It was an absolute pleasure to attend the #AusSTS25 conference in Melbourne/Naarm this week with the fab @aussts.bsky.social community! #signalsandnoises #STS @hss.springernature.com

This sums up how I also feel after the wonderful @aussts.bsky.social conference this week. Thank you to all organisers and presenters 🙌🏼

Presenting in the making & doing session @aussts.bsky.social was a fantastic opportunity to show and discuss the materiality of creative research.

The loveliness just won't stop! Holly O'Neil (UTS) is drawing every session she's attending, and she showed me this this morning!

And on the plenary panel with Chris O'Neill, @karilancaster.bsky.social and @tdneale.bsky.social contemplating noise, signals, and bodies #STS @4sonline.bsky.social

Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting.... @tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

Thanks to @aussts.bsky.social for an immensely stimulating, challenging, convivial, and inspiring conference. I’m leaving #AusSTS2025 with a head full of ideas, re-energised by conversations with colleagues and kin. There is a very special STS community in the antipodes 🫶

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!

Thanks @aussts.bsky.social for a great three days at #aussts25 #signalsandnoises 💚 Amazing you’ll be heading to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington next time! (Put me and @tristam.bsky.social down for local donkey work jobs!)

That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else. #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

Attending #AusSTS25 has left me intellectually and emotionally full—it’s one of those rare feelings in academic life where you find your people, where every conversation leaves you with more than it takes.

It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises

Next, Lauren Kelly, a researcher with RMIT and also a union organizer, asks: "Does noise help or hinder the worker struggle against algorithmic management?" #AusSTS25

Now it's V. Chitra and Adam Sargent (who contributed but isn't here) from the School of Arch and Anth at ANU, on "Audio fields and signal vision." #AusSTS25

Up next, a panel on "attention," starting with @clockworkpenguin1.bsky.social from @admscentre.org.au, with "Websites that go bump in the night: AI slop, dead internet theory, and exploring digital ruins" 👻 #AusSTS25

Next, James Parker from Melbourne Law School with "What did wake words do?" Wake words = words that activate devices like an Echo, e.g. "Hey Alexa..." #AusSTS25

Next, "Noise and Futures" by Zane Pinyon, from Monash University, looking at the subfield of "futures anthropology." #AusSTS25

Up next: Lorenn Ruster from ANU school of cybernetics: "Building an intuition for doing responsible AI: through the lens of signals and noises." #AusSTS25

Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!

Really enjoyed this talk, and came away asking: How might this exchange of display for medical care fit with the medical crowd-funding of today? #AusSTS25

Day 2 of #AusSTS25 is underway! If you can’t be with us at Deakin Downtown, you can listen along to @elizabethstephens.bsky.social’s fascinating keynote now on YouTube (link below)

TIL: incubators for babies were first a festival sideshow?! Thanks Elisabeth Stephens, fascinating stuff! @aussts.bsky.social #aussts25 #signalsandnoises muse.jhu.edu/article/940463

We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

Was a privilege to be a small part of this conversation opening #AusSTS this year. Looking forward to two more days of amazing papers and workshops.

And now the absolutely iconic JODI with the final performance of the day, interviewing the figure of Nam June Paik about his infamous 1998 Bill Clinton pants drop moment and his legacy on their work #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

weather modelling remodelling the weather; bill murray put on blast by a gramophone; tiktok demanding your baby has more tummy time; all of Shrek in one gif - and that's just the morning keynote session! #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises 📶

Fantastic keynote panel session this morning on Infrastructures of Noise at #AusSTS2025 #SignalsAndNoises. Will share notes at end of week, key pieces that resonated were the way that loudspeakers as speech technology shape our cultures and rituals - Dang Nguyen.

Really enjoyed @digitaldang.bsky.social’s talk on loudspeakers in the Vietnamese context. The especially evocative ‘fish sauce and exhaust’ phrase encapsulating the urban streetscape was a deliciously poetic highlight 💚 📢 #signalsandnoises #AusSTS2025

Now for our afternoon of #signalsandnoises themed artist talks and performances. First up, Rowan Savage performing "Carrion Sentience" featuring voice clones of himself and a murder of crows #AusSTS2025

Some of the fantastic workshops from day 1! Exploring intaglio printing, decolonizing authorship, STS publishing tips and more ✨ #AusSTS2025 #signalsandnoises

Testing out some new ideas with the lovely folks of #AusSTS25

Wifi details for those at #AusSTS2025 #signalandnoises NCM-guest NCMguest25

And now @katemannell.bsky.social on the endlessly noisy landscape of parenting advice as symptomatic of the dovetailing between contemporary recommender algorithms and the professionalization of the side-hustle #signalsandnoises

Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇

And now for our first keynote panel on "Infrastructures of Noise" 🎛️ chaired by Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social helping us to wade through the current information ecosystem moment where misinformation is mistaken for signal and meaningful relation is increasingly filtered out as noise

Starting in a few minutes!

Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶 You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises

✨ Good morning Narrm!✨ It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...

A brilliant list by @kathyreid.au of all the folks you can follow on Bluesky at the upcoming #AusSTS2025 conference 💞

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)

Only a couple weeks to go until my mate @katemannell.bsky.social and I have a yarn with our fellow panelists about the infrastructures of noise @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference. Thanks to @blueskychris.bsky.social, there’ll be a streaming link on the day: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aussts-202...

Hi folks, a reminder that if you received an acceptance email for #AusSTS2025 to register using the link in that email by Tuesday! After that, we're hoping to make available spots open to non-presenting attendees to tune in to #signalsandnoises🦻🚦

Heads up to everyone who submitted their fantastic abstracts to #Signalsandnoises - letters and registration details are coming soon. We're at capacity (bursting, really) and very delighted about this. The juggle to fit in all this goodness is causing some delays - apologies!

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...

Attention Naarm-based STS scholars! Don't miss this upcoming workshop on "emergency climates" led by @tdneale.bsky.social. CFP closes in 1 week

Yes, you absolutely have it in you to whip up a fab abstract for #AusSTS2025 on this Friday afternoon- deadline 11:59 tonight. It's going to be really fun.

Today is the last day to send in an abstract for the #AusSTS conference in July! The theme is 'Signals and Noises' but we are keen for quiet abstracts too 🤫 Whatever your research topic, if it engages with the social studies of science and technology, we want to receive it!