Nicola Osborne (they/she)
@suchprettyeyes.bsky.social
Manager of the Institute for Design Informatics, Programme Manager for Creative Informatics, Board of The Space, Humanities & Data Science group of The Turing Institute, CODI regular. Interested in all things creative and data. Views my own.
Delighted to be at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social today with our #DesigningResponsibleNLPCDT sharing our brilliant students work as part of Doors Open Day!
September 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Delighted to be at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social today with our #DesigningResponsibleNLPCDT sharing our brilliant students work as part of Doors Open Day!
Join me at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social at @edfringe.bsky.social for my #theprovocateurs2025 show, No Location, No Location, No Location! exploring the R&D possibilities of virtual production!
Book now for 4th Aug: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
13th August: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...
Book now for 4th Aug: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
13th August: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...
July 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Join me at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social at @edfringe.bsky.social for my #theprovocateurs2025 show, No Location, No Location, No Location! exploring the R&D possibilities of virtual production!
Book now for 4th Aug: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
13th August: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...
Book now for 4th Aug: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
13th August: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2551/...
Wonderful to be in Glasgow for the (I think) final #CreativeInformatics supported event, @scottishaialliance.bsky.social’s “AI Can’t Write Symphonies and Neither Can You”. Fab opening talks from Lily Higham and Jess Aslan so far! Looking forward to the exhibition www.scottishai.com/ai-cant-writ...
June 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Wonderful to be in Glasgow for the (I think) final #CreativeInformatics supported event, @scottishaialliance.bsky.social’s “AI Can’t Write Symphonies and Neither Can You”. Fab opening talks from Lily Higham and Jess Aslan so far! Looking forward to the exhibition www.scottishai.com/ai-cant-writ...
It was wonderful to be at The Lowry today for the @braiduk.bsky.social Community Gathering - celebrating 3 brilliant years of the project so far, and three more exciting years ahead! Just a wonderful collection of people doing important and diverse arts and humanities framed #ResponsibleAI research
June 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It was wonderful to be at The Lowry today for the @braiduk.bsky.social Community Gathering - celebrating 3 brilliant years of the project so far, and three more exciting years ahead! Just a wonderful collection of people doing important and diverse arts and humanities framed #ResponsibleAI research
We are delighted to be welcoming industry partners, students and supervisors to our UKRI Designing Responsible NLP CDT and UKRI NLP CDT Partner Summit today to talk Trustworthy and Responsible Natural Language Processing! We are kicking off with a keynote from Fred Langford of @ofcom.bsky.social.
June 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We are delighted to be welcoming industry partners, students and supervisors to our UKRI Designing Responsible NLP CDT and UKRI NLP CDT Partner Summit today to talk Trustworthy and Responsible Natural Language Processing! We are kicking off with a keynote from Fred Langford of @ofcom.bsky.social.
Delighted to be in Rotterdam at #TheaterZuidplein for our #ekip Policy Lab on Inclusivity in the Video Games Industry
May 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to be in Rotterdam at #TheaterZuidplein for our #ekip Policy Lab on Inclusivity in the Video Games Industry
Had a great time today exploring our brilliant @designinf.bsky.social student exhibition ‘Design, Data & Beyond’ @inspacegallery.bsky.social, part of #edscifest, with my 7yr old scientific assistant. Open today until 5pm, and tomorrow (Monday 7th), 10am to 5pm
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Had a great time today exploring our brilliant @designinf.bsky.social student exhibition ‘Design, Data & Beyond’ @inspacegallery.bsky.social, part of #edscifest, with my 7yr old scientific assistant. Open today until 5pm, and tomorrow (Monday 7th), 10am to 5pm
Thrilled to be at @melissaterras.bsky.social’s @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Inaugural lecture this evening, entitled Why Digital Innovation Needs Art Schools: observations, Priorities, Opportunities
March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Thrilled to be at @melissaterras.bsky.social’s @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Inaugural lecture this evening, entitled Why Digital Innovation Needs Art Schools: observations, Priorities, Opportunities
Fascinating to hear from Ananda Rutherford from @anandarutherford.bsky.social about decolonialising museums metadata - and the potential for machine learning to play a role in this at todays @braiduk.bsky.social x @designinf.bsky.social webinar
(this slide very much setting up what the problem is!)
(this slide very much setting up what the problem is!)
March 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fascinating to hear from Ananda Rutherford from @anandarutherford.bsky.social about decolonialising museums metadata - and the potential for machine learning to play a role in this at todays @braiduk.bsky.social x @designinf.bsky.social webinar
(this slide very much setting up what the problem is!)
(this slide very much setting up what the problem is!)
Fantastic to be at Waters Edge in Dundee for the launch of CoSTAR Realtime Lab #costarnetwork, which I’m enormously proud to be part of. And incredible to see our launch film demonstrating virtual production in our new studio space for a huge audience from across the Scottish screen and games sector
February 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fantastic to be at Waters Edge in Dundee for the launch of CoSTAR Realtime Lab #costarnetwork, which I’m enormously proud to be part of. And incredible to see our launch film demonstrating virtual production in our new studio space for a huge audience from across the Scottish screen and games sector
It was great to be @houseofcommons.parliament.uk today for the launch of the Royal Anniversary Trust’s report: Createch: How the fusion of emerging technologies and the Creative Industries can transform the UK’s approach to skills, innovation and business royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/wp-content/u...
February 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It was great to be @houseofcommons.parliament.uk today for the launch of the Royal Anniversary Trust’s report: Createch: How the fusion of emerging technologies and the Creative Industries can transform the UK’s approach to skills, innovation and business royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Delighted to be at Edinburgh University Digital Research Conference with @suzannerblack.bsky.social and Louise Connelly to present on impact of unexpected AI in online research and how our research ethics need a rethink. Paper for RECs coming soon, paper for researcher here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Delighted to be at Edinburgh University Digital Research Conference with @suzannerblack.bsky.social and Louise Connelly to present on impact of unexpected AI in online research and how our research ethics need a rethink. Paper for RECs coming soon, paper for researcher here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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December 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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For the next few days (wearing my #CoSTAR hat) I’m in Salford, Greater Manchester for @beyondconference.org. Do say hi if you are around and want to grab a coffee and a chat between sessions!
November 25, 2024 at 11:57 PM
For the next few days (wearing my #CoSTAR hat) I’m in Salford, Greater Manchester for @beyondconference.org. Do say hi if you are around and want to grab a coffee and a chat between sessions!
Headed to the last day of @aoir.bsky.social - always a very intense but incredibly useful week of discovery, connection and sharing. Delighted to have been able to come this year and to have lots of chats with people about our work on ai bot infiltration of research: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
November 2, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Headed to the last day of @aoir.bsky.social - always a very intense but incredibly useful week of discovery, connection and sharing. Delighted to have been able to come this year and to have lots of chats with people about our work on ai bot infiltration of research: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
In the very grand Sheffield City Hall for this evenings @aoir.bsky.social opening keynote after a busy day: a great ethics workshop this morning; then co-facilitating our #ekip Open Innovation Factory on Immersive Technology from my hotel; and now to hear from Dr Seeta Pena Gangadharan!
October 30, 2024 at 5:47 PM
In the very grand Sheffield City Hall for this evenings @aoir.bsky.social opening keynote after a busy day: a great ethics workshop this morning; then co-facilitating our #ekip Open Innovation Factory on Immersive Technology from my hotel; and now to hear from Dr Seeta Pena Gangadharan!
Thank you to all who joined us for a really brilliant #doorsopendays at @designinf.bsky.social Inspace today! We saw 129 people of all ages and backgrounds and were so pleased to share our space and work with them as part of their tour of Informatics and The Bayes Centre.
September 29, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Thank you to all who joined us for a really brilliant #doorsopendays at @designinf.bsky.social Inspace today! We saw 129 people of all ages and backgrounds and were so pleased to share our space and work with them as part of their tour of Informatics and The Bayes Centre.
Delighted that @designinf.bsky.social Inspace is part of #DoorsOpenDay again this year. We are part of the University of Edinburgh Informatics and Bayes Centre tours, but you can also pop in today between now and mid-afternoon and hear about IDI and see some of our projects.
September 29, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Delighted that @designinf.bsky.social Inspace is part of #DoorsOpenDay again this year. We are part of the University of Edinburgh Informatics and Bayes Centre tours, but you can also pop in today between now and mid-afternoon and hear about IDI and see some of our projects.
Delighted to have my copy of @newsprof1.bsky.social, @martinscott2010.bsky.social and Mel Bunce’s excellent (so far, it only just arrived but I’ve sped through the opening chapter) “Capturing News, Capturing Democracy” on VOA under Trump. Very timely reading (paging @onthemedia.bsky.social!)
September 25, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Delighted to have my copy of @newsprof1.bsky.social, @martinscott2010.bsky.social and Mel Bunce’s excellent (so far, it only just arrived but I’ve sped through the opening chapter) “Capturing News, Capturing Democracy” on VOA under Trump. Very timely reading (paging @onthemedia.bsky.social!)
I beg to differ…
September 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I beg to differ…
The Edinburgh Futures Institute was looking absolutely gorgeous in the sunshine as I walked in to be part of the official induction of our first cohort of Designing Responsible NLP PhD students! I’m hugely excited to see their work develop over the next few years!
September 11, 2024 at 7:44 PM
The Edinburgh Futures Institute was looking absolutely gorgeous in the sunshine as I walked in to be part of the official induction of our first cohort of Designing Responsible NLP PhD students! I’m hugely excited to see their work develop over the next few years!