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Centre for Technomoral Futures

@technomoralfutures.bsky.social
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Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation. Find us here: www.technomoralfutures.uk

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
During this fireside chat, we will discuss AI’s rapidly expanding impact on fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, labour rights, privacy and freedom of movement, and how AI is reshaping the wider political climate.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chaired by @zeerak.bsky.social, our Technomoral Conversations: AI and the Future of Fundamental Rights event will feature Javier Ruiz Diaz (Amnesty International UK), tèmítópé lasade-anderson (Glitch), and Haylea Campbell (Hogan Lovells Cadwalader).
Event image with pictures of the speakers and text reading: "Technomoral Conversations: AI and the Future of Fundamental Rights. Join us on 3 November at 6pm in Edinburgh &online, where we will hear from: Zeerak Talat (University of Edinburgh), Javier Ruiz Diaz (Amnesty International UK), tèmítópé lasade-anderson (Glitch), and Haylea Campbell (Hogan Lovells Cadwalader)."
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Join us for the latest event in our Technomoral Conversations series: AI and the Future of Fundamental Rights, run in collaboration with @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social! 📅 Tuesday 3 November 18.00 – 19.30 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ Register & more info: edin.ac/3TjcS9j
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Technomoral Conversations: AI and the Future of Fundamental Rights
In this fireside chat, we will hear from Javier Ruiz Diaz, tèmítópé lasade-anderson, Haylea Campbell and Zeerak Talat!
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Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Applications are open for a fully funded PhD position with the "Decisions" Cluster of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (CAL), working with Professor Nehal Bhuta at Edinburgh Law School. Deadline 30 Sept 2026. Read the full details: edin.ac/3SbBbW5
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BRAID's Creative Industries Lead, Nicola Osborne, is back @edfringe.bsky.social on Sunday 23 August asking: can you create a new and exciting innovative business and still be ethical? Info and tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
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The Provocateurs: Ethical innovators? / Satellites destroy privacy - Edinburgh, 23 Aug 2026 | The Stand
The Provocateurs: Ethical innovators? / Satellites destroy privacy Can you create a new and exciting innovative business and still be ethical? Join Provocateu...
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Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Applications are open for a fully funded PhD position with the "Decisions" Cluster of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (CAL), working with Professor Nehal Bhuta at Edinburgh Law School. Deadline 30 Sept 2026. Read the full details: edin.ac/3SbBbW5
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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Organizing and facilitating a workshop / panel this Wednesday, with @lilianedwards.bsky.social, @adamlopez.bsky.social, @datacontroversies.bsky.social If you're around, come check it out. We'll be focused on how to bring legitimacy to the technology embedded in everything. Sign up below.
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Bringing Legitimacy to "AI Sovereignty"
What is Digital or AI sovereignty? What makes the technologies integral to our daily lives legitimate? How do we achieve better futures?
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Our AI Collective CIC @our-ai-collective.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not long till our special screening of the acclaimed Ghost in the Machine doc at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat 22 August at 3pm. Q&A with director and @zeerak.bsky.social, Jen Ang from @lawmanity.com for a Q&A after. Book now! www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/ghost-... youtu.be/i9DAv0D7tnY?...
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GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In the article, Dr Sullivan answers questions such as ‘What do you think is the biggest change AI is already making to everyday life?’ and ‘What are the most important questions society should be asking as these technologies become more powerful?’
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dr Emily Sullivan, Co-Director of the CTMF, discusses how the Centre for Technomoral Futures is helping ensure AI serves society, protects human values and creates futures worth wanting in a feature for Enlightened. You can read it here 👉 edin.ac/4bAfdm4
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Building AI futures worth wanting — Centre for Technomoral Futures
Dr Emily Sullivan discusses how the Centre for Technomoral Futures is helping ensure AI serves society, protects human values and creates futures worth wanting. This feature originally appeared in En...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
‘Creating technomoral futures means striving for futures where technology is designed and used in ways that improve human flourishing, rather than in ways that eat away at human rights, contribute to climate collapse or create greater social exclusion.’ – Dr Emily Sullivan, CTMF Co-Director
Dr Sullivan speaks to the audience at the CTMF ECR Showcase
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
⭐ Future University: Six events explore the future of higher education this September  ⭐ Join our Future University events programme, a bold exploration of how universities can evolve to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Find out more and book now 👉 edin.ac/458CFmE
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
AI is transforming how knowledge gets made. Join Devi Sridhar, Christopher Smith & Michael Rovatsos to explore what this means for research and universities. 17 Sept, 10:00–11:30 AM, Hybrid, EFI + online. Register: efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-re…
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Congratulations to all our Summer 2026 graduates! 🎓 Fourteen EFI students received their scroll on the 11 June, graduating from a range of our postgraduate programmes. We are so proud of all our graduates, and we’re excited to see them out there changing the world! 📷 Chris Scott
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in #PublicServices, how do we measure its impact beyond efficiency/cost savings? New BRAID blog! @drdarcyluke.bsky.social explores, & considers how impact assessment could support #ResponsibleAI adoption & better outcomes for the public braiduk.org/learning-les...
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How can we better measure the social value of AI? Learning lessons for UK public services
Efficiency savings. Productivity gains. Headcount reduction. This is the language commonly used to describe the proposed economic benefits artificial intelligence (AI) will bring.This commerci
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Bhargavi Ganesh, my truly brilliant PhD student in Informatics who I have been immensely lucky to work with @technomoralfutures.bsky.social - so proud to be able to share this moment with you! @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social
A brand new PhD in academic robes and a much older but happy and proud one, standing in front of the Edinburgh Futures Institute
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our Future University events programme taking place on 17-18 September 2026 is now open for booking! The programme includes hybrid events around the future of the higher education sector in the context of today’s global challenges. Free but ticketed. Book 👉 efi.ed.ac.uk/future-university
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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Proud to present the preprint of our @interspeech.bsky.social accepted paper: exploring the personas invoked by "flirty" and "temptress" (Elevenlabs' labels, not ours!) AI voices with @scariadna.bsky.social @elinkanhov.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social and Éva Székely 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2606.21366
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Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice
This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexual empowerment and greater diversity in gender expression, ...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thank you to our CTMF Early Career Researchers for sharing their incredible work! @zelny.bsky.social @ftollon.bsky.social @kimberleyparadis.bsky.social @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social @rayo.dev @enricogalvagni.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @ginahelfrich.bsky.social @zeerak.bsky.social
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The event included short talks, interactive poster presentations and a chance to network with our community and stakeholders. We heard from current CTMF PhD & postdoc researchers, as well as CTMF Alum Dr @joenote.bsky.social (Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning at Lancaster Uni)!
CTMF Co-Director, Dr Emily Sullivan, speaking to the audience. CTMF researchers present their research posters and interactive research presentations. CTMF researchers present their research posters.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Earlier this month we hosted our 2nd annual CTMF Research Showcase, this year featuring our early career researchers! The Showcase demonstrated the excellence and interdisciplinary spirit of our research community.  Read about the CTMF Early Career Research Showcase 👇 edin.ac/4xAHlyF
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Showcasing our CTMF Early Career Researchers — Centre for Technomoral Futures
‍Earlier this month we hosted our CTMF ECR Showcase, bringing together members of our vibrant research community to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our early career researchers!
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Rayo Verweij @rayo.dev · 17/06/2026
Absolute joy to present with Sarah Immel the paper we wrote with @neelrajani.bsky.social - Stepping Into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs for Public Exploration Through Discursive Design at @acm-dis.bsky.social in Singapore. And we won an Honourable Mention!
Sarah, Rayo, and the session chair posing for the camera holding the Honourable Mention award. Above them, a projector screen says "Stepping into the Black Box: Opening Up LLMs to Public Exploration Through Discursive Design"
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Can you seek out what’s true in today’s tsunami of AI slop? Dr Bronwyn Jones, BRAID's Public Media and Democracy Lead, hosted a session on Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival. Find out more: braiduk.org/public-views... vimeo.com/1187589697?f...
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Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at Edinburgh Science Festival
Dr Bronwyn Jones, BRAID’s Public Media and Democracy Lead, hosted a session on Truth, Trust and Trickery in the AI Age at this year's Edinburgh Science Festival. The event brought together 70 people...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don’t always express myself perfectly in interviews (I mean, who does) but reading this one, I’m struck that every conversation I’ve ever had w/ @sigalsamuel.bsky.social ends up as close as it’s possible for me to get to saying exactly what I want to say. (Thanks Sigal!)
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Lucy Randall @lucyrandall802.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So glad Vox went to @shannonvallor.bsky.social to make the case for believing in humanity in the face of AI-inspired doom 🤖🚒
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Read about "Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity" 👇 edin.ac/42IljMo @uoe-gail.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
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Study maps how ‘Big AI’ influences AI laws and oversight — Centre for Technomoral Futures
AI companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study by colleagues at University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin,...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
AI companies influence policy and regulation using similar techniques to Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and Big Oil, according to a new study by colleagues at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (including @zeerak.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at the CTMF), @tcddublin.bsky.social, TU Delft and @cmu.edu.
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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 15/05/2026
How is AI like a mirror? You’re always looking into the past. AI ethicist Professor Shannon Vallor explaining some of the philosophical implications of the debate around the technology @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @adambecker.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com · 12/05/2026
Newwwww episode with AI philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social - feat metaphors, dunking on libertarians and SF billboards, and how to hope for the future. @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Join us on Patreon or wygypodcasts :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_f0...
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Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
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Fabio Tollon @ftollon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Do you need another argument for why AI is Bad? @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and I have a new paper. We argue that the productivity calculus often used to justify edtech interventions is systematically blind to the role that moral entanglement, care and relational work play in education.
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Join us for a timely exploration of the civic role of the university in an age of democratic uncertainty and rapid technological change. ▪️Beth Simone Noveck: Civic University – Democracy, AI, and the Public Imagination 🕛 2 June 6PM – 7:15 PM BST 📍EFI & online 🎟️ edin.ac/4syWUmT
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Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our second panel Narratives of the Future II happening at the University of Edinburgh’s @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social IASH @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on 12 June! Hybrid audience is possible. Register via the Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narratives.... @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/
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Claudia González-Márquez @gonzalezmarquez.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Happy to share our latest book chapter, published in Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. It looks at how neurotechnology is portrayed in the media and how those narratives influence public understandings of BCIs across different linguistic contexts 🧠🗞️ authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvz49ClDl...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As a team, they are keen to incorporate concerns of health and social inequalities, the perspectives of marginalised communities and a conceptual focus on care (what is care?) and voice (whose voices are heard?). @biomedselfsoc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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Centre 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/3Qf8VQX
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We 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...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📢 Just under 1 week left to apply! 📢 More info & apply 👇 3-year PDRA: edin.ac/4edC20O 2-year PDRA: edin.ac/4cjuhnQ Closing Date: Monday, 20 April 2026 @schoolofppls.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @shannonvallor.bsky.social #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Delighted to share our work on some of the sociophonetic cues reproduced in commercial TTS with @lhlew.bsky.social last week at BAAP (the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians) - thanks for having me! Really enjoyed some fantastic talks 🗣️🎙️
Two people smiling in front of a poster on display. The large title reads 'Kind is the Opposite of Competent: Phonetic variation in English TTS voices'.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The 2-year PDRA project will focus on interpretability & explanation methods for explaining complex ML models. We will investigate conceptual issues surrounding idealizations present in interpretability & explanation methods. Learn more and apply 👇 edin.ac/4cjuhnQ #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The 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.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The 3-year PDRA project will focus on issues in modelling surrounding how machine learning models idealize, represent, explain phenomena, and enable scientific understanding. Learn more and apply 👇 edin.ac/4edC20O #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The 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.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More info & links to apply on our website: edin.ac/4bPXUNb Closing Date: Monday, 20 April 2026 @schoolofppls.bsky.social @uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #PhilJobs #PhilScience #Ethics
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Job Opportunities (2): Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science and Machine Learning — Centre for Technomoral Futures
Applications are open for two postdoctoral research associates in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of machine learning in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, asso...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Come work with the Philosophy department @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social with affiliation to the CTMF! Applications are open for two Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science & Philosophy of Machine Learning as part of the ERC Project: Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy?
Photo of the clocktower of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building on a cloudy day. Image is overlaid with transparent green to blue gradient bubbles and text reading: Come work with our Co-Director, Dr Emily Sullivan, on the ERC Project: Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy? Applications are open for two Postdoc Research Associates in Philosophy of Science and ML! Apply by 20 April 2026: edin.ac/4bPXUNb
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Read more from the University of Edinburgh: www.ed.ac.uk/news/leading... Read more from the Royal Society of Edinburgh: rse.org.uk/global-leade... 📸 Photo of RSE in first post by Ryan Johnston
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Leading researchers honoured by Scotland’s National Academy | News | The University of Edinburgh
A leader in liver disease research, an expert in high performance computing, and an authority on the ethics of data and Artificial Intelligence are among the Edinburgh researchers announced as Fellows...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Professor Vallor has been elected as RSE Fellow as part of the 2026 cohort made up of 43 individuals (15 based at the University of Edinburgh!) deemed excellent in their field. It's wonderful to see @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social represented by so many of the fellows. @uoe-cahss.bsky.social
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are excited to share that Professor @shannonvallor.bsky.social, Co-Director of the CTMF, has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh! Congratulations to Professor Vallor on this very well-deserved honour! @royalsoced.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social
View of the RSE building from across a roundabout. It is dark out, and car headlights and taillights are visible, showing the motion of traffic. Photo by Ryan Johnston.Headshot photo of Professor Vallor. She has brown hair that is tied back, and is wearing glasses, a blue and purple scarf and a blue tweed jacket. She is stood outside and smiling at the camera. Edinburgh Castle can be seen in the distance.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
See above for the three-year post description and link to apply, and below for the two-year post (on interpretability and explainability methods for complex ML models in science, experience in formal methods preferred for this one): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The 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.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Good 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 April
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The 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.
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Hear from @ftollon.bsky.social and @enricogalvagni.bsky.social (part of our CTMF research community) on this podcast episode! 👇🔊
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Deeply grateful to the UK AI and Robotics research community for this Leadership Award. So many wonderful researchers were honoured with me tonight - my own award would not be possible without my amazing @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social colleagues
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