Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Now out: special issue of Surveillance & Society. Issue examines creative responses to workplace surveillance, Ring doorbells, period-tracking apps (my article), social media censorship, & interventions by Forensic Architecture. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

#CallForSessions #ISAWCS27 ℹ️ ISA Working Group “Digital Sociology” (WG10) Call for Session Proposals for XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 4–10, 2027 in Gwangju, Republic of Korea 🗓️ Deadline for session proposals: June 25, 2026 🔗 www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

What does Brazil's fight against Bolsonaro teach us about resisting authoritarianism? This week @ekoshy.bsky.social and I talk with @karabekir.bsky.social about Lula's return and the fragile politics of a "rainbow coalition" itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/p/episode-13...

Journalists + writers: I'm on the hunt for a book essay for the November/December issue of @technologyreview.com. The idea is to have a strong thesis and use 1-3 new or upcoming books to help explore it. My e-mail's at the bottom of this page if you need it. www.technologyreview.com/how-to-pitch...

Check out the 1st issue of our 60th anniversary volume! This special issue focuses on Building the Disciplines within Law and Society and features contributions from Mark Fathi Massoud, Jeffrey Omari, Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Lynette J. Chua, Renee Cramer, and Asad Asad www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share a new pub in @lawsocietyreview.bsky.social co-authored with Carolina Valdivia! Carolina and I explore the concept of "creative solutions," or ways that higher ed staff support undocumented students and alter organizational meanings of illegality www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Proposals: Our 2026 Global Outreach Small Grants Program is open now! Some great opportunities for STS-focused individuals and groups. Deadline to submit: July 26. Visit our website for eligibility and more information: www.4sonline.org/2026_global_...

We have EXTENDED the deadline to June 15, 2026!!!

Our schedule for #FAccT2026 is live! facctconference.org/2026/schedul... You can find the full conference program, including sessions and papers, through the above link.

Following Marc Galanter’s passing in April, we released a thematic collection that captures his work published in LSR. It is only a snapshot of his publications, so we invite readers to explore the full range of his scholarship. All articles are free to access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is the funniest stock photo choice imaginable for this book. The designer was like, "How can I capture the title and subtile in one handy image? I know!"

Up and at 'em on this lovely Saturday, #LSASF2026 attendees! We'll have another host of UC Press employees at our booth, eager to show you our latest Legal Studies books! As mentioned before, grab 40% off our displayed books on our LSA website:

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Attending the @lawandsociety.bsky.social meeting? Join the Law & Society Review editorial team TODAY to discuss 60 years of LSR and our plans to maintain the journal’s vibrancy while charting a course for a future in which law itself looks uncertain. 🕝 2:45pm-4:30pm 📍Plaza Room A, Lobby Level

To celebrate our 60th, we have joined @bsky.app! We’re looking forward to catching up with colleagues the @lawandsociety.bsky.social meeting this week. If you are traveling and haven’t had a chance to read our 60th anniversary issue, you can find it here!

📣 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.