do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article

Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Singapore you delicious bastard, I'm coming for you! 🦀 🍜 ✨ Join me for a public lecture on: Artificial Figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture 🗓️ Wed 19 November, 2 - 4pm 📍 Chinese Heritage Centre Auditorium, Nanyang Technical University Register: blogs.ntu.edu.sg/aimeetshuman...

Melbourne-ite STS-ers, the local AusSTS node are doing a wee Summer Symposium on AFTERMATH - Mon 23 February 2026. If you are interested in coming along then please submit an abstract by 25 Nov 2025 ⏰https://forms.gle/9kwgnpDiE2HP61sF7?_imcp=1

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨ This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨ Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...

Tough time for many at ANU. At around midday yesterday staff received a university-wide email. The language was ambiguous and could be read to say all forced redundancies would stop. I received many messages from people being forced out. Were they now safe?

Session 1 is a screening & discussion of the ‘AI in the Street: Drone Observatory’, a short film created & directed by Dr @thaophan.bsky.social (Australian National University) & Jeni Lee. We will be joined online by Thao to discuss their work & the creative practices behind producing the film.

The Australian Academy of the Humanities is thrilled to announce feminist science and technology studies scholar Dr @thaophan.bsky.social from the Australian National University has won the 2025 Max Crawford Medal. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

Huge congratulations to @thaophan.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Max Crawford Medal 🥳! In addition to her exemplary feminist STS work on race and gender in algorithmic culture, Thao has contributed enormously to growing a vibrant STS community in Aus. humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

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

Congrats to Dr Thao Phan, winner of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025 Max Crawford Medal for her exemplary scholarship investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture @thaophan.bsky.social #AlgorithmicCulture #MaxCrawfordMedal #GenderStudies admscentre.org/47nJF1g

Join me, Joel Stern, and Nic Carah for what's shaping up to be a stimulating seminar on Automating Everyday Life! ⚡Wed 30 July, 3 - 5pm AEST ⚡Register for zoom details I'll be talking about generative AI and the problem if representing political violence. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

Day after this puff piece went out, I was called into a meeting to tell me I'm in a spill and fill along with three amazing friends and colleagues. To the meeting, I wore Nanyang 205S Sneakers. For those who know, they are as much a style item as a Tesco Bag for Life. 👟

Please take the time to read and sign this open letter addressing CASS PhD & Masters students' concerns with the upcoming restructures of our college! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Staff at #ANU across multiple areas are getting called into meetings today ahead of job cuts being announced later this week. The VC is happy to sit and take questions from @canberratimes.bsky.social, but not her own staff. @nteunion.bsky.social has no confidence.

Shout out to the ANU Vice Chancellor's PR team for commissioning a puff piece so bad it tries to recuperate her public image by comparing her to corrupt millionaire Imelda Marcos and profiling her collection of designer shoes www.canberratimes.com.au/story/900277...

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:...

On the 9th of July, at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn, as a part of the @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference, I will be talking about infrastructures of noise at the keynote panel along with Glen Berman, Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, and Kate Mannell. (3/4)

On the 8th of July, Fabian Offert and I will be running a workshop on 'How to Train Your (Mental) Model' at RMIT Media Portal in Melbourne as a part of the 'Network Anarchy and Unstable Diffusions' program. (You can register at events.humanitix.com/how-to-train...) (2/4)

💎 NETWORK ANARCHY AND UNSTABLE DIFFUSIONS 💎 7 - 8 July Naarm/Melbourne @blueskychris.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @eryk.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊

AI in the Street: Drone Observatory has won the STEAM Award at the New Media Film Festival in LA. Filmed in Logan, QLD, it explores life under drone delivery trials. Created by ADM+S researcher @thaophan.bsky.social & filmmaker Jeni Lee. admscentre.org/43VtZPE

And now the full listing... we are recruiting for a PhD scholarship to conduct ethnographic research on net zero in nth Australia, based at Deakin + working with me, @karidahlgren.bsky.social + @chrismayes.bsky.social. Apps close 20 Sept. Spread the word + details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

Open letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances. ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.

Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.

In incredible company with this new release coming in May. Congrats to eds. Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. Diagrammatic Epilogue on my end. 30% off with code "E25ZBLAS" ordering from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/informatics-...

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

In case you don't remember, this piece by @thaophan.bsky.social is the best that has been written about it: «The very real attacks and erasures of the labour of racialised and marginalised people in AI companies take a backseat to the imagined erasures of white people in AI-generated images»

Marching with students at the ANU May day student strike to demand an end to the disastrous cuts on campus and to stop job losses at ANU ✊✊✊

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

See you tomorrow Edinburgh!

Bonus free public talk in London next week! I'll be talking AI and the long history of science and technology testing in the colony 7pm, Wednesday 9 April Royal Georges, 85 Tanner's Hill London Part of AI Rights & Wrongs series @universityofessex.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-rights-...

Up next: performance lecture in Edinburgh! Register through Eventbrite

Great to see @nteuact.bsky.social coming right at this to make it crystal clear that academic freedom is not up for grabs in Australia and at ANU. Happy to talk with anyone about the issue who wants to know more.

Happening tomorrow!

Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time

And then a lecture/performance on 'Listening to Misrecognition' for the Edinburgh Futures Institute Critical Data Studies Cluster Tuesday 8 April, 4 - 5pm Hosted by @alex-taylor.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...

Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...

CFP for #AusSTS2025 on 'Signals and Noises' closing this week! Feat. a stellar lineup of plenary speakers: Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney Deadline Fri 14 March aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Live long enough to become a diversity stock image in your VC's facile PR posts

Happy IWD to everyone except the Vice Chancellor of ANU whose corrupt and incompetent management of the institution has meant that the “remarkable female leaders” she celebrates, including myself, wake up every day not knowing if we will even have a job in the coming weeks #VoteNoConfidence #ANU

CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney & more!! Deadline 14 March

Here at the @nteuact.bsky.social rally at ANU to protest the shameful cuts to our university! Up to 630 jobs slated to go under this manufactured crisis. Staff say ❌NO❌ to this Vice-Chancellor and her so-called "cybernetic leadership" (read: same old liberal managerialism) 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

Very happy to see this piece on Anticipatory Automated Mobilities from @pinkydigital.bsky.social and me out in the world! It's the introduction to a special issue on the same topic. Full issue coming soon! @admscentre.org.au www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“If Silicon Valley’s approach to AI has been to move fast and break things, then our mission as academics is to approach it in a different way.” ADM+S Affiliate @thaophan.bsky.social joins ANU reporter Luis Pérez to discuss the ripple effects of unregulated #AI under Trump’s administration.