📣 The David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize is now accepting submissions! Recognizing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. Deadline: June 15, 2026. Self-submissions welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-award...

Can you review ~4 submissions for AIES? The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society has received over 900 submissions this year – rivaling the number of some general AI research conferences. 🧵

AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa! Deadline extended to April 10. aussts.org/aussts2026 #STS

Watermarking submitted papers to detect reviews generated by AI. Next up, we need to ban offenders from future submissions. As a sometime Area Chair for various conferences, I found nothing more infuriating than AI reviews. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One person in this photo deserves a 20% WNBA revenue share and it’s not me. Congratulations to the WNBPA on their historic labor agreement.

Great to see this live soon after the IOC announcement. It’s part of a longer history of scientific testing being inappropriately used to help justify ideologies about gender, bodies, and ability. I wrote a book >10 years ago about it, and the pattern continues and reflects contemporary politics.

From Caster Semenya and Humans of Sport.

The list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been announced. The prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology tinyurl.com/4fw5bp5t #sociology

Octavia Butler had all their numbers. This is from the new biography of her, Positive Obsession. By Susana M. Morris. bookshop.org/p/books/posi...

And it is a yes! Our TIG on Anthropology and Sport has been approved. We’re in business!!!

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Can't take any credit for this one but it's great seeing the newest piece from our lab group at @anuregnet.bsky.social in @theconversation.com. Jenna Imad Harb & Kirsty Anantharajah with the Super Bowl commentary many of us were waiting to read @nasssbsky.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

ARC’s new schedule is at www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese... It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not. For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!

New co-authored article by Jude Blacklock, Kathryn Henne, Kate Starre and Tate Morgan examines the paradoxical features of gender equity initiatives, and why they often don’t work as stated. Read more 🔽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Good morning, #ASCriminology2025 attendees! Drop by our booth and check out our latest books in Criminology. If you're busy with panels today, visit our ASC website and get 40% off all books we have on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a... #ASCinDC25

Made it to the American Society of Criminology annual meeting! I'll be discussing Violent Impacts, my @ucpress.bsky.social book with Matt Ventresca, later today at 3:30pm. For those also here, our author-meets-critics session is in the Scarlet Oak Room (Level 2). www.ucpress.edu/books/violen...

Editors invite papers that engage in assessment and critique of Northern theoretical approaches OR offer fresh theoretical approaches from the Global South. Deadline Dec. 15! ow.ly/txyq50Wq9qz

Looking forward to the online launch of our @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, on Wed, Oct 22nd at 4pm EST! (via zoom 🏎️) It’s easy to register via 🔗 or QR code below: westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

📚 Join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social and Matt Ventresca’s new book, which examines the social and regulatory impacts of concussion crisis discourses and how certain bodies are central within these narratives while others are pushed to the margins. Learn more & register: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Crashing #ASA2025 to see our new @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, out in the world for the first time! Also open access!

Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program: bsky.app/profile/did:...

📢Applications Open for our 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program #AUJoin Scholars of all academic disciplines who are based in 🇦🇺 & overseas academic institutions are encouraged to submit proposals related to the Program’s themes: ausi.anu.edu.au/news/applica... Closing date 📅 23 June

New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...

And by the way, Congress made the point explicit when it came back to amend the Privacy Act in 1988: no national data bank.

Join researchers at UNSW Canberra and the ANU to hear about the use of Generative AI in government policy work. RegNet's @k8henne.bsky.social will be chairing the event, with remarks from the AI CoLab Alliance. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-future...

Nice history of the Institute for Advanced Study. What began with physicists & mathematicians fleeing fascism has evolved into a community that also includes social scientists and humanists all pushing boundaries. The intellectual freedom the Bambergers championed still thrives in Princeton's woods.

"'The School District of Phila has decided to support the grant activities, as much as financially possible, even w/o the fed 💰... [Boosting] the pipeline of certified school librarians and the 5-yr strategic plan [to] incrementally add... librarians + libraries'... will move ahead in some form."

Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world

‼️ Are you interested in children’s rights, digital forensics and digital evidence come and work with me and join a great team @crisresearch.bsky.social! Deadline 9th of May ! #postdoc #digitalcriminology #criminology jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

New OA book. Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

The “Starlink user agreement has a clause maintaining that ‘the parties recognize Mars as a free planet & that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.’ This is in direct violation of international treaties governing space” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I hafta admit voting at the Museum of Australian Democracy in my first Australian election was pretty great 🗳️ #auspol

Barnaby looks well.

Flexing that I saw this before the rest of you (it's awesome)

📢 Call for Applications ⁉️ Would you like to be part of the editorial team of a discipline-leading journal❓ @policysociety.bsky.social is seeking a new dynamic editorial team to improve the impact of the journal further & shape the debates in our field The call is here 👇

Hey #STS friends! Quick announcement for a great panel at the upcoming STS-CH 2025 conference in Zurich (Sept 10-12): 🔥🔥 Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions 🔥🔥 To submit your papers: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ Looking forward!

Canadian researchers should be very concerned by Poilievre's promise to politicize federal research funding in Canada by ending supposedly mandatory 'woke ideology.'

Who could have guessed that when a rich neighborhood association donated $200,000 worth of automated license plate readers to the police foundation that they’d also want to dictate how the cameras are used.

Catching up after a much-needed break… Coming back to a thoughtful summary of a longer piece by my ANU colleague @begoldsmith.bsky.social

🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍 Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power! 📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual) 📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025 🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social