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Unofficial group picture of the amazing Measuring the Human Workshop crowd here at Cambridge HPS. Thank you for the thought-provoking talks and stimulating discussions Cristian Larroulet Philippi Eran Tal Anna Alexandrova Mark Fabian Riet van Bork UvA Institute for Advanced Study

A lovely tribute to my late mentor Ian Hacking in The Lancet by Andrew Green. Glad to have contributed. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Belated group photo from Measuring the Human at Cambridge HPS. Watch out for a special issue of Studies in HPS that Alessandra Basso Cristian Larroulet Philippi and I will guest-edit with papers from this workshop.

Overly technical concepts of accuracy in #ML mask sources of unfairness. This is especially harmful when informing #healthcare decisions. You're welcome to hear more at my #AIES23 presentation tomorrow. Link to arXiv preprint below. #AIEthics AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) arxiv.org/abs/2308.02081

Greatly enjoying a panel on "Large Language Models: Hype, Hope, and Harm" AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) featuring Atoosa Kasirzadeh Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD @GaryMarchant1 Alex John London and Kate Larson. Thoughtful discussion of some wide-ranging and thorny problems. #AIES23 #AIEthics

Very pleased that the papers from #AIES23 AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) are now available free and open access: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding…. It was an honor to co-chair the program committee with sanmayd Jenny Davis KayFirth-Butterfield and to work with our conference chair Francesca Rossi #ai #AIEthics

Looking forward to this Workshop on Data Ethics and Mental Health, organized by Eran Tal . October 6th, both in person and online. Program and registration here: dataethics.ca/events-2/

Registration is now open for Data Ethics and #MentalHealth workshop at McGill McGill DEEP October 6th, featuring talks by Skye Barbic she/her/hers Daniel Z Buchman Jo Henderson Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien Femke L. Truijens Sebastian Rodriguez Duque remote attendance possible. dataethics.ca/events-2/

A summary of my recent article on bias in medical AI, for those interested in the short version #AIEthics #AIinMedicine link.growkudos.com/1nk9lf20su8

I'm excited to be hosting Dr. Femke Truijens Femke L. Truijens this October as a visiting scholar in my group. Looking forward to collaborating on responsible and meaningful measurement of #mentalhealth !

My joint paper with Sebastian Rodriguez Duque and Skye Barbic she/her/hers on the role of ethical and social values in #psychometrics and psychosocial #measurement is out! We propose a process called "ethical iterations" for aligning measurement practice with values that complements epistemic iterations.

ICYMI: Paper out by PhD Candidate Dr. Sebastian Rodriguez Duque and Eran Tal! "Ethical iterations can align #measurement practice with the values of interested parties." "Measurement in youth mental healthcare illustrates the need for ethical iterations" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Models, Representation, and Computation, a conference devoted to celebrating Margaret Morrison's and Paul Humphreys’ life and work, will be held 12-15 June 2024 at the beautiful campus des Cordeliers in Paris. Abstract deadline January 31. mrc2024.sciencesconf.org

Submission now open to 2024 Inaugural Conference of the Society for the Study of #Measurement, August 5-6, 2024 in Berkeley, California. The deadline is April 1, 2024. measurementsociety.org/conference/

Thanks to László Kocsis for a lovely review of Mind as Metaphor (OUP) in Phil Quarterly: "brilliant argumentation and a light but lucid style... I highly recommend this book to anyone... friend or foe of mental fictionalism" Foe? Surely not! Oxford Philosophy doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqa…

Last day to submit an abstract to the Society for the Study of #Measurement in Berkeley! Derek C Briggs and Leah McClimans will be keynotes. #HPS #STS #Philosophy #PhilSci measurementsociety.org/conference/

I'll be speaking today at a webinar on responsible #measurement and youth #MentalHealth organized by Jai Shah McGill University - please feel free to join!

This week - an exciting new area of HPS! Philosophy of the Geosciences, with Aja Watkins & @Miguel0hnsrg (with dues to Alisa Bokulich ➡️ 🦋🌤️). Consider the challenges of quantifying earthquakes, comparing past & present climate conditions & measuring Earth. thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2180146/150782…

Like many consciousness researchers, I remember how blown away I was to read Dennett’s arguments. Thank you, ⁦CIFAR⁩ for allowing me to interact with one of my intellectual heroes, and ⁦nature⁩ for the huge honor of writing his obituary nature.com/articles/d4158…

And #SPSP2026 will be in Cambridge hosted by Cambridge HPS with many thanks to one of my original co-founders SocPhilSciPract, Hasok Chang. Start planning now, look forward to seeing you there.