💟🗓️ TOMORROW: Register for the next panel in our Voices in Protest series, happening tomorrow from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET 🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ

Teaching about AI? Here's a new zine from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance "meant to help readers move from thinking about AI as a purely digital, cloud-based technology to understanding it as something rooted in physical elements."

Starting shortly! 🌟🍔 If you're in the UMD-College Park area, stop by Skinner 3115 for BCaT Eats this afternoon More BCaT Lab events & details can be found: www.bcatlab.org/events

We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️‍🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise

🚨Less Than a Week Left to Apply!🚨 If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort! airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...

We're thrilled to announce our next panel "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" on Thursday, NOVEMBER 6th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET 🟪🌌🌐 🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ

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

Interested in applying for the Automating Black Joy Collaborative Project? Come share your ideas, skills, and find a research team at the Automating Black Joy sandbox session. Wednesday, October 8th 10-12pm Skinner 3115 & Zoom (link in bio)

TOMORROW: Check out the first of this new webinar series tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00 PM! 📚🔥 For our friends at UMD College Park, @bcatlab.bsky.social will be playing the livestream in Skinner 3115 & over Zoom www.bcatlab.org/events/9kk6t...

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY!! 🗓️❤️‍🔥 Join us VIRTUALLY for a conversation on crip wisdom and critique Thursday, October 16th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM (ET)

Join the Center for Innovation, Law, and Society (CILS) for a talk with Dr. @timnitgebru.bsky.social about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement. This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV #AGI #AI

Happy Color Protocols Publication Day to all who celebrate 🎉🪩 Congratulations to Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social

Amazing opportunity at ISP!

UPCOMING: We're looking forward to our Launch Party for Search History Volume 2: Into the Rabbit Hole! 🐇💫 Join us this FRIDAY, OCT 3rd from 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET in-person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor) or over Zoom for a laid-back celebration of the zine's release.

TOMORROW: This event is HYBRID, register by visiting: myumi.ch/QwGnk The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘🕷️

My co-author Neda Atanasoski and I will be in Michigan (myumi.ch/R3N28) next week, discussing our recent book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press. Join us if you are around!

Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐 This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social

One week from today!

REMINDER: Happening tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th at 11AM [ET] 🌺 The BCaT Lab will be hosting a HYBRID Info Session for the Automating Black Joy project! 🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio or scanning the QR code, & visit bcatlab.org/automating-black-joy for more details

The BCaT Lab is back in session! We are hosting a open house on Wednesday, September 24th from 11-3pm at Skinner 3115 as well as a hybrid event for our BCaT Applies session. Come to Skinner to learn more about we have in store for this semester!

Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization. dhandlib.org/recommended-... #TeamRhetoric #Academicsky #CriticalAI

UPDATE: We’re sorry to share that Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks has been cancelled. Due to unforeseen circumstances, several of our panelists are no longer available to participate on the originally scheduled date. We’re working to reschedule in the spring—stay tuned!

Mark your calendars folks for SEPTEMBER 30th! The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘💚 This event is HYBRID and we welcome all to attend 🔗 Visit the link in our bio or myumi.ch/R3N28

Just under two weeks until our Fear of Asian Tech event! 🎉 Learn more & register at myumi.ch/P3mjg

We have an amazing lineup of programming through the DISCO Network for the 25-26 academic year! Learn more below🪩We hope to see you there!

We're thrilled that Duke University Press & Goldsmiths Press are joining the Direct to Open (D2O) initiative! Beginning in 2026, our #OpenAccess model will include offerings from all three presses, strengthening our shared commitment to a more equitable & sustainable future for academic knowledge.

Our series with the NYPL kicks off on Friday with a conversation about how AI is reshaping daily life, w @alicetiara.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, Mimi Ọnụọha & @geomblog.bsky.social. In-person spots are sold out, but you can still RSVP for the livestream! www.showclix.com/event/unders...

Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month! We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST! Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg

We’re thrilled to be hosting a 4-part fall event series in collaboration with the New York Public Library, exploring the social implications of AI & its impacts on democracy, the environment, & human labor. Learn more and RSVP to attend live in NYC or via livestream! datasociety.net/events/under...

Interested in applying for an ACLS Digital Justice Grant? Join ACLS program staff and grantees for webinars on the application process, data ethics, building digital capacity, and more. Register now for sessions on 8/26, 9/18, 10/10, and 10/22: https://bit.ly/4fLkpEF

With the start of the semester around the corner, we're excited to share (some of) our upcoming events for the 2025-26 academic year! Mark your calendars 📅 for these panel discussions, each are open the public and HYBRID. CART will be provided. Learn more and register at the link in our bio 🔗

Applications are now open for ACLS Digital Justice Seed and Development Grants! Learn more about application and eligibility requirements: bit.ly/4osaKXu #DH #grant #funding #humanities #socialsciences

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

This is an open biblio that you are welcome to add your work to, if you work fits into critical data center studies:

📣Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel at #ACH2025 today (06/11) at 7p ET!📣 Panel will feature presentations from #DigBlk’s @dejaworkman.bsky.social, @weygudey.bsky.social‬, & @dburgher.bsky.social, and chaired by @jimccasey1.bsky.social‬. Register at ach2025.ach.org/en/

🚨 New series alert! 🚨In collaboration with @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we’re kicking off “Ideologies of Control,” two weeks of essays by researchers exploring how today’s tech systems are deepening democratic divides. www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deaf American #scientist, science educator, and #historian, Dr. Harry Lang! Listen & read transcript #accessibility #a11y #captions #ASL #TTY #technology #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #RIT #NTID #ROC #meningitis #StephenHawking #physics #DisHist

📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...

Karen Hao's book tour doesn't include Canadian stops, but there are two online sessions in June - including this one by @datasociety.bsky.social with @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @tamigraph.bsky.social which I've signed up for: datasociety.net/events/chall...

I'm thrilled to announce that Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, co-authored and co-edited with my amazing collaborator Neda Atanasoski, is officially out now from Duke University Press! You can download the first chapter and buy the book here: www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-...

ICYMI: Our recording of the Technoskepticism Book Launch is now LIVE on our YouTube channel! Featuring seven of our co-authors, a panel, and interactive workshop on applying technoskepticism to AI youtu.be/clg6vkFzWtM?...

Thank you again to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting seven of our Technoskepticism authors yesterday! And much thanks to Dr. Zeena Feldman for her work in moderating, as well as everyone who attended. We appreciate you!

"We see technoskepticism and care as ineluctably linked: the possibilities we might seize from emerging technologies, as much as the powers to be gained from refusing others, are meaningful only insofar as they enable us to better care for ourselves and each other." - @disconetwork.bsky.social.

So many Silicon places. Tomorrow. @dukepress.bsky.social www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-insti...

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

📢 Last chance to book! @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social are hosting the launch of the @disconetwork.bsky.social's 'Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal', chaired by Dr Zeena Feldman. Register below ⤵️

June 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall...

One week from tomorrow folks!! 🪩📘

Duke University Press to publish open access monographs through MIT Press’s Direct to Open (#D2O) mitpress.mit.edu/duke-univers... @mitpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social