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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

📢 PhD OPPORTUNITY: closing 18 January Want to do a PhD in applied statistics or epidemiology and qualify for UK home fees? 📅 Applications close in one week. ✏️ Apply here: lnkd.in/ecEvTjjg @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Announcements for #FAccT2026! 📣 #FAccT2026 will be on June 27-30 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal! Keep reading for important information about submitting papers! ⬇️ 1/n

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Photo of the hotel gardens, with trees, fountains, and pathways.

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I finally had the chance to read Karen Hao's Empire of AI and it is excellent! From my understanding, these honest corrections don't detract from, but rather emphasise, the severe natural resource drain these data centres demand.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

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Vukosi Marivate @vukosi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Watch the AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote from the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. We discussed the progress different countries are making, key challenges, and what is needed to build responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI ecosystems across the continent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWA...

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AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote

This session explores the current state of AI strategies and policies across Africa. ExpThis session explores the current state of AI strategies and policies across Africa. Experts discuss the…

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Kale-ab Tessera @kale-ab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Happening now - Exhibit Hall C,D,E poster #404 I heard there will be good vibes at this poster 🤙

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm beyond thrilled to give a keynote at the 20th WiML workshop! 😍 I've given opening remarks before, but this is my first RESEARCH talk at WiML. It's a dream. Join us! I'll talk about supporting appropriate reliance, human agency, & critical thought with GenAI. sites.google.com/wimlworkshop...

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WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025 - Program

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/11/2025

hive-mind, know of any research/academic work that has detailed the various ways social media/large platforms have made audits/critical investigation of these platforms practically impossible. exuberant API fees, access only to partial data even when you can pay fee, retaliation again auditors, etc

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It's sad that AI conference reviewers use "incremental" as reason to reject a paper -- e.g., "the contribution of this paper is incremental; reject". Where do they think most progress in science comes from, and what eventually fuels big discoveries?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

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Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service

Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025

every large public institution (esp, universities & schools) reliant on big tech infrastructure should take note as the "bursting of the AI bubble" will bring these sectors down with it do you now see how the likes of Oxford signing contracts with OpenAI was a grave mistake

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/11/2025

what a great honour to receive the 25th Irish Tatler Women of the Year Award in the category of Innovation. the optimist in me thinks this marks a turn for recognition of the importance of critical work and accountability in AI www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I'm on the job market looking for CS/ischool faculty and related positions! I'm broadly interested in doing research with policymakers and communities impacted by AI to inform and develop mitigations to harms and risks. If you've included any of my work in syllabi or policy docs please let me know!

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below! youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0

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Announcing early access to Fabula, a prototype AI app for writing by Google DeepMind researchers

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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

want to help shape the future of AI in latin america? then don't miss out on @lasalaai.bsky.social next march! the past instances of this event have been truly fantastic, and i'm super pumped for the next one next year. don't miss out and apply today! hope to see you in quito!! ♥️🇪🇨

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Sinners was fun. I enjoyed that film. Good stuff sure.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We have a really strong position paper that has been rejected multiple times from arxiv, both CS.AI and CS.CY, because our "submission does not contain sufficient original or substantive scholarly research and is not of interest to arXiv." Appealing has not helped. Any ideas of what we can do?

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Honored to be named in TimeAI 100 list, along w/my awesome Google colleagues Josh Woodward & Hartmut Neven & many awesome people. My recognition is due to collaboration with many great colleagues, so thank you to everyone I've been fortunate to work with over many years! 🙏 time.com/collections/...

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Vukosi Marivate @vukosi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

We gathered in Kigali 🌍 for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. Nearly 3,000 applied, 1,294 joined in person, 400 virtually. 6 days of AI research, debate, teaching & learning. From 300 in 2017 → to a pan-African Baobab tree. 🌳 #DLI2025 @DeepIndaba 1/

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I often hear that critical AI researchers should start providing more solutions, but I rarely hear that uncritical AI researchers should start causing fewer problems.

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

*What Still Needs to Change* ✊Enforceable rights, contracts that protect us, pay that reflects our value, & systems of accountability. ✊Recognition. AI does not work “by itself.” It works because we work. ✊We need data workers to move from being tools to being co-creators

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I’ll be live posting from the Centring Data in African AI workshop happening in Kigali at the #DLI2025

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I’m super excited to be here in Kigali @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social 2025. It’s also such a treat to be learning from Luis Serrano live! #Indaba2025

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TrustAI Workshop @Deep Learning Indaba @trustai.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Announcing our #interactive session #leads for our workshop co-located with The @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼🎉 #like #share and stay #updated with us #DLI2025

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Who else is getting extremely amped for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba? 🪘

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

As you begin to register for #CSCW2025, don't forget to consider workshop application! We have made our workshop registration as low effort as possible :)

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

One of the largest text-image datasets is full of PII, including credit card numbers and birth certificates. Excellent writeup by @eileenguo.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1... Read our full audit and legal analysis arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I wish instead of starting new podcasts people would explore means of collaborating with the ones that already exist. Instead of starting one from scratch and splitting audiences further, how about hosting one season of an existing podcast and rotating hosts that way?

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Really honoured to have participated, alongside Rida Qadri, to this @britishcouncil.bsky.social report on exploring the importance of artists, cultural organisations, and creative industries to technological advancement. www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm certainly counting down the days!

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Deep Learning Indaba @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We’re excited to welcome @verenarieser.bsky.social, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, as our first keynote speaker at #DLI2025 ! Don't miss her talk around AI Alignment on Monday, August 18, 10:30 am GMT+2 ! Join us virtually now ! 🌐 deeplearningindaba.com/2025/virtual...

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Kale-ab Tessera @kale-ab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Reading group is back for those interested in RL/MARL/agents/open-endedness and alike... First session today at 3pm BST, @mattieml.bsky.social is presenting the Simplifying TD learning/PQN paper. 🎉 Meeting link: bit.ly/4lfdaGR Sign up: bit.ly/40xNQDR

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Final reminder! We'd love to receive your proposals

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Deep Learning Indaba @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🌍 Become an Indaba Mentor! We're inviting mentors with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives to help grow the African machine learning community. Ready to make a difference? Learn more and sign up here: 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/mentorship/m...

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NeurIPS is seeking additional ethics reviewers this year. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at the form in the link: neurips.cc/Conferences/... Please share this call with your colleagues!

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2025 Call For Ethics Reviewers

If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at this form. Feel free to share this call with your colleagues.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Hi everyone. I'm excited to announce that I will be organizing a 2nd Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society rcais.github.io October 27-29, 2025. We will explore the future of computing for health, sustainability, human-centered AI, and policy. Please consider submitting a 1-page abstract

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The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing is hosting the 2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society, October 27-29, 2025.

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The Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society aims to explore the future of computing for health, sustainability, human-centered AI, and policy. The summit will bring together luminary researchers in computing for health, sustainability, human-centered AI, and tech policy to lay out the frontiers of these critical fields, and to plot out how they must evolve.

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

#CSCW2025 is in desperate need of sponsors. If anyone here has connections - or is at an organization (industry, academic, nonprofit, whatever!) that would like to sponsor - please reach out to: industry2025@cscw.acm.org

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

📣DEADLINE EXTENSION: 4 July 2025📣 ⚡The Centring Data in African AI workshop invites you to submit a Lightning Talk proposal! The WS examines data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses. Learn more & apply here 👉 centring-data-in-african-ai.github.io/workshop/lig... 🧵1/2

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My latest co-authored work, "African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI", is now published in the ACM Digital Library! Thank you to lead author Teanna Barrett for an excellent presentation at ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social this week! dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Are you at #FAccT2025? Join the wonderful Shu in the Participatory AI session at 11:45 local time 🇬🇷 in presenting our work, 🌍🍲The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation🍲🌍 Read our paper here ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 25/06/2025

At FAccT today? Hear from @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @lujain.bsky.social presenting her co-authored research paper ‘Promising Topics for U.S.–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance’ in the AI Regulation session, 11.09am today. #FAccT2025 Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Promising Topics for US–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Overjoyed that our Paper "The World Wide recipe: A community-centred framework for fine-grained data collection and regional bias operationalisation" received a 🏆🌟Best Paper Honorable Mention Award🌟🏆 at @facct.bsky.social A huge thanks to our WW Dishes 🌍 community 🎉 and brilliant co-authors.

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