Rosamunde Van Brakel
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
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Our article on rhizomatic harms of algorithmic policing is now published in print in a great new issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social 😊 #criminology #surveillance #digitalcriminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
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Don’t forget to submit your abstract for #SSN2026 in Lille! All info about the conference and call for abstracts can be found here: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #AI
#surveillance #AI
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Don’t forget to submit your abstract for #SSN2026 in Lille! All info about the conference and call for abstracts can be found here: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #AI
#surveillance #AI
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Reminder! Call for participation, Planetary Surveillance - the 11th Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference, Lille, France, 9-12 June 2026.
Deadline: 10 January 2026
#SSN2026 #surveillance
surveillance-studies.net/conference/
ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
Deadline: 10 January 2026
#SSN2026 #surveillance
surveillance-studies.net/conference/
ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
Planetary Intelligence and Surveillance - The 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference - Sciencesconf.org
Planetary surveillance : 11th Biennal Conference Surveillance Studies Network
ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reminder! Call for participation, Planetary Surveillance - the 11th Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference, Lille, France, 9-12 June 2026.
Deadline: 10 January 2026
#SSN2026 #surveillance
surveillance-studies.net/conference/
ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
Deadline: 10 January 2026
#SSN2026 #surveillance
surveillance-studies.net/conference/
ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned strip of the high seas in the South Atlantic, to plunder its rich marine life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas
Every year a Chinese-dominated flotilla big enough to be seen from space pillages the rich marine life on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned part of the South Atlantic off Argentina
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned strip of the high seas in the South Atlantic, to plunder its rich marine life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Still time to submit your abstracts till 10th of January for #SSN2026! Join us in Lille!
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
All info: ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
#surveillance #surveillancestudies
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My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology
Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology
jobs.helsinki.fi
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 AM
My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Senior academic roles in Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester (ACE-CSE Gold; 20+ academics in cyber; great facilities; research links with AI and with social responsibility), professor and associate professor. Closing 18 Jan.
Professor careers.dmu.ac.uk/job/Professo... and Associate Professor careers.dmu.ac.uk/job/Associat... roles available at De Montfort University. Closing 18 January. Contact me (eerke.boiten@dmu.ac.uk) to discuss. Prof interviews 1 April.
Professor of Cyber Security
Professor of Cyber Security
careers.dmu.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Senior academic roles in Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester (ACE-CSE Gold; 20+ academics in cyber; great facilities; research links with AI and with social responsibility), professor and associate professor. Closing 18 Jan.
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“AI-generated videos promoting Poland's exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for "Polexit"”
www.euronews.com/2025/12/30/a...
www.euronews.com/2025/12/30/a...
AI-made videos using attractive young women promote Poland's EU exit
They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinfo...
www.euronews.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
“AI-generated videos promoting Poland's exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for "Polexit"”
www.euronews.com/2025/12/30/a...
www.euronews.com/2025/12/30/a...
Wat is proportioneel gebruik? Waarom worden er wapens aangekocht door de Minister van Defensie om te gebruiken tegen relschoppers tijdens betogingen? #AI
December 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Wat is proportioneel gebruik? Waarom worden er wapens aangekocht door de Minister van Defensie om te gebruiken tegen relschoppers tijdens betogingen? #AI
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CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
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December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
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In response to the news about the high profile digitalisation and Big Data project I-Police of the Belgian police in cooperation w Sopra Steria being abandoned as the result of not delivering what was promised and the announcement of the set up of a new #AI -laboratory I was interviewed @knack.be /1
Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Artificiële intelligentie bij de politie: ‘Ze doen nu al veel meer met AI dan we denken, we weten er alleen weinig over’
I-Police, het project dat het kluwen lokale en federale politiedatabanken moest centraliseren, is op een teleurstelling uitgelopen.
www.knack.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In response to the news about the high profile digitalisation and Big Data project I-Police of the Belgian police in cooperation w Sopra Steria being abandoned as the result of not delivering what was promised and the announcement of the set up of a new #AI -laboratory I was interviewed @knack.be /1
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AI is wildly unpopular. Pew: "[O]nly 17 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years." Gallup: 80% think gov't should regulate AI. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?
Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.
www.politico.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
AI is wildly unpopular. Pew: "[O]nly 17 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years." Gallup: 80% think gov't should regulate AI. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
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The USA is demanding from >40 states an "Enhanced Border Security Partnership" #EBSP. It will grant their migrant hunters direct access to police databases in these - mostly European - countries. This is unprecedented.
My streamed talk on Saturday at #39C3:
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
My streamed talk on Saturday at #39C3:
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
[39c3] Trump government demands access to European police databases and biometrics
The US demand is unprecedented: even EU member states do not grant each other such extensive direct database access – normally the exchange takes place via the "hit/no-hit principle" with a…
fahrplan.events.ccc.de
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The USA is demanding from >40 states an "Enhanced Border Security Partnership" #EBSP. It will grant their migrant hunters direct access to police databases in these - mostly European - countries. This is unprecedented.
My streamed talk on Saturday at #39C3:
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
My streamed talk on Saturday at #39C3:
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
A co-founder of Mistral-AI played a central role in 2022 in the illegal downloading of tens of terabytes of books from LibGen while working at Meta, to train large language models. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
Comment un cofondateur de Mistral AI a piraté des millions de livres quand il travaillait chez Meta
Pour entraîner son modèle d’intelligence artificielle, la maison mère de Facebook a téléchargé illégalement, dès 2022, les ouvrages accumulés par le site pirate LibGen. Mediapart révèle l’implication…
www.mediapart.fr
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A co-founder of Mistral-AI played a central role in 2022 in the illegal downloading of tens of terabytes of books from LibGen while working at Meta, to train large language models. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...
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More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
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What is your Patronus in Harry Potter?
December 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What is your Patronus in Harry Potter?
In response to the news about the high profile digitalisation and Big Data project I-Police of the Belgian police in cooperation w Sopra Steria being abandoned as the result of not delivering what was promised and the announcement of the set up of a new #AI -laboratory I was interviewed @knack.be /1
Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Artificiële intelligentie bij de politie: ‘Ze doen nu al veel meer met AI dan we denken, we weten er alleen weinig over’
I-Police, het project dat het kluwen lokale en federale politiedatabanken moest centraliseren, is op een teleurstelling uitgelopen.
www.knack.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In response to the news about the high profile digitalisation and Big Data project I-Police of the Belgian police in cooperation w Sopra Steria being abandoned as the result of not delivering what was promised and the announcement of the set up of a new #AI -laboratory I was interviewed @knack.be /1
De oorlog in Oekraïne roept bij haar echo’s van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op. In de loopgraven ziet Sophie De Schaepdrijver niet alleen militair geweld, maar ook een morele test voor Europa. ‘Dat is nu de centrale vraag: vrede is te verkiezen, maar tegen welke prijs?’ www.demorgen.be/nieuws/histo...
Historica Sophie De Schaepdrijver over de parallellen tussen Oekraïne en Europa in 1914: ‘We staan nu dichter bij de Eerste Wereldoorlog dan ooit’
De oorlog in Oekraïne roept bij haar echo’s van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op. In de loopgraven ziet Sophie De Schaepdrijver niet alleen militair geweld, maar ook een morele test voor Europa. ‘Dat is nu d...
www.demorgen.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
De oorlog in Oekraïne roept bij haar echo’s van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op. In de loopgraven ziet Sophie De Schaepdrijver niet alleen militair geweld, maar ook een morele test voor Europa. ‘Dat is nu de centrale vraag: vrede is te verkiezen, maar tegen welke prijs?’ www.demorgen.be/nieuws/histo...
Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Artificiële intelligentie bij de politie: ‘Ze doen nu al veel meer met AI dan we denken, we weten er alleen weinig over’
I-Police, het project dat het kluwen lokale en federale politiedatabanken moest centraliseren, is op een teleurstelling uitgelopen.
www.knack.be
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Interview @knack.be naar aanleiding nieuws I-Police en gebruik #AI door politie in België. Bedankt @elisahulstaert.bsky.social voor interview!
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi...
Door een beveiligingsfout in de federale Kamer is het salaris van MR‑kamerlid en voormalig staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel op een frauduleuze bankrekening terechtgekomen. #tech-nonchalance www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/p...
Phishingmail leidt tot diefstal van salaris ex-staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel
Door een beveiligingsfout in de federale Kamer is het salaris van MR‑kamerlid en voormalig staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel op een frauduleuze bankrekening terechtgekomen. Dat meldt...
www.demorgen.be
December 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Door een beveiligingsfout in de federale Kamer is het salaris van MR‑kamerlid en voormalig staatssecretaris voor Digitalisering Mathieu Michel op een frauduleuze bankrekening terechtgekomen. #tech-nonchalance www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/p...