'Digital tech is often presented as a solution to challenges facing universities. Its use interacts w/ political & economic pressures on universities & students in ways that are sometimes problematic' Read @joenote.bsky.social's reflections on his CTMF PhD journey & future plans ▶️ edin.ac/4gnRvsV

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the viral absolute unit meme from @themerl.bsky.social has been acquired for the national collection it is the first born-digital object acquired by the National Science and Media Museum, and will go on display in January

Brill to catch up with @alexpeden.bsky.social and co at Edinburgh Research Cultures Forum. My point, #ResearchCulture work is not charity. It addresses the serious volume of waste in the system. Wasted talent, resources, time, money, goodwill, trust, and health. Is this what we want for ourselves?

What's happening to academic journal publishing now AI's in the workflow? Year-end reflections and near-future speculations from the editors of Learning, Media & Technology - @discoursology.bsky.social @johnpp.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

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The pictured tweet is overused, and yet. And yet. Sometimes people do things that make me think they are actively trying to recreate the aesthetics of a cyberpunk dystopia.

SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 2y ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me

Charles Brooks looks inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography

Little bump for our starter pack of UK museums – as ever, if we've not spotted you, give us a wave so we can follow back and add you ✅

Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · 2y ago

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

Next week in Edinburgh (or online)!

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

The original #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is now full, and more people are still coming over to BlueSky, so I've started a Surveillance Studies Starter Pack #2... this will continue to grow! go.bsky.app/7VhTRFP The original Starter Pack is still here: go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

I'm so excited to be chairing an event on 22/11, marking 10 years of Katie Paterson's 100-year artwork, Future Library. It's free to attend (online/in person), with a dazzling panel: Katie, Anne Beate Hovind, Richard Sandford and Anja Hendrikse Liu. Please join us! efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future...

Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library.

efi.ed.ac.uk

🧵 from earlier on a new report looking at access to creative higher education

Prof Dave O'Brien@drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 2y ago

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research... I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

Fantastic to have Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social join here - give her a follow for political economy of higher education research. For a taster check out this big multi-authored paper that Janja led on digitalisation of HE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns

Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...

tandfonline.com

Speaking of this are any libraries doing audits of their research databases and any research tools they provide access to to keep track of all the GenAI features that are being added and whether they are opt-in or opt-out? Does anyone want to do a study with me? 📚📜

valerie@vfo.northsky.social · 2y ago

I don’t see how to get around using AI tools when companies are integrating the tech into everything. (this is coming from a librarian who deals with academic technology like research databases and data analytics tools)

Whether you are a researcher in #dh , a librarian 📚, or a cultural heritage professional #glam , I would strongly recommend this _fantastic_ report out of the U of Edinburgh by @melissaterras.bsky.social and her colleagues on possible futures for digital cultural heritage: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Here it is! the final report from our Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project. Speculative methods, museum futures, it's all in there! #GLAM #digitalculturalheritage

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · 2y ago

New! "Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage". How can we best design infrastructures for digital preservation, access, analysis, & dissemination of heritage? Would speculative design help? Can we imagine other futures? With @jenr.bsky.social, Phil Sheail, & Cate Schofield. Do share!🙏

William Gibson (abridged)

Sign up now to head from my brilliant colleague @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social at the next @braiduk.bsky.social x @designinf.bsky.social seminar on 10th October! You can join in person or online! #creativeai #ethicalai

Design Informatics@designinf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join our next event of the @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar Series where @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social will present her talk, ‘What is the value of integrating AI into creative processes?’. 📅 Thu 10 Oct 2024 ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 @inspacegallery.bsky.social / Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3TRU4eq

A plea to my fellow Canadians and Americans: when we make positive arguments for #immigration, do not proclaim this land "empty," "endless" etc. This only adds to settler-colonial erasure of #Indigenous peoples. There are other ways to support immigrants. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...

This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On

The nonprofit behind the tool wants people to learn the history of the spaces they inhabit

smithsonianmag.com

"for you, turquoise is blue". Well YES, isn't it for everyone? I tried ismy.blue on two different screens and apparently I think a lot of things are blue.

We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0

Would you like to work for an exciting project to improve our #ResearchCultures? The #InFrame team are looking for a finance manager, deadline 24th September Finance Manager Grade 8, www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ (search vacancy: 151290) #ResearchDevelopment #ResearchCultures #ResearchFinance

I have started a starter pack of great people working in or thinking about the public sector, digital and culture. Wave if you would like to be added or have recommendations ✨ go.bsky.app/DkxnaRc

Possibility Studies and 'Possible Futures'. The Anticipation 2024 Conference is off at Lancaster University 🇬🇧 with a keynote by prof. Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University. #anticipation #futures #foresight

Mad? Bad? Or Dangerous to know? Let the die decide… Src: www.facebook.com/share/p/LjG7...

Apparently, we're hiring: Lecturer, Computational Sociology. Come work at Edinburgh. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Lecturer (Computational Sociology)

We are looking for a Lecturer in Computational Sociology to contribute to teaching and research on digital and computational sociology in the Sociology Subject Area.

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I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

Popular Science@popsci.com · 3y ago

Unfortunately, it repeatedly offers incorrect answers for straightforward math questions. 🧪