Events and opportunities

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Organised by the Turing Liaison team

Web Archives for Social Sciences Datathon

On 27–28 November 2025 we are organising a Web Archives for Social Sciences Datathon at the University of Bristol. This is in collaboration with our partners: the Common Crawl and UK Web Archive at The British Library. The datathon will take place at the BDFI Neutral Lab.

This two-day event will build capacity in the social science research community to use large-scale Web Archive data for policy-relevant, socio-economic research. Participants will work in teams with curated data extracts from the Common Crawl to address real-world research challenges. They will be supported by our expert facilitators.

Who should apply?

  • Early-career and more established researchers in the social sciences who currently use, or wish to use, web data for their research–especially data from Web Archives.
  • Researchers with technical backgrounds (e.g. data science) who want to apply their skills to Web Archive data for policy-relevant research.
  • Some prior experience with code-based tools (e.g. Python or R) is expected.

What will you gain?

By the end of the Datathon, you will be:

  • More confident in using Web Archives to address your own research questions.
  • Familiar with the structure, challenges, and opportunities of these data.
  • Equipped with technical expertise for working with Web Archive data at scale.
  • Experienced in using LLM for analysing such web data.

Practical details

When: 27–28 November 2025

Where: Bristol, BDFI Neutral Lab

Support: Limited financial assistance for travel and/or accommodation is available.

Applications CLOSED

From around the Turing

  • Present at the Oxford Digital Humanities Conference: 18 November 2025, University of Oxford
    • Audience: Graduate students and early career researchers
    • The conference is seeking to bring together researchers using computational methods in the humanities and languages fields across the UK. It will capture a wide range of subject areas across the many communities of scholars utilising digital methods - both from novices and expert practitioners.
    • Find out more about the Digital Humanities Conference
  • In-Person Networking Event: BridgeAI Adopters and Developers
    • 13 November 2025, 09:00 - 17:30
    • Venue: Wallacespace, London 
    • Exclusive in-person networking event designed to unite AI adopters, developers, and experts to accelerate innovation and responsible AI adoption across UK sectors
    • Hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, this event offers a unique opportunity to connect with SMEs from across the BridgeAI ecosystem.
    • Read more here
  • Simple Foundation Models for Astronomy: an Example Case with Lux
    • University of Liverpool, 11 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
    • Thanks to the efforts of large international collaborations there has been, and will continue to be, an unprecedented amount of data collected with telescopes from the ground or in space. These data are predominantly public, come in many different flavours, and are obtained for all types of astronomical objects (e.g., stars, galaxies, black holes...), enabling astronomers to chart from the smallest to the largest scales of the Cosmos.
    • However, while this deluge of data will provide all the necessary information to test current astrophysical theories and push our understanding of the formation of the Universe, we are yet to establish a sound-proof way of synergising all this high-dimensional, multi-modal, vast information.
    • Register here.
  • Machine Learning for Tuning and Control in Particle Accelerators
    • University of Liverpool, 09 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
    • Machine learning (ML) is a key technology for advancing particle accelerators and should play a central role in their future design. ML methods provide fast predictions at lower computational cost than analytical or classical numerical approaches, capture nonlinear correlations in data, and adapt to changes in machine conditions.
    • These capabilities enable robust online detection, prediction, optimisation, and control, while also supporting accelerator design by reducing the cost of numerical simulations and guiding parameter searches in high-dimensional spaces. Among ML applications, optimisation is particularly prominent, with Bayesian optimisation and reinforcement learning emerging as leading paradigms.
    • In this seminar, the speaker will focus on tuning and control tasks in particle accelerators using these methods and demonstrate their performance in real machines.
    • Register here.
  • Data Study Group January 2026: Save the date! 26 January - 06 February 2026
    • Audience: PhD students, post docs & early career researchers
    • Data Study Groups are intensive five-day collaborative, sprint-style research activities which bring together organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, with talented multi-disciplinary researchers from academia, to work on real-world problems.
    • January’s challenge will explore supply-demand gaps and trends in recruitment for AI roles across the UK labour market.
    • Find out more here: Data Study Group - January 2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
  • Threat Modelling Workshop for Sleeper Agents in Agentic AI
    • Wednesday 26 November 2025
    • 10:00–13:00 (London, UK)
    • Online (Zoom) - Register here
    • This interactive workshop will explore emerging cyber risks at the intersection of shadow AI, sleeper agents, malware, and disinformation, focusing on how these can combine into autonomous AI attack chains targeting digital identity systems. Participants will engage in guided discussions and scenario-based breakout sessions, working collaboratively to model and respond to complex threat scenarios and consider strategies to strengthen resilience in digital identity ecosystems.
  • Workshop on Human-Centric Agentic Web
    • November 22, King's College London
    • The workshop will focus around the next generation of Agentic web systems, with emphasis on safe, user-centric, and decentralised AI agents. For those interested in AI agents, trust, reliability, and robustness in autonomous systems, decentralised infrastructure for AI, multi-agent coordination, or related ethics/security/HCI topics.
  • Beyond the limits of our intelligence, London School of Economics and Political Science
    • 17 November 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
    • What if machines could match human cognitive abilities not just in narrow tasks, but across the full spectrum of intelligence? This is the promise of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a concept that invites exciting possibilities but opens up a number of other questions: What pathways are there to achieving AGI? What milestones mark meaningful progress? How will we recognise when AGI has arrived? And what new opportunities – or challenges – might emerge once we get there?
    • Professor of AI at the University of Bath Professor Nello Cristianini will visit The London School of Economics and Political Science for a forward-looking discussion on the current state of AGI research.
    • Find out more and register here.

From Turing Interest Groups

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  • Humanities and Data Science interest group: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Conference: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 15-16 January 2026, King’s College London (Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS)
    • We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change. The conference is funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership.
    • For more information, see the conference webpage