If you, like me, became a data fiend in the 20th century only to become horrified by all things 21st century, I suggest this pairing of The First Measured Century with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co's The Ordinal Society, a fine angle on the second measured century.

This is amazing stuff from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social

The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all

Some of us have been scared of this since 1991

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...

FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

New paper from CODE ENCOUNTERS @nuffieldfoundation.org project on role of open banking and digital profiling in access to private renting in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

Why Open Banking is important for housing studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ARC says they’ll announce Centres of Excellence outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Dec). This is more than 2 months late, most likely due to the new security checking requirements for ARC grants. Centres of Excellence grants also need to have been approved by the Minister.

We are very happy to announce our huge online seminar series for 2026! You can see the details for the whole thing at our Eventbrite page and each one below.

The classic early retirement story! @will-davies.bsky.social & I wrote about this movement & all its contradictions back in 2020. doi.org/10.1080/1753... I assume FIRE has been turbocharged post-pandemic, with the combo of job disillusionment & asset appreciation.

Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction! #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

#CentresOfExcellence #CE26 ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes! It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Reply to some great comments on mine and Gavin Wood’s piece on #housing, the asset economy and a resurgence of rentier capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Roger Burrows and Amber Howard point to the importance of digital infrastructures and algorithmic risk profiling in their commentary "Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation"

NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).

From the Archive: David Beer and Roger Burrows, 'Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data' - focuses on prosumption practices, digital technologies and the playful vitality of the ‘glossy topics’ that constitute popular culture. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

www.newcastle.edu.au/events/colle... 9am UK time

A new Migrant Research Institute at Goldsmiths is looking for an academic director www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...

Uncanny timing. New #housing paper arrives online right in the middle of relaxing holiday… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news! @thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

Ah shit, as soon as I posted it I realised I left Mike Masnick ( @mmasnick.bsky.social ) off the list.

Molly White @molly.wiki 404 Media @404media.co Brian Merchant @brianmerchant.bsky.social Doug Rushkoff @rushkoff.com That's definitely an incomplete list, but it will tap you into a larger network of people fighting the good fight. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the replies! 4/