[Ssnet_list] Post-Research Mixer debrief, AI Town Hall today, 4S open panel call, and more

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

Hi everyone,

Thank you to those who attended the STSS Research Mixer yesterday (and
apologies, attendees, for cross-posting some of this). We were more than 28
faculty, graduate students, staff, and visiting scholars from Bothell,
Tacoma, Seattle, the School of Medicine![1] I didn't take any photos,
perhaps because it was marvelous to be present and facilitate discussions
and mixing among you. :-) Thank you all who stayed to help tidy up the room
afterward.

For those who couldn't make it, I hope we can continue conversations and
communion soon with another mixer, details TBD!

In the meantime, a few reminders:

*1. Research clusters*
Faculty interested in collaborating on an S+T/STSS research cluster
application for 2025-26, please reach out to Leah and/or me directly. There
are a few emergent themes (or clustering) that could be pursued together
... around rhetoric and science/scientific expertise; genetics, cancer, and
risk; and feminist STS—and perhaps others! *The deadline for the Simpson
Center is November 15, 2024.*


*2. Join the "What is AI?" Town Hall today at noon (happening in one
hour!)*Yesterday,
we touched on the ongoing conversations at the university regarding
artificial intelligence. As you are probably already aware, last week, the
UW President and Provost announced the publication of a report by the AI
Task Force
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2024/10/02150921/AI-Task-Force-recommendations-1.pdf?mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGWT2y9FQX3RkCPobUQtmwMpLSG3IzBPJ92-XNMmpOMjCWE4jEKBkKBCE3eV3B2kM_V-ALGPTXj5O5D0tyLNZG-vgJq_WfWDKREa8IIkngS8Xw__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nvEfbWCKBRNeHl2NF6qQJdQp-06nJyzNQN062tmacizdrSGyH_xhLknU65hpplVDIvHlHnnOIysm0NSbtZFOGNyw7RD_9Q0lXw$>.
I
wanted to remind you that there's an online event happening today about
that report's recommendations: "What is AI" Town Hall
<https://www.youtube.com/live/Ed6Y0V5GHKo>, online, from 12 - 1:30 PM, by
the Office of the Provost and the AI Task Force. According to the Office of
the Provost, this is the first of seven online town halls.

   - Join the online "What is AI" Town Hall
   <https://www.youtube.com/live/Ed6Y0V5GHKo> (today, 12 - 1:20 PM)


*3. Share your perspectives on AI at UW *
The AI Task Force is also administering a survey to all students, faculty
and staff about the future of AI at UW. Please consider completing the
survey, which is due tomorrow, Friday, by 5 PM.

More links:


   - Take the AI survey
   <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uwsurvey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bymDr7lMSFRe68K?mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGWT2y9FRJDT2JkmT2if3JYSytUBEUFTGu6IjHlduPxW1E6VlnakC_w8tPAU2ZyMsjlaHekzH2kp18nwboCp_7ySbCijtfNPnAn7BfN4W0bW3E__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nvEfbWCKBRNeHl2NF6qQJdQp-06nJyzNQN062tmacizdrSGyH_xhLknU65hpplVDIvHlHnnOIysm0NSbtZFOGNyw7RAmgdgghA$>
   - Read the AI Task Force report
   <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2024/10/02150921/AI-Task-Force-recommendations-1.pdf?mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGWT2y9FQX3RkCPobUQtmwMpLSG3IzBPJ92-XNMmpOMjCWE4jEKBkKBCE3eV3B2kM_V-ALGPTXj5O5D0tyLNZG-vgJq_WfWDKREa8IIkngS8Xw__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!nvEfbWCKBRNeHl2NF6qQJdQp-06nJyzNQN062tmacizdrSGyH_xhLknU65hpplVDIvHlHnnOIysm0NSbtZFOGNyw7RD_9Q0lXw$>
   - Learn more about the UW AI Task Force
   <https://www.washington.edu/provost/2024/02/15/task-force-appointed-to-address-ai/>
   - Check out the Provost's blog
   <https://www.washington.edu/provost/2024/10/08/give-your-input-on-ai-take-the-uw-wide-survey/>



*4. Call for Open Panels for 4S *Submit Your Proposals for 4S 2025 in
Seattle by November 15, 2024. Learn more
<https://depts.washington.edu/stsst/2024/10/23/call-for-open-panels-submit-your-proposals-for-4s-2025-in-seattle-by-november-15-2024/>


It's very special to be in a position to support the intellectual life of
STS at UW and partner with you to develop and sustain the STS/S program(s),
scholarship, and community across the three campuses and the School of
Medicine.


Thanks again to our STSS Research Mixer co-sponsors: Simpson Center for the
Humanities, Society + Technology at UW, Tech Policy Lab, and the Department
of Communication.

In partnership,
Monika



Note:
[1] In attendance were 28+ faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars.
Departments and programs represented include (in order of appearance): IAS
at UW Tacoma; School of Education at UW Tacoma, STS at UW Bothell;
Libraries at UW Bothell; Bioethics and Humanities at the School of
Medicine; Law, Society, and Justice at the Jackson School of International
Studies; Information School; School of Law, Human Centered Design and
Engineering in the School of Engineering, Department of Philosophy,
Department of Communication, Department of English; Department of
Chemistry; College of the Built Environment; Comparative History of Ideas
Department. Our STS visitors were from the CTS Lab in Ecuador and a
Fulbright scholar from Portugal to the neuroethics lab in the Department of
Philosophy. Thank you all for coming!


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Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her | they/them)

| Program Manager

Society + Technology at University of Washington

Hosted by the Tech Policy Lab, UW Seattle

www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu


| Intellectual Life, Science, Technology, and Society Studies at UW

First Monday Co-Facilitator
https://depts.washington.edu/stsst/


| PT Lecturer

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UW Bothell

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