New piece on failures of explainable #AI in medical #diagnostics! As Laura Gorrieri, @paultrautt.bsky.social & I argue, Explanations should not focus on AI per se but on how AI enhances the ability to act (drawing on "understanding virtuoso" @henkderegt.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

Annual Town Hall of Ethical Data Initiative @edinitiative.bsky.social is in full swing, with education leads @paultrautt.bsky.social & Kim Hajek presenting on our pioneering work on data clinics - to join online ethicaldatainitiative.org/wp-content/u... log into tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6115744893...

If you are interested in overlaps and intersections between biomedicine and surveillance, consider submitting an abstract to our EASST panel in Krakow this year: "Encoded bodies: biometric medicine and the surveillance of human life"

We (@sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @elisj.bsky.social, Emma Cavazzoni & I) are collecting stories (voice notes/text) and images (drawings/photos) of Cicadas and Fireflies for an upcoming Pianeta Lab event. If you have any, we welcome you to share them via our website-> pianeta-lab-storia.vercel.app

Join us in Copenhagen this October for a public seminar on borders, mobilities, and databases! #futurenordics dinobord.eu/2025/09/05/p...

@williams-r-b.bsky.social, @paultrautt.bsky.social, Kim Hajek & Rena Alcalay managed to put a great #interdisciplinary panel on #uncertainty in data-intensive #research #practices together for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social. As part of it, I discussed uncertainty in the context of #research #security.

New publication in Big Data & Society: "Against Interoperability? Terrains of technopolitical contestation and the remaking of EU border infrastructure". Full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/4)

Against interoperability? Terrains of technopolitical contestation and the remaking of EU border infrastructure - Paul Trauttmansdorff, 2025

Digital technologies and databases have repeatedly been associated with grand infrastructural promises in the European Union (EU)'s so-called management of...

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🌍🤝RDA and the @edinitiative.bsky.social join forces towards global responsible data sharing. We pleased to announce that the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are collaborating to promote responsible, inclusive, and ethical data practices worldwide.

@drkiarastorm.bsky.social and I have a new article out in International Migration on the multiple modes of ordering in the EU border regime that come with introducing interoperability btw databases of migration control. Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime

Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis-laden management of migration....

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What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr #borders #ProcessCitizens

Tomorrow at STS HUB at 2 pm (CET): "Critical Formations in STS Approaches to Border and Migration Regime", with @maripoyares.bsky.social , @jaspervdkist.bsky.social , Marija Grujic, Nina Amelung, and Valisis Galis. Tune in online: tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/6325100515...

A little report on our symposium on misinformation from last December is now available on the @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels Blog! #philsci #sts 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Fresh off the (online) press: our new article with Annalisa Pelizza was published in @politicsandspace.bsky.social,where we ask how border registrations produce couplings of citizenship and territories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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My review in the Journal of Responsible Technology on ‘Toward an Anthropology of Screens’ written by the Italian philosophers Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua. It’s a deep dive into the histories and cultures of screens: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Toward an Anthropology of Screens. Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting. Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua. Translated by Sarah De Sanctis. 2023. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Toward an Anthropology of Screens by Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua is an essential study of the cultural and philosophical significance of screens…

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Open invitation to EDI‘s townhall meeting on 31 March at TUM in Munich

The Ethical Data Initiative@edinitiative.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌍💡Join us for our first annual multi-stakeholder town hall meeting, "Shaping the Future of Data Ethics"! 📆 March 31, 2025 Keynote speakers: - RDA SecGen Hilary Hanahoe - The Harvard Data Review's Xiao-Li Meng Don't miss out! Find out more and register: ethicaldatainitiative.org/2024/12/20/e...

🌍💡Join us for our first annual multi-stakeholder town hall meeting, "Shaping the Future of Data Ethics"! 📆 March 31, 2025 Keynote speakers: - RDA SecGen Hilary Hanahoe - The Harvard Data Review's Xiao-Li Meng Don't miss out! Find out more and register: ethicaldatainitiative.org/2024/12/20/e...

Ethical Data Initiative Annual Townhall Event - The Ethical Data Initiative

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) at the TUM Think Tank and the University of Exeter, we would like to invite you to participate in our first annual multi-stakeholder tow...

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