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Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
pinned post!
A short description of the Algorithmic Kitchen, funded by Wellcome Trust, is up on CRASSH. Nancy Salem joins the project to work on the futures of ageing and disability. Archival Image courtesy of the J. A. Manter Photographs, UConn Photograph Collection.
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also stop defunding libraries!
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In Taiwan, members of the publishing sector are not only celebrating the win, but reminding people that gov't-sponsored translation grants were recently targeted by the opposition as "wasteful", and this very writer criticized (by some in the opposition) for being "too political" and "talentless".
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Margot Finn
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'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2
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Closure of Birmingham City University black studies MA âblindsidesâ staff
Academics and activists condemn Birmingham City University's closure of the eight-month old course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2d6eg050o
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd
4 days ago
Ever wondered whether transcription services might play a crucial role progressing your project, but not sure where to start? Join our Founder & CEO, Dr Zara Bain, on Tues 26 May at 7pm BST (GMT+1) for a free, live webinar where we'll talk you through everything you need to know. Sign up here âïž
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Curious about booking transcription to support your social research?
Get expert support navigating what to do with your qualitative data once you've collected it, and get your questions answered.
https://funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/transcription-services-webinar
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I wrote about Jordan Lord's work, and in hindsight realised this was a manifesto against access slop:
lux.org.uk/new-artist-f...
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New Artist Focus: Louise Hickman on Jordan Lord - LUX
Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 12 minutes 25 seconds) LUX Moving Image · LUX Moving Image â New Artist Focus: Louise Hickman on Jordan Lord  Debt is deliber...
https://lux.org.uk/new-artist-focus-louise-hickman-on-jordan-lord/
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Natalia Cecire
8 days ago
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Open Data Institute
17 days ago
Itâs your last chance to book our FREE webinar on the effects of AI on visual culture! Join our experts as they discuss Image Empire, Dr. Alan Warburtonâs new animation. The session examines how âlarge world modelsâ fuse the real and the virtual together in potent new forms
buff.ly/3pyfqsA
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seriously 2026, heat the person not the room
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Another book for the transcription archive. I did my phd project on labour of captioning and how captioner can curate access intimacy for their deaf readers. also
@zaranosaur.bsky.social
is doing a lot of great work around transcription justice
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30 days ago
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Dr Alison Ray
30 days ago
So happy to get a copy of the amazing âThanks for Typingâ exhibition at
@harvard.edu
, with brilliant research into womenâs type labour by
@cejacobson.bsky.social
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Amazing team leading on this summer school
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Ed Davey
about 1 month ago
Wes Streeting must kick Palantir out of our NHS. Donald Trump's favourite tech giant shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Brits' private health data. There are fantastic British tech firms who would be far better and safer for the NHS.
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Not next month but this coming Friday!
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We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at
@algorithmickitchen.bsky.social
next month
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859/#description
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Astra Taylor
about 1 month ago
One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below.
bit.ly/4cbLfEr
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Deborah Feldman
about 2 months ago
Did a podcast for the
@blnreview.bsky.social
with the fabulous Lauren Oyler - about my recent essay and practically everything else:
blnreview.podigee.io/24-deborah-f...
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Deborah Feldman on Germany's Strange Love for Jews
Lauren Oyler talks to Deborah Feldman, author of the memoir Unorthodox and longtime Berliner, about her essay "For the Love of Jews," published in the new issue of Berlin Review. They discuss German p...
https://blnreview.podigee.io/24-deborah-feldman-on-germany-s-strange-love-for-jewsepisode
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Rua M. Williams
about 2 months ago
It's me and that damn book again
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Kelly Fritsch
about 2 months ago
Excited to be in conversation with
@louhicky.bsky.social
in Cambridge April 17!
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We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at
@algorithmickitchen.bsky.social
next month
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859/#description
about 2 months ago
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Feminist Killjoy
about 2 months ago
Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My
#KilljoySolidarity
with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Signing the Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026
Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple Indian languages are available at the end. We, the concerned ...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKNOw0cQrMbkYm2srKIBa-RHBMHRVCz6jkY9W-l714oJy8MQ/viewform
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If you need a delightful watch
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Wildlife film-maker Martin Dohrn sets out to film over 60 species of bee in his garden.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t686
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Dr Zara Bain
about 2 months ago
Thank you so much to those of you who came along to Tuesday night's panel discussion on Transcription for Racial Justice, and even bigger thanks to our three fantastic panellists,
@elisney.bsky.social
,
@divyampersaud.com
and
@wardasworld.bsky.social
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Transcription for Racial Justice Panel, Tuesday 24 March 2026
How can transcription and closed caption services serve and support the goal of achieving racial justice?
https://funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/transcription-for-racial-justice
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Dr Zara Bain
about 2 months ago
What are you up to tonight? At 7pm I'm delighted to be joining a fantastic line-up of panellists to hold space and explore the question of transcription can reinforce racial injustice or resist it? To book and help us raise funds for causes we love, follow the link in the post below
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd
2 months ago
Even courtroom transcribers certified to 95% accuracy "consistently failed" maintain that level of accuracy when transcribers speakers using African American Vernacular English, with implications for courtroom justice. Join us tomorrow for an online panel discussing Transcription for Racial Justice
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Transcription for Racial Justice Panel, Tuesday 24 March 2026
How can transcription and closed caption services serve and support the goal of achieving racial justice?
https://funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/transcription-for-racial-justice
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Another symptom of late capitalism is pothole discourse.
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I'm so looking forward to this panel! Access work (including the debt of access work) doesnât disappear; it simply changes hands, accumulating where resources are thinnest.
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Captioning technology had a moment at the Oscars!
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Claire L Jones
3 months ago
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost)
#histmed
#dishist
www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
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Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...
https://www.routledge.com/Physical-Disability-and-Deformity-in-Nineteenth-Century-Britain/Jones/p/book/9781032673868
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Alejandra Caraballo
3 months ago
The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
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Sara Salem
3 months ago
Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now!
archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...
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Archiving the Tricontinental â archive stories
îïžïžïž All   îïžïžïž Launching Archive Stories   îïžïžïž Archiving Palestine   îïžïžïž Archiving the...
https://archive-stories.com/Archiving-the-Tricontinental
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We have set up a mailing list for the Algorithmic Kitchen project. You can subscribe to keep updated on kitchen workshops, events and news.
lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/c...
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crassh-algorithmic-kitchen - Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design - info
https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/crassh-algorithmic-kitchen
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Jane Shi | çźçŹé« echolalia echolalia is out now
3 months ago
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Myself and
@sesmith.lol
and others were interviewed for the Lancetâs obituary of our friend Alice. <3
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Alice Wong
Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis, IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged 51 years.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00157-1/fulltext?rss=yes
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There are overlaps with the embodied classroom, where Deaf gain and using informal hand gestures to perform weekly skits shifted students attention from their tech to engagement.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/the-emb...
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Resharing is still very relevant on the scale of care and access.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/standar...
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Standardised access: the tension between scale and fit
Disability-led access as a lens to rethink the meaning and potential of responsible technology
https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/standardised-access-tension-scale-fit/
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Lisa Diedrich
4 months ago
Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Bodies & Embodiment in Critical Medical Humanities Summer School for doctoral students in Sweden in September!! Application deadline is Feb 16.
liu.se/en/research/...
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Medical Humanities International Summer School 2026
A three-day program in Vadstena, Sweden, brings PhD students together to explore bodies and embodiment in critical medical humanities through lectures, creative workshops, mentoring, and interdiscipli...
https://liu.se/en/research/centre-for-medical-humanities-and-bioethics/medical-humanities-international-summer-school-2026
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Karen Gregory
4 months ago
Really looking forward to this:
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The âBSL is Not for Saleâ report is featured in today's Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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âCoffee is just the excuseâ: the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order
In-person interactions break down barriers in east London, as AI startups also try to bridge communication divide
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/01/deaf-run-cafe-london-where-hearing-people-order-via-sign
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Sarah Bull
4 months ago
Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
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Imagine the possibilities of disability-led infrastructure!
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A short description of the Algorithmic Kitchen, funded by Wellcome Trust, is up on CRASSH. Nancy Salem joins the project to work on the futures of ageing and disability. Archival Image courtesy of the J. A. Manter Photographs, UConn Photograph Collection.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...
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Screening of Jenny Brady's work in Glasgow tonight. I will join Jenny online to discuss her work on the fragile form of communication, including audio description and captioning. It's an in-person event.
luxscotland.org.uk/programme/ev...
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Compressed and Re-expanded | Three films by Jenny Brady
We are delighted to present a special screening event at Tramway, Glasgow, featuring Jenny Bradyâs work which explores the fragile, intricate mechanisms that shape how we communicate. Brought together...
https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/events/compressed-and-re-expanded-three-films-by-jenny-brady
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I could walk from my office down to this beach in ten minutes.
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Rachel Coldicutt
4 months ago
If you're new here and happen to see this, here's a Critical Tech starter pack, full of interesting folk to follow
go.bsky.app/VFxSES6
And if you have a small account (<10k followers) and would like to be added for visibility, let me know! (Although response times may be slow)
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Dr Abeba Birhane
6 months ago
like big tobacco funding cancer research
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Lisa Diedrich
6 months ago
In my book Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, I write about the
#MillionsMissing
protests as demonstrating, quoting Judith Butler in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, "what it means to mobilize vulnerability in concert."
#NietHersteld
does this too.
manifold.umn.edu/projects/lln...
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llness Politics and Hashtag Activism | Manifold@UMinnPress
*Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism* explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. Lisa D...
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/llness-politics-and-hashtag-activism
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Georgina Voss
6 months ago
And whilst I'm here! If you're thinking of buying SYSTEMS ULTRA as a festive gift (neon cover also doubles as SAD lamp), I'd be happy to mail you a set of bookmarks and holographic stickers to go along with it - please get in touch [1/4]
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
6 months ago
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger
@flsbrgr.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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Tracking, with Stefanie Felsberger | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/tracking-with-stefanie-felsberger
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Looking forward to hearing on
@clemicollett.bsky.social
new report later today at 12pm!
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Miriam Posner
6 months ago
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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Elea Chang
6 months ago
I donât want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong,
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnqk/?igsh=Y2E5NjA1MjBtaTZp
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