Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

Once more for those at the back. Working as an undocumented delivery drive is not a "pull factor". People are not risking their lives crossing the channel to work for Deliveroo. Doing so is an outcome of the system once people are here. 1/2 #r4today news.sky.com/story/ban-as...

"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018" 75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise

‘Cracking down’ on a system which already makes it almost impossible for disabled people to access financial support apple.news/Ad-rjWUoHQNe...

I'm incredibly pleased to share that I'll be speaking alongside Dr Janaki Srinivasan, whose work I really admire, at this year's Merton Equality Conversation on 'Inclusions and Exclusions in the Data Age'. You can book tickets here if you're in/around Oxford www.merton.ox.ac.uk/event/inclus...

Registration open and Call for Abstracts, Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies workshop. University of Oxford, March 25-26. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

“What Israel is doing to Palestinians is not its own domestic problem, nor is it a minor or passing crisis; it is one of the most horrific, ongoing, large-scale human rights abuses of this century (and much of the previous one) The international community should do more”

🚨 Desperate for some Xmas reading? CIGI have published my report on "Developing a Framework for Collective Data Rights". This report aims to get concrete about the kinds of collective rights we might need to address group and societal harms from data and AI. 🧵 www.cigionline.org/publications...

"In Kenya, it traumatised 100% of hundreds of former moderators tested for PTSD … In any other industry, if we discovered 100% of safety workers were being diagnosed with an illness caused by their work, the people responsible would be forced to resign..." www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Gurbaksh might also be in Ipswich so if you’re in London or Ipswich please please keep your eyes peeled and reshare if possible 🙏

Long shot, but if anyone happens to have seen my friend Gurbaksh (also goes by Simon) in/around London, or can provide information that can help, please please get in touch. Would also appreciate if this can be shared more widely.

Data is never ‘collected’, it is only *generated*. This isn’t merely a pedantic semantic gripe; by misrepresenting ‘data’ as something that exists in nature & has only to be scooped up, evasion of accountability for data harms has already begun Data doesn’t exist until someone constructs it

An (unexpected) perk of doing research in India: your lovely friends and colleagues make you street food your weak stomach couldn’t otherwise handle so you don’t miss out 🥰

👋 new followers. I’m Sophie, a PhD student at the OII looking at government digital ID systems. I mostly take an STS-based approach to research and run an (online) STS reading group based out of Oxford - please message if you’re interested in joining!

NEW: Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Governments should adopt targeted sanctions and other measures, and halt weapons sales to Israel.