Fran Meissner
@fmeissner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics | University of Twente
Two requests to review for palliative care journals in two weeks. I am interdisciplinary but palliative care is not one of my ticks. Does not compute, or does it?
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Two requests to review for palliative care journals in two weeks. I am interdisciplinary but palliative care is not one of my ticks. Does not compute, or does it?
I cannot wait for 2035! www.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2436835
(Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).
(Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)
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November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I cannot wait for 2035! www.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2436835
(Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).
(Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
PAPER ALERT! "From remote monitoring to local action" short commentary piece in Nature Cities co-authored by Karin Pfeffer & me. Reflecting on advances in scaling the mapping deprived urban areas with earth observation. We need #CriticalRemoteSensing and local engagement. Link -> rdcu.be/ezRK8
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
PAPER ALERT! "From remote monitoring to local action" short commentary piece in Nature Cities co-authored by Karin Pfeffer & me. Reflecting on advances in scaling the mapping deprived urban areas with earth observation. We need #CriticalRemoteSensing and local engagement. Link -> rdcu.be/ezRK8
Teaching myself how to teach ethics, I learned case studies are a powerful tool. But really, wtf - a refugee chatbot to teach you in a sanitised way about ethics in the field? There is so much wrong with this that even starting the project probably should not have passed ethics review. #Ai4Good ?
this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
June 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Teaching myself how to teach ethics, I learned case studies are a powerful tool. But really, wtf - a refugee chatbot to teach you in a sanitised way about ethics in the field? There is so much wrong with this that even starting the project probably should not have passed ethics review. #Ai4Good ?
Turns out transparency and explainability are probably not going to be protecting us from unfair automated systems. Interesting research into what happens when you explain how an algorithm makes decisions to users - they find it even harder to spot problems: www.fca.org.uk/publication/...
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May 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Turns out transparency and explainability are probably not going to be protecting us from unfair automated systems. Interesting research into what happens when you explain how an algorithm makes decisions to users - they find it even harder to spot problems: www.fca.org.uk/publication/...
Reposted by Fran Meissner
I'm on 🟥 strike 🟥 today with my colleagues and students at the University of Twente to fight against the Dutch government's cuts to the higher education budget ✊
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm on 🟥 strike 🟥 today with my colleagues and students at the University of Twente to fight against the Dutch government's cuts to the higher education budget ✊
Are you interested in Humanitarian Engineering a possible Masters Programme - if so why not come (online) and test if this new Masters programme @utwente.bsky.social. is for you Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... the taster lesson is 10-Apr-2025 so sign up quick. @mnagenborg.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Are you interested in Humanitarian Engineering a possible Masters Programme - if so why not come (online) and test if this new Masters programme @utwente.bsky.social. is for you Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... the taster lesson is 10-Apr-2025 so sign up quick. @mnagenborg.bsky.social
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#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Complementing Steven Vertovec's social organisation of difference framework with a focus on techno-material entanglements will propel research into urban difference and diversity.Article by @tilmannheil.bsky.social @fmeissner.bsky.social Nikolaus Vertovec: buff.ly/g6dUQt5
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Complementing Steven Vertovec's social organisation of difference framework with a focus on techno-material entanglements will propel research into urban difference and diversity.Article by @tilmannheil.bsky.social @fmeissner.bsky.social Nikolaus Vertovec: buff.ly/g6dUQt5
#NEW Article Alert 📢Discussing #Urban #Diversity and its techno-material entanglements in light of Social Organisation of Difference ➡️ need for collaborations social and engineering sciences. Why? Read here: www.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2469694 @tilmannheil.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social
Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference
Vertovec’s social organisation of difference framework links three research areas. They study difference and its social importance: encounters, representations, and structural configurations. This ...
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March 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#NEW Article Alert 📢Discussing #Urban #Diversity and its techno-material entanglements in light of Social Organisation of Difference ➡️ need for collaborations social and engineering sciences. Why? Read here: www.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2469694 @tilmannheil.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social
Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!
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February 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!
Two chapters I co-authored for our #OxfordHandbook of #Superdiversity are now open access. Intro: Superdiversity and Complex Social Transformations research.utwente.nl/files/480240... & Afterword: Superdiversity Futures research.utwente.nl/files/480240... @nandosigona.bsky.social #StevenVertovec
January 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Two chapters I co-authored for our #OxfordHandbook of #Superdiversity are now open access. Intro: Superdiversity and Complex Social Transformations research.utwente.nl/files/480240... & Afterword: Superdiversity Futures research.utwente.nl/files/480240... @nandosigona.bsky.social #StevenVertovec
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
Reposted by Fran Meissner
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
Happy data privacy / protection day.
January 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Happy data privacy / protection day.
Chapter on #Urban #DigialInfrastrutures and the reproduction of #privilege is out! Publishing it as a writers collective acknowledging that our expert informants made the chapter possible. Convincing the publisher of this was harder than writing the chapter! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Urban Digital Infrastructuring and the (re)production of Privilege
A global digital and data revolution governs future urban strategies and profoundly influences the infrastructures built in cities. Numerous digital urban infrastructures remain hidden to city dweller...
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January 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Chapter on #Urban #DigialInfrastrutures and the reproduction of #privilege is out! Publishing it as a writers collective acknowledging that our expert informants made the chapter possible. Convincing the publisher of this was harder than writing the chapter! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Friday was the book launch of the 2nd Ed. Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (@williamlallen.bsky.social & @cvar-sil.bsky.social) featuring a chapter on Migration Research Ethics and large scale data written by @linnetelwin.bsky.social and myself. Article: doi.org/10.4337/9781... (OA soon).
Book Launch: Handbook of Research Methods in Migration | COMPAS
www.compas.ox.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Friday was the book launch of the 2nd Ed. Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (@williamlallen.bsky.social & @cvar-sil.bsky.social) featuring a chapter on Migration Research Ethics and large scale data written by @linnetelwin.bsky.social and myself. Article: doi.org/10.4337/9781... (OA soon).
Reposted by Fran Meissner
For those interested in research around #AIpolicy and #AIaccountability, @theaial.bsky.social are currently hiring PostDoc and PhD positions in these areas 👇🏼
aial.ie/pages/hiring/
aial.ie/pages/hiring/
Hiring
Post-doctoral research fellow x2 The AIAL is seeking two full-time post-doctoral fellows to work with Dr. Abeba Birhane and other lab members in 1) policy translation and 2) AI evaluation, both under ...
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November 29, 2024 at 8:53 PM
For those interested in research around #AIpolicy and #AIaccountability, @theaial.bsky.social are currently hiring PostDoc and PhD positions in these areas 👇🏼
aial.ie/pages/hiring/
aial.ie/pages/hiring/
Busy day! As we are finishing our #DroneDataEthics course for the African Drone and Data Academy, today was the final valorisation panel of our #NWO-MVI project Disastrous Information: Embedding do no harm principles in geo intelligence workflows. Good turn and talks! www.itc.nl/about-itc/sc...
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Busy day! As we are finishing our #DroneDataEthics course for the African Drone and Data Academy, today was the final valorisation panel of our #NWO-MVI project Disastrous Information: Embedding do no harm principles in geo intelligence workflows. Good turn and talks! www.itc.nl/about-itc/sc...