Kathy Reid (she/her)
@kathyreid.au
#PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data used for #ML. Contracts at @mozilla.org #CommonVoice
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
The inimitable @attacus.net has been in my bookshelf!
Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality.
My faves:
James C Scott - Seeing like a State
Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences
Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes
#pyconau
Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality.
My faves:
James C Scott - Seeing like a State
Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences
Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes
#pyconau
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The inimitable @attacus.net has been in my bookshelf!
Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality.
My faves:
James C Scott - Seeing like a State
Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences
Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes
#pyconau
Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality.
My faves:
James C Scott - Seeing like a State
Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences
Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes
#pyconau
At @pyconau.bsky.social #pyconau Dr Arwen Griffioen presents an anti-oppresive framework for #AI and #data ethics - red team your models for #bias, centre the voices of the people who are most likely to be harmed, monitor continuously, for distributional shift.
Use your privilege to push back.
Use your privilege to push back.
September 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
At @pyconau.bsky.social #pyconau Dr Arwen Griffioen presents an anti-oppresive framework for #AI and #data ethics - red team your models for #bias, centre the voices of the people who are most likely to be harmed, monitor continuously, for distributional shift.
Use your privilege to push back.
Use your privilege to push back.
On Friday I was delighted to attend the launch of @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI - in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social and @drwaus.bsky.social with introductions and framing from @lisagiven.bsky.social and Lizzie O'Shea.
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September 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
On Friday I was delighted to attend the launch of @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI - in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social and @drwaus.bsky.social with introductions and framing from @lisagiven.bsky.social and Lizzie O'Shea.
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With my @mozilla.org Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets. Better #AI requires better #data - authentic, human.
2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...
2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...
September 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
With my @mozilla.org Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets. Better #AI requires better #data - authentic, human.
2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...
2025.pycon.org.au/program/ZFWM...
So proud of my #ANU #Cybernetics alum, colleague and friend, Alison Kershaw, for winning the Unsung Hero of #SciComms Award at the recent #NationalScienceWeek launch at the South Australian Museum.
Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎
whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...
Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎
whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So proud of my #ANU #Cybernetics alum, colleague and friend, Alison Kershaw, for winning the Unsung Hero of #SciComms Award at the recent #NationalScienceWeek launch at the South Australian Museum.
Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎
whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...
Well done, Alison! You're a gem! 💎
whatson.samuseum.sa.gov.au/news/nationa...
NEW BOOK
EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE
THAT IS ALL
EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE
THAT IS ALL
May 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
NEW BOOK
EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE
THAT IS ALL
EXCUSE-MOI, I WILL BE READING FOR A WHILE
THAT IS ALL
This is Tim Tam, he passed over the Rainbow Bridge in September, as a baby corgi in 2014 xx
February 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is Tim Tam, he passed over the Rainbow Bridge in September, as a baby corgi in 2014 xx
One reflection I have on #USpol at the moment is that resistance is strongly bound to #infrastructure - the technical systems, data, access and so on that can enable or thwart Musk's coup d'etat.
The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?
The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?
February 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One reflection I have on #USpol at the moment is that resistance is strongly bound to #infrastructure - the technical systems, data, access and so on that can enable or thwart Musk's coup d'etat.
The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?
The #Fediverse tends to attract deeply technical types. Do acts of resistance vary by platform?
5.15am and 162 incidents on the Vic Emergency app - and it's going to be 38° C today. Worst storm we've had in decades.
#Geelong #VicStorms
#Geelong #VicStorms
February 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
5.15am and 162 incidents on the Vic Emergency app - and it's going to be 38° C today. Worst storm we've had in decades.
#Geelong #VicStorms
#Geelong #VicStorms
It's totally surreal, but not unexpected that a train station we stopped at - Dimboola - on the Overland to #Adelaide last week is now being evacuated due to #vicfires.
Every dam on the way through was nearly empty - the ground dry, parched and thirsty. Western Vic to Adelaide is a tinderbox.
Every dam on the way through was nearly empty - the ground dry, parched and thirsty. Western Vic to Adelaide is a tinderbox.
January 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
🌟 The late Liz Williamson's work - Weaving Eucalypts - was a global collaboration with artists in Bangladesh, India and Australia, using silk dyed with eucalyptus leaves. The installation resembles an arboretum, and highlights the importance of connecting to the real world.
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌟 The late Liz Williamson's work - Weaving Eucalypts - was a global collaboration with artists in Bangladesh, India and Australia, using silk dyed with eucalyptus leaves. The installation resembles an arboretum, and highlights the importance of connecting to the real world.
🌟 Don Dunstan's emblematic pink shorts - the act of wearing which was radical in its time, and symbolic of LGBTQI rights.
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌟 Don Dunstan's emblematic pink shorts - the act of wearing which was radical in its time, and symbolic of LGBTQI rights.
🌟 Future woven floral forms (black) 3 by GRACE LILLIAN LEE which wove culture with art, evoking the tension of constriction and freedom of inhabiting multiple cultures.
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌟 Future woven floral forms (black) 3 by GRACE LILLIAN LEE which wove culture with art, evoking the tension of constriction and freedom of inhabiting multiple cultures.
🌟 Refugee Astronaut by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, which explored themes of migration and adaptation - of both people and artefacts.
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌟 Refugee Astronaut by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, which explored themes of migration and adaptation - of both people and artefacts.
Age yourself with your first computer
January 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Age yourself with your first computer
January 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I am spending Boxing Day working on my @everythingopen.au #EO2025 talk on "Token Wars" and doing a little light reading to brush up.
Your attention is all I'll need 😉
#NLP
Your attention is all I'll need 😉
#NLP
December 26, 2024 at 2:34 AM
I am spending Boxing Day working on my @everythingopen.au #EO2025 talk on "Token Wars" and doing a little light reading to brush up.
Your attention is all I'll need 😉
#NLP
Your attention is all I'll need 😉
#NLP
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 4:14 AM
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 16, 2024 at 3:02 AM
The Mozilla #CommonVoice #speech #dataset v20 was released yesterday.
Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below.
observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...
Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below.
observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...
December 12, 2024 at 1:23 AM
The Mozilla #CommonVoice #speech #dataset v20 was released yesterday.
Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below.
observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...
Keep on reading for my observations from the #dataviz below.
observablehq.com/@kathyreid/m...
Delighted that my abstract "Token Wars: Why everything shouldn't be open" has been accepted to #EverythingOpen, happening in Tarntanya/Adelaide in January 🎉 💪
I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI.
Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au
I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI.
Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au
November 11, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Delighted that my abstract "Token Wars: Why everything shouldn't be open" has been accepted to #EverythingOpen, happening in Tarntanya/Adelaide in January 🎉 💪
I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI.
Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au
I'll be covering #tokenization, #transformers, and the fight for #data to tokenize into #GenerativeAI.
Tix: 2025.everythingopen.au
The @opensource.bsky.social released the #OpenSource #AI definition this week, stopping short of requiring that #datasets used for training AI models also be openly available.
The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches.
blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...
The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches.
blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...
November 2, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The @opensource.bsky.social released the #OpenSource #AI definition this week, stopping short of requiring that #datasets used for training AI models also be openly available.
The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches.
blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...
The OSI's decision now places on having better #DatasetDocumentation approaches.
blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/11/02/o...
#libraries, #galleries, #archives, #museums - #GLAM institutions preserve our cultural heritage, and have a key role in shaping our cultural #futures.
I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM
Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T
I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM
Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T
September 14, 2024 at 10:33 AM
#libraries, #galleries, #archives, #museums - #GLAM institutions preserve our cultural heritage, and have a key role in shaping our cultural #futures.
I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM
Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T
I'll be speaking at the Fantastic Futures 2024 Conference - #FF24 - at the #NFSA in October - about #AI and the future of #GLAM
Tix: bit.ly/4dgmB4T
