Zeerak Talat زیرک ظلعت (they/them)
Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
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@doctorvive.bsky.social
Founding Director, End Climate Silence Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It* genevieveguenther.com
@mommunism.bsky.social
Curly hair enthusiast, ☭, mom, abortion aficionado, misplaced Kentuckian, Berliner, Colonel Sanders chronicler, recovering lawyer, contributing writer @therealnews.com Social Media etc for @burnitdownkimbrown.bsky.social Always Antifascist
@michellema.bsky.social
Reporter @bloomberg.com | I cover all things climate tech | Read my stories: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AWTYlfwjEUk/michelle-ma | [email protected] | She/her | Opinions mine | Based in LA
@carolin-holtermann.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate in NLP focusing at @ds-hamburg.bsky.social on Multilinguality and Multiculturality #NLProc
@kristap.bsky.social
she/her Organizer - turkopticon.bsky.social My time is spent on advocacy including worker rights, environmental concerns, and queer rights 🌈🍉 Malicious compliance is my resistance plan.
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@danielaschnee.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher in Forensic Linguistics at aifl.bsky.social | she/her
@moosewin.bsky.social
DOGE-displaced former civil servant technologist, current developer on analytics/stats for private and nonprofit sector. Amateur poet, recreational philosopher of math, and former photographer. they/she. 🚄🏳️🌈 https://povertyofattention.com/
@callmesan.bsky.social
PhD at Telecom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. I research content moderation methods in low-resource code mixed languages and literary linguistic phenomena in digital humanities (CSS). Website: callmesanfornow.github.io
@rocher.lc
senior research fellow at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
@sarahagilbert.bsky.social
Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her https://citizensandtech.org/
@lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
The Equality Network is a leading Scottish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights charity
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social
#Linguist, lecturer & researcher at Swansea University. Interested in #ForensicLinguistics, #Identity, #OnlineHarms & the #RadicalRight. All views are my own. https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
@akariasai.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at University of Washington CSE. NLP. IBM Ph.D. fellow (2022-2023). Meta student researcher (2023-) . ☕️ 🐕 🏃♀️🧗♀️🍳
@george-lakoff.com
Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
@tainab.bsky.social
@theframelab.bsky.social
FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy. Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
@vmywang.bsky.social
Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.
@jmittra.bsky.social
Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation studies, University of Edinburgh: research interests in health-related aspects of the bioeconomy; innovation and governance of advanced therapies https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mittra
@barrymaguire.bsky.social
philosopher at the University of Edinburgh working on care and solidarity in morality, politics, and economics (papers, teaching, etc. at http://www.barrymaguire.com/).
@krangelie.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher (she/her) 📖 AI Ethics & NLP @uni-hamburg.de & @leuphana.bsky.social 🌳 Previously Fellow @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 🌐 angeliekraft.com
@ellecordova.bsky.social
A nerd at large. Writer. Musician. Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈 Join my sci-fi book club: http://patreon.com/ellecordova nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
@oliverbates.co.uk
designer and researcher. https://fractals.coop/ he/him. works on emergent climate futures, tech, and social change. making games, zines and narrative explorations for transition from the current system. Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
@pgibson.bsky.social
AI in Education, CAIED, Critical Posthuman Theory, Emerging Media, Educational Technologies
@alzbetahajkova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of philosophy. Technological politics, technology and gender, pedagogy of philosophy of technology. From Slovakia, in Atlanta. she/her. Views expressed are my own.
@rayo.dev
PhD Designing Responsible NLP at the University of Edinburgh, on AI literacy through co-design with young people Trustee of Prewired ex-CTO of Voxsio he/they 🇳🇱🏴🏳️🌈 https://rayo.dev
@helpodai.bsky.social
@womeninaiethics.bsky.social
champion of equity and ethics, advocate for diversity in AI and tech, lover of cats and coffee (and occasionally tea)
@enricogalvagni.bsky.social
@Leverhulme Trust research fellow @EdinburghUni working on moral concepts and their history. More about me: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/enricogalvagni
@sj-bennett.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ Critical Data Studies & data justice @Algorithmic Societies, Durham Uni - founder + co-organiser of AI Ethics & Society @ai-ethics.org - affiliate @Centre for Technomoral Futures
@alice-ross.bsky.social
Linguist, anarchist, reader, overthinker, cat enthusiast. PhD student at CSTR, University of Edinburgh: I research speech technology and its impacts on diverse speakers. ייִדיש אויך מעגלעך. https://alice-ross.github.io/
@soon1otis.bsky.social
Associate Principal NLP Engineer @ AstraZeneca, UK. All opinions are my own.
@cdt.org
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU.bsky.social for our EU-based team. https://cdt.org
@steven.murdoch.is
Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
@mariafarrell.bsky.social
Irish writer and keynote speaker: let's rewild the internet! Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her http://www.mariafarrell.com https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ http://lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. #nohello
@stokel.bsky.social
Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide @stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@josephcox.bsky.social
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: [email protected]
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@stevepeers.bsky.social
Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming). Usual disclaimers.
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: [email protected]
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)