Alex Taylor

@alextaylor
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Partner & daddy in vibrant E. LDN; 

doing: #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #Sociology #Resistance #HCI #ReparativeAI
 
More here: https://ast.io
webhttps://ast.io
Just to followers, I'm merging accounts to hci.social instance. If all goes well, see you on the other side.

🌟 🌟 🌟 Really cool Cornell job in our new Brooks School of Public Policy -- will be relevant to many here (but is for tenured or just-about-to-be folks).

"Scholars who study questions related to technology and public policy, including cybersecurity, scientific innovation, AI, data science, financial technology, social media, ethical and equitable use of technology, global politics of regulating policy, and more."

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23587

Toot and boost! (ugh can't used to these terms)

Finally getting round to #academic #introductions

I've been studying different aspects of the #sociology of technology for too long. My PhD was an ethnographic study of the rise of mobile phone use by teenagers – a clue to how long it's been.

More recently, I've turned to the human labours behind AI – from data labelling to model building. I'm especially interested in structural inequities and reparativeAI.

Some sources of inspiration are #feministTechnoScience #STS #hci #inventiveMethods

We're hiring! Brown's Dept. of Anthropology invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Seeking a scholar whose research & teaching expertise sits at the intersection of language & society, broadly construed. Geographic area is open. DEADLINE: 11/15. Learn more: http://bit.ly/3SdCwGU I am dept chair and happy to answer questions. #linguistics #anthro #anthropology #job #highered #university #rhodeisland
Apply - Interfolio

If you're in Edinburgh tomorrow, I'll be speaking at DataFest on the Future of Work: https://datafest.global/data-summit/
Data Summit - DataFest

The DataFest Data Summit Data Summit, is an international conference held in Edinburgh, created to bring together data leaders across industry.

DataFest

I've been an admin and moderator for chaos.social for nearly five years now (😱). A good enough reason as any to reflect on the Good/Bad/Ugly aspects of community management.

https://rixx.de/blog/on-running-a-mastodon-instance/

On Running a Mastodon Instance

I've been running chaos.social for nearly 5 years. A reflection.

rixx.de

If you're interested in an internship at Apple on the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence team, please check the link below for how to apply -- we have focus areas in Accessibility (Leah Findlater), Vis (@dom), Learning Sciences (@idontreallydo), UI Understanding (@jwnichls), and ML Developer Tools (@barik) … it's an amazing place to work, we're a research team that collaborates closely with software engineering, design, and a bunch of other teams.

https://apple.ent.box.com/v/HCMI-interns-call-2023

hcmi_2023.md - Box

Psycho-killer qu'est ce c'est? #halloween

Happy Halloweeeeeen.

[i’m on door duty tonight]

So many good people and amazing looking instances on the mastodons. As ever, too little time, too much choice.

This is a neat tool to help filter instances to choose from:
https://instances.social/