My article on data and colonialism is now out in International Political Sociology. Huge thanks to Emma Carmel for her supervision + mentorship throughout the process. And for the brilliant teaching / course design that originally sparked my interest in this topic.

Lecturer in International Development - bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… Lecturer in Criminology - bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… Lecturer in Criminology - bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… New Head of Department - uniofbath.gatenbysanderson.com/department-of-…

Holy sh*t. The Post Office applied a senior executive bonus metric about its work on the Post Office Inquiry (without informing the inquiry). Then it used false information to say it had achieved the metric and awarded the executive bonuses, whilst implying...

Online First: Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography by Kathleen Stokes and Alejandro De Coss-Corzo journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @KathleenStokes @AlexDeCoss

ICYMI📯SI proposal call: "Datafied Development," a call for papers that explore the intersection between #development, #data, #platforms, and #algorithms. Editors: M. Amir Julian Posada Rafael Grohmann nanna thylstrup Abstract submission: 9th June. Email for more info!📯

My book is here! In the UK, women of #bangladeshi background experience some of the highest levels of employment disadvantage, although participation in #HE is increasing. I wanted to understand more about these inequities & the role of #class #ethnicity and #gender 🧵👇

Last night saw the launch of the University of Bath new UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), as part of Research Culture Week, with a celebratory event at the Guildhall for academics and external guests to discuss opportunities for collaboration: bath.ac.uk/announcements/…

Shocking findings by borderline-europe on the criminalisation of #migration. They looked into 81 smuggling trials in Greece: Trials last on average 37min & lead to an average sentence of 46 years. 'Smugglers' are the 2nd largest group in Greek prisons, 90% 3rd country nationals.

Watch our very own Dr Sandra Daroczi talking about her exciting workshop series on Women in the Museum! Next workshop is on the 15th of July from 11am to 3 pm at Victoria Gallery@VictoriaArtBath Not to be missed!

Great pics from Dr Sandra Daroczi's workshop at the Museum of Bath at Work last week. The next workshop will be at Victoria Gallery Victoria Art Gallery this Saturday from 11 am. Details here ➡️eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-the…

On behalf of the young Kenyans whose lives have been ruined because they did the dirty work training the #ChatGPT algorithm, we have filed a petition to National Assembly KE to investigate how OpenAI and Samasource got away with such exploitation and to urgently regulate tech work.

My new book Adult Safeguarding Observed is out today. I have three free copies to give away. If you would like to enter the draw, then please RT (or do your own tweet with a link to the book and copy me in). Closes 02.08.23 tinyurl.com/bdrjv4t3

OpenAI marshaled a global pipeline of human labor for 2+ years to enable ChatGPT & GPT-4 to exist. Workers who dealt with the worst parts are still suffering PTSD more than a year later. My story with Deepa Seetharaman out today on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/articles/chatg…

For every "conversation," ChatGPT consumes the equivalent of one half liter of water. Yet, when 7 AI key companies signed voluntary commitments focused on protecting "rights and safety," they didn't mention sustainability... sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo… An important op-ed by Internet Ethics.

New article by Catriona Gray – Between Knowledge and Value: AI as a Technology of Dispossession     ift.tt/RJB3ybS

In 1856, renowned British ethnologist Sir Richard Burton was told by Somali nomads that mosquitoes transmitted malaria, a claim he dismissed as "a ridiculous superstition". In 1902, British doctor Ronald Ross won the Nobel for "discovering" that mosquitoes transmitted malaria

Come visit our joint exhibition at 44AD art space in Bath between 6th and the 12th November to see various participatory arts projects from researchers at BathUni SPS: In their eyes: work, discrimination and dignity in the Middle East, Africa & UK

Important and timely work by our very own Prof. Jason Hart ⬇️

This was a really interesting - as well as entertaining - podcast to make. Nello Cristianini's description of the 'shortcut' that gives us ChatGPT ('2 pages of algorithm + www') is eye opening. & Emma Carmel on regulating the industry, not getting distracted by the technology.