We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data!

These three aspects would make this a dream job for me:
• You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team.
• You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important…

The April MapReader community call is this Thursday (18th) 4-5pm UK time! Details: mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Even…
Join for an update on integrating text spotting as a new task in MapReader!!

#dh #gis #maps Machines Reading Maps Research Engineering at the Turing The Alan Turing Institute Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster The Turing Way at fosstodon.org/@turingway

Queer in AI is excited to extend a call for contributions to our ICML 2024 workshop!

The submission deadline is on 06/13 AoE.  Please find the detailed guidelines at queerinai.com/icml-2024.

As part of our retrospective of the work of Simon Liu, the filmmaker has curated a programme of shorts from the last 45 years of Hong Kong which capture the often surreal and uncanny underbelly of life in the city.

Screening Close-Up Cinema 27 Apr, 6pm
opencitylondon.com/events/in-focu…

The deadline for ARRG!’s “Models for Making Distance” Zine is in one week! Show us the art you make with broken algorithms as your medium; the manifestos that demystify AI and clarify its purpose, instructions for algorithmic resistance at home. cyberneticforests.com/zine

📆 Save the date for the Logic(s) Speakers Series: Every Wednesday 12-1pm EST until June 5

*You can RSVP for each event on our eventbrite page
eventbrite.com/o/logics-magaz…

I think mentorship is so powerful. Do you have open geospatial skills? Open community building experience? An understanding of data in humanitarian work? Can you help others level up? This is for you. buff.ly/3TM8knV

🎙️'Making it possible and making it easy: Research Culture and Open Access Monograph'

🗣️Tom Morley (Tom Morley) (Lancaster University)

📅Monday 8 April, 13.30

#UKSG24 (2/6)

University of Zurich withdraws from World University Rankings international university ranking   - swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch/eng/education/… The list is growing! Sioux McKenna University Wankings Michelle Stack Budd Hall Rajesh Tandon Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social

This deeply moving reflection by my dear former colleague Angela McRobbie is a devastating and searching analysis not just of what has gone wrong at Goldsmiths, but across the whole UK university sector. Do read if you care about the coming disaster: versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

How do we cultivate infrastructures of solidarity, especially under conditions of crisis, protest & systemic inequity?

This winter, we asked these questions to begin Solidarity Infrastructures, a class taught by Alice Yuan Zhang with Oren Robinson & Meghna Mahadevan.

Today is the final day for applications to the role of Metadata Assistant at the University of Manchester Library.
Full details at: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…
Closes: midnight (BST/GMT+1) tonight (04/04/24)
#libraryjobsuk #cataloguing #metadata

Effective data governance is collective, democratic, participatory, deliberative, powerful...and achievable!

Our observatory of participatory data governance practice collects together examples from organisations of all shapes and sizes, across the world.
connectedbydata.org/cases

✉️ Our March Newsletter is out!

Check your inboxes or read a copy here: buttondown.email/turingway/arch…

As always, we have lots of updates to share! 👇

This project is a great gloss on the AI supply/value chains. This looks very helpful as a teaching aid! cartography-of-generative-ai.net

🌟 Our second onboarding call of 2024 is happening TODAY! 🌟

📅 27 Mar @ 15hrs UK
📍 Online
🧑‍🦰 Anyone interested in learning more about The Turing Way project. Please bring your questions and interests here – we're so excited to meet you!

Join us: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

'While it is fine to solicit inputs from academics, policymakers must understand such researchers’ limitations. Beyond the specific career incentives outlined above, it is understandable why academics are predisposed to a posture of radical ignorance.' africanistperspective.com/p/there-is-a-l…