Elena Simperl
@elenasimperl.bsky.social
Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
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🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Project Manager (Research and Innovation Initiatives)
This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic research and innovation initiatives that will shape the future of AI across the university.
Applications close on 15 December.
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131306-...
This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic research and innovation initiatives that will shape the future of AI across the university.
Applications close on 15 December.
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131306-...
Senior Project Manager (Research and Innovation Initiatives) | King's College London
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November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Project Manager (Research and Innovation Initiatives)
This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic research and innovation initiatives that will shape the future of AI across the university.
Applications close on 15 December.
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131306-...
This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic research and innovation initiatives that will shape the future of AI across the university.
Applications close on 15 December.
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131306-...
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This is something we’ve put a lot of love into.
Good, bad, or indifferent, AI is something we have to deal with. Join us for a bit more of a journey into the fundamentals of AI and some of the research we’ve done with our members and partners.
Cc @odihq.bsky.social
Good, bad, or indifferent, AI is something we have to deal with. Join us for a bit more of a journey into the fundamentals of AI and some of the research we’ve done with our members and partners.
Cc @odihq.bsky.social
Don’t miss #MLCommons Endpoints in San Diego, Dec 1–2!
Learn, connect, and shape the future of AI with top experts at Qualcomm Hall.
🗓 Dec 1–2 | 🎟 Free tickets available now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/mlcommons-...
#AI #MachineLearning #SanDiego
Learn, connect, and shape the future of AI with top experts at Qualcomm Hall.
🗓 Dec 1–2 | 🎟 Free tickets available now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/mlcommons-...
#AI #MachineLearning #SanDiego
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is something we’ve put a lot of love into.
Good, bad, or indifferent, AI is something we have to deal with. Join us for a bit more of a journey into the fundamentals of AI and some of the research we’ve done with our members and partners.
Cc @odihq.bsky.social
Good, bad, or indifferent, AI is something we have to deal with. Join us for a bit more of a journey into the fundamentals of AI and some of the research we’ve done with our members and partners.
Cc @odihq.bsky.social
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Better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS. Embedding data standards can help professionals recommend activities for rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term conditions. Learn more.
Data infrastructure for a healthy nation
Learn more about how better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Better access to physical activity data can help health care teams signpost people to trusted local options – and take pressure off the NHS. Embedding data standards can help professionals recommend activities for rehabilitation, mental health, and long-term conditions. Learn more.
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King’s has ranked 9th in Europe and 16th globally for social and environmental sustainability in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings 2026.
This achievement reaffirms King's as one of the world’s leading universities for environmental impact.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-r...
This achievement reaffirms King's as one of the world’s leading universities for environmental impact.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-r...
King's ranks 9th in Europe and 16th globally for social and environmental sustainability | King's College London
King's has maintained its position as one of the world’s leading universities for social and environmental impact in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings 2026.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
King’s has ranked 9th in Europe and 16th globally for social and environmental sustainability in the QS World University Sustainability Rankings 2026.
This achievement reaffirms King's as one of the world’s leading universities for environmental impact.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-r...
This achievement reaffirms King's as one of the world’s leading universities for environmental impact.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-r...
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⚠️ Closing tomorrow!
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details
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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
⚠️ Closing tomorrow!
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher!
Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?
Experienced with applied quantitative methods and national survey datasets?
We'd love to hear from you.
Don't miss out - apply now 🔽
bit.ly/3LqTdzQ
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Can you help us make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share? Join our hackathon to test and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. 3–4 December 2025, find out more
Open Data Infrastructure for Volunteering Hackathon.
Join us to help make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share
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November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can you help us make volunteering opportunities easier to find and share? Join our hackathon to test and explore how open data can connect more people with opportunities to help. 3–4 December 2025, find out more
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This Wednesday!
It's the latest Data & AI Public Engagement community of practice @connectedbydata.org!
We'll hear from @sciencewise.bsky.social, & from the Mohn Centre @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on ‘Data Detectives: 10-year-olds’ views on their health data & how it should be used’!
Join us!
It's the latest Data & AI Public Engagement community of practice @connectedbydata.org!
We'll hear from @sciencewise.bsky.social, & from the Mohn Centre @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on ‘Data Detectives: 10-year-olds’ views on their health data & how it should be used’!
Join us!
Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice
On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we will hold the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.
connectedbydata.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This Wednesday!
It's the latest Data & AI Public Engagement community of practice @connectedbydata.org!
We'll hear from @sciencewise.bsky.social, & from the Mohn Centre @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on ‘Data Detectives: 10-year-olds’ views on their health data & how it should be used’!
Join us!
It's the latest Data & AI Public Engagement community of practice @connectedbydata.org!
We'll hear from @sciencewise.bsky.social, & from the Mohn Centre @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on ‘Data Detectives: 10-year-olds’ views on their health data & how it should be used’!
Join us!
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🚀 Two free AI courses!
We've created two #free, self-serve courses: one providing an introduction to #AI, and another aimed at those people who feel they are advancing with AI, and want to support their colleagues to do the same.
Intro course 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF
Follow-on course 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU
We've created two #free, self-serve courses: one providing an introduction to #AI, and another aimed at those people who feel they are advancing with AI, and want to support their colleagues to do the same.
Intro course 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF
Follow-on course 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🚀 Two free AI courses!
We've created two #free, self-serve courses: one providing an introduction to #AI, and another aimed at those people who feel they are advancing with AI, and want to support their colleagues to do the same.
Intro course 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF
Follow-on course 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU
We've created two #free, self-serve courses: one providing an introduction to #AI, and another aimed at those people who feel they are advancing with AI, and want to support their colleagues to do the same.
Intro course 👉 buff.ly/4gfaOEF
Follow-on course 👉 buff.ly/1KSivpU
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Yesterday, King’s became a proud signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum, joining more than 1,000 universities worldwide who have signed.
Endorsing the MCU reaffirms our commitment to academic freedom, institutional autonomy & social responsibility.
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-b...
Endorsing the MCU reaffirms our commitment to academic freedom, institutional autonomy & social responsibility.
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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-b...
King's becomes an official signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum | King's College London
By becoming a signatory, King’s commits to principles of academic freedom, institutional autonomy and social responsibility.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yesterday, King’s became a proud signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum, joining more than 1,000 universities worldwide who have signed.
Endorsing the MCU reaffirms our commitment to academic freedom, institutional autonomy & social responsibility.
⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-b...
Endorsing the MCU reaffirms our commitment to academic freedom, institutional autonomy & social responsibility.
⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-b...
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Meet the new cohort of exceptional researchers who have been awarded more than £83 million worth of early career fellowships by the Royal Society, working on research spanning the sciences: #RSGrants: https://bit.ly/49jMkKx
Exceptional researchers awarded early career fellowships worth more than £83 million | Royal Society
A new cohort of exceptional researchers at have been awarded funding through the Royal Society’s early career schemes, the University Research Fellowship (URF), Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) and Ne...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Meet the new cohort of exceptional researchers who have been awarded more than £83 million worth of early career fellowships by the Royal Society, working on research spanning the sciences: #RSGrants: https://bit.ly/49jMkKx
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Attention, freelance tech reporters: Omydiar Network has an open call for their Winter 2026 Reporters in Residence program. Deadline: November 15. $8,000 a month stipend and $2,000 travel budget (totaling $50,000). Good luck! job-boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwo...
Reporters in Residence (Winter 2026)
Remote
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Attention, freelance tech reporters: Omydiar Network has an open call for their Winter 2026 Reporters in Residence program. Deadline: November 15. $8,000 a month stipend and $2,000 travel budget (totaling $50,000). Good luck! job-boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwo...
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We've updated our Horizon Europe Guarantee guidance.
This includes⬇️
- Grants using Je-S and UKRI Funding Service
- Innovation Funding Service grants
Full details: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The Horizon Europe Guarantee will close for new applications on 27 November 2025.
This includes⬇️
- Grants using Je-S and UKRI Funding Service
- Innovation Funding Service grants
Full details: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The Horizon Europe Guarantee will close for new applications on 27 November 2025.
Apply for Horizon Europe guarantee funding
The UK agreed a deal to associate to Horizon Europe on 7 September 2023.
www.ukri.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We've updated our Horizon Europe Guarantee guidance.
This includes⬇️
- Grants using Je-S and UKRI Funding Service
- Innovation Funding Service grants
Full details: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The Horizon Europe Guarantee will close for new applications on 27 November 2025.
This includes⬇️
- Grants using Je-S and UKRI Funding Service
- Innovation Funding Service grants
Full details: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The Horizon Europe Guarantee will close for new applications on 27 November 2025.
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Jonathan Gray, one of our Digital Good Research Fund project leads, has recently published a new book looking at the practices and cultures of how data is made public in the age of the Internet.
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Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Jonathan Gray, one of our Digital Good Research Fund project leads, has recently published a new book looking at the practices and cultures of how data is made public in the age of the Internet.
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Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026.
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Digital Policy starting Oct 2026.
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
The course will draw on the latest Bennett research & close collaboration with policymakers, business leaders, & civil society to address key challenges.
Find out more: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...
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Catch up on all of our data-centric AI webinars in one place! Watch Prof Elena Simperl discuss topics from data scraping to the future of public services with a range of fantastic guests, all world experts with their research and experience.
#Data #AI
#Data #AI
Learn from world experts on the data in AI
Want to learn more about AI? Join our webinar series and learn from AI experts.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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With policymakers, industry heads, engineers, and educators, Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, launched @raeng.org.uk Engineers 2030 report at the #NationalEngineeringDay Parliamentary Reception in the House of Lords. ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...
King's celebrates engineering skills report launch in the House of Lords | King's College London
Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi CBE FREng FRS, Vice President (Research & Innovation) at King’s welcomed the Engineers 2030 Final Report in his keynote speech at the National Engineering Day Parlia...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
With policymakers, industry heads, engineers, and educators, Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, launched @raeng.org.uk Engineers 2030 report at the #NationalEngineeringDay Parliamentary Reception in the House of Lords. ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-c...
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We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
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The profession has rocketed in size and stature. Will AI shrink it?
How HR took over the world
The profession has rocketed in size and stature. Will AI shrink it?
econ.st
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The profession has rocketed in size and stature. Will AI shrink it?
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TOMORROW: Broke and broken? What TRAC data tells us about higher education finances
With nearly half of UK universities in deficit, join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social and an expert panel to explore how TRAC data can guide more sustainable funding and policy decisions.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/broke...
With nearly half of UK universities in deficit, join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social and an expert panel to explore how TRAC data can guide more sustainable funding and policy decisions.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/broke...
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
TOMORROW: Broke and broken? What TRAC data tells us about higher education finances
With nearly half of UK universities in deficit, join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social and an expert panel to explore how TRAC data can guide more sustainable funding and policy decisions.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/broke...
With nearly half of UK universities in deficit, join us, @hepi-news.bsky.social and an expert panel to explore how TRAC data can guide more sustainable funding and policy decisions.
➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/broke...
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✨ Join us on 11 November for our Introduction to copyright workshop.
This free workshop will cover key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching and the use of secondary data.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:50
📍 Online
🧷
This free workshop will cover key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching and the use of secondary data.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:50
📍 Online
🧷
Introduction to copyright - UK Data Service
11 Nov 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:50 am - This workshop will introduce key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching, and the use of secondary data. The first part of the session will focus on copyright…
ukdataservice.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
✨ Join us on 11 November for our Introduction to copyright workshop.
This free workshop will cover key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching and the use of secondary data.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:50
📍 Online
🧷
This free workshop will cover key aspects of copyright in publishing, teaching and the use of secondary data.
📅 11 November 2025
⏰ 10:00-11:50
📍 Online
🧷
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Webinar zu Reputation und #OpenScience: Wie soll sich die Bewertung von wissenschaftlichen Leistungen weiterentwickeln?
Am 14. Nov wird neben Impulsvorträgen ein Diskussionspapier des Schwerpunkts "Digitalität in der Wissenschaft" der #AllianzWissenschaft vorgestellt. Anmeldung: sohub.io/wjqd
Am 14. Nov wird neben Impulsvorträgen ein Diskussionspapier des Schwerpunkts "Digitalität in der Wissenschaft" der #AllianzWissenschaft vorgestellt. Anmeldung: sohub.io/wjqd
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Webinar zu Reputation und #OpenScience: Wie soll sich die Bewertung von wissenschaftlichen Leistungen weiterentwickeln?
Am 14. Nov wird neben Impulsvorträgen ein Diskussionspapier des Schwerpunkts "Digitalität in der Wissenschaft" der #AllianzWissenschaft vorgestellt. Anmeldung: sohub.io/wjqd
Am 14. Nov wird neben Impulsvorträgen ein Diskussionspapier des Schwerpunkts "Digitalität in der Wissenschaft" der #AllianzWissenschaft vorgestellt. Anmeldung: sohub.io/wjqd
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🧪 AI is revolutionising computational chemistry - but what does that look like in practice?
Join @franmartinm.bsky.social (@kingsnmes.bsky.social) on 19 Nov as he shares cutting-edge research on using AI to model nature-inspired sustainable materials.
Sign up ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/compu...
Join @franmartinm.bsky.social (@kingsnmes.bsky.social) on 19 Nov as he shares cutting-edge research on using AI to model nature-inspired sustainable materials.
Sign up ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/compu...
Computational Modelling of Nature-Inspired Sustainable Materials | King's College London
A seminar on using computational modelling and ML to engineer nature-inspired sustainable materials.
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🧪 AI is revolutionising computational chemistry - but what does that look like in practice?
Join @franmartinm.bsky.social (@kingsnmes.bsky.social) on 19 Nov as he shares cutting-edge research on using AI to model nature-inspired sustainable materials.
Sign up ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/compu...
Join @franmartinm.bsky.social (@kingsnmes.bsky.social) on 19 Nov as he shares cutting-edge research on using AI to model nature-inspired sustainable materials.
Sign up ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/compu...
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🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award.
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🎉 Celebrating Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web & recipient of the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award.
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social
Learn about Sir Tim's work & legacy:
blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c...
#Wayback1T @timbl.bsky.social