It is out and OPEN ACCESS: "The Senses: Perception and Experience" (Cambridge University Press, Elements: Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com) #PhilSky #booksky #HPBio #philosophy #cogsci www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Senses

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses

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Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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I feel so strongly that this is what a university should be and should strive for. If it can't provide this sort of civic function, this most basic level of equal access and support for all students, it is not fit for purpose. imnsho, obvs.

Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · 3mo ago

we should also do this

The BBC is facing a series of lose-lose choices. Partner with Big Tech and risk compromising what makes it unique. Or resist and fail to reach the audiences it exists to serve. @sofiahewson.bsky.social and I consider how Charter Renewal can help change this. 1/5

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org · 5mo ago

📺 | NEW BLOG: How can the BBC compete in a media landscape increasingly dominated by global tech giants? Our latest analysis looks at what it will take to level the playing field - and why it matters for the future of UK public service media. www.ippr.org/articles/lev...

The Office for Students pushed an ideologically loaded case and it collapsed. Finally justice prevailed. UK universities should hold the line by protecting queer lives. Hate speech can't be justfied because someone calls it “free speech.” Universities aren’t arenas for legitimising harm #AcademicSky

Mark McCormack@markmccormack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reading some of the detail of the case as it happened, this had to be the expected result - www.theguardian.com/education/20...?

Get involved in MOP DAY!! massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

12th May - Mass Observation Archive

Our 12th May diary day is your chance to be part of recording everyday life. Sending us your dairy helps us record everyday life in the UK.

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🔥 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data. I'm co-editing a Special Issue of Sexuality & Culture with Amin Ghaziani. 📝 Full details: link.springer.com/collections/hcbbadjbha #CfP #callforpapers #sexuality #gender #data

Interested in what the rise of AI & machine learning algorithms mean for politics? Join us @leverhulmecal.bsky.social for a workshop on the politics of algorithmic life. Free to attend & bursaries available for postgrads & ECRs.

Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life@leverhulmecal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for a workshop on The Politics of Algorithmic Life May 19-20 in Durham, free to attend and travel bursaries are available for PhD students and early career researchers. #politics #machinelearning #algorithms #AI More details & sign up here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/event/politi...

We are very happy to announce the winning paper of the Sociology Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence! Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences, explores self-silencing and the meanings attached to climate talk: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland! In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

This is tomorrow in Edinburgh. All welcome. Please see the updated venue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-efi-cr...

The EFI Critical Data Studies Cluster presents:

Amelia Acker - Book Talk: "Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage"

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Doing urban citizenship with (broken) digital data from an air pollution sensor osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨🚨 BSA Conference 2026 Announcement 🚨🚨 ⁉️ Early-career sociologist? ⁉️ Attending this year's BSA Conference? ⁉️ Want to learn how to turn pedagogy into publications? 👉 Then, attend the ECF Workshop on 9 April 9AM, Lecture Theatre B, Uni of Manchester 🙌 See you there!

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

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📘 Join us tonight at LSE for the launch of Carrie Friese’s 'A Mouse in a Cage', with reflections on the sociological, ethical and political questions raised by the lives of laboratory animals and the practices that shape them. 🕕 6pm | 📍 OLD.3.24 🎟️ All welcome! buff.ly/qXWcryM

A mouse in a cage | Book launch | Dr Carrie Friese

6pm Thurs 26 March | Free public event at LSE

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NHS and IT. Only around half (49%) of NHS staff responding to Health Foundation staff survey on Electronic Patient Records had received training on how to use the EPR system and less than a third (28%) had received training on how to fix or troubleshoot problems. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

All good things come to an end

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

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This is a must-read, but I can't help thinking that more emphasis needs to be placed on the resonance between the pursuit of scientific scale for AI and the underlying and explicit pursuit of business scale at all costs for platforms and investors www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale

AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

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In "Archiving Machines," Amelia Acker traces the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage. Available in paperback and #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255324...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The mirage of AI deregulation

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

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Whoa😲 "DHSC is standing down the NIHR Maximising Impact and Public Partnership contract. Teams across the NIHR Coordinating Centre and wider NIHR community will continue to embed Impact and Inclusion into everything they do": www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/wha... #PPI #PublicInvolvement

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...

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...

📢 Applications are open for the Sociology (SOC) and Work, Employment and Society (WES) Editorial Boards! Both welcome ECRs, with Sociology offering mentoring for those newer to reviewing. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT 👉 Apply or nominate: www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Given all the research that shows intersectional bias & stigma is baked into these LLMs, this is a troubling initiative. People are often’hard to reach’ b/c there aren’t attempts to reach them on their terms. AI isn’t going to fix that, nor will it have capacity to provide more meaningful insights.

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So now they're developing AI-simulated patient & public involvement/engagement (PPIE) panels and claiming it will ensure 'more inclusive' and 'diverse' patient involvement (by simulating lived experience of those harder to recruit to panels). www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/research-and...

Can some of us agree that we must not treat LLMs as replacements for real, breathing, feeling, located, relational, caring, uncaring, difficult, annoying, inefficient people?

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

So now they're developing AI-simulated patient & public involvement/engagement (PPIE) panels and claiming it will ensure 'more inclusive' and 'diverse' patient involvement (by simulating lived experience of those harder to recruit to panels). www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/research-and...

So now they're developing AI-simulated patient & public involvement/engagement (PPIE) panels and claiming it will ensure 'more inclusive' and 'diverse' patient involvement (by simulating lived experience of those harder to recruit to panels). www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/research-and...

Co-authored with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for a forthcoming special issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social, this essay takes Elon Musk's planned FinTech makeover of X as a provocation for a critical analysis of so-called 'embedded finance' and the evolution of FinTech www.cambridge.org/core/journal...