NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Leseempfehlung: Andreas Weber’ “Indigenität” matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/indigenia… (2019)

First class action lawsuit against an AI voice cloning company in Lehrman v LOVO. Interestingly, not an IP case, it's civil rights, false advertising, fraud, unjustified enrichment, etc. pollockcohen.com/docs/2024.05.1…

ICYMI: Here's a summary of our MISFIRES-ERC and #TargetingTherapies conference May 2-3. Thanks again to all participants & presenters & particularly to my MISFIRES team!
European Research Council (ERC) UCD Quinn School Ilaria Galasso Théo Bourgeron Fernandos Ongolly Gemma Watts UCD Research Martyn Pickersgill

Qué desastre

Interesante

Interested in a six-year postdoctoral research and teaching position in our department? 2 classes a term, otherwise a lot freedom to follow own research agenda within a thriving department in a wonderful city! Deadline: 2 June 2024. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University…

Thought for the day.

The Home Office just told an Immigration Judge that a traumatised Afghan 13-yr-old, living by himself in a Middle East country, doesn’t need to come to the UK to be reunited with what’s left of his family, because he can enjoy family life with them via WhatsApp

Come join virtual launch of my book 'Data Enclaves' w/ discussant Prof Koray Caliskan  (New School, NY).

22 May 2024 @ 10:00-11:00am EDT via Zoom: yorku.zoom.us/j/98121723369?…

You can find more information about Data Enclaves here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

We're delighted that Michael had a productive and energising time at SSSHARC. We are now accepting applications for 2025 Humanities Fellowships! Apply now to collaborate and engage with outstanding scholars from FASS. #Humanities #Collaboration #Fellowship Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences usyd_humanities

'Ethics and discrimination in artificial intelligence-enabled recruitment practices'
nature.com/articles/s4159…
#AI #hiring

It lives 😈 future proofing this book was the most intellectually tiring thing I’ve ever done. But I’m reasonably confident it will still be useful five years from now, let alone when it’s released later this year

I really enjoyed this excellent paper by Michelle N. Meyer, Nicholas Papageorge, et al, on possible 'corporate' uses of polygenic scores (insurance, finance), covering modeling, ethics, and policy.

A thread ->

cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…

#EuropeanSolidarity : Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Noelle Quenivet and myself for European Consortium for Political Research Press is now available in paperback!

Today at 4-5pm ET: Seminars in Precision Medicine with Dr. Barbara Prainsack, (Barbara Prainsack (@[email protected])): “Data Solidarity - What is it, and What does it Mean for Genomic Data Sharing?”

Register here: events.columbia.edu/go/Prainsack

We need collective action & legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis at the World Court
#ICJ

My new piece out today w wonderful team: D Patterson, F Tahzib, Benjamin Mason Meier M Hesselman, Wang Chenguang Lawrence Gostin

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

via Ilona Kickbusch

In the face of so much competition, careerism & demands for more, more, more (money, impact, awards, citations etc), it might be time to reclaim and/or just sit with the many, many ways we feel failure as academics.

Read this as a start —
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

'A data broker is offering sensitive passport data of thousands of people for sale – and publishing some of it openly online. Our investigation leads to an airline as a possible source'

Passport numbers for sale in the EU, thorough investigation: netzpolitik.org/2024/european-…