@orianbrook
Social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy (and elsewhere). Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh Culture is bad for you http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
'Isn't really that much evidence' is very kind indeed. The maths just ain't mathing, as they say.
Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Are you making waves in data research, or do you know someone who is?
Submit a nomination for the CDCS Prizes https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/cdcs-prizes #EdCDCS
Well there's a graph for you.
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) spend data, transactions over £25,000, April 2010 - December 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (1.4 MB XLSX)
#publicspending #opengov #opendata
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
“Independent Thematic Review
of portrayal and representation of the UK in BBC content” www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
I would say this findings shows women are more AI literate than men, because the majority of non-magical beings have no innate ability to "judge truthfulness"
I recently discussed the question "Does Cultural Policy Research Need Theory?" on the @culturaltrends.bsky.social podcast. You can listen here, even without a sub: open.spotify.com/episode/679x...
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.
‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
economist.com/united-state...
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This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
"Guyan’s study argues that excluding gender identities from data collection 'presents a more chilling form of power where trans people in data are not possible – when they appear in data, their presence is "wrong" or "inaccurate”'."
archive.is/202601211442...
Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions:
www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...
www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...
Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
I always feel roguish to make such a basic point, but bias is an intrinsic feature of _data_, and transitively of any system of analysis or decision-making based on data.
The fact that this point has to keep being demonstrated over and over for more complex systems is crazy-making to me.
Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
Such a pleasure talking to Dave O’Brien about all things Opera Wars for the New Books Network! Have a listen at the link below! ⬇️
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Important January sales news!
You also forgot to say that it is dairy-free! Often cooked for my son before he outgrew his cows milk protein intolerance - delicious!
It can't hallucinate. It can't lie. It can't apologize.
It is a machine that works the way that it was designed to work BY PEOPLE.
Lovely.
Thrilled to have my paper with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social and Giuliana Giuliani in @wonkhe.bsky.social