assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Rosamunde Van Brakel
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🌟Tomorrow #SSN2026 @survstudiesnet.bsky.social starts in Lille! Very excited to present at the doctoral colloquium, present on #surveillance, fisheries crime & more-than-human-harms and moderate a panel on regulation and oversight of facial recognition surveillance! ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
A new EU Kids Online (EUKO) report, based on responses from 29,169 children 9–16 across 19 EU countries, challenges the simplistic view that social media is either clearly safe or clearly harmful. The findings highlight a more nuanced reality. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...
The report’s central finding is that AI’s environmental costs depend not only on how much electricity is used, but also on where that electricity is generated and which energy sources power it. It frames AI’s environmental footprint as a governance and justice challenge. unu.edu/inweh/collec...
What a tremendous loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi 💔
"More than 800 data centers are currently under construction worldwide, on every continent except Antarctica...Global data centers already consume as much power as France."
TIME's latest cover story:
AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 bn people by 2030, according to a United Nations report.
We can live without as many data centres, but not clean water!
time.com/article/2026...
Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation
Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting
This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures.
It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
Brussels sets out an ambitious cross-sector plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign technology, spanning cloud services, semiconductors and AI, while pairing new regulatory tools with investment and industrial policy to expand domestic capacity, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue — Surveillance & Society:
“Everyday Surveillance and Intimate Partner Violence”
Edited by Karen Louise Grova Søilen, Kristin Veel & Kassandra Wellendorf.
A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.
