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Louise Amoore
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Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics .. more

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Louise Jane Amoore, is a British geographer and academic, who specialises in geopolitics, biometrics, state security and the ethics of machine learning. She is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. From 2017 to 2023, she was a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), a non-departmental advisory body which is the "only formally accountable ethics committee" within the UK Government's Home Office. .. more

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24d
Excited 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...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10d
Q: Will there be support for the fellows to build a network within and beyond the Centre? A: Yes, we want our fellows to build and develop the research themes, using the Centre resource to engage across our partner institutions and beyond, advancing novel approaches to the study of AI in society

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10d
Some questions that people have asked us: Q: If I’m mostly a languages researcher but I’d like to learn more about how LLMs work will I be able to do this alongside my interest in the ethics of translation? A: Absolutely, our thematic programme in image and language would be a great place to do this

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 10d
What makes a postdoctoral position different when it’s a Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life junior or senior fellow position? You will be working together with a vibrant community of interdisciplinary researchers, each of them curious about the world-making capacities of AI. Ask us a question…

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 16d
We should assume that this automated linkage of media is already happening. Where we see people denied entry (racialised, politicised), the traces of deep learning algorithms are present.

Reposted by Heike Delitz, Dagmar Hoffmann, John Hogan , and 2 more

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 21d
📢 Call for Participation!

Socializing Algorithms Conference
Kiel University, Germany — 7–9 Oct 2026.

With keynotes from N. Katherine Hayles and Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social

📝 Submit abstracts by 28 Feb 2026

algorithmen-regieren.de/projects
Das Regieren der Algorithmen
algorithmen-regieren.de

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 22d
To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral
Call for fellows - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24d
Thank you Karen, please send your job-seeking folks in our direction 😊

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24d
There are junior & senior fellowships - broadly, G7 in UK context is a recent PhD or close to submission; G8 more experience of postdoctoral research leadership. Please DM or email any queries #algorithms #AI #MachineLearning

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24d
You can see more about us and our research themes on our website. If your research speaks to our thematic programmes of #Generativity #ImageAndLanguage #BeingHuman #SyntheticWorlds especially in ways that blend & cross disciplines, please take a look (2/3) leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
The extraordinarily rapid rise of algorithmic technologies is witnessing a seismic shift in how the lives of humans are interwoven with novel machine paradigms of knowledge and action. Across many sph...
leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Nov 25
“..in a disorderly way”..

Reposted by Louise Amoore, Nick Clarke, Ben Anderson

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Nov 24
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Nov 20
Thanks so much @eryk.bsky.social & for making this connection. The question of what generative AI does to politics - and how the prompt comes to define and circumscribe the political. We are planning an event @leverhulmecal.bsky.social 2026 on this, would be great if you can join us.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Nov 20
Just now reading this from @amoorelouise.bsky.social et al, a great complement to the points in my "Anatomy of an AI Coup," emphasizing the constraints of prompting that transform the relationship between government workers & governance: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4663100
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing tr...
durham-repository.worktribe.com

Reposted by Louise Amoore

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Nov 18
Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Nov 12
In one sense LLMs are involved - to the extent that it is assumed that because LLMs are trained to predict the next probable token in a sequence, they are aligned with the sequential nature of DNA. So generating sequences not present in nature by sampling from an underlying probability distribution?

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Nov 11
Could be broad bean crop? In Lincolnshire still see vast fields of beans & their white flowers look like this…
A broad bean plant in flower

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Nov 6
Sybil is overjoyed that I had surgery & am not at work for 6 weeks…

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
Sybil, 14 weeks old… anyone would think there is a pattern in whippet behaviour… (the lovely Ed)

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
Current view…

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
5 days in from spine surgery & I’m at the “sounding off on Bluesky” stage of recovery

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
& one of the reasons that matters is that critical response requires more than “but your rule one way travel is benefit fraud risk is stupid/inaccurate”. The hackathon DeepMind/Faculty/OpenAI logic is indifferent to accuracy. Everything is a use-case.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
HMRC’s Connect system uses ML algorithms. I agree that rules-based data mining also historically had association rules (if, then, else stupidity). These don’t disappear but they find entirely new commercial extractive stupidity.. & it’s not rules based.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
This kind? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
Or, worse, these are not mistakes from the perspective of machine learning politics of austerity… (errors as productive for targeting, even when it’s a “wrong” target)

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
Or, government in the age of generative AI.. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
2/ run machine learning on unlabelled data in “task agnostic” way; 3/ indifferent to situated human meaning (e.g. two autistic children experience flying); 4) embedded LLMs on AWS cloud, generate plausible outputs even if wildly inaccurate; 5) zero shot ML = zero shot politics

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
Travel data has historically been a correlative proxy. Early 2000s data mining used one way flights (*purchased third party) in terror algorithms. These apparent “errors” by HMRC illuminate machine learning logics: 1/ combine gov cloud data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC cuts child benefit for 35,000 families based on incomplete travel data
UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
www.theguardian.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 28
I’m sorry that you will miss Eamonn’s talk for your dialysis. He would audio record it for you I’m sure…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Oct 28
Fuming here. I *really* wanted to go to this event on Thursday, about the history of CD ripping. But I can't, because I have to do dialysis. So frustrating. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Toward a more perfect rip: Lessons learned in the digital history of "secure" digital audio extraction (DAE) from CD media
Dr Eamonn Bell (Durham, UK) reflects on ripping, digital audio formats and the CD-ripping software ecosystem.
www.bbk.ac.uk