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Dr Lachlan Urquhart

@mooseabyte.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans. .. more

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

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Anushka @fencesitter8.bsky.social · Apr 17

(another) ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Gikii is coming to Amsterdam this fall!
If you ever thought about Transformers (the plug, the movies) and Transformation (Polanyian, among others) in the same space (outer or inner) then this is the right time and the right place!
Do apply!
www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...

Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP

GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

🔥the second panel was a candid conversation about building careers in turbulent times - reflecting on nonlinearity, precarity and the role of values in our career trajectories, with inspiring panellists @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Pushpi Bagchi and @mooseabyte.bsky.social and chaired by Aditi Surana

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...

PhD Project/ AI Governance in Healthcare Interviews - Bhargavi Ganesh

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Dec 10

Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions!

more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...

#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology

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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · Dec 6

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...

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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · Dec 3

Our new paper on the "Right to Repair Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things" from NORDICHI, Uppsala last month dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... + a blog post from some of our team about our time there in Sweden ftf.wp.horizon.ac.uk/2024/11/28/f...

The Right to Repair (R2R) Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things. | Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Nov 29

Notable Privacy and Security Books in 2024
teachprivacy.com/notable-priv... #privacy #cybersecurity #datasecurity #AI

Notable Privacy and Security Books 2024

Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2024. To see a more comprehensive list of nonfiction works about privacy and security for all

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Nov 26

First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

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bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · Nov 26

bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · Nov 22

The future is uncertain for Gaelic and most of the world’s minority languages. How might cutting-edge language technologies influence their survival?

Join our colleagues at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures for Professor Will Lamb's Inaugural Lecture!

🎟️ Tickets: edin.ac/41f8TMD

A dark blue background with a photo of Scottish mountains. A matrix evoking technology and connection is laid over the mountains, tracing their peaks. There is text with the event details:
Title - "Inaugural Lectures: Could Artificial Intelligence save Scottish Gaelic?"
Blurb - "Celebrating the appointment of Will Lamb as Personal Chair in Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics"
Date and time: 4 December 2024, 5:15pm - 6:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square

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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works · Nov 21

Here is a preprint of "From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft" - reflecting the last year of prompt hacking for the Shadowplay project (see designresearch.works/tags/?tag=sh...) and its related Cardshark project. Get it here: doi.org/10.48550/arX.... It will be presented here: tei.acm.org/2025/

From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Craft

This pictorial presents an ongoing research programme comprising three practice-based Design Research projects conducted through 2024, exploring the affordances of diffusion-based AI image generation ...

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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · Nov 19

Did you ever try Mackmyra’s Intelligens AI whisky? Similar idea! We’ll need to sample for research purposes of course… www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/mac...

Mackmyra Intelligens - AI:02 Whisky 70cl

This is the second release in the Mackmyra Intelligens series, which has been created using artificial intelligence under supervision of Mackmyra master blender Angela D'Orazio.

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Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social · Nov 18

Job Posting: One week to go. You can apply for our Assistant Professorship in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law) until midnight on the 24th of November. Full details at: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Assistant Professor in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law)

Assistant Professor in Law (Data, AI and/or Technology Law), , LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university...

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Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social · Nov 16

The sixth edition of the Natural Legal Language Processing workshop is live on YT! Join the NLP community that was doing impressive research on LLMs before they were cool

www.youtube.com/live/tHM__C0...

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · Nov 16

"this is fine"

British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

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Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social · Nov 15

Consider applying to our CDT in Designing Responsible NLP at Edinburgh Uni - funded PhD studentships starting in Sept 2025 - 9th Jan deadline! These are great interdisciplinary PhD opportunities
🔗 www.responsiblenlp.org

The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world NLP is based at the University of Edinburgh. Applications are now open for funded PhD studentships starting as part of the September 2025 cohort. Our deadline is 9th January 2025.

www.responsiblenlp.org

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · Nov 15

My short Note on the AI Act and copyright has now been published.

The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act and copyright

The European Union's (EU's) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), published on 12 July 2024, seeks to establish a consistent legal framework for AI systems within the EU, promoting trustworthy and hu...

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