Han arrestado a Victoria Sámano!!! El responsable es el gobierno de CDMX! Exigimos su liberación!!

Looking forward to reading today: How AI Destroys Institutions by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and AI Surrogates And Illusions Of Generalizability In Cognitive Science by @mjcrockett.bsky.social and @lmesseri.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines. So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming: www.science.org/content/arti...

No estoy muy al tanto de las discusiones sobre la Junta de Gobierno. Hace muchos años, tomé su clase de Derrida. Una gran clase, por cierto, que sólo podría darse en una universidad autónoma. Ojalá contribuya a mantener la puerta de la autonomía abierta para las generaciones que siguen.

Mexico is setting up free vaccination stations against measles, and I am encouraging all my friends and relatives under 49 to get one. In the US, I know it's more complicated, but I got an MMR shot in the fall because my doctor tested me and I had no antibodies. I'm 36!

¡Vacúnate contra el sarampión! 💉🫶🏼 El equipo de la #SAPCI brinda orientación a la ciudadanía para promover la vacunación contra el sarampión, dirigida a personas de 10 a 49 años, como parte de las acciones de prevención impulsadas por la Secretaría de Salud. #CapitalDeLaTransformación

Yesterday I had my equivalent of Proust's madeleine: the neighborhood restaurant's salsa verde, which tastes the same as it did 30 years ago, when the restaurant owners' daughters and I went for a meal before ballet class. Back then, the taste seemed eternal. Now I wonder how many I have left.

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

BCcampus published my post: Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: The Case Against Surveillance Link: bccampus.ca/2026/02/06/r...

A happy Monday to everyone, and especially to those who use their platforms, however gigantic or small, as a force for good 💗

My mom, who never wore sneakers or jeans to teach in philosophy school who never liked my swearing who always had a soft spot for Latin American protest music oldies She's been asking the past few days if it's time for the Benito Bowl yet, and it finally is. 😭

I've always had an 'I will make time to chat with you' policy. No email is too cold, no outreach is undeserving of attention. I have to admit: my policy is challenged by a string of AI-powered emails I have been receiving. No doubt a chatbot flagged me as a person of interest and drafted an email.

Cyberspy Group Hacked Governments and Critical Infrastructure in 37 Countries www.securityweek.com/cyberspy-gro...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.

As always, I'm late to the party, but I love this Chilean initiative to raise awareness on the water usage of data centers. "On January 31st, don't ask AI -- ask us. Analog intelligence" www.quili.ai

On a panel today, a journalist's words that really stuck with me: So many people unplugging from the news out of overwhelm, but, especially on February 4, 2026, we have to remind ourselves: People are getting shot to bring us the news.

NEW REPORT ➡️ “From Protest to Peril: Cellebrite Used Against Jordanian Civil Society” Our investigation reveals that, since 2020, Jordanian authorities have deployed Cellebrite’s forensic extraction products against civil society targets in Jordan. Full report here: citizenlab.ca/research/fro...

Really heartened to see the American Academy of Pediatrics' new guidelines on a child-friendly digital world. They place the burden where it's due: system-level, not the child nor the parent. www.healthychildren.org/English/news...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

May her memory be for a blessing. May she rest in power.

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for January 2026 is out! surveillance-majority-world.net/2026/01/07/s...

Once again, saved by immigrants from Oaxaca in #BostonMA. Happy epiphany day, ¡feliz día de reyes!

One of my favorite year-end recaps since the days (a decade+ ago!) that it was my job to put it together :p The best of data and infoactivism in Latin America [in Spanish], by @socialtic.bsky.social : infoactivismo.org/lo-mejor-del...

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

Fall 2025 teaching update: I feel sad for the loss of the writing product as a means of evaluation. Not because I'll miss reading bad papers, lol, but because of the people who will never get the beautiful challenge (and therapy!) of expressing their thoughts with depth.

If you're in or near #BostonMA #CambridgeMA #SomervilleMA and looking to do some #mutualaid on the coldest night of the season so far, the Malden Warming Center is fundraising for a stove to keep serving hot meals: givebutter.com/MWCStove

It's #WorldAIDSDay. Every year, I learn more and more about a topic that touched my life as a '90s kid who lost 'uncles' back then. This year I finally watched 'How to Survive a Plague' and I am infinitely moved by the advocacy that happened to get antiretrovirals in the market.

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

This great piece by @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social (as well has his excellent new book) gets at something I'm always exploring: While we think of surveillance as an issue of the latest technology, and it is, it's also a historical constant about states forcing vulnerability onto political targets.

meanwhile, nonprofits are asked “what is your plan to sustain this food bank after the term of this one month emergency grant to replace SNAP?”

Holy shit.

[10] An unidentified #trans woman was reportedly beaten to death in Tamaulipas (Mexico) on or before 10 Oct 2024. No other information is known other than her approximate age of 45-50. #SayHerName #TransLivesMatter #TDoR tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2024...

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Alice Wong helped me accept my disabilities. She taught me there’s no social justice without disability justice. She encouraged me to start The Disabled Ginger and was a friend & mentor. She won’t be forgotten. Don’t let the bastards grind you down: www.disabledginger.com/p/thank-you-...

At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, according to the WHO. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the virus.

Not now, carnivorous death ball

We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025 #DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social

Take note, NSO Group.

Amigues en CDMX y más allá: El 5 de noviembre a las 10am voy a charlar con David Pruneda sobre Binding Media para el CISAN, UNAM. Yo estaré virtualmente pero la sede oficial es la Torre de Humanidades II en CU. También se va a transmitir en vivo vía el YouTube de CISAN www.youtube.com/cisanunamweb

Mass surveillance makes us less safe. www.404media.co/flock-logins...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We watched How to Survive a Plague in class, and I cried from beginning to end. I thought I was moved because I was a '90s kid who lost 'uncles' to HIV, but many students were moved, too. A story of people who, as they were dying, found it in their heart to fight for their right to live, saving many

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

What makes the internet so special you ask? It was designed in the 1970s to create a system resilient to single points of.....oh. Jokes aside, I'm grateful that so much infrastructure *did* keep running yesterday. Saying a general thanks to all the engineers whose work made that possible.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I have learned *so much* from @msifry.bsky.social's nuanced, informed, realistically optimistic thinking on the biggest conflicts humanity has faced the past few years. He shares it all for free on his Substack, so his book is an immediate order for me: micahsifry.com/books/whendo...

This project is #goals for anyone working on AI, computing, and environment: insightful research on an urgent matter, extremely compelling choice of case studies in the global majority, and beautifulllllll grabado/print illustrations. The women behind it are a dream team. tramas.digital/es/