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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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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Fingers crossed you made / will make the deadline! 🤞

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

An absolute 🔥🔥panel today at the Centring Data in African AI workshop at #DLI2025.

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

Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.

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

“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.

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

⚡️⚡️AI Ethics 💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding 💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.

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

Lightning talks continued ❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd? We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.

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

💡 An appropriate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem." John Wilder Tukey

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

Next up we have another amazing keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, PhD from Microsoft’s AI for Good lab presenting his talk “Problem-driven and data-centric AI for Africa”

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

What an amazing community to be a part of

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

Next up we have our breakout sessions, where we look to our workshop attendees to share their insights across five prepared themes ⭐️ Data curation ⭐️ Who benefits from our data ⭐️ Beyond data ⭐️ Diversity ⭐️ Governance

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

✨African data has helped train LLMs to scale this support ✨ This data also helps create culturally and economically relevant AI - avoiding recommending "salmon" to an expecting mother living in extreme poverty

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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

Lyvia Lusiji: Data to Delivery: Designing LLMs for Maternal Health Impact in Low-Resource Settings 📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet 📣 Appointment reminders 📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey 📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd

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

Lightning talks ⚡ 📣 Who is benefitting from the data being collected? A strong theme coming through even in the early hours at the workshop

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

Lightning talks ⚡ Praise Amonye: Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa 📣 When our data becomes bytes who controls the data? 📣 Stop exporting our data, start centring our data

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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

First up, we have the exceptional Joan Kinyua from the Data Labellers Association, an organisation advocating better rights for data workers ✊

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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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