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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · May 8

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society

Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · May 8

✨a truly fantastic and insightful talk from Oksana Dorofeeva, who discussed her findings which highlight areas where machine learning specialists ascribe ethical significance - unpicking ethics, hype, and hierarchies of worth in ML practice

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 interested in how AI practitioners grapple with different, oft conflicting, sites of ethics in their practice? Come join us for this exciting in-person talk on May 7th, with Oksana Dorofeeva

👇🏻 Sign up here below

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The Place(s) Ascribed to Ethics in Narratives of Machine Learning Work

Join us for this talk exploring ethics in Machine Learning, and highlighting areas where ML specialists ascribe ethical significance

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Apr 10

✨👾 Get in touch if you’d like to join us for a critical discussion on normativities, medicine and algorithms!

Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info

We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Apr 10

Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏

Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 10

This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more

Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · Apr 9

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

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

🕺setting up for our Doctoral Colloquium in this fabulous Edinburgh Futures Institute room

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations

⬇️ sign up here:
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Between Dark and Green Silicon: Geographies of Cloud and Edge AI

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Feb 1

🚨🚨Two more days to submit an abstract to our 4S panel on care and repair in times of broken machines! The conference will be ✨ hybrid ✨ Share your work with us!

AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jan 13

🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

We hope for these conceptual tools to inform the fields AI ethics & Responsible Innovation, as a way to study how AI ethics principles are translated into the material processes of knowledge production, highlighting sites of epistemic injustice and potential for intervention 4/4

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

Building on David Beer, we introduce the concept of Representation Coils, looping effects with downstream implications where these assumptions concretise labour dynamics. RC help us understand how and where classifications of skill and intelligence are formed & maintained 3/4

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

Specifically, we look at the practical contexts of this classification and division of labour—the points of contact between AI practitioners and data workers—and illustrate how practitioners’ representations of data work can propagate the labour and power structures that support AI development. 2/4

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

We bring findings from our empirical study in dialogue with critical scholarship on AI and data work to explore the ways specific epistemic legacies and supply chains of labour shape AI practice & governance 1/4

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

📢 New publication out! 📢

Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 one more week to submit an abstract to STS Italia 🚨

If your work explores algorithmic transformations of care, consider submitting an abstract to our open panel ‘Re-ordering Care’ (panel 54). Deadline is February 3!

Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢 Thrilled to co-convene a panel on ‘Re-Ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice and Governance’ (panel 54) at the 2025 STS Italia 🌞
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts - STS Italia

Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...

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AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · Jan 13

🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 13

✨ This year, I’ll be co-convening a panel with my fantastic AIES peers on ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA). Submit an abstract 👉 www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Deadline is January 31!

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 9

Ooh this is on my reading list!

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STS-CH @sts-ch.bsky.social · Jan 9

Peeps! The call for Panels for the STS-CH Conference 2025 is now open! The conference titled “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique” will take place from Sept. 10–12, 2025 in Zurich and is being co-hosted by @ethzurich.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social.Join us!

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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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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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢 Thrilled to co-convene a panel on ‘Re-Ordering Care: Algorithmic Transformations of Medical Knowledge, Practice and Governance’ (panel 54) at the 2025 STS Italia 🌞
Submit an abstract 👉 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts - STS Italia

Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...

stsitalia.org

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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · Dec 11

AI hype is making AI researchers forget painfully learned lessons core to the field.

There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.

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Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social · Nov 29

#academicjobs BTW I’m looking for a postdoc to join our interdisciplinary “Performing AI” team in spring ‘25 for up to 4 years. Are you interested in Critical AI Studies? Please consider applying.

More information here 👉 human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news...

NB: This is NOT a remote position.

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’m very sorry for your loss, Shannon 💜

Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 24

Wrote a short reflection for 4S Backchannels on my experience as an STS researcher joining the teaching team of an undergrad core computer science course. Here, I discuss the politics of curriculum and ask how we can chart new paths towards reflexive socio-technical knowledge production:

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