Daniel Susser
@susser.bsky.social
ethics, politics, and policy in tech
faculty, information science @ cornell
www.danielsusser.info
faculty, information science @ cornell
www.danielsusser.info
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Great-looking internship opportunities at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Tell your students!
[@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships
[@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships
Other Internships — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Explore opportunities for undergraduates to intern at S.T.O.P.
www.stopspying.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Great-looking internship opportunities at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Tell your students!
[@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships
[@stopspyingny.bsky.social] www.stopspying.org/internships
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific _production_. 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understand why people think this — AI is already accelerating scientific _production_. 🧵
The innovation hype cycle graph but it's my ability to maintain focus and enthusiasm at the beginning, middle, and end of writing a paper
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The innovation hype cycle graph but it's my ability to maintain focus and enthusiasm at the beginning, middle, and end of writing a paper
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Very excited to launch this new collaboration between our BRAID programme and the NEH! Apply by 20 March for funding for US-UK teams of humanities researchers on Responsible AI. Academics in RAI please share in your networks!
With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #funding
UK Research and Innovation
UKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system.
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January 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Very excited to launch this new collaboration between our BRAID programme and the NEH! Apply by 20 March for funding for US-UK teams of humanities researchers on Responsible AI. Academics in RAI please share in your networks!
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Come work with us at Penn State! 🐾🦁🐾 Please help us spread the word! #pennstate #datascience #ai #ica #nca #academicsky
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Social Scientist
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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December 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Come work with us at Penn State! 🐾🦁🐾 Please help us spread the word! #pennstate #datascience #ai #ica #nca #academicsky
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Basically the best things anyone could write about my book just dropped. Grateful to be a #PhilTech scholar working alongside folks like Robert Rosenberger, our current Society for Philosophy and Technology President.
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article...
The Problem of Technology and Disability
| Journal of Human-Technology Relations
journals.open.tudelft.nl
December 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Basically the best things anyone could write about my book just dropped. Grateful to be a #PhilTech scholar working alongside folks like Robert Rosenberger, our current Society for Philosophy and Technology President.
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article...
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Interested in how science, #tech, politics, and policy intersect? Apply for #4S2025 panel #16, Analyzing and Influencing Public Policy: #STS Intersections with Governance (I'm organizing w/Jason Delborne and Gwen Ottinger). Apply by January 31! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... #scipolicy #techpolicy
December 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Interested in how science, #tech, politics, and policy intersect? Apply for #4S2025 panel #16, Analyzing and Influencing Public Policy: #STS Intersections with Governance (I'm organizing w/Jason Delborne and Gwen Ottinger). Apply by January 31! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... #scipolicy #techpolicy
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2 new USC Annenberg #communication #academia #job postings:
1) TT (Asst/Assoc) in media industries & economics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
2) non-TT (Assoc) in public diplomacy: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
(I’m not on either hiring committee, just sharing.)
Please spread the word!
1) TT (Asst/Assoc) in media industries & economics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
2) non-TT (Assoc) in public diplomacy: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
(I’m not on either hiring committee, just sharing.)
Please spread the word!
Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication at USC
Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
December 20, 2024 at 1:51 AM
2 new USC Annenberg #communication #academia #job postings:
1) TT (Asst/Assoc) in media industries & economics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
2) non-TT (Assoc) in public diplomacy: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
(I’m not on either hiring committee, just sharing.)
Please spread the word!
1) TT (Asst/Assoc) in media industries & economics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
2) non-TT (Assoc) in public diplomacy: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
(I’m not on either hiring committee, just sharing.)
Please spread the word!
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Pleased to report the book of my dissertation on the #philosophy of #peerreview is coming out next week from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, just in time for the holidays! Featuring anonymity, trust, and variations on a theme of openness of review and access. brill.com/display/titl...
The Subjectivities and Objectivities of Peer Review
"The Subjectivities and Objectivities of Peer Review" published on 19 Dec 2024 by Brill.
brill.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Pleased to report the book of my dissertation on the #philosophy of #peerreview is coming out next week from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, just in time for the holidays! Featuring anonymity, trust, and variations on a theme of openness of review and access. brill.com/display/titl...
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The Annenberg School has uploaded a really good interesting history of Oscar Gandy's life and work. Oscar is simply one of my favourite people. It's very much focused on #communication rather than #surveillance, but there's a lot here for surveillance scholars too. www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...
Oral History of Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. (1944–)
Oral History of Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., recorded in 2019
www.asc.upenn.edu
December 11, 2024 at 11:16 PM
The Annenberg School has uploaded a really good interesting history of Oscar Gandy's life and work. Oscar is simply one of my favourite people. It's very much focused on #communication rather than #surveillance, but there's a lot here for surveillance scholars too. www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...
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The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
ojs.library.queensu.ca
December 9, 2024 at 8:24 PM
The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Super excited to have a short paper — "Critical Provocations for Synthetic Data"* (co-authored with Jeremy Seeman) — in this new Surveillance & Society dialogue!
*A little homage to @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social :)
*A little homage to @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social :)
We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess.
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
December 7, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Super excited to have a short paper — "Critical Provocations for Synthetic Data"* (co-authored with Jeremy Seeman) — in this new Surveillance & Society dialogue!
*A little homage to @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social :)
*A little homage to @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social :)
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Cornell's Center for DS for Enterprise and Society is hiring Assistant Research Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows! independent, 3-year, non-tenure track, working w/ Cornell mentors of your choice. Apply by Dec. 1 for full consideration datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/job-postings/
Job Postings – Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
datasciencecenter.cornell.edu
November 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Cornell's Center for DS for Enterprise and Society is hiring Assistant Research Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows! independent, 3-year, non-tenure track, working w/ Cornell mentors of your choice. Apply by Dec. 1 for full consideration datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/job-postings/
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We're looking for a new interdisciplinary PhD researcher to join the Centre for Technomoral Futures (w/ 4 yrs funding!), appointed to U of Edinburgh's Law School, working with Dr Emily Postan on the ethics of AI-constructed health categories. Details to apply here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...
Scholarships and funding | Edinburgh Law School
There are a range of scholarships and funding opportunities available to students applying to study for a research degree at Edinburgh Law School.
www.law.ed.ac.uk
November 11, 2023 at 6:10 PM
We're looking for a new interdisciplinary PhD researcher to join the Centre for Technomoral Futures (w/ 4 yrs funding!), appointed to U of Edinburgh's Law School, working with Dr Emily Postan on the ethics of AI-constructed health categories. Details to apply here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...
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We're hiring!
✅ Permanent employment
✅ Manageable teaching load
✅ Nice colleagues
✅ Surprisingly functional interdisciplinary environment
✅ All the benefits of living in a Scandinavian welfare state
#Sociology #AcademicSky
✅ Permanent employment
✅ Manageable teaching load
✅ Nice colleagues
✅ Surprisingly functional interdisciplinary environment
✅ All the benefits of living in a Scandinavian welfare state
#Sociology #AcademicSky
Associate professor in quantitative social science
Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students...
www.oslomet.no
November 10, 2023 at 3:20 PM
We're hiring!
✅ Permanent employment
✅ Manageable teaching load
✅ Nice colleagues
✅ Surprisingly functional interdisciplinary environment
✅ All the benefits of living in a Scandinavian welfare state
#Sociology #AcademicSky
✅ Permanent employment
✅ Manageable teaching load
✅ Nice colleagues
✅ Surprisingly functional interdisciplinary environment
✅ All the benefits of living in a Scandinavian welfare state
#Sociology #AcademicSky
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We're hiring at Associate prof level in the iSchool at UW-Madison. Topics are broad in Info Sci, can include ML/AI/NLP. We are as a dept always interested in "human factors" of information, computational social science, computational humanities. Energy around ?s of labor, youth, elderly lately.
Professor of Informational Sciences - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary:
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Information School seeks highly qualified candidates for up to two tenured positions in information sciences. These faculty positions will be acade...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 31, 2023 at 9:47 PM
We're hiring at Associate prof level in the iSchool at UW-Madison. Topics are broad in Info Sci, can include ML/AI/NLP. We are as a dept always interested in "human factors" of information, computational social science, computational humanities. Energy around ?s of labor, youth, elderly lately.
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I'm very happy we can finally announce this new initiative to fund AI-related research. It is part of a larger effort to make the case specifically for the importance of humanities research and the perspective it can bring to addressing contemporary issues. Please do spread the word.
The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI
Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
www.neh.gov
October 30, 2023 at 8:47 PM
I'm very happy we can finally announce this new initiative to fund AI-related research. It is part of a larger effort to make the case specifically for the importance of humanities research and the perspective it can bring to addressing contemporary issues. Please do spread the word.
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My department is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in Popular Culture and Media Studies. Please share among relevant networks. Thank you so much!
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October 25, 2023 at 10:23 PM
My department is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in Popular Culture and Media Studies. Please share among relevant networks. Thank you so much!
apply.interfolio.com/134148
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🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥
calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable
details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
reposts much appreciated 🙏
calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable
details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
reposts much appreciated 🙏
Young Digital Law Conference 2024: Conflicts & Communities in Digital Law
Call for papers (The deadline for submissions is the 19th January 2024)
www.sciencespo.fr
October 24, 2023 at 10:38 AM
🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥
calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable
details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
reposts much appreciated 🙏
calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable
details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
reposts much appreciated 🙏
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We wrote a thing: on the UK's AI Safety Summit, and the lessons we still need to learn from the history of safety engineering. TL/DR: AI safety is not a *technical* problem
#philtech #sts #philsky #histsci #AI&HCI #AIethics
braiduk.org/a-shrinking-...
#philtech #sts #philsky #histsci #AI&HCI #AIethics
braiduk.org/a-shrinking-...
A shrinking path to safety: how a narrowly technical approach to align AI with the public good could...
On September 4, the UK government announced plans to host the first global “AI Safety Summit” at historic Bletchley Park on the 1st and 2nd of November. The announcement made clear that the focus ...
braiduk.org
October 18, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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My Platform Transparency & the First Amendment article is finally and fully out!
It’s in the Journal of Free Speech Law and it is very very very timely for anyone weighing in on the Supreme Court’s review of TX and FL social media laws in NetChoice. 1/
www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller2.pdf
It’s in the Journal of Free Speech Law and it is very very very timely for anyone weighing in on the Supreme Court’s review of TX and FL social media laws in NetChoice. 1/
www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller2.pdf
October 18, 2023 at 12:18 PM
My Platform Transparency & the First Amendment article is finally and fully out!
It’s in the Journal of Free Speech Law and it is very very very timely for anyone weighing in on the Supreme Court’s review of TX and FL social media laws in NetChoice. 1/
www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller2.pdf
It’s in the Journal of Free Speech Law and it is very very very timely for anyone weighing in on the Supreme Court’s review of TX and FL social media laws in NetChoice. 1/
www.journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller2.pdf
When I write my tech manifesto it will be titled "Sending an Email Should Cost $1"
October 17, 2023 at 1:59 PM
When I write my tech manifesto it will be titled "Sending an Email Should Cost $1"
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Surveillance in an Age of Crisis: the 10th Biennial @SurvStudiesNet / @SurvSoc_Journal Conference #SSN2024, 28-31 May 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Deadline: 31st Dec 2023. #surveillance #datajustice #humanrights #privacy #security easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024
October 16, 2023 at 6:23 PM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Surveillance in an Age of Crisis: the 10th Biennial @SurvStudiesNet / @SurvSoc_Journal Conference #SSN2024, 28-31 May 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Deadline: 31st Dec 2023. #surveillance #datajustice #humanrights #privacy #security easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024