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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 3d

Authors: @noortjem.bsky.social, @alex-taylor.bsky.social, @mrsbunz.bsky.social, Thao Phan, Dr. Maya Indira Ganesh, Dominique B., Yasmine Boudiaf, Rachel Coldicutt, Iain Emsley, Beatrice Gobbo, Louise Hickman, Manu Luksch, Dr @bettinanissen.bsky.social, Mukul Patel, Luis Soares.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 3d

New paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 4d

📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 24d

💡 New publication alert!
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025

Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.wiley.com/en-us/Living...

Living as a Bird

<p>In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each ser...

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Dec 1

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Apr 7

Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics

OSF

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Mar 28

Interested in turning the question “where are AI’s publics”? into a data mapping strategy? Do come work with @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Tommaso Ciarli, Ismael Rafols, Cian O’Donovan and myself!

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Mar 27

We're looking for a postdoc for our Metascience project, based in Maastricht. Details here. unu.edu/merit/about-... @noortjem.bsky.social

Opportunities

unu.edu

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Mar 27

We're looking for a postdoc for our Metascience project, based in Maastricht. Details here. unu.edu/merit/about-... @noortjem.bsky.social

Opportunities

unu.edu

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Mar 5

Me too! Looks like we and all workshop participants have are work cut out for us: does engineering either capture, perform or dismantle the social? Or is there an alternative?

Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social · Feb 28

Excited to share this CfP for a conference organized by my wonderful colleagues at CETE-P! 📣
@coeckelbergh.bsky.social

Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth

@noortjem.bsky.social
@joannazylinska.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology

Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha

cetep.eu

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies @cimethods.bsky.social · Feb 27

Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t...
#ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Very clear demonstration of how engineering is being deployed as a power tool and staged as power politics, gone are the days when we could think of "technocracy" as "post-politics"

Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · Feb 26

What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes
open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes

DOGE is feeding workers' emails into an AI to decide if they should keep their jobs. It's a cruel joke in the service of something much worse.

open.substack.com

Philip Di Salvo @philipdisalvo.bsky.social · Feb 26

What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes
open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

What's really behind Elon Musk and DOGE's AI schemes

DOGE is feeding workers' emails into an AI to decide if they should keep their jobs. It's a cruel joke in the service of something much worse.

open.substack.com

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Feb 25

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Jan 13

Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy

Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI

Going our own way will unleash national renewal

www.ft.com

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Jan 13

Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE, the group of scientists that formed in 2020 to provide expert advice on the pandemic response. New article in Social Studies of Science with @mvaldeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306... Visualisations by G. Terenghi

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Dec 19

Watch this great documentary report and understand what “AI” looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!

Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · Dec 19

Jeni Lee and I made a documentary on drone delivery trials in Logan as part of the AI-in-the-street project w @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social @louhicky.bsky.social

Watch the it in full here (12 mins):
www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...

Observatory - Logan — Careful Industries

www.careful.industries

Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · Dec 19

Jeni Lee and I made a documentary on drone delivery trials in Logan as part of the AI-in-the-street project w @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social @louhicky.bsky.social

Watch the it in full here (12 mins):
www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...

Observatory - Logan — Careful Industries

www.careful.industries

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Dec 9

Symposium alert! “Artificial societies: Social engineering after the Techlash” will happen in March at the U of Warwick with support from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social w Mona Sloane @karengregory.bsky.social organised by
@mvaldeb.bsky.social et al. See: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

The Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025: winners announced

The 2025 winners, with funding from the Sociological Review Foundation, will lead academic symposia on movement in ethnographic method, feminist liberation imaginaries, social engineering after techla...

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Dec 3

Interdisciplinarity French style: anthropologists, artists, philosophers, physicists, designers and sociologists will come together to continue the conversation with Bruno Latour’s work and each other. For 4 days later this week in Paris: www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...

Bruno Latour ou l'art d'assembler

Les 4, 5, 6 et 7 décembre prochains, Sciences Po rendra hommage à Bruno Latour. Il s’agit moins de célébrer un grand homme (bien qu’il le fût vraiment) que de renouer le fil d’une conversation, hélas ...

www.sciencespo.fr

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Nov 27

This still sums up AI in the street best for me: “it’s difficult to know whether technology in the street is even functional: ‘In my street, we have a semi-functional environmental sensor: someone backed into it with their car so we’re not sure if it still works.” theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...

Iain Emsley @iainemsley.bsky.social · Nov 27

Enjoyed the Conversation post from @noortjem.bsky.social on #ai and #aiinthestreet: theconversation.com/five-ways-yo.... Disclosure: I also worked on the project but I discovered new things in this post.

Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)

From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.

theconversation.com

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Nov 24

It really does look like @mayameme.bsky.social is going to bring it all together in her new book! “the driverless car …works when the world around it transforms
to accommodate its limits… [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

artezpress.artez.nl

Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · Sep 25

📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street.
Taken aback by how much we’ve done!

See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...

Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!

Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies

Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207

Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social · Aug 19

🔬 🤖 Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? 🔬 🤖
New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · May 24

Where is AI in the street? How does it manifest in this everyday setting? The AI in the street recently organised a diagramming workshop hosted by Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. Read the workshop report here: aiinthestreet.substack.com/p/framing-ev...

Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Apr 30

Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-...

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Dec 13

new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and Karin van Es has just been published in Convergence jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/p...

we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...

Pluralising Critical Technical Practices – Public Data Lab

A gathering and reconsideration of critical technical practices in digital research and beyond. Contributions published in a special issue in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into Ne...

publicdatalab.org

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