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/...

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

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 ?

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/...

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 ✊

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

#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

#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

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

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!

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

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.

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. 🧵

Happy data privacy / protection day.

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

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...

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).

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/

Busy day! As we are finishing our #DroneDataEthics course for the African Drone and Data Academy, today was the final valorisation panel of our #NWO-MVI project Disastrous Information: Embedding do no harm principles in geo intelligence workflows. Good turn and talks! www.itc.nl/about-itc/sc...