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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 9d

📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining...

Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 13d

oh yes, encountered this frustrating chatbait a few weeks ago when I tried using chatGPT for some Latex queries. It would annoyingly keep asking follow up questions and offers to create templates and what not, like it is designed to never let the conversation end.

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 13d

Chatbots are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. For the most part, it’s annoying; at the extremes, it can be harmful. And it might just be getting started. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet

How chatbots keep you talking

www.theatlantic.com

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 28d

✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...

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kavita s kulkarni @kkulkarni.bsky.social · 16d

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance.

"We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..."

Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 18d

on the bright side, stumbled upon this gem: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-...

important histories of how women working as switchboard operators were crucial to advances [and automation] in communication technology.

Goodbye to the hello girls: automating the telephone exchange | Science Museum

Automatic telephone exchanges made communication faster, but led to the disappearance of one of Britain’s first female workforces.

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 18d

Ugh, frustrated to see warnings like these on Wikipedia. Encountered this on a page about switchboard operators, that I had opened with some excitement and curiosity. The irony of this warning under a section on Reality and Fiction is not lost on me.

a screenshot of a Wikipedia page on switchboard operator that shows a warning under a section called Reality and Fiction. The warning states that the section could have text generated by a large language model, including hallucinated information and copyright violations.

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 20d

Looks fantastic, looking forward to it. I'll be there Saturday!

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Sep 8

Another good job out there:

"The TUC is looking for a Policy & Campaigns Officer to contribute to our work ensuring workers benefit from and shape new technologies and artificial intelligence – in the workplace and in public policy"

tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Policy and Campaigns Officer - London

Policy & Campaigns Officer, Technology and Artificial Intelligence Grade 6 £44,228 per annum (pro rata), plus London Weighting £6,154 per annum (pro rata) Temporary – 18 months, Four days (28 hours)...

tuc.current-vacancies.com

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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · Sep 8

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · Sep 5

if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!

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Catgirl Martlet 🐦🐈‍⬛🌊💙 @zenithmartlet.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hey Firefox users.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 7

Support our mission: we’re recruiting a new trustee to help guide our work advancing public education on sociology and related disciplines.

In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing.

Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

Senior Manager - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

durham.taleo.net

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can fairer working conditions for data workers be created? A new Discussion Paper outlines guidelines for the use of data work in academic research: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

Cover of the Discussion Paper "Ethics of Data Work. Principles for Academic Data Work Requesters"

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · Jul 1

this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?"

It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 23

What makes a good feminist – theoretically, or otherwise?

Laura J. Bower’s wry short story looks at Kate, a gender-studies lecturer whose lived experience sometimes feels markedly (or horribly) at odds with what she teaches. Out now in the June magazine.

buff.ly/Bm7xP29

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Rina Chandran @rinachandran.bsky.social · Jul 1

Call it clickwork, crowdwork, data labor, or ghost work - they are all poorly-paid, precarious and traumatic jobs that make AI possible. Read an excerpt from The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on @restofworld.org .
restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor

The hidden labor that makes AI work

Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.

restofworld.org

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · Jun 19

Important development from the alliance above: content moderators around the world with support from @uniglobalunion.org released a new report and are calling on tech companies “to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains”
uniglobalunion.org/news/tech-pr...

Global content moderators alliance demands Mental Health Protocols in Tech supply chain

The Global Trade Union Alliance of Content Moderators is calling on tech companies – including TikTok, Meta, Alphabet and OpenAI – to adopt mental health protections throughout their supply chains for...

uniglobalunion.org

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Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of navigating ambiguity - SJ Bennett, 2025

This paper examines ambiguity within AI practice, arguing for an ethics of AI which stays with fundamental ambiguities and accounts for their complex socio-mate...

journals.sagepub.com

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Jun 30

www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...

A Sociology of Dragons:

A Sociology of Dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique | Journal of Cultural Economy Journal of Cultural Economy

www.journalofculturaleconomy.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 29

“In Australia, Canada, Greece and the US, call center agents say they’ve been repeatedly mistaken for AI. These people, who spend hours talking to strangers, are experiencing surreal conversations, where customers ask them to prove they are not machines.”

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI

As more workers are asked by strangers if they're bots, surreal conversations are prompting introspection in the industry about what it means to be human.

www.bloomberg.com

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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · Jun 19

🚨 TIME exclusive: Content moderators shield us from the darkest parts of the internet—but suffer PTSD, burnout & trauma.

A global union alliance says: enough. Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, Google & more must adopt 8 safety protocols now.

#TechWorkersRising

Exclusive: Global Safety Rules Aim to Protect AI’s Most Traumatized Workers

Outsourced workers review graphic content used to train AI. A global union is now pushing for baseline mental health protections.

time.com

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · Jun 18

this is a very interesting and useful compilation on the data work sector, published by @techequity.us! check out: dataworklandscape.org/landscape

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · Jun 12

🙋‍♀️ Come work at my department! We are nice and friendly, in the hwart of London, UK!

🌟Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
🌟 full time, permanent!
🌟salary £42,882-£60,907.
Deadline for applications 24th July 2025!

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Details | City St George's, University of London

Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · Jun 11

🚨 Our next Speaker Series event is this Fri, June 13 @ 11am (ET US). Oliver Haimson will join us to discuss "The Political Economy of Trans Technologies: Trans Capitalism, Investment Funding, Mutual Aid, & Anticapitalist Approaches."

For Zoom info, email Angelica (angelica.martinez.ochoa @ gmail)

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