Join us April 18–20, 2026 at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ for "Critical Intent as a Form of Life: A Conference in Honor of Didier Fassin." Open to all, in-person only. Spread the word and register: www.ias.edu/sss/critical...

1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...

We are still accepting applications for our new Data School running this July! If you have any questions about the programme, email us at [email protected] Find out more about the programme on our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41023/

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Here's the CfP for a SI on solidarity that I am co-editing with Clare Hemmings.Details below journals.sagepub.com/page/fty/cal...

If you want to defeat the far right, you need a real alternative, not a more moderate version that panders & parrots but offers nothing to address real issues. Congratulations @greenparty.org.uk, Hannah Spencer, @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the people of Gorton & Denton www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK. The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

My contribution to the digital in the humanities discourse: I have a new chapter freshly out titled "The Digitalization of the Humanities: Recent Trends and Future Prospects." It's in a Morgan Kaufmann collection titled "Digital Transformation in Artificial Systems." 1/n

Have you applied yet for MAKE?

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Fun and Games - call for papers for a special issue of @newformations.bsky.social on games, gamification, game culture etc: jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/f...

Sydney STS folks 👋 Join us for the inaugural event of the Sydney STS Network (Friday 27 Feb) where a panel will respond to the prompt: Why (Australian) STS now? #STS

I am very excited to be Project Lead on our new AHRC/Braid-funded project “Animals in Translation:AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue”, working with a wonderful team of colleagues across Lancaster University, NYU and Edinburgh University. Details of conference CfP soon! ⏱️ rb.gy/4bsz7f

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...

Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Drawing a blank on texts for teaching 3rd year soc sci undergrads (who haven't read Freud or Deleuze) about the theoretical fault lines dividing broadly Freudian accounts of affect from those indebted to the versions of Deleuze generally found in 'affect theory'. Anyone have any ideas?

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

In London? I’m organising this series with Marsha Rosengarten and Nele Jensen as part of evolving happenings of @contemporarycriticalthought.org. Join us as we unravel the concept of the Herd, to experiment with new ways of thinking health amidst the here-and-now of our present planetary condition.

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. It’s about collective responsibility for what ICE will do wherever it builds a gulag, and it is *powerful.* It’s less than three minutes of your life. Pass it on.

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

'The University of York and Swansea University have became the seventh and eighth universities to confirm they will not take up a three-year deal with the world’s biggest academic publisher'. Sheffield, Lancaster, Surrey, Kent, Essex and Sussex have already opted out.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

There’s a wonderful wintry North Italian recipe for buckwheat pasta, savoy cabbage, cheese and potatoes called Pizzoccheri that I love deeply, and #RecipeOfTheDay is my sturdy (and affectionate) British interpretation of it. It’s still cold out there! www.nigella.com/recipes/hear...

SSA conference website coming next week ...

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So excited to be republishing Brian Massumi's most recent post on affective politics in the US, in particular focusing in on norms - so particularly important for a critical legal audience: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/29/n...

The actual words of the current British Home Secretary: “My ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the State can be on you at all times."

My excellent colleague @jennashworth.bsky.social has a new eco-gothic tale on the radio next week 👇 BBC Radio 4 - The White Lady of Morecambe by Jenn Ashworth share.google/3V3Od8iK9e5n...

Save the date for the "Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities" workshop @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Feb 27 (in person only)! Details being finalized, but we have stellar speakers incl @robertsuits.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social & more!

The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February

Free online seminars this year feature Michael Hardt on multitudes, a 4-session dive into John Clarke's superb work of PROPER conjunctural analysis of modern Britain co-hosted with @autonomy-institute.bsky.social, the Politics of Feeling, Katja Diefenbach's Spinoza culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/

I'll be taking part in this online event w/ @benandersongeog.bsky.social @ajsecor.bsky.social @jemgilbert.bsky.social to discuss the brilliant The Politics of Feeling - 11th April - register here www.eventbrite.com/e/the-politi...

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

My message is short and sweet: Cappuccino Pavlova is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/capp...

Mood in minneapolis right now

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Looking for a #proofreader, #copyediter, or #indexer? I’ve launched my new business: Fox Tales Editorial 🦊 With a PhD in English Literature and over a decade of working with the written word in Higher Education, I offer editorial support for a range of writing projects. foxtales-editorial.com

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

So I nearly just got caught by a book club scam. Someone pretending to be from the San Francisco Best Sellers Book club (they weren’t) and wanting to feature one of my books. The communication was so credible!! Watch out academics and authors!! medium.com/@claude.whit...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Come along to the launch of my debut collection 'My Marxist Valentine' at the gorgeous @burleyfisher.bsky.social on Fri 6th Feb, if you like quirky love poems, solidarity sonnets, feminist political protest, or me :) Tickets are free but limited so book soon! ❤️🌸 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deborah-fi...

On the day we learned that 13,000 jobs were lost in UK universities last year, I guess it’s nice to know that the Office for Students is worrying about - well - something. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 1/3

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Worrying to see this, and the power of the reductive narrative that focuses primarily/only on screens as the cause of the "anxious generation"; it permits an avoidance of bigger debates about the decline of spaces for children & young people, the impacts of austerity & inequality, and so much more:

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️