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Louise Amoore
@amoorelouise.bsky.social

Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
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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

Political science 45%
Sociology 26%
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The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
Funded PhD opportunities - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
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Reposted by Dave O’Brien

Our partners @uoy-sociology.bsky.social in Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life have a PhD studentship available for Prof Dave Beer’s cluster on “data” @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Please see here for more details & apply www.york.ac.uk/sociology/st...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life PhD scholarship - Department of Sociology, University of York
The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life’s data cluster, led by Prof. David Beer, is offering a PhD scholarship in the Department of Sociology. The successful applicant will be working on a project ...
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Vielen dank fur Ihren Journalismus
Berlin journalist @farangiesg.bsky.social writing on Palantir’s models & ICE, interviewed me about my work on the Deep Border & @erc.europa.eu research on machine learning worlds. Her article captures the violent spatial form of algorithmic targeting.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.
Zack Polanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS

Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇
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I mean I’m interested to know what you think. The technical and political logics of the “bubble” will stay embedded long after it bursts? Like the remains of cybernetics in policy sciences or decision theory?

No I guess not. But still the early 90s rise of data mining for commercial/retail targeting had a discourse of “use it or fail” that became a state logic of widespread association rule generation at borders & in welfare, health… & now Palantir, OpenAI et al..
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

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About the Conference
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Our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship posts close for applications on 30 January. A few reflections on the frequently asked questions we have received. So much looking forward to reading your applications and building our team together youtube.com/watch?v=x4AMkxhe4bQ
Further Information for Fellowship Applicants
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
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Automated journal reminders on 25 December anyone?

850 😔

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

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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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…

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.
📢 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
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Reposted by Ben Anderson

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
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Thank you Karen, please send your job-seeking folks in our direction 😊

Reposted by Dave O’Brien

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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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...
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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.
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“..in a disorderly way”..
💥 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/...

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.

Reposted by Louise Amoore

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...
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Reposted by Louise Amoore

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?

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?

Could be broad bean crop? In Lincolnshire still see vast fields of beans & their white flowers look like this…