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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 4d

Two requests to review for palliative care journals in two weeks. I am interdisciplinary but palliative care is not one of my ticks. Does not compute, or does it?

Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot wait for 2035! www.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2436835

(Though I am wondering if there is a way of skipping the ten years before that...).

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 6d

We all need to know where the fastness of science comes from and that just around the corner is the school of gin and tonics.....

Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 11d

www.dejongeakademie.nl/communities/...

If you are allowed to vote please do.

Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · 11d

Imagine you worked and lived there and weren't able to vote because you still value your original citizenship...

In case in doubt: www.dejongeakademie.nl

Graphic showing education and research related position of Dutch political parties

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 7

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Aug 8

PAPER ALERT! "From remote monitoring to local action" short commentary piece in Nature Cities co-authored by Karin Pfeffer & me. Reflecting on advances in scaling the mapping deprived urban areas with earth observation. We need #CriticalRemoteSensing and local engagement. Link -> rdcu.be/ezRK8

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Jun 12

Teaching myself how to teach ethics, I learned case studies are a powerful tool. But really, wtf - a refugee chatbot to teach you in a sanitised way about ethics in the field? There is so much wrong with this that even starting the project probably should not have passed ethics review. #Ai4Good ?

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · May 15

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming

Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”

just fucking shoot me

Through the case study report, "Ask Amina" and "Ask Abdalla" – experimental agents representing a refugee in Chad and a combatant in Sudan – participants will gain insights into how these technologies might transform field operations while navigating complex ethical terrain. The workshop will address critical questions about representation, power dynamics and data rights. Participants will:

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · May 26

Turns out transparency and explainability are probably not going to be protecting us from unfair automated systems. Interesting research into what happens when you explain how an algorithm makes decisions to users - they find it even harder to spot problems: www.fca.org.uk/publication/...

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · Mar 25

I'm on 🟥 strike 🟥 today with my colleagues and students at the University of Twente to fight against the Dutch government's cuts to the higher education budget ✊

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Mar 20

Are you interested in Humanitarian Engineering a possible Masters Programme - if so why not come (online) and test if this new Masters programme @utwente.bsky.social. is for you Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... the taster lesson is 10-Apr-2025 so sign up quick. @mnagenborg.bsky.social

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Mar 10

#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 Complementing Steven Vertovec's social organisation of difference framework with a focus on techno-material entanglements will propel research into urban difference and diversity.Article by @tilmannheil.bsky.social @fmeissner.bsky.social Nikolaus Vertovec: buff.ly/g6dUQt5

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Mar 7

#NEW Article Alert 📢Discussing #Urban #Diversity and its techno-material entanglements in light of Social Organisation of Difference ➡️ need for collaborations social and engineering sciences. Why? Read here: www.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2469694 @tilmannheil.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference

Vertovec’s social organisation of difference framework links three research areas. They study difference and its social importance: encounters, representations, and structural configurations. This ...

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Feb 13

Great for teaching ideas too! Developed together with @cryopolitics.com Craig Dalton Stefano Calzati @andreaschbraun.bsky.social Isaac Oluoch Jaime Paneque-Gálvez Naomi Millner. Input from @mnagenborg.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social and many more! Co-Mastermind: Brad Hillas @utwente.bsky.social

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Feb 13

Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Jan 29

Two chapters I co-authored for our #OxfordHandbook of #Superdiversity are now open access. Intro: Superdiversity and Complex Social Transformations research.utwente.nl/files/480240... & Afterword: Superdiversity Futures research.utwente.nl/files/480240... @nandosigona.bsky.social #StevenVertovec

Book cover Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity, Cover picture shows a beige background picture of complex networks against a blurry background that looks a bit like a crowd of people, in the right top corner it lists the book editors. Bottom of cover has a black banner with the book title. T

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Jan 29

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Jan 28

Happy data privacy / protection day.

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Jan 7

Gist of #UDIWritersCollective chapter: Urban Digital Infrastructures risk marginalisation they also privilege some over others in ways that remain understudied. Just like gentrification, uncapped this may quickly deepen urban divides = call for more research! @fennaimara.bsky.social

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Jan 7

Chapter on #Urban #DigialInfrastrutures and the reproduction of #privilege is out! Publishing it as a writers collective acknowledging that our expert informants made the chapter possible. Convincing the publisher of this was harder than writing the chapter! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Urban Digital Infrastructuring and the (re)production of Privilege

A global digital and data revolution governs future urban strategies and profoundly influences the infrastructures built in cities. Numerous digital urban infrastructures remain hidden to city dweller...

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Dec 3

Friday was the book launch of the 2nd Ed. Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (@williamlallen.bsky.social & @cvar-sil.bsky.social) featuring a chapter on Migration Research Ethics and large scale data written by @linnetelwin.bsky.social and myself. Article: doi.org/10.4337/9781... (OA soon).

Book Launch: Handbook of Research Methods in Migration | COMPAS

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Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · Nov 29

For those interested in research around #AIpolicy and #AIaccountability, @theaial.bsky.social are currently hiring PostDoc and PhD positions in these areas 👇🏼

aial.ie/pages/hiring/

Hiring

Post-doctoral research fellow x2 The AIAL is seeking two full-time post-doctoral fellows to work with Dr. Abeba Birhane and other lab members in 1) policy translation and 2) AI evaluation, both under ...

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Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social · Nov 29

@mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy