using this kind of tech in the eu would be very illegal, assuming (unclear from piece) that the age verification is inseparable from the exposed person etc checks. which would be surprising! but also easily fixable I assume! confusing piece
The successful candidate will have their research home in the Faculty of Laws, while their teaching duties will be split across Laws and EISPS. Their teaching will include core modules offered by the Faculty of Laws in EU and in Public International Law (as expertise permits) aimed at students on non-law programmes, as well as elective interdisciplinary modules offered primarily by the EISPS Department, shaped by their expertise and research interests. We are interested in candidates with experience in both law and politics (or a related humanities or social science field) which may substantively relate to a wide array of specialist areas in domestic, international or comparative law, such as international trade law, migration and refugee law, public international law, private international law, electoral law, technology law, maritime law, international commercial or financial law, regulatory law, environmental law, foreign relations law or administrative law. We particularly welcome applications from candidates who might contribute some teaching on the Faculty of Laws’ French, German or Spanish Law programmes. It is important that candidates applying with a research background in politics, or a related field, evidence how they would be able to teach law, for example through prior law qualifications or publication in legal venues. Candidates with a background in law should ideally be working clearly across disciplines, and in any case, should be able to demonstrate how their research-led teaching would fit within a programme such as the EISPS programme.
more info — the net is wide
please share as for some technical reason it may not appear on jobs.ac.uk!
Lecturer in Law and Politics Ref Number B03-02945 Professional Expertise Academic Department UCL SLASH (B03) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £54,931-£64,644 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment No Closing Date 23-Mar-2026
About the role UCL has a longstanding tradition of inter-disciplinarity across Law, Political Science and International Relations. We are looking to appoint as Lecturer one or more outstanding candidate(s) who will be able to contribute to UCL’s development and advancement of world leading teaching and research in both law and politics, understood broadly. The successful candidate will have their research home in the Faculty of Laws, while their teaching duties will be split across Laws and EISPS. Their teaching will include core modules offered by the Faculty of Laws in EU Law and in Public International Law (as expertise permits) aimed at students on non-law programmes, as well as elective interdisciplinary modules offered primarily by the EISPS Department, shaped by their expertise and research interests. Reflecting the broad strengths of the Faculty, we are keen for applications from a diverse range of scholars: those who take socio-legal, comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical, and/or theoretical approaches; those who adopt interdisciplinary approaches; and/or those who approach EU and Public International Law through economic analysis of law and intersecting legal subject areas. The deadline for applications is Monday 23 March 2026. Interviews will likely take place in the weeks commencing 11 or 18 May 2026. About you Successful candidates will be expected to engage in world leading research, and to contribute to UCL’s development and advancement of an interdisciplinary approach to EU Law / Public International Law and political science and other areas of law falling within their subject matter expertise. It is also expected that the post-holders will contribute to all aspects of the academic life of the Faculty and University.
Full time, permanent law and politics lecturer post at @laws.ucl.ac.uk. Background either a social scientist with law training, or a lawyer with social science interest. Teaching: either/both of introductory EU/PIL, plus specialist teaching. Civil lawyers welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ah — that's a disastrous practice for academic freedom, as it means that funding can be terminated on the basis of a standard google contract, which contain extremely broad non disparagement clauses.
After 5 months, the European Commission has now released several of the industry consultation responses provided in relation to the AI Act's General Purpose Model provisions www.asktheeu.org/request/all_...
This dude is rotating inspirational quotes in his email signature. Intense total dipshit energy.
🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node).
Short abstracts due 9 March.
All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Haaretz investigation has found that at least three Israeli cyber companies are currently operating in #CARINT; one has developed an "offensive" tool that can potentially tap into your 🚗car's microphones and cameras.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Hardly needs to be said, but this rule would be gibberish and unenforceable if everyone didn't already know what topics and perspectives are going to be ruled "controversial"
how is the funding of these PhDs arranged? is there any mechanism by which google can pull funding depending on what the PhD writes, as there has been in Meta’s phd collaborations? (paid on payroll w standard quite censurious contract). Or does the uni take the money in a lump and redistribute?
Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
I'm continuing my research into global tech politics, including the politics of digital sovereignty, and the political economy of the digitalisation and statecraft in my role at ODI Global - please reach out if you're keen to collaborate or want to know more about my research!
I’ll be putting out much more of this work into the world in the weeks and months ahead, but for now, I want to thank my supervisor @michae.lv for his mentorship and support, and my examiners Dr. Gavin Sullivan and Dr. Cecilia Rikap for their excellent feedback and critique.
My thesis examines the mutual interactions between emerging platform and data-based technologies with forms of political economic authority, structures and subjectivities, through a case study of India’s ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’, aka the 'India Stack'.
Last week, I successfully defended my PhD Thesis, ‘Platform Politics and Data Publics: Sovereignty, Statecraft and Citizenship in the India Stack’, at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.
Picture of Laytown beach in County Meath Ireland showing a cloudy sky with sunlight streaming through to light up a beach with some horse riders in the far distance.
Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
Over on Twitter/X, Bill Ackman (of Harvard/Claudine Gay/plagiarism/tennis debacle fame) has written another 3,000+ word post.
He believes that Francesca Gino's RAs faked her data. And, plot twist, he's been funding Gino's legal battle against Harvard since 2024.
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thankful for books on how to do this
FOI request: Dear Greater London Authority, Please provide income details from any sponsorship or commercial arrangements in relation to the “Wicked” film franchise in relation to visial placement during the broadcast of the London NYE fireworks 2025-6. This includes deals between Universal Studios, Marc Platt Productions or Universal Pictures. Please provide income details and all agreements and conditions of any sponsorship. Yours faithfully, Michael Veale
Happy New Year www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/inco...
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Social media company means any information service [cont.]… The term does not include any information service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex as defined in s. 509.013.
As you’re watching a Disney film at Christmas, raise a glass to Disney’s lawyers who, in Florida’s 2021 social media law, had a blanket exemption placed in to except any theme park owner from the definition of ‘social media platform’ www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵
We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?"
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
Europe’s Digital Markets Act aims to open ecosystems: alternatives to app stores, fair access to OS features, real interoperability. But for many free and open source developers, those promises remain fragile without robust enforcement, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
Tech whistleblowers say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives... They became isolated among their colleagues, suffered severe professional damage, or were pushed out of the industry altogether...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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