Burkhard Schafer
@burkhardschafer.bsky.social
Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
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Are you an Edinburgh Law School graduate based in the Munich area?
Then meet with your fellow alumni at an informal gathering held at Hofbräuhaus München on Friday 21 November, 8pm - 10pm.
Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/47v8siz
Then meet with your fellow alumni at an informal gathering held at Hofbräuhaus München on Friday 21 November, 8pm - 10pm.
Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/47v8siz
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Are you an Edinburgh Law School graduate based in the Munich area?
Then meet with your fellow alumni at an informal gathering held at Hofbräuhaus München on Friday 21 November, 8pm - 10pm.
Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/47v8siz
Then meet with your fellow alumni at an informal gathering held at Hofbräuhaus München on Friday 21 November, 8pm - 10pm.
Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/47v8siz
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Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
I was at her Edinburgh gig last night, and it was wonderful (AND we repaired an unstable timeline involving one copy of Poyums Annaw, a space time anomaly and the Edinburg Book Festival, but that's a story for another day) - if you want to treat yourself, and there is one near you, get a ticket!
🚨LOW TICKET WARNING🚨 there are 8 tickets left for my event in Glasgow with Denise Mina on Tuesday, so if you want a ticket, nows your chance! www.waterstones.com/events/len-p...
September 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I was at her Edinburgh gig last night, and it was wonderful (AND we repaired an unstable timeline involving one copy of Poyums Annaw, a space time anomaly and the Edinburg Book Festival, but that's a story for another day) - if you want to treat yourself, and there is one near you, get a ticket!
This is brilliant news, and what a great project!
🎉 Thrilled to share that I've received a @ukri.org #FutureLeadersFellowship for our transdisciplinary, participatory, & practice-partnered project #RewritingWor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social/ rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk researching #poetry, creative engagement, & #wellbeing for young people
Rewriting Wor(l)ds
Rewriting Worlds is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project researching young people's creative engagement with poetry at the University of Edinburgh.
rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is brilliant news, and what a great project!
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I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
www.ukri.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
Eleanor Morton's latest take on AI - worse than Craig
youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Eleanor Morton's latest take on AI - worse than Craig
youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
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Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…
September 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Only 10 days left to apply:
We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
September 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Only 10 days left to apply:
We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.
The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.
Please RT.
Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
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Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity.
While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control.
Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...
While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control.
Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...
Why Privacy Matters to People with Disabilities
Privacy is a universal right, but for people with disabilities, it’s often compromised in the very systems designed to support them. Accessing essential services and benefits frequently requires the…
privacyinternational.org
September 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Privacy is essential for people with disabilities to live with independence and dignity.
While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control.
Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...
While assistive tech can empower autonomy, mishandling sensitive health or disability data can lead to discrimination, stigma or control.
Learn more:
privacyinternational.org/case-study/5...
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"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
August 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
New batch of emails from Russia's disinformation campaign, which added Chancellor Merz of Germany to its list of targets, which has previously focused on Moldovan president Maia Sandu and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
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Letting Google set the narrative about the environmental costs of "AI" is like letting tobacco companies set the narrative about the effects of second-hand smoke by measuring the health effects of sitting through one neighbor smoking one cigarette.
August 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Letting Google set the narrative about the environmental costs of "AI" is like letting tobacco companies set the narrative about the effects of second-hand smoke by measuring the health effects of sitting through one neighbor smoking one cigarette.
While many get overexcited on AI and copyright Audibe quietly finds low-tech solutions to rip off authors and redistribute money from creators to billionaires. An important petition here: www.change.org/p/convince-a... and for background, this video helps: www.youtube.com/@Elisabeth_W...
Sign the Petition
Convince Audible to revise it's New Royalty Model
www.change.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
While many get overexcited on AI and copyright Audibe quietly finds low-tech solutions to rip off authors and redistribute money from creators to billionaires. An important petition here: www.change.org/p/convince-a... and for background, this video helps: www.youtube.com/@Elisabeth_W...
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Exactly one month til I'm heading across the UK with POYUMS ANNAW. Already so many of yous have bought books and tickets, and been so supportive of my work, thank you!! Tickets are available for most dates (if you've missed your city or you're not able to attend we're livestreaming the 24th)
August 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Exactly one month til I'm heading across the UK with POYUMS ANNAW. Already so many of yous have bought books and tickets, and been so supportive of my work, thank you!! Tickets are available for most dates (if you've missed your city or you're not able to attend we're livestreaming the 24th)
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Running she comes, late,
Reeling in under the last
Bronze brimmings. She sits
Among twenty whispers.
—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown (Polygon 2021)
#Orkney #poetry
birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
Reeling in under the last
Bronze brimmings. She sits
Among twenty whispers.
—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown (Polygon 2021)
#Orkney #poetry
birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
August 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Running she comes, late,
Reeling in under the last
Bronze brimmings. She sits
Among twenty whispers.
—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown (Polygon 2021)
#Orkney #poetry
birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
Reeling in under the last
Bronze brimmings. She sits
Among twenty whispers.
—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown (Polygon 2021)
#Orkney #poetry
birlinn.co.uk/product/carv...
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The wonderful @lenniesaurus.bsky.social has been shortlisted for Scottish Writer of the Year! If you've enjoyed her poetry or tireless (and frankly incredible) efforts promoting Scots with her Scots word of the day series, send her a vote:
projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...
projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...
Scots Language Awards 2025 shortlist unveiled
Hands Up for Trad are gled tae annoonce that amang the braw nominees includit on the shortleet for a Scots Leid Award 2025, are weel worthy fowk fae Scottish literature, theatre, eddication an busi…
projects.handsupfortrad.scot
August 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The wonderful @lenniesaurus.bsky.social has been shortlisted for Scottish Writer of the Year! If you've enjoyed her poetry or tireless (and frankly incredible) efforts promoting Scots with her Scots word of the day series, send her a vote:
projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...
projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotslanguag...
This sounds absolutely excellent!
August 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This sounds absolutely excellent!
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Two startups have just launched embryo selection software based on genomic IQ prediction. Both have support from "educational genomics" researchers, but some scientists say the startups are selling "snake oil." New post on genetics, IQ and education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e...
Educational genomics and embryo selection startups
Photo by David Matos on Unsplash Two new genomics startups have released consumer services claiming to allow parents to screen and select embryos based on polygenic scores for IQ. Both are already …
codeactsineducation.wordpress.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Two startups have just launched embryo selection software based on genomic IQ prediction. Both have support from "educational genomics" researchers, but some scientists say the startups are selling "snake oil." New post on genetics, IQ and education codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e...
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Gulls. youtube.com/shorts/SJZsD...
they infuriate me. 🏴💙
YouTube video by Miss PunnyPennie
youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Gulls. youtube.com/shorts/SJZsD...
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I'm holding onto one thing.
I love you.
I love you.
July 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm holding onto one thing.
I love you.
I love you.
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I have seen lots of people replying to Ian to say that the law is clear post FWS so the code shouldn't be revised. I have read into this more than most, so I'm going to list all the important issues unresolved by FWS. (Note I'm not saying that I will like how they are resolved.) 🧵
The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
July 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I have seen lots of people replying to Ian to say that the law is clear post FWS so the code shouldn't be revised. I have read into this more than most, so I'm going to list all the important issues unresolved by FWS. (Note I'm not saying that I will like how they are resolved.) 🧵
@aycaatabey.bsky.social Ayca's brilliant PhD discusses the Data Protection implications of this www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-ay...
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@aycaatabey.bsky.social Ayca's brilliant PhD discusses the Data Protection implications of this www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-ay...
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BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
Explanatory Notice and Template for the Public Summary of Training Content for general-purpose AI models
The Template annexed to this Explanatory Notice aims to provide a common minimal baseline for the information to be made publicly available in the Summary of Training Content for general-purpose AI mo...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
July 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: The EU Commission has released a mandatory template for AI developers to disclose training data. Unlike the Code of Practice, this is not optional. It could have global fallout, as rights holders abroad might use it to sue over copyright.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e...
reminds me of that discussion I inadvertently started at a blockchain conference, when I tried to convince the audience that "Oracle" is a misnomer, and they really mean "seer" ("manteis") There may have been some classist (or even classicist) insults being used for which I apologise
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
reminds me of that discussion I inadvertently started at a blockchain conference, when I tried to convince the audience that "Oracle" is a misnomer, and they really mean "seer" ("manteis") There may have been some classist (or even classicist) insults being used for which I apologise
great skit on AI, will use for teaching www.youtube.com/shorts/sgzCC...
Picking up a prescription in 2030
YouTube video by Rudy Ayoub
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
great skit on AI, will use for teaching www.youtube.com/shorts/sgzCC...