Si la justice administrative a décidé que le chantier de l’A69 pourrait se poursuivre en 2026, ses opposants ne baissent pas les bras. Reporterre rappelle leurs cinq principales raisons de lutter contre cette autoroute. ➡️ Lire l'article : https://l.reporterre.net/Tng

📕🚢Travailler, travailler encore, Dockers en lutte à Dunkerque est un cadeau idéal pour quelqu'un qui s'intéresse aux luttes ouvrières du 20e siècle à leurs relations avec celles d'aujourd'hui. On y parle de savoir-faire ouvrier, de désindustrialisation, de néo-libéralisme et aussi d'utopies !

I'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq

Years after years, from cassettes to mp3 blogs to posts on Mixcloud, decades of mixes by Starsky. Today: Rewind 2025 part 1. Experimental-ish songs and sounds to stay in bed. www.mixcloud.com/strsk/rewind...

OMG OMG OMG OH. MY. GODDESS. vimeo.com/1127648743?f... (Poke @fdrubio1977.bsky.social, @tscriado.bsky.social)

Le ministre de l'intérieur a confirmé ce matin que les mégas fichiers du « Traitement d'antécédents judiciaires » (TAJ) et du « Fichier des personnes recherchées » (FPR) ont bien été compromis et que des données ont été volées. La Quadrature du Net s'alarme d'une catastrophe annoncée. ⬇️

Workers powering the AI industry face terrible conditions, but they shouldn’t have to. Interview with me in Yahoo News: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

YES! So many structures and words that have been classed as AI giveaways are what speakers of English as a second language have been taught and encouraged to do.

Do typefaces have politics? Do politics have typefaces? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

New ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!

I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

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For bibliographic needs, use matilda.science?l=en

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades. Lead, the ignored matter. www.nytimes.com/interacti…

5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

Very clear. Very important.

🎙Episode #76 is about exploring love through maintenance and the disruptive, delightful, mundane, difficulty of the everyday with David Pontille & @jrmdns.bsky.social 📚 The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...

Questionnaire adressé aux enseignants-chercheurs des universités françaises, la demande du gouvernement. L'impensé politique d'une enquête prend ici la forme d'un code couleur. #VertRouge

ICYMI: Brice Laurent, 'Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading' - traces a path through Bruno Latour’s reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

En pleine COP30, l’Union européenne pourrait saborder ses propres engagements climatiques. Swann Bommier, de l’ONG Bloom, dénonce une « reddition historique » face aux lobbies pétroliers et aux forces conservatrices. Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/xUR

✨ — new paper — ✨ Reproblematising maintenance, reconsidering infrastructures: The emergence of a more-than-corrective maintenance programme in French water networks management Jérôme Denis & Daniel Florentin — Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Faut que je vous raconte une anecdote parce que je trouve que ça assez explicite sur la folie des IA : l'autre soir j'avais un pot de départ et avec un pote on fait une pause clope devant le bar, qui est situé dans le marais. Un gars passe et demande une clope, je lui file, il reste taper la discut'

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Il y a un an tout pile, je soutenais ma thèse sur les transformations de la recherche publique à l’aune des dispositifs de valorisation de ses résultats. Il y a quelques mois, celle-ci a été mise en accès libre sur HAL : hal.science/tel-05065109 L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽

we'd be really curious to hear from other journals what they're seeing @econsocjournal.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org @finandsoc.bsky.social @bigdatasoc.bsky.social @societyandspace.bsky.social @dialogueshg.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared 1/n

They’re so affraid. They’re so dangerous.

Quels sont les véritables liens entre l’innovation et la croissance ? L’économiste Cédric Durand revient sur les impasses intellectuelles des travaux sur le sujet de Philippe Aghion, tout juste primé par la Banque de Suède.

Creative destruction got a Nobel. We are definitely heading back to the 1930s. This is. so. frightening.

Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".

Tiens, les Éditions Quæ annoncent une « 2e édition revue et corrigée » du bouquin de #Latour « Le métier de chercheur, regard d‘un anthropologue ». (Le communiqué ne dit pas sur quoi il est « revu et corrigé » et si Latour a participé, avant sa mort, à cette révision) Sortie le 2 octobre.

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Of course they do. It's content, right? Everything is. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...

With hurricane Gabrielle making her way into the Atlantic, seems like the right time to make my own announcement. I’m leaving my current employer in December for a post at the Laboratoire Population Environnement Développement at Aix Marseille Université. I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining/

you can just socially construct your own, everyone knows that

you'll have to watch the full advert before the fridge decides to open

Communiqué de la SDJ de la rédaction de France Culture, suite au billet d’humeur du 12 septembre dernier sur Charlie Kirk sur notre antenne

DO NOT NORMALIZE INDIFFERENCE about how the right and most Dem politicians trample on fundamental human rights of trans people and terrorize them My daughter is afraid to leave the house and we live in San Francisco It’s real.

Let alone people without smart fridge.

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Working with so many friends and strangers to build a durable sense of what is happening across—so far—eight zones of American life bc of the administration’s demolition of democratic governance at @unbreaking.org. unbreaking.org

Here we are #STSCH2025! Come join us tomorrow and listen to great contributions.

Is that *our* Fragilities I see in good place? 😍 (So sad I couldn’t attend #4S2025)

Fascinating: the study shows that 77% of employees say Gen AI tools have “actually decreased their productivity and added to their workload”, and clearly demonstrates how delusionnal C-suite executives are about AI. Yet, the conclusion says: