Gaza in just two years." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think 011
Reposted by Sam BennettLudovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1207
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 09/10/2025✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor! www.ukri.org/news/interna...ukri.orgInternational fellowships to explore AI’s impact on scienceNew £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science. 1132
Reposted by Sam BennettAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comPolitics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AIThis paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U... 153
Reposted by Sam BennettAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025“Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning…” Looks awesome: events.humanitix.com/1000platform...events.humanitix.comAdrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book LaunchBook launch event for '1000 Platforms' by Prof Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and 'DeepAesthetics' by Prof Anna Munster (UNSW), hosted at ANU 042
Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025This is going to be a really engaging and interesting workshop! If you’re around in Edinburgh next Friday, you should come along :) 020
Reposted by Sam BennettPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025"A Luddite is someone who is against the *abuse* - not the use - of technology." The kids get it.cbsnews.comHere's why a group of NYC teens is rejecting cellphones and social mediaThese Brooklyn students formed a group to try to beat their own addictive behavior around technology. 620047
Reposted by Sam BennettRosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comIsrael’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George MonbiotConsider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 0159
Reposted by Sam BennettJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025this exists it is called thinking 81331316088
Reposted by Sam BennettThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position. 1223349756
Reposted by Sam Bennettjess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social. Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com 1228
Reposted by Sam BennettMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio... 11872280