🌐✨ Join Our Conversation on Contestable AI! ✨🌐 We're thrilled to invite you to our ACM CSCW workshop on contestable AI along the value chain - where humans hold the power to intervene and dispute. 🔗 Workshop website: aspiring-steed-7fc.notion.site/From-Stem-to-S… (1/4)

Opportunity to lead an interdisciplinary research programme in digital twinning focused on improving government crisis response and resilience. Applicants are invited to complete our networking survey: orlo.uk/rvjIf Closes 5 Sept. Apply :orlo.uk/gZ7bI

Outside a hotel in Redcliffe, Bristol - the hotel is being protected by hundreds of Bristolians shouting ‘We are many, you are few. We are Bristol, who are you?’ to a group of around 100 protesters who had marched on the hotel

New publication - community builders, consensus builders, eco-egalitarians, and radical adversarials - a new typology of grassroots climate change activists. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… UWE Centre for Sustainable Planning & Environments Research from UWE Bristol

To re-open 3 miles of track to Portishead, the local council had to complete a 79,187 page long planning application. If printed out, that's 14.6 miles of paper (4 1/2 times the line itself!). Then they had to wait 3 years for approval. Yet now this project may be scrapped.🧵

At New Economy Organisers Network we try and help people navigate a complex narrative environment to put out clear messages at times like this. Here's five (much abridged) tips we're suggesting today - worked on with help from lots of friends (and by no means perfect) 👇

In other news, here are some interesting snippets of how f@$cists dispense cyber security advice to each other... Source: various public groups on telegram

I'm looking for research participants!! Were you affected personally or professionally when companies like Adobe or Microsoft switched from software sales to a subscription model? Please rt and hit me up or reply if you'd like to share an experience for my book on subscription

I'm migrating south for winter...to a place where the skies are blue and trolls banned. Let's find each other?

⏰Last chance to apply to join our team as a senior economist! Applications close midday 16 September: neweconomics.org/about/work-wit…