Proposed rule OMB-2026–0034 will devastate US science and destroy the scientific talent pipeline in the country. Here is the comment I submitted about the rule: medium.com/data-feminis... You can make public comments until Mon, Jul 13th. Please do it and reach out to your colleagues to do the same!

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

"If this rule change goes forward, science in the US “will stop,” says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “It won’t exist anymore.”"

Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...

You can pre-order DATA BY DESIGN now and also get a beautiful bookplate in the mail! 😍

CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...

‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...

We call for AI tech companies to refrain from entering into or fulfilling contracts with military agencies or armed groups that commit possible violations of international law www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

anthropic: we have no way of controlling our fully autonomous, "recursively self-improving" model hidden gig workers, RLHF annotators, and seemingly invisible coders & academics that are *actually* improving the model: hold my beer africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-...

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.

"As crises get stacked, we are in need of new forms to address them." Patti Duncan, editor of Feminist Formations, discusses the proliferation of genres and methods in response to the current moment. Read or listen at the link!

The investigation into Smith College began because Rachel Levine gave the commencement address last year. Smith College has had male commencement speakers before but it's having a trans speaker that caused the Trump admin to go after them. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/m...

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Brilliant! Everyone buy bell hooks' book Communion on June 16th! (the release date of JD Vance's book Communion).

We've upped the ante—this time @sellars.bsky.social and I represented organizations and attorneys with more than 575 years of 1A practice experience explaining why the law firms should win and DOJ should lose in the D.C. Circuit case about the executive orders. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/p...

2/2 Four or five weeks from today we'll launch 'Feminist Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social, which I'm editing right now. You're going to enjoy this one a lot. openvisualizationacademy.org On April 15 we'll announce 10+ more instructors and courses.

The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Cc @slifty.bsky.social @biella.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social @mapthepower.bsky.social

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4

Join us for a conversation with @libbyadler.bsky.social and @kjrawson.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-trans and anti-gender executive orders. Check out our new Ask a Feminist here! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO

The admin's new immigration policy targeting people working in fields like misinfo research, fact-checking, and content moderation — labeling their work “censorship” — crosses a constitutional line. Read more about our challenge to this policy with @knightcolumbia.org 🔗 https://protdem.org/4b6fIV9

I just published a short excerpt from my book, Counting Feminicide, to honor the legacy of Carmen Castelló, pathbreaking auntie and caregiver, who monitored feminicide in Puerto Rico: medium.com/data-feminis...

How is it possible that in 2026 if I want to read a PDF smoothly I still have to "Enable scrolling"?

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)

To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities. Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️

Is a technology that you use contributing to fascism? What are the characteristics of technofascism? Find out by taking the Technofascist Technology Quiz - medium.com/data-feminis... (I'd love to hear which tech you evaluate and how it scores)

With the SAVE act, Republicans want to make it more difficult for married women who have changed their name to vote—and that is more likely to be Republican women. Seems counterintuitive but not if the long term goal is repealing the 19th A. By Pamela Herd. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...

Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance (2026, Volume 14) Edited by Paola Sartoretto and Sandra Jeppesen Complete issue: doi.org/10.17645/mac...

Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See by @ale_jungs medium.com/data-feminis...

New & necessary thinking from @kanarinka.bsky.social trying to explain technofascism to those involved in its systems: medium.com/data-feminis... "the collusion of large technology firms, right-wing billionaires, and tech culture with authoritarian and anti-democratic political agendas "

The New York Times wants to be able to lie about trans people and not face any pushback. They will be remembered for what they have done and no amount of bullshit will wipe the blood from their hands.

SO excited for this one from @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social. They've already hit their funding goal and are working toward the stretch goals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...

A América Latina segue reafirmando sua existência, memória e organização coletiva. Após a invasão dos EUA a Venezuela, mulheres da rede Amassuru se reuniram para escutar, elaborar coletivamente e registrar o que atravessa a região. catarinas.info/o-que-esta-e...

What an artful, celebratory, life-affirming fuck you to Trump, white nationalism, and imperialism

@sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "The structure of thought of today’s backlash—its unremitting core—is a supremacist worldview based in biological determinism, social dominance hierarchy, and the free exercise of legitimized violence."

What is Technofascism? This concept keeps circulating but what does it actually mean? I'm testing out a tentative definition and would love to hear feedback on it. medium.com/data-feminis...

John Murdoch @data.ft.com "...this blitz on America’s citizens, institutions and — by many estimations — the constitution itself ranks as arguably the most rapid episode of democratic and civil erosion in the recent history of the developed world." www.ft.com/content/b474...

I’m thrilled to be part of this fantastic project!!

We have a lot to learn from and about trans data activism! Read a summary of new work my amazing colleagues Amelia Lee Dogan, @drnikko.bsky.social & @kanarinka.bsky.social presented at @acm-cscw.bsky.social this past fall. medium.com/acm-cscw/tra...

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