📣 New on the CLaSP Blog: My Body, Whose Choice? Elena Keighobadi explores the Tradwife and Girlboss hashtags on TikTok through a feminist intersectional lens www.claspblog.org/blogposts/my...

We're hosting this great seminar on AI and Water Justice to learn more about ongoing struggles and organising strategies against data centre development. Join us on Feb 20th at 1pm UK!

New commentary by @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and myself: "The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This book launch of Clara Mattei's "Escape from Capitalism" with the brilliant @cacrisalves.bsky.social as discussant looks 🔥: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

"If only it were as simple as de-privatization." The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure and the limits of market governance.

Great essay by Valerio Bini and Alessio Iocchi on the failures of the “Great Green Wall” in Africa, a phantom mega-development project: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ud... @clasp-qmul.bsky.social

The increase in life sentences that followed a wave of so-called tough-on-crime policies in the 1980s and 1990s has resulted in a graying of the U.S. prison population, leading to swelling medical costs that states are now struggling to address.

Sharing my piece reflecting on how the mobilization of green finance for investments in water and sanitation infrastructure figures into Brazil's Ecological Transformation Plan (in Portuguese but everything is translatable nowadays): outraspalavras.net/mercadovsdem...

Mamdani’s win in NYC is a victory for democratic possibility. As he said in his winning speech, politics done by us not to us.

justwaterfutures.org @icruxen.bsky.social @rachel-woods.bsky.social @lylamehta.bsky.social 💦 ondasbrasil.org

We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025 #DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social

Join us for our next JustWaterFutures Event on the rapid privatization of water in Brazil. With Léo Heller, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, and many other speakers. In Portuguese and English. 💦 @icruxen.bsky.social @justwaterfutures.bsky.social

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

Sexta-feira terminando e a gente cantando: "Chegou o fim de semana, todo mundo vai sair. Só não vai Jair, só não vai Jair..."

A joyful day for Brazilian democracy: our Supreme Court has formed a majority to convict Bolsonaro and 7 defendants for criminal organisation and attempted coup!

¿Qué rol podría jugar la inteligencia artificial en la lucha contra la violencia de género? RIAF me invitó a compartir nuevo proyecto de #DatosContraFeminicidio y DISCO Lab, que explora la cobertura periodística de casos de feminicidio y el desarrollo de IA. ¡Sumate! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new handbook on Comparative Political Economy is out! Ben Schneider and I have a chapter on capitalism in Latin America, tracing lineages of thinking on its development and how they speak to each other. We touch on VofC, GMs, dependency thinking, financialization. tinyurl.com/4arb2wt4

Reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI, so much to unpack in this directive OpenAI crafted to configure how GPT-4o should respond to users: "act like a human", "be warm", be "full of charm". Strong "your outtie is..." Severance vibes

Amazing to celebrate 5 years of Data Against Feminicide with so many inspirational peers last week👏🏽 Read the amazing report from @icruxen.bsky.social and Alessandra for reflections on the participatory AI work I've been collaborating on. qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstr...

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics. d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

Fascinating piece in the FT today on the question of financing AI infrastructure at scale — makes clear we can’t think about AI development without thinking about financialization

‪ @justwaterfutures.bsky.social. Our seminars are now live! @gemmagasseau.bsky.social, @blue-community.net, @icruxen.bsky.social, @rachel-woods.bsky.social etc. Check out: What´s Public about Public Water? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjvC...

The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog: developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/p...

Replacing regulator without addressing ownership issues — in Brazil we’d call this “tapar o sol com uma peneira” or attempting to block the sun with a sieve: on.ft.com/4o0DB4G “Water regulator Ofwat to be abolished after official review”

We're celebrating 5y of the #DataAgainstFeminicide project. Join us to reflect on the project's results and insights (with new report out!), and to launch the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with Femicide Count Kenya! Register here: mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Utility agreements with data centres should be subject to broader public consultation and debate. The recipe here is an old one: socialize costs while private actors pocket the benefits. www.ft.com/content/c5f2...

Absolutely gutted for Dimitrov, was playing a beautiful match. One of the saddest moments I’ve seen in tennis

Se pá tá na hora de começar a chamar o Congresso brasileiro de #CongressoTioPatinhas #CongressoInimigodoPovo

New on the CLaSP blog: Looking at platform workers in Argentina, Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...

Please read this article in full. Every aspect of this Palantir, OpenAI & Meta millionaire (self-)appointment to the Army Reserves should raise alarms about escalating tech industry capture of defence. While none of them will risk their lives, they are explicitly tasked with making war more lethal.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

'The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.' Maybe the policy of 'turbocharging' AI everywhere & all the time needs thought?

Incredible Roland Garros final with Sinner and Alcaraz —listening on the radio but on the edge of my seat

Amazing to see our project, #DataAgainstFeminicide, receive an Honorary Mention for the European Commission's 2025 S+T+ARTS Prize, recognizing innovation in tech + society + arts @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social: starts-prize.aec.at/en/data-agai...

Using algorithms to deny people healthcare in bulk

🌍 The 2nd edition of the Global Data Barometer is here! Dive into fresh insights on how 43 countries are governing, and managing data for the public good. 📖 Read the launch blog ⬇️ #TheGDB #GDB2025 globaldatabarometer.org/2025/05/the-...

It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds. Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation

I was born in Brazil’s futuristic capital and let me tell you: this likely AI generated image is not what Brasília looks like.

Wonderful conversations in Day 2 today on the challenges of studying the #MaterialitiesOfAI and on the politics of how we transform and/or resist them. Thanks to @anavaldi.bsky.social and @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for brilliant interventions and to everyone who participated! @clasp-qmul.bsky.social

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published! You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

🌿Join us to discuss "The Global AI Supply Chain and its Values", my keynote at the "Towards a Decolonized Artificial Intelligence" seminar series, organised by the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Milan. 🏵️Friday 23/5 8.30am (BST) online. Register here: www.eventbrite.it/e/the-global...

Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... (1/3)

The deadline (May 30) is approaching for submissions to our workshop at the Aarhus Conference 2025! 👇

We know AI chatbots are thirsty; the data centers that power them are draining already water-stressed regions. Who bears the costs of increasing AI use? www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The first comprehensive, cross-regional comparative study of democratic backsliding and resiliency around the world. Global Challenges to Democracy eds. Valerie J. Bunce, @tompepinsky.com, @beattyriedl.bsky.social, & Kenneth M. Roberts Out Now #Politics #BookSky cup.org/3F5YRV7