Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
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After a long few weeks of torrential rain, headaches and late nights working, final student marks are all uploaded and that’s it (nearly) for the year. Sun just came out. Small beer cracked.
Richly deserved, but no good will come of this award! 🍽️🔒
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards.
For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#SkyStorians
My team is hiring a permanent lecturer:
-> Lecturer Digital Culture & Society
Deadline 28 June 2026. Please share with friends.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Baldock, Shepreth, Gog Magog; so many broad beans.
AI Ethics expert wheeled onto the radio to discuss Milei's scheme to give legal rights to AI...
...an idea he probably only got from reading AI Ethics thought experiments.
Permanent full-time post in 🌏 #histsci at UCL #sts
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈
All News Outlets: Stanford Law show AI 'outperformed' human lawyers, giving answers they 'overwhelmingly preferred'.
Stanford NLP: AI gives answers users preferred; pleasing, affirming & sycophantic (increasing engagement & dependency).
law.stanford.edu?p=568056
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This role is based in the Department of Information Studies (www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...) and our programme is called 'Information, Data & Society' (www.ucl.ac.uk/study/prospe...) which is based in the state-of-the-art surroundings of SCCI (www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul...)
In unexpected good news: !!JOB!!
Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#dh #sts
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
