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Inventing Ourselves: Responsibility and Diversity in Research

Feb

20

2021

This piece was a contribution to the wonderful book by Gavin Brown, Chapter X in How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey (OUP, 2021). It shares one view on how we, as scientists, can respond to diversity and inclusion, and hopefully interesting to everyone (beyond the early-career scientist). A letter to the ...

Queering Machine Learning

Aug

6

2020

I am incredibly humbled to have been able to give a short talk at the Queer in AI workshop at ICML2020. This is the text of the talk. Watch the video. Look through the slides. What an experience we are all having in recording these videos! Of all the videos you could be watching, Thank ...

Queer Exceptionalism in Science

Feb

27

2020

Written during the 2020 LGBTQ History Month Remembrance that takes place during February each year in the UK.Read in 5mins (800 words) Today’s queer scientist is exceptional. Exceptional as in extraordinary and remarkable; exceptional as in unusual and strange. This is a state of ambiguity that isn’t surprising, since each year, especially during LGBTQ History ...

Machinery of Grace

Nov

16

2019

Shakir Mohamed | 1345 words (~14mins). Will link to video and slides once it's ready. for TEDxLSTM: Unknown Destinations Dearest, Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsichord pavane by Purcell And the racer’s twelve-speed bike. The machinery of grace is always simple. These are the opening lines from a poem entitled Machines by ...

A New Consciousness of Inclusion in Machine Learning 1

Jun

16

2019

On LGBT Freedoms and our Support for Machine Learning in Africa This is an exploration of my thinking and my personal views. Read in · 1147 words · Soon, in two neighbouring countries in Africa, two large machine learning events will take place: one in Nairobi in Kenya, and another in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. ...

Racialised Lives and the Life Beyond

Jun

4

2019

I spoke at the 2019 Equality in Science Symposium at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. This is the text of my contribution, and you can watch the video (jump to 2:20:50). Read in 15mins. is truly an honour to be here with you today. How amazing to be in this historic city of Liverpool, ...

Talk: How Do We Support Under-represented Groups To Put Themselves Forward? 2

Nov

1

2018

I gave a talk at the Royal Society's 2018 annual diversity conference. This is the text of my contribution; you can also see the video here. Thank you to all the organisers of this year’s annual conference for this very special opportunity to speak to you all today. My aim today is to spark a ...

Decolonising Artificial Intelligence 7

Oct

11

2018

· Read in 6mins · 1297 words · The Artificial Intelligence we believe to be global, is far from it. It is localised. Contained. Within restricted geographies and people. As the pressure of containment builds and the kettle begins to whistle, the call sounds. How do we make global AI truly global? This call will be ...

The Price of Transformation 4

Sep

26

2018

· Read in · 1200 words · We are the people who transform the world. And Transformation is needed. We need a transformation—of our thinking, communities and institutions—in which we are all truly equal, and inherited injustices are eliminated. This is as important to our social well-being today as it has ever been. True Transformation's accomplishment ...