Paper accepted for Data Justice Lab conference! First time I’ll present my work on data, forest and governance of uncertainty. See you in June! datajusticelab.org/2022/12/21/cal…

🚨 The IIPP Entrepreneurial State 2.0 Festival begins tomorrow! It celebrates the 5th anniversary of IIPP and the 10th anniversary of Mariana Mazzucato’s book on the topic. Do join us! #TheEntrepreneurialState2 Info/tickets ➡️ bit.ly/3M2SKBZ

For understanding Eastern Europe better

You can debate the extent of anti-Semitism on the Western left, but the nature of its new form is undeniable: the Jew is hated not for being a deracinated cosmopolitan but for being too 'Western': white, colonialist, nationalist. Hating the Jew cleanses the West of its old sins.

Which conferences?!? Slowly publishing and writing papers from my DATA FORESTS project (datafication of natural resources management). Question: where to promote this work: seminars, workshops, conferences about tech, nature, environment and politics (especially when combined)?

I wrote a short piece for LSE Media & Communications mapping some political issues on AI in the conservation and environmental sectors. This is part of my DATAFORESTS project which examines the use of data technologies and data governance in the forestry sector blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2023/…

The 🇪🇺 Commission will Wednesday unveil a new legislation to get EU countries to better monitor their forests, improve their health, biodiversity and resilience to climate change. We've seen the final draft. Here is what you need to know: pro.politico.eu/news/171863 ($)

🆕 blog → The politics of #environmentalAI Jędrzej Niklas, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Polska Akademia Nauk & Teaching Fellow Future Intelligence, writes about some of the findings from his DATAFORESTS project on how AI is used in #environmentalconservation: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2023/…

Job alert! Finishing slowly my DATAForest project (new publications soon) and looking for jobs. Any recommendations, news or advices most welcome. Mostly research, policy on data, digital also their environmental connections. Image for attention

As I read about attempts to enforce racial purity in Israel and India I'm brought back to this Zizek line. Disgust at mixing is a recoil from modernity – but purity laws don't take us back to a prelapsarian past, they only empower the most repressive aspects of modernity.

Published! Our work with Lina Dencik on EU AI policy and how discrimination is formulated here: it’s about risk, bureaucracy and market. Also how can we problematise data justice in policy processes, because it’s not always what you wished for onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

💥NEW PUBLICATION💥 In this important new work from the DATAJUSTICE project Jędrzej Niklas + Lina Dencik outline how discrimination in EU’s AI policy is bound up with marketisation and bureaucracy and asks what this means for data justice. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

New Paper Alert! 📢Teaching Fellow Dr Jedrzej Niklas and colleague Prof Lina Dencik explore how the EU's AI policy addresses discrimination, intertwining it with marketization and bureaucracy. Lina Dencik Jędrzej Niklas onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Excited to be giving the inaugural lecture for Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media! It builds on the DATAFORESTS project I conducted in recent years and explores the ecopolitical nature of data: drones, AI, and forests—the combo everybody loves. If you're in Manchester on 19th Sept join us in person!

🌲📊 After two years of exploring how data and tech are transforming forest governance, here’s a short film about my research. I share stories of conversations with foresters, night walks in the woods, wild bison – and insights on AI and nature. youtu.be/xS6P7VUygvs?si…

A fascinating talk by Jędrzej Niklas about forest data and how it is used both by regulators and activists. Also: the first mention of ecocide - conducted by Germans during World War 2

Cos my pal works at Pecan women’s service in SE London, I know how vital the space is to vulnerable women in need of support, whether fleeing domestic abuse or restarting life after the worst kinds of crises. They’re fundraising for a short while. To help keep them going, link 👇