Sian Bayne
sianbayne.bsky.social
Sian Bayne
@sianbayne.bsky.social

digital education and utopia
University of Edinburgh
Centre for Research in Digital Education
Edinburgh Futures Institute

Computer science 39%
Education 20%

Thanks Richard 😊

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Apparently, we're hiring:

Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Come work at Edinburgh.

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Lecturer (Computational Sociology)
We are looking for a Lecturer in Computational Sociology to contribute to teaching and research on digital and computational sociology in the Sociology Subject Area.
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Senior Lecturer in Futures: another new post at Edinburgh, working across our new Futures Institute and Education. We are looking for a great teacher with a strong research portfolio in critical futures studies, methodologies and approaches to education. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Lecturer in Digital Education in the Global South: new post now recruiting at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, Edinburgh University. Focused on critical research relating to digital education and marginalisation. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Social and behavioral genomics cientists claim they are discovering "the biological architecture of learning and education processes". Our new OA article examines the formation of a data-intensive infrastructure of biological knowledge production in education link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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We are hiring a senior lecturer in sociology at Stockholm University.
It is an open position, we welcome all kinds of sociologists.
(But I would personally be very happy if political sociologists applied.)

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It’s Blue Monday, but hang in there - the light is on its way back. #bluemonday

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Final 10 minute chat of 2023:
@sianbayne.bsky.social on the context in which GenAI is embedded. Measurement, surveillance, commodification and precarity make for problematic conditions for acting and talking in relation to AI.

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10 minute chats on Generative AI
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If you’ve not already seen it, this total rinsing of Suella Braverman is an absolute masterpiece 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/C06hHxr...
The Last Leg on Instagram: "In case you missed it, apparently this is going to go viral! 😉 Watch...
3,222 likes, 100 comments - thelastlegofficial on December 16, 2023: "In case you missed it, apparently this is going to go viral! 😉 Watch the moment #SuellaBraver..."
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Dr Michael Gallagher reflects on the University of Edinburgh contribution to the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium buff.ly/47hSXsU @MorayHouse @EdinburghUni #digitaleducation

Many thanks Uni of Copenhagen for hosting my talk on Digital Education Utopia yesterday. Links and references here: tinyurl.com/4sbesxvt Final slide below, edging toward utopia. Based on work from colleagues all over, and our own HE Futures speculations: www.de.ed.ac.uk/project/high...
Professor Siân Bayne and Dr Ben Williamson took part in the GEM Education and Technology report launch in Scotland last week. Watch the event recording: buff.ly/3FW61rM @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @sianbayne.bsky.social #ScotlandGEMRLaunch

Thanks Tim!

Thanks Harry! Look forward to discussing sometime with you.
I love the Surveillance & Society journal and am so happy to have an article published in the latest issue, with the brilliant Anna Wilson. Surveillance Imaginaries: Learning from Participatory Speculative Fiction. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Thanks Jen! That’s wonderful to hear

My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social