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AI Ethics & Society
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AI Ethics and Society is a network of researchers investigating the ethico-political implications of data-driven tech - more at www.ai-ethics.org
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✨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!

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Data-Driven Healthcare
Empirical encounters with computational 'intelligence'
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November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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alice-ross.bsky.social
Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
Three smiling people (l-r: Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Alice Ross (me!) and Dr. Oliver Haimson) standing in front of a colourful screen displaying the title 'Panel Discussion' A photo of buildings at George Square, The University of Edinburgh, with text overlaid on a bright green background. The text is the title of last week's event, Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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kevinguyan.bsky.social
Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥

Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.

🗓️ 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
A poster for the Gender and the Machine event on 20 November 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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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haimson.bsky.social
Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!

Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!

Register here: 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
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November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Grateful to the organisers @velocitygravity.bsky.social Ans Sona Gachayeva at @stir.ac.uk and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the opportunity to pre-launch the book 𝑨𝑰 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 and exchange with academics and authors on the challenges that AI brings to universities
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 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
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November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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kevinguyan.bsky.social
📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE

Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.

🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

#data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer
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November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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kevinguyan.bsky.social
🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.

Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.

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 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE!

Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception

⬇️ sign up

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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
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November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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📣 Come join us on Nov 7th for the launch of the European Trade Union Institute’s new book on AI in Higher Education and Research, edited by @aida.follows.technology who will join us for a book talk! Followed by a fascinating discussion chaired by Dr Sona Gacheyeva

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Book Launch: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and Research
Join us in Stirling for a book launch of Dr Ponce Del Castillo's forthcoming edited book on AI in Higher Education!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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✨ Join us Oct 22nd for Beren Sekerci's talk exploring material agency and hybridity in biohybrid robotics - artifacts which are neither fully living nor fully robotic, designed by both AI and humans

⬇️ Find out more and sign up below!
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"A New Class of Artifact?"
Exploring Hybridity and Intersecting Agencies in Biohybrid Robotics with Beren Sekerci
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October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Join us in-person for a guided discussion on fine-tuning LLMs with Lara Dal Molin. In this hands-on session, you can interact with the base version of the model before fine-tuning, discussing the ethical dimensions and shortcomings of fine-tuning

🗓️ 10th Oct, 4-5.30pm
⬇️ sign up:

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Fine-Tuning as Repair? Discussing and Testing a Large Language Model
Join us for a discussion on the practice of fine-tuning Large Language Models and test a model fine-tuned on Edinburgh-based perspectives!
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October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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srravya.bsky.social
if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
👀another fascinating event on Friday discussing how metaphors shape our understanding of AI, thus direct design, development and implementation with real-world impacts
Thanks for the thought-proving talks and discussion @velocitygravity.bsky.social, Audrey Borowski, and Oksana Dorofeeva
June 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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meg-fereday.bsky.social
got a room full of people laughing about network graphs last week at the @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase - who knew!

Thanks to @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social and all my co-presenters for a fantastic evening ☺️

📸Daniel McGowan Photography
Meg (they/them) is standing at a lectern looking down at their notes and laughing. They're wearing a short-sleeved black turtleneck and iridescent-pink blue jeans. Behind them is a PowerPoint slide showing a close-up of some network graph data. A person with mid-length turquoise hair sits in front of the camera to the left of Meg, watching their presentation.
June 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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✨inspired and energised by our wonderful speakers at the Queer Data Showcase, hosted by fantastic @mystikaglamoor.bsky.social, supported by @prideinstem.bsky.social, and co-organised by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and yours truly @sj-bennett.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @srravya.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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rebelraising.bsky.social
I am at this event right now and it's fucking incredible.
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23
✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻
kevinguyan.bsky.social Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23
TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the Queer Data Showcase!

🗓️ Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Pleasance, Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Grab your ticket now: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
June 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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velocitygravity.bsky.social
Queer Data Showcase has started! Massively excited about this @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social x Gender & Sexuality Lab collab.

@sj-bennett.bsky.social
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
@srravya.bsky.social
@meg-fereday.bsky.social
@mystikaglamoor.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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meg-fereday.bsky.social
en route Edinburgh to share my work on ✨neuroqueer network analysis✨ at @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social Queer Data Showcase tomorrow night!

Tickets here 👇
www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
June 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
✨only a week until this awesome panel discussing the role of mythmaking and metaphors in shaping AI, with @velocitygravity.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski!!

Still a couple of places left, you can sign up below 👇🏻
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 16
🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A

🖊️ sign up:
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Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future
All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!
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May 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
🔥only a week and a half until this, where’s it’s the time to!! We still have a few tickets left, sign up below 👇🏻
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23
✨we are excited to co-host the Queer Data Showcase in June - with performances and presentations from artists, comedians, musicians and academics!! Sign up at the link below 👇🏻
kevinguyan.bsky.social Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · Apr 23
TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE for the Queer Data Showcase!

🗓️ Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Pleasance, Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

Grab your ticket now: www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
May 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A

🖊️ sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-me...
Digital Metaphors and Algorithmic Myths in the Past, Present, and Future
All welcome to our event with Audrey Borowski and Vassilis Galanos on the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary digital culture!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
aies-edinburgh.bsky.social
✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice
May 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva

👇🏻 Sign up here below

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The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work
Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance
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April 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM