Dear AoIR-ists, With the usual apologies for cross-posting - On behalf of Amanda Lagerkvist (Uppsala University), I'm very pleased to call your attention to the newly advertised 4/5 year fully funded PhD position in the BioMe project, situated in the Media and Communication Department in affiliation with the Informatics and Media Department, Uppsala University: : <https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:303291/> (In the name of full disclosure, I am (proudly) affiliated with the BioMe Project as ethics advisor and consultant in the development of an existential virtue ethics of care.) The PhD student, who will begin in August 2020, will be recruited to study the limits of biometrics, and will also be part of the WASP-HS graduate school, funded by the Wallenberg Foundations: <https://wasp-hs.org/about-wasp-hs/> As a brief introduction to the BioMe project: the project is rooted in the frameworks of existential media studies and its central aim is to investigate the experiential range of encounters with these technologies with a focus on both possibilities as well as challenges and vulnerabilities, in order to scrutinize the pressing ethical imperatives they pose for networked humanity. (See: <https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence/#anchor-811040>) This section from the PhD position description is a good first taste of the obligations and possibilities of the PhD project: == Within the framework of BioMe the hired doctoral candidate is expected to contribute to new knowledge about both the limits of biometric technologies, and of strategies of living against facial recognition and other technologies that turn bodies into data, through machine-based measurement and statistical analysis of people's unique physical characteristics. In addition to offering knowledge about consequences of AI, in line with the aims of WASP-HS, this PhD project will discern potential alternatives to the developments at hand. This dissertation will add to the project an in-depth interrogation of various existential strategies for challenging and evading biometrics, thereby also highlighting those ethical issues and potential resolves discernible at the limits of biometrics. == I can further add that on the basis of considerable experience in these parts, I would consider the possibility of living and working in Uppsala to be an unparalleled opportunity more broadly. Please share this call within your networks and especially those colleagues whose interests and abilities might be well matched to the position. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0 <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics out soon! <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no