No way! Keanu Reeves liked my post on Twitter from 2 years ago!!!! Never knew he was into sociotechnical imaginaries!
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
No way! Keanu Reeves liked my post on Twitter from 2 years ago!!!! Never knew he was into sociotechnical imaginaries!
The Holy Father, as well as being the candidate of the Holy Spirit, apparently thinks about the design of human values into sociotechnical systems
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Holy Father, as well as being the candidate of the Holy Spirit, apparently thinks about the design of human values into sociotechnical systems
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Yeah, it’s super goofed up!! We don’t have time for this.
I am hopeful that we can get more people to recognize the interrelatedness (I guess that’s part of why the word “sociotechnical” exists 😅) and expand imaginations through reframing stuff.
I am hopeful that we can get more people to recognize the interrelatedness (I guess that’s part of why the word “sociotechnical” exists 😅) and expand imaginations through reframing stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Yeah, it’s super goofed up!! We don’t have time for this.
I am hopeful that we can get more people to recognize the interrelatedness (I guess that’s part of why the word “sociotechnical” exists 😅) and expand imaginations through reframing stuff.
I am hopeful that we can get more people to recognize the interrelatedness (I guess that’s part of why the word “sociotechnical” exists 😅) and expand imaginations through reframing stuff.
🧪 Bahadur[+ agriculture.canada.ca 🍁] et al, 2020: How climatic and sociotechnical factors influence crop production:
a case study of canola production
TLDR? Understanding climatic and sociotechnical interactions is necessary to predict how climate change affects crop yield.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ac35mep
a case study of canola production
TLDR? Understanding climatic and sociotechnical interactions is necessary to predict how climate change affects crop yield.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ac35mep
How climatic and sociotechnical factors influence crop production: a case study of canola production - Discover Applied Sciences
In most climate change research, agricultural yields are explained as a function of climatic and biophysical factors such as soil, rainfall and temperature. However, the increased use of integrated se...
link.springer.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🧪 Bahadur[+ agriculture.canada.ca 🍁] et al, 2020: How climatic and sociotechnical factors influence crop production:
a case study of canola production
TLDR? Understanding climatic and sociotechnical interactions is necessary to predict how climate change affects crop yield.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ac35mep
a case study of canola production
TLDR? Understanding climatic and sociotechnical interactions is necessary to predict how climate change affects crop yield.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ac35mep
🚨 EvalEval is back - now in San Diego!🚨
🧠 Join us for the 2025 Workshop on "Evaluating AI in Practice Bridging Statistical Rigor, Sociotechnical Insights, and Ethical Boundaries" (Co-hosted with UKAISI)
📅 Dec 8, 2025
📝 Abstract due: Nov 20, 2025
Details below! ⬇️
evalevalai.com/events/works...
🧠 Join us for the 2025 Workshop on "Evaluating AI in Practice Bridging Statistical Rigor, Sociotechnical Insights, and Ethical Boundaries" (Co-hosted with UKAISI)
📅 Dec 8, 2025
📝 Abstract due: Nov 20, 2025
Details below! ⬇️
evalevalai.com/events/works...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🚨 EvalEval is back - now in San Diego!🚨
🧠 Join us for the 2025 Workshop on "Evaluating AI in Practice Bridging Statistical Rigor, Sociotechnical Insights, and Ethical Boundaries" (Co-hosted with UKAISI)
📅 Dec 8, 2025
📝 Abstract due: Nov 20, 2025
Details below! ⬇️
evalevalai.com/events/works...
🧠 Join us for the 2025 Workshop on "Evaluating AI in Practice Bridging Statistical Rigor, Sociotechnical Insights, and Ethical Boundaries" (Co-hosted with UKAISI)
📅 Dec 8, 2025
📝 Abstract due: Nov 20, 2025
Details below! ⬇️
evalevalai.com/events/works...
Hypothesis: Because "sociotechnical architecture" is necessary, but no way near sufficient? That sociotechnical is about the social being at least equally important as the technical. Conway is just a signal, an eye-opener to the real problem that is joint optimisation of the two.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hypothesis: Because "sociotechnical architecture" is necessary, but no way near sufficient? That sociotechnical is about the social being at least equally important as the technical. Conway is just a signal, an eye-opener to the real problem that is joint optimisation of the two.
The new State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) published by the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is out! I am one of the 58 contributors, with a short essay on yet another reason to question the use of AI in monitoring/harming gender minorities in the US. Available open access: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-7-...
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The new State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) published by the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is out! I am one of the 58 contributors, with a short essay on yet another reason to question the use of AI in monitoring/harming gender minorities in the US. Available open access: montrealethics.ai/saier-vol-7-...
Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.
I just… i hate this sociotechnical and -political paradigm, so, so much.
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"If there were adults in the room and I could trust the federal government to impose the right standards, it wouldn't be such a great concern, but it just doesn't seem feasible."
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I just… i hate this sociotechnical and -political paradigm, so, so much.
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About a year ago I wrote "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" in which i warned that pressures of publish or perish coupled with an increased push to accept "generative AI" in the academic milieu would lead to people using "gen AI" to make up research they never actually conducted. So.
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Thus, it is in atmospheres and tendencies such as these, and incidents like the one described and experienced by Rua Williams, where we can observe the contributing factors that have led an increasing number of scholars to use GPT tools to translate, revise, or wholly write the articles that they submit to peer review. Scholars under pressure to publish or perform or otherwise live up to the perceived expectations of their discipline are willing to, at the very least, run their hard-won knowledge through systems that do not and, as shaped, cannot truly understand what they are being asked to process. The sociotechnical paradigms of these new technologies are often situated in a hypothetical space where the technology is perceived as neutral. At “best,” this results in scholars trying to “get out ahead” of the technology, seeking ways to integrate it into their work or field of research, even where it does not fit. [See Footnote 8.] At worst, this high-pressure adversarial relationship may lead to scholars using this technology to write papers or generate “research” whole cloth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreihqsqtsidkm7nbj4pzpd7i2zqqpalkkofw7fvg6grw4rhmpx2gmm4@jpeg)
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[Footnote] 8. Emanuel Maiberg, “Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text.” 404 Media. March 18, 2024. www.404media.co/scientific-journals-are-publishing-papers-with-ai-generated-text](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreibt4eis3l6jybgea3cqvux4haup7ayuf5hhkuuxn77brvgbftlg2e@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
About a year ago I wrote "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" in which i warned that pressures of publish or perish coupled with an increased push to accept "generative AI" in the academic milieu would lead to people using "gen AI" to make up research they never actually conducted. So.
The Dutch Modern Sociotechnical community lost one of their great inspirators, Jac Christis. Jac, we will miss your inspiration. The Bridges Community will spend time to remember his impact, this Friday. If you want to be party of this webinar, register at bridges5-0.eu/events/
Events - Bridges 5.0
bridges5-0.eu
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Dutch Modern Sociotechnical community lost one of their great inspirators, Jac Christis. Jac, we will miss your inspiration. The Bridges Community will spend time to remember his impact, this Friday. If you want to be party of this webinar, register at bridges5-0.eu/events/
JOB: Assistant professor in Technology and Social Change to work with new Nuclear Futures research group (cultural, sociotechnical, environmental, and political issues related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste), Linköping, Sweden
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#envhist #envhum #nuclear
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#envhist #envhum #nuclear
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB: Assistant professor in Technology and Social Change to work with new Nuclear Futures research group (cultural, sociotechnical, environmental, and political issues related to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste), Linköping, Sweden
liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#envhist #envhum #nuclear
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#envhist #envhum #nuclear
For our last Thursday Reading Group, @taniseceron.bsky.social presented "Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by A. D. Lindström et al. (2025)
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NLProc
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NLProc
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
For our last Thursday Reading Group, @taniseceron.bsky.social presented "Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by A. D. Lindström et al. (2025)
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NLProc
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NLProc
Beyond characterization of modeling implications, we argue that fairness (as well as related concepts such as equity or justice) is best understood not as a property of a model, but rather as a property of a policy or intervention that leverages the model in a specific sociotechnical context.
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Beyond characterization of modeling implications, we argue that fairness (as well as related concepts such as equity or justice) is best understood not as a property of a model, but rather as a property of a policy or intervention that leverages the model in a specific sociotechnical context.
Oh here it is
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October 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Oh here it is
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The nix community is in a constant state of sociotechnical civil war.
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The nix community is in a constant state of sociotechnical civil war.
New 📚 Release! Push to Prod or Die Trying: High-Scale Systems, Production Incidents, and Big Tech Chaos by Matthew Hawthorne
Build high-volume systems.
Thrive through sociotechnical challenges.
Survive gruesome production incidents.
Find it on Leanpub!
Link: leanpub.com/pushtoprodor...
#books
Build high-volume systems.
Thrive through sociotechnical challenges.
Survive gruesome production incidents.
Find it on Leanpub!
Link: leanpub.com/pushtoprodor...
#books
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
New 📚 Release! Push to Prod or Die Trying: High-Scale Systems, Production Incidents, and Big Tech Chaos by Matthew Hawthorne
Build high-volume systems.
Thrive through sociotechnical challenges.
Survive gruesome production incidents.
Find it on Leanpub!
Link: leanpub.com/pushtoprodor...
#books
Build high-volume systems.
Thrive through sociotechnical challenges.
Survive gruesome production incidents.
Find it on Leanpub!
Link: leanpub.com/pushtoprodor...
#books
Private learning is a sociotechnical problem, but like 85% social/organizational
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Private learning is a sociotechnical problem, but like 85% social/organizational
I am delighted to find that my paper is the "most read" at the Journal of Marketing Management.
"Disinformation and fake news as externalities of digital advertising: a close reading of sociotechnical imaginaries in programmatic advertising" by Carlos Diaz Ruiz.
It is Open Access, so go ahead!
"Disinformation and fake news as externalities of digital advertising: a close reading of sociotechnical imaginaries in programmatic advertising" by Carlos Diaz Ruiz.
It is Open Access, so go ahead!
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I am delighted to find that my paper is the "most read" at the Journal of Marketing Management.
"Disinformation and fake news as externalities of digital advertising: a close reading of sociotechnical imaginaries in programmatic advertising" by Carlos Diaz Ruiz.
It is Open Access, so go ahead!
"Disinformation and fake news as externalities of digital advertising: a close reading of sociotechnical imaginaries in programmatic advertising" by Carlos Diaz Ruiz.
It is Open Access, so go ahead!
For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, @ginasue.bsky.social discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For the #CSCW2025 closing keynote, @ginasue.bsky.social discusses the myth of automation: automation uncovers and foregrounds current sociotechnical configurations. Technological innovation doesn't happen overnight, it's negotiated by people on the ground over time.
I look forward to returning to Berlin and the wonderful #KanDDDinsky conference this week. Really happy to be able to speak there again. I will challenge the approach many companies have to agile transformations
#systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign
#systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I look forward to returning to Berlin and the wonderful #KanDDDinsky conference this week. Really happy to be able to speak there again. I will challenge the approach many companies have to agile transformations
#systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign
#systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign
🎉We're back from #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana!
"Are AI detection tools effective? TRIED puts them to the test."
With Zuzanna Wojciak, exploring lessons from the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force & a sociotechnical take on detection.
23 Oct|14:30-15:30
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Are AI detection tools effective? TRIED puts them to the test."
With Zuzanna Wojciak, exploring lessons from the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force & a sociotechnical take on detection.
23 Oct|14:30-15:30
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎉We're back from #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana!
"Are AI detection tools effective? TRIED puts them to the test."
With Zuzanna Wojciak, exploring lessons from the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force & a sociotechnical take on detection.
23 Oct|14:30-15:30
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Are AI detection tools effective? TRIED puts them to the test."
With Zuzanna Wojciak, exploring lessons from the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force & a sociotechnical take on detection.
23 Oct|14:30-15:30
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
True resilience means correlates with adaptive capacity: designing for uncertainty, understanding how failures propagate, and building sociotechnical systems that can absorb shocks and recover gracefully.
Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice
Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice [Rosenthal, Casey, Jones, Nora] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice
amzn.to
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
True resilience means correlates with adaptive capacity: designing for uncertainty, understanding how failures propagate, and building sociotechnical systems that can absorb shocks and recover gracefully.
On May 27, also at Cnam, Devika Narayan (@devikanarayan.bsky.social, University of Bristol) will discuss the material practices of technological acceleration, drawing on a sociotechnical analysis of computing infrastructure and an industrial political economy perspective on the tech sector 🖥️
ABOUT | devikanarayan
www.devikanarayan.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
On May 27, also at Cnam, Devika Narayan (@devikanarayan.bsky.social, University of Bristol) will discuss the material practices of technological acceleration, drawing on a sociotechnical analysis of computing infrastructure and an industrial political economy perspective on the tech sector 🖥️