Job klaxon 🚨 Assistant Professorship in Philosophy of Science and Technology at Cambridge HPS Deadline 15 October 2024 jobs.ac.uk/job/DJE524/ass…

Delving into the underlying ideologies behind AI hype, our hidden gem of the week highlights how AI, driven by profit-oriented longtermist ideologies, exacerbates environmental and social issues rather than solving them. By @mel_hogan at Queen's University buff.ly/3yydopv

New paper out! "Understanding Data Valuation: Valuing Google’s Data Assets" w/ Sarah Marquis & Guilherme Cavalcante Silva in IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society (@ieeessit IEEE) #Google #data #Assets #assetization ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10525…

Tictac, la conférence inaugurale de Jane Calvert The University of Edinburgh marquera le début de notre école d’été #STSNord. Ouverte au public, merci à Secrétariat du Québec aux relations canadiennes Faculté des sciences humaines de l'UQAM Calcul Québec Société des arts technologiques STS York University Kean Birch @QueensUsoc buff.ly/3McvzEk

Our latest issue has new articles on political epistemology, epistemic justice, and knowledge production in the social sciences. Many are available open access! Read it here: tandfonline.com/toc/tsep20/38/5

☝️ Tanja Schneider and I are co-hosting the panel "Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism" at STS Hub 2025 in Berlin (March 11-14). Submit your 200-word abstract + 75-word bio by Oct 31, 2024. More info: sts-hub.de/25/. Contact: [email protected]

50+ known scholars & activists against Big Techs attach on #DigitalSovereignty The list includes Mariana Mazzucato Thomas Piketty Daron Acemoglu Shoshana Zuboff Yanis Varoufakis Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) Gabriel Zucman Jayati Ghosh Jason Hickel #Support_Brazil Read and sign: tinyurl.com/yar7ab6r

Colleagues & I have two new papers out on #data & #edtech - Data as asset, data as rent? #Rentiership practices in EdTech startups - Monetising Digital Data in #HigherEducation: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups

CFP: York University STS Graduate Conference on Frameworks: Interrogating Architectures of STS! Deadline is October 9, 2024 and abstracts can be submitted at: tinyurl.com/yorkusts2024gr… STS York University YorkU Grad Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Newsletter: OpenAI is a bad, unprofitable business, with most of its revenue coming from premium subscriptions, and only 27% ($1bn) coming from people licensing its technology, suggesting that the generative AI industry is much smaller than we thought. wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

Science Meets Parliament is now accepting delegate applications! Don't miss this unique opportunity to share your research with policymakers - now in Ottawa (Federal), British Columbia, and Ontario: sciencepolicy.ca/programs/scien… #CdnSci #SciParl2025

come work with me and the media & technology studies unit UNC Department of Communication! job call highlights cultural studies of tech, disability queer communities, environment & tech, feminist media studies, and more unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289193

Just published. York University News York University YorkUPolitics STS York University HarvardSTS Time, transition, and planetary decolonial justice as invention tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had great day yesterday hosting the wonderful Koray Caliskan at ITS's 1st seminar of new academic year. Fantastic talk abt his book "Data Money", then engaging workshop taking apart #Google's search engine (picture credit to Koray). More events to follow! yorku.ca/research/its/e…

We're hosting a talk this Friday @ YorkU: "Briefing on EU policy on secondary use of health data for biomedical research" by Iñigo de Miguel Beriain - 11.30am in Room 110 Founders College #biomedical #biomedicine #sts #EUpolicy #healthdata

Excited to welcome Barbara Prainsack (@[email protected]) to York's Institute for Technoscience & Society virtual seminar series. Barbara will talk about "Making AI Ethical: What is Data Solidarity & Why Do We Need It?" 10.30am EST via Zoom. Details: yorku.ca/research/its/e… #AIEthics #STS #Solidarity