Come Trip Out! with us @utm.utoronto.ca in March!!!!

Join the ICCIT from March 4-5 for Trip Out!, our third annual graduate-faculty research symposium. This year, invited scholars and graduate students will consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcomi...

The long-awaited new issue of POROI is out from @rhetstm.bsky.social, including my article about psychotropic drugs in wellness discourses! The article is timely because it critiques a certain kind of masculine subjectivity that's, um, in the news rn: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...

I just came back on here to show off my book with Jeremy Tirrell, coming out this summer from U of Alabama Press. (I wonder if anybody still sees me. Is anybody here?) www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736262...

We’re hiring! Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025. More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

pre-order link via @bookshop-org.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/reco...

the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context

Excited to speak on "How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways" at @uoft.bsky.social's Dalla Lana School of Public Health for their Health Inc series. Join us! Wednesday 12-1 ET on Zoom. Register below. www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-the-id...

I'll be presenting a theory pill at the Space Out! symposium this Thursday! Stop by if you want to hear me ramble on about street furniture and public space in Toronto. 🛰️🇨🇦📚

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I'm ashamed of the US right now. (Often, even always, but acutely today.)

Come Space Out! with us at UTM next week!

If you are taking inspiration from movements *please study them.* 20th Century Civil rights organizers were very hard core about security. You should be too. Here's some very basic guidance -- I don't know who made this site, but it checks out -- infosecforactivists.org

@eff.org also has a great resource on surveillance self-defense that is better to engage BEFORE you start any activities/relationships that could be criminalized: ssd.eff.org

Excellent data journalism: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

badass PhD spot:

And they say there's no need for TechComm in STS...

Holy shit, tho. I would never, ever, ever want this to happen to me? and at the same time I am kinda jealous of this guy

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at @thenewschool.bsky.social is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program. Apply by Feb 28, 2025: platform.coop/blog/open-ca... cc: @nssrnews.bsky.social @netzpolitik.bsky.social

OMG Robert Garcia 😆💙

Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique!

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Wikipedia is getting ready to extend anonymity features to protect editors/authors in the US (as it does other editors/authors in similar totalitarian regimes).

New book dropping in May with University of Alabama press

My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂 www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...

Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique!

I wonder if the ads he bought are funny. I wonder if they have the Clydesdales in them. "Big strong beery horses don't need help. They help themselves." [galloping sounds]

"To understand [right-wing adoption of ugly-ass AI art], we must consider the right’s hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism."

"Socialist start-up incubators." Let's go. Please.

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

YEP. It's because WIRED understands this moment is a media/technology/culture problem all the way down. Techbros are the turtles.

okay but how do I get the old Outlook interface back just like it was y'all this shit is gonna ruin me

Okay but maybe it's good for something.

TL/DR: first move of fascism is to remove minority interest from legal existence at the level of technical/legal documentation. The US academy needs to find a way to collectively refuse to expunge this language from funding proposals. "First they came for the grant proposals, and I said nothing."

Multiple friends in the US in the sciences "to keep our funding, we have to expunge EDI language from our grant proposals." Please read Steven Katz (1992), "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust" www.jstor.org/stable/378062

Maybe this'll be how we get beyond economic models of property LOL.

We should have a "talk like you talk to your pet all day at work" day.

Trying to figure out what to do, substantively, with care, for my colleagues in the US working with/towards federal funding. If anyone has good conduits for action, please recommend them.

teen vogue is one of the last remaining bastions of the fourth estate and i'm so serious about that

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

Hmm looks like teaching critical refusal could work...

Announcing an open search for a position in Columbia’s Ph. D. program in communications “We are particularly interested in candidates pursuing pioneering research agendas in:  Science, Technology, and Society (STS); media law and policy; media history; global media….” apply.interfolio.com/162364

The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective's "Statement on the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza" is now OPEN ACCESS through February! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

This is a thing I am learning. At first I felt invisible, but then I realized that reposts and quotes are the way to rebuild a sense of the dopamine-hit-giving network I miss so much.

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This is the simple formula to convert celsius to farenheit I really don't see what all of the fuss is about (not).

Didn't share this yesterday because there was, uh, other stuff going on, but just a reminder that "Blue Monday" was made up by a travel agency to sell vacations. Featuring thoughts by me ⬇️ www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...