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Srravya
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socio-technical research and PhD underway @designinf.bsky.social
researching data work, responsible AI
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
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karengregory.bsky.social
Working at the University of Edinburgh? Researching work & labour (including labour markets, employment policy, ethnographies of work, digital tech, AI & automation, etc), and want to meet others? Well you're in luck!

Feb 17th 10am:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cahss-netw...
CAHSS Network for the Study of Work
With funding from the CAHSS Interdisciplinary Fund, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Network for the Study of Work (NSW).
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
srravya.bsky.social
What does it mean to build a career in research and academia when the two seem to be in flux and under strain? We will discuss this in detail at this panel discussion in a couple of weeks. Please come along, February 18, 2.30PM! registration link below 👇
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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workersobservatory.org
🎯 Getting Gig Work on Scotland's Political Agenda

Food delivery workers joined the Workers' Observatory workshop this week to build political momentum towards fair and safe gig work in Scotland.

You can read the workers' principles and policy demands here: workersobservatory.org/documents/WO...
Edinburgh City Councillors meet food delivery workers in Workers' Observatory workshop
January 31, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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tnewmsblues.bsky.social
"Starbucks announced the rapid rollout of a tool called 'automated counting' that... aimed to replace hand-counts of some products with automated ones that are faster and more accurate... But the app frequently miscounts and mislabels items"
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
Inside Starbucks' supply struggles: AI glitches, scattered suppliers and sandwich shortages
Four Starbucks CEOs over five years have blamed lost sales on its struggle to keep its thousands of U.S. stores reliably stocked with coffeehouse essentials like milk, pastries, and cup lids.
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

pls repost
About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
In the most desolate, American techno-fascist story one can imagine: ICE descends on a data center construction site in Louisiana to abduct workers.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Immigration Officers Descend on Meta Data Center, Arrest Drivers
Federal immigration officers targeted a construction site in rural Louisiana where Meta Platforms Inc. is building its largest data center, leading to the arrest of two individuals, according to local...
www.bloomberg.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
srravya.bsky.social
In making work visible (1995), Lucy Suchman writes: "Work has a tendency to disappear at a distance, such that the further removed we are from the work of others, the more simplified, often stereotypes, our view of their work becomes"
magicmooshka.bsky.social feeb 🍓 @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 28d
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
srravya.bsky.social
Found in the children's section of a book store, alongside ABCs of nature, animals, action words,etc.

Why, just why!
A bright yellow coloured children's book titled "ABC Artificial Intelligence" with bright, shiny illustrations of robots, screens, and other representations of the digital.
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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restofworld.org
“We call it the ‘Love Boat,’” he said. “We spend more time with each other than with our own families, so we have formed strong bonds. We look out for one another.”

A glimpse of life on Africa’s only undersea internet cable repair ship
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship
When Africa’s internet breaks, this ship answers the call
Undersea internet cables are critical in today’s hyperconnected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network.
restofworld.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🎓🇪🇸 Fully funded PhD in Digital Humanities at King’s College London
The King’s–Ramón Areces Foundation scholarship supports Spanish nationals with full tuition, an annual stipend (£22,780), and research funding.
📅 Deadline: 13 February 2026
#PhDFunding #DigitalHumanities
www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
King’s-Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarship Programme (K-FRA)
King’s-Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarships support candidates with Spanish nationality for full-time doctoral study in Digital Humanities at King's College London.
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
srravya.bsky.social
Returning from the most fantastic @stsindianetwork.bsky.social conference this week! An engaging set of panels and discussions that showed the rich histories of STS in India, that I'm now eager to dig deeper into! It was equally refreshing to be in discussions that barely mentioned any AI.
December 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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tnewmsblues.bsky.social
Data work companies hire “white-collar professionals rocked by mass layoffs & hiring freezes, forcing them to make the same cryptic tradeoff: take a volatile job that will temporarily help pay bills to train the next gen of AI that could one day replace them.” financialpost.com/technology/b...
How a ‘bleak’ job market is pushing white-collar workers to train AI that could one day replace them
As tech companies ramp up artificial intelligence models, human AI trainers are in hot demand — but not for long. Read more
financialpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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amoorelouise.bsky.social
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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jathansadowski.com
Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
✨exploring empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence' - an in-person event with Edinburgh’s DARE project researchers @nicolasugden.bsky.social, Abby King and Max Perry, looking at how data is being used in UK healthcare and biomedical research.

⬇️ sign up below!

shorturl.at/Yj91W
Data-Driven Healthcare
Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'
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November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
while I'm at it, also sharing this 5 year postdoc at ANU (Australia) mostly because I find the project - the cultures of the cryosphere - fascinating & a really #histSTM coded theme...
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra, ACT, Australian Capital Territory, Australia job with AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (ANU) | 403946
Seeking a researcher with experience in ethnographic or qualitative social science fieldwork for the ERC project "Cultur...
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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datacontroversies.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-empl...
Meta is about to start grading workers on their AI skills
Meta employee performance will be assessed by AI-driven impact starting in 2026, as the company prioritizes AI adoption across its workforce.
www.businessinsider.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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ewaluger.bsky.social
Want to add your voice to UK discussions around responsible AI? We @braiduk.bsky.social are looking for people interested in joining our stakeholder forum.
braiduk.bsky.social BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · Nov 12
NEW OPPORTUNITY:
We are seeking members to join our BRAID Stakeholder Forum, helping to shape the direction of Responsible AI in the UK.
Information and details of how to submit your expression of interest can be found here:

braiduk.org/braid-stakeh...
A group of people having a discussion. One woman is speaking into a microphone, a man is listening and smiling, another person has their back to the camera, positioned so as to join in the conversation.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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commonnotions.bsky.social
NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.

Preorders save a couple bucks and get a free zine on the history of workers' inquiries! Checkout with coupon code DIGITALWORKERS: buff.ly/9Li5A3U
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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alice-ross.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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tamigraph.bsky.social
📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining...
Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...
northwestern.zoom.us
September 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
srravya.bsky.social
oh yes, encountered this frustrating chatbait a few weeks ago when I tried using chatGPT for some Latex queries. It would annoyingly keep asking follow up questions and offers to create templates and what not, like it is designed to never let the conversation end.
datasociety.bsky.social Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Sep 25
Chatbots are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. For the most part, it’s annoying; at the extremes, it can be harmful. And it might just be getting started. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
How chatbots keep you talking
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM