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....

DataBasic.io is 10 years old! Our self-service activities and tools for data literacy helped launch me down the road to my "Community Data" book, and was one of my first projects with @kanarinka.bsky.social. Happy to report the site is working again, and the two of us still collaborate.

On Instagram, anarchist activist and trans justice lawyer Dean Spade suggests that one way people can deal with their feelings about the transphobic meltdown is by writing letters to trans prisoners. More details on how to here: www.instagram.com/p/DOLzj4mjpA...

as a historian of crime, things i wish were more mainstream about “crime is down but concerns about crime are up” 1.crime rates are irredeemably inaccurate. argue all you like about this/that but statistics have always had more to do with policing and reporting than any underlying “crime rate” 🗃️

Here is that demo video, specifically focused on Los Angeles. This is the context in which GeoSpy is demoing its technology www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-ge...

Hi - some good news amidst the bad news: This week I start as an Assistant Professor of Data Science at Smith College. www.smith.edu/people/nikko...

SAME!

all it took for me to become a prison abolitionist was a few years of reading simple factual accounts of what happens in jails and prisons

Tonight: Providence! With @drnikko.bsky.social at Symposium Books.

The complete works of Stephen Sondheim and the relative merits of every cast recording / production / libretto change - thanks teenage obsessiveness.

Making a donation to @transjournalists.org 1) feels much better than doomscrolling and 2) is a measurable way of more helping trans people report on trans issues on a local and federal level in the US: www.transjournalists.org/donate/

I wrote a multi-page rhyming couplet poem about how Santa Claus is a fascist and the reindeer & elves were due for an Attica-style uprising to assert their rights and work for freedom. I gave it to my mother as an xmas present.

@drnikko.bsky.social and I have a piece in here on cooperative structures- discount code for 30% off too!!

Really excited to be the closing keynote at Code4Lib this morning. (I'm on around 9:15EST) Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQ2...

Legacy media is dying. They have no editorial independence anymore, they are beholden to billionaires who are buying out all the outlets and controlling me message. Support independent journalists, y'all. We're out here doing the work and breaking the news. Drop your WAPO sub.

My field’s national org- NAEA- has been predictably radio silent about all these EO’s targeting students and teachers. The conference theme this year is “vibrant” so I’ll be vibrantly launching a flyering campaign. See y’all in Louisville next week. #riso #risograph

Congratulations @marthasjones.bsky.social for an AMAZING review of the Trouble of Color. It's imperative that we support Black history by Black scholars in this moment, and the Trouble of Color reminds us that the impulse to deny, misname, and erase our history isn't new. Pick it up today!

I would not be at MIT today if not for community colleges. They are the only school so many of us have access to, and are such a precious resource full of vibrant scholarship.

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

Trans Rescue Action is a non profit assisting trans individuals and families feeling violence to southern California. For over a year, TRA has helped several folx relocate ensuring their safety and an ability to restart anew. Apply to be a safe house today! transrescueaction.org

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

You made it through another work week. Have you had something to eat today or gone outside? Are you slouching? Do you have anything fun offline planned? Is there a friend or loved one you could call? Try not to doomscroll too late tonight. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

Please donate right now to the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund: www.iowatransmutualaidfund.org #IowaTransMutualAid #TransRights #MutualAid

Researcher friends: Has "transgender" always been a restricted search category on factiva? I'm (up too late) gathering cites for the anti-trans dorm ruling in Utah and any search I run with the word "transgender" is returning "no results" even when I know that's wrong.

Join me!

New book alert! 🚨 Haimson’s TRANS TECHNOLOGIES researches how trans people are navigating online spaces, building community, and finding resources for themselves and each other. I can’t wait to pick up my copy ❤️

This is a campaign of eradication. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

Weird time to be writing a book about trans workers in the tech industry anyway if you want to do an interview with me on signal about your job, feel free to message

They are following the playbook. Soon US trans people will have an even harder time re-entering the US after international travel.

I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for. “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

Hey zine makers and zine librarians: Tranzmission Prison Project, an LGBTQ+-centered prison advocacy and abolition group, is looking for digital files of zines on specific topics. They will print paper copies to share. If you can help them out, please consider it! 📚

Published this week in the MIT faculty newsletter: A Call for Courage in the Face of Rising Antisemitism, White Supremacy, Misogyny, and Authoritarianism medium.com/data-feminis...

I feared this day would never come yet never let go of hope that it would. The fact that it has reminds me to lean into possibility in these times. Here's to all who NEVER gave up the fight to #FreeLeonardPeltier - including Leonard. Sending so much love, respect, care & healing energy his way.

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Something i can't get over is how often we read "too much focus on identity politics, not enough focus on the working class" as if you can't have a Politicized Identity and also be working class. Transness, as an ex. consistently framed in media as a by-product of education, & rarely through labour

We are excited to launch "A Woman's Place is in a Safe City," a data story on the use of #NirbhayaFunds for digital surveillance in India, in collaboration with @mitdusp.bsky.social Data+Feminism Lab, POV Mumbai @thesafecityapp.bsky.social & 3 anonymised Kolkata-based NGOs. bit.ly/3EvqV3R 🧵Read on:

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

“Know Your Rights” cards in 8 languages being bundled to go to various locations at work so patients know what to do/say if they are ever approached by ICE. 💥

Over thirty years of movement history, analysis, strategy, philosophy, and arts from all around the world are archived on our site for the benefit of the general public. We've recently updated the introductory reading lists on our Library page for your convenience. Enjoy! crimethinc.com/library 🏴

“Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm.” Stunning and chilling piece from Paisley, who knows this law better than anyone

Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear

Okay, there's also a way to still get close to the kinds of searches that I was doing previously (dm for more info if this is relevant to you)

BJS listing pages still work tho bjs.ojp.gov/library