The International Conference on Machine Learning #ICML is currently taking place in Seoul and online. I am very happy to have a paper accepted: "Position: Every Ground Truth is a Human Construction, not an Objective Truth" co-authored by Kiri L. Wagstaff & Ericka Johnson.

Very inspiring talk by Arvind Narayana @randomwalker.bsky.social at #ICML today, giving much food for thought about AI capabilities, simplified discourses, diffusion barriers, accuracy vs reliability & evaluation as the skill for the future – resonating a lot with our position paper on ground truths

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...

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Publication alert! New article out in Big Data & Society on digital phantoms and synthetic data in medical physics. We explore the making of digital reference objects for human bodies and how they are used in construction of ground truths, as known, & even perfect truths. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Digital phantoms in medical research: Synthetic data and the pursuit of ground truth - Charlotte Högberg, Peter Winter, 2026

Digital phantoms are virtual representations of the human body used in medical research to test equipment, train medical professionals and develop or validate a...

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A few more days left to submit your abstract to our panel on #syntheticdata at the #EASST conference! Deadline on Monday, March 9! "Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices" nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... #STS #criticaldatastudies #AI #criticalAI

CB027: Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices

Synthetic data are touted as fixes to technical, ethical, and political challenges. But what do they mean for the politics of representation in knowledge

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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Are you interested in synthetic data? Join us at the EASST conference in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026. The call for abstracts is open until end of Feb. Hope to see you and engage with your work in Kraków! #STS #EASST #syntheticdata nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

CB027: Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices

Synthetic data are touted as fixes to technical, ethical, and political challenges. But what do they mean for the politics of representation in knowledge

nomadit.co.uk

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

"To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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Just catching up with this amazing bit of London Centric reporting and this is such an excellent description of the weird epistemic ambiguity produced by AI: "There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is." www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

London's giant AI artwork to be torn down

The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.

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Call for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland easst.net/conference/e...

EASST2026 Home

The conference will take place on the main campus of AGH University of Krakow, walking distance from the Krakow’s vibrant city centre.

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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like? In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox. 🧵

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain. Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Happy nerd unboxing!

“Should I pretend I, as an intersex person, don’t exist?” - Georgiann Davis www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

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When you re-read a submitted manuscript and finds that you have accidentally written 'the shit towards' instead of 'shift towards'... #academiclife

biblioteken får fylla igen revorna i samhällsväven

Samhället sviker – då står bibliotekarien kvar

ANNA ANDERSSON: Folk har ingen annanstans att vända sig

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Struggles when being in academia: The constant battle in your (or maybe it is just my) mind about whether to do the very necessary admin stuff or to read Simondon in the sun when one unscheduled hour approaches. #STS #academia

The most inspiring read of my summer. James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the entanglement of humans, nature and technologies, and ideas about what intelligence is and how to build ”smart” machines. #STS #AI

We need to start calling out big tech for their algorithmically faciltated emissions and their climate collapse by design default. Read our comment in Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design - Jutta Haider, Malte Rödl, James White, 2025

This commentary discusses the role of increasingly artificial intelligence-infused big tech platforms in facilitating and normalising high-emission lifestyles a...

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Hi #STS peers and other ethnographers! I am looking for good work on ethics of ethnographic research. In general but also particularly in healthcare/medical settings. Do you have any suggestions? Please, let me know! #STS #ethnography #research #researchethics

So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

Jérôme Denis@jrmdns.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Lost genre identified on my dad’s old book shelf: The academic conference CD-ROM #academiclife

The cold river and the hot sun in my hometown in Northern Sweden right now ❤️ #Lycksele

I am happy to share that I am starting a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology & Society, with a specialization in #STS & medical AI, at Lund University. I will work in two research projects exploring ethical & epistemological dimensions of AI-supported predictive precision medicine 😊

Very happy to see that this special issue of Sociologisk Forskning is now out in the world and I am honored to have my paper included! "This ground truth is muddy anyway: Ground truth data assemblages for medical AI development" Check it out here doi.org/10.37062/sf.... (Open access)! #STS

Yesterday was a major milestone for me as I passed my PhD defense, making me a doctor in Technology and Society! So grateful to everyone involved in the defense and to all that have supported me on this journey. The thesis is available here: portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...