Apropos of .... nothing at all..... The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions. works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...

i think--i think i'm gonna have to write about the pope's tech discourse

what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization? In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age. thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

everyone i know is making fun of me for wanting to go to cleveland. they just don't understand the rust belt's magic!

feeling personally victimized by the libby outage

had a two hour long gossip session and I'm healed now

my chemcial rhizome

went on instagram for the first time in months and god how are y'all handling those platform logics

reply guy: what do you mean me: *deletes post*

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

*discourse voice* the best my chemical romance song is I never told you what I do for living, followed closely by fashion statement and demo lovers

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

genAI warps the boundaries between fact and fiction, authenticity and fakery. and that blurring holds pretty substantial consequences for our political realities.

Worth noting that Harvard et al massively expanded their PhD programs in the 1990s, poaching extensively from major public R1s in the process, ultimately to cash-in on PhD research funding. The effects were not always good for the state of higher ed.

maturity is changing your mind about the foucault-chomsky debates

enhance your Halloween season reading with this rich, textured, and magickal collection of essays on algorithms and the occult, edited by yours truly with @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social !

for @asapjournal.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social and I think through algorithmic conspirituality, genAI, and hopecore as a response to platform polarization! asapjournal.com/node/hope-co...

so uhh SNAP is apparently not going to be able to pay November benefits if the shutdown continues past 27 Oct fellow faculty- if that happens, we're about to see a lot of hungry students on our campus. now's a good time to look into what your institution has available if you don't know already

EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

my time has come

#AcademicSky, I'm planning a new grad course prep on "Digital Influence" for Spring 2026. What are the keywords or concepts that I should include? So far I've got: Influence Trend Virality Truth Slop Authenticity

what will it take to make it clear to everyone (particularly the public) that social media and large online platforms are the root cause of much our current problems from fascism, to mental health, and the environment

Seriously, you could spend a few hours on the Wikipedia pages for Supply Chain Management and walk away with a solid foundational understanding of the theory. And that has been true for a decade or so. It’s not the information that is valuable. It’s the engagement with a community of learners.

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

starting to feel the AoIR fomo...

90 day fiance: the last resort might be the best reality television series of our current political moment

it's actually insulting that my chem has never covered mayonaise!

i'm really writing the coolest and scariest project I've worked on thus far need an etsy witch or a sympathetic reviewer

stewing on some hot takes about pittsburgh's influencer market and whiteness

I'm not saying the US and Canada are the only places Nazis got eugenicist ideas. Of course Germany had eugenicists for decades ahead of the Nazis taking control. But they were communicating with and getting ideas from what countries like the US were doing to implement eugenics and eugenicist policy.

sorry in advance for not being an empiricist :/

My dad has been suffering his own losses – mom’s dementia, cancer, fire — the past 3yrs, but he’s also been a great support as I’ve been at my lowest. Last night we talked abt what I’ve learned: don’t “pay forward” any labor, don’t ever trust administrators, prestige is empty, you are expendable

The academic equivalent of the Instagram black square is organizing a conference panel.

the earliest form of gender affirming representation I saw in media was my chem's "I'm not okay (I promise)" video

ONE WEEK REMINDER 📅 Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82

AI as cure, AI as rehabilitation, AI as erasure, AI as hygienics.

Here's my live Techtonic interview with Luddite Club members - including Lucy Jackson, featured in the WSJ story: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... (click "pop-up player")

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

they're talking about AI stigma on L*nkedIn... new oppression just dropped

robophobia conference panels coming your way in 2026

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

The Internet is turning on Taylor Swift because we've reached an point of authenticity fatigue, a fair point during a political moment where truth and fiction are blurred into an unrecognizable form of entertainment.

does sora2 signal the end of "authenticity" as a major currency for creative labour?

teaching this in my digital influence grad seminar next semester, what a brilliant essay

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

a few months ago, I predicted that we'd start to see increased influencer professionalization in graduate education: to be an (academic) laborer, one must also be trained as an influencer.

love is blind is one of the most fascinating series because it is a ultimately a show about economic choices