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Register Now: S+T at UW Pop-Up Working Groups on Science, Society & Justice

societytech — 2025-02-04 01:43:06 UTC

Society + Technology at UW is offering a new three-part Pop-Up Working Group on Science, Society & Justice, hosted by Dr. Tim Brown (Department of Bioethics & Humanities).

📅 Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Topic: Airing
⏰ 9:30 – 10:25 AM (PT)
📍 Online | Chatham House Rule
👉 Register for the first session on Feb. 11

📅 Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Collaborations
⏰ 9:30 – 10:25 AM (PT)
📍 Online | Chatham House Rule
👉👉Register for the second session on Feb. 25

mmjones29 — 2025-02-04 01:44:41 UTC

Hey everyone, I'm Monika Sengul-Jones (mmjones), and I direct the Society + Technology at UW initiative. I'm passionate about fostering community and the cultural and social aspects of technologies for interpersonal community/communication. My/the goal here is to pilot ways to showcase the incredible work that this tri-campus community is doing and support you in connecting with each other. I look forward to meeting you halfway. :) I'm curious, what has been the most meaningful part of S+T@UW so far and what would you like more of?

rcalo2 — 2025-02-05 20:59:54 UTC

Hi all! I'm Ryan Calo, a faculty director for the Society + Technology initiative. I'm cross-appointed in law and information science and I co-founded the Tech Policy Lab and Center for an Informed Public. Monika and I hope you will use this space to tell your colleagues at UW what you do and what you need! Thank you for being a part of the S+T community.

Carceral tech

rcalo2 — 2025-02-05 21:01:15 UTC

I'm hoping to start a new project around carceral tech, i.e., technologies that funnel people into the criminal justice system and extend the carceral experience beyond prison walls. Please contact me if this is an area where you have expertise!

2025-02-12 23:37:37 UTC

Hi, I'm Leah Ceccarelli, a professor in the Department of Communication and director of UW's interdisciplinary Science, Technology, & Society Studies (STSS) graduate certificate program. My research is on the rhetoric of science. Lately, I've been especially interested in the public communication of scientists.

Amazing Postdoc Opportunity: Sloan Fdn - Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship

2025-02-13 19:14:45 UTC

This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem. All applicants are required to have a faculty mentor based at the research organization where the grant is to be held. Apply by April 10! (Info session March 14). For details: https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/aipostdoc-rfp

2025-02-26 03:23:22 UTC

Hello all, I'm Margaret O'Mara, Professor of History and a historian of modern American politics, the technology industry, and the connections between the two. As you can imagine, current events present many opportunities for me to share my research with the public! I'm currently working on a slow-burning book project on American tech billionaires and am also deeply interested in the political economy of AI, especially the data infrastructure and data centers of the PNW and beyond.

Request for Expressions of Interest (EOIs): Schmidt Sciences - AI at Work: Field Experiments on the Workforce Effects of New AI Tools

welliver1 — 2025-03-11 00:50:02 UTC

Brief Expressions of Interest (EOIs) due March 31, 2025. Funding up to $200K

The AI & Advanced Computing Institute at Schmidt Sciences supports fundamental research in artificial intelligence (AI), the application of AI and data science across a wide range of disciplines, and the creation of high-impact research platforms that accelerate discovery.

Our AI at Work program aims to drive exceptional research into how AI adoption may influence the nature of work and the functioning of the labor market. We support both descriptive research, which assesses causal impacts, and prescriptive research, which field-tests the design of tools, training, and policies to produce desirable outcomes.

Currently, there are too few high-quality field experiments and quasi-experiments examining the real-world effects of introducing AI tools in the workplace. AI tool developers, government agencies, and businesses need reliable insights into how AI systems perform in practice and what their implementation means for employees and the labor market. The AI at Work program addresses this gap by funding research that provides clear, trustworthy estimates of AI deployment’s effects in the workplace.

AI at Work will support early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists, including graduate students, with up to $200,000 USD to conduct and analyze field experiments and quasi-experiments on AI’s workplace impact.

See Program Page for focus areas of interest: https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/

Hi all, I'm Daniela Rosner, a professor in Human Centered Design and (soon) Digital Arts and Experimental Media at UW Seattle, with adjunct appointments in GWSS and CSE. My work concerns the materiality of technology design, and I'm working on a project at the nexus of algorithmic art, cybernetic histories, and industrial textile manufacturing. I'm co-organizing the upcoming 4S meeting and hope to see many of you there!

2025-05-12 21:02:49 UTC

Register for 4S Seattle! (Sept 3-6, at the Seattle Downtown Sheraton and Summit Convention Center)

2025-05-12 21:04:18 UTC

THE AI CON

2025-05-12 21:43:38 UTC

Hi all! I'm very excited to announce that my book, THE AI CON (co-authored with sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna) hits the shelves tomorrow. It's been a whirlwind few weeks already recording with various media outfits, and I look forward to all the conversations to come.

Computational Linguistics Treehouse

2025-05-12 21:45:49 UTC

I am the faculty director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory (in the Linguistics Department). We have a weekly meeting where we talk about research in progress and the research process. If you're working on a project that involves text or speech processing (or might benefit from some text or speech processing), we'd be happy to have you come talk to us! [Caveat: The calendar is basically full for this academic year, so this is really an offer for AU 2025 or later.]