🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy 👇 Sign up link in comments👇

couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work! w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)

We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

EU tech law EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Tonight Danny Snelson told me about his forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats — and I am so incredibly stoked for this 💥

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...

What a lovely Monday present ! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social for sending the physical copy of the very good looking Feminist Digital Humanities edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman! The good news is that it’s also OA: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

"Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is."

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Divorce, death, a big move, illness: Food may not fix anything, but these lovingly prepared meals can bring some much-needed comfort and nourishment. nyti.ms/3EpVEPW

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

CJEU, new cases, data protection law Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register? eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested. Deadline 9th of May #digitalcriminology #surveillance jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend. buff.ly/HcoVX9x

The politics of #dataloss ... This is the insidious violence of infrastructural erasure.

Interested in publishing a special issue with @jird-jour.bsky.social? We have now an annual call for special issues - have a look at our website for more details.

Great project at VUB! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

🚨🚨 #Greenland: “We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory ‘one way or the other. Trump's respect for a any state's or region's self-determination only goes so far... 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-w...

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Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research? Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing

Few people talk about the new EU API regulations - but they are about to have significant effects on data sharing infrastructures. @ikkibop.bsky.social, @rosamundevb.bsky.social, Vanessa Ugolini and I explicate on why this is important in this Op-ed for @policyr.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/5x51O

First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky doi.org/10.1177/0263...

This is an amazing work indeed. An highly recommended (re/)reading!

Want to be an #intern at the ERC? Or know someone who would? Applications for the October '25-February '26 session are open! Discover the details 👉 traineeships.ec.europa.eu When applying, don't forget to select the ERC ☑️ as your #1 choice 🧡. #internship #traineeship #trainee #research #science

At a time where the vulnerability of relying on US digital infrastructure and cloud services, our @algosoc.org pilot to rely on European cloud services is more relevant than ever. Alternatives are not easy. But necessary. www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/five-...

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

Full house at Université de Namur’s Rencontre "Numérique & droits humains" hosted by Crids. Lots of critical links between the social reception of digital tools by the collective and public at large discussed, putting into question how digital tools are taken for granted on social accessibility.

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #LiseMeitnerGroups #WomeninScience #ScienceCareer

NEW: *Update your Apple iPhone ASAP* Our own @citizenlab.ca senior researcher @billmarczak.org discovers an exploit on one of Apple's USB security features on locked phones Details below 👇

Our updated guide on #AccessToDocuments is here! It helps you understand your rights, reflects new EU case law and EU institutional rules, and contains our latest findings in this area. Want to know more on- 🔹 Who can request documents? 🔹 What docs are covered by EU law? Read here: europa.eu/!CwjBDc

Insightful post on #EU + #AI by @ggf.bsky.social - @lsts-vub.bsky.social

I cannot recommend enough to work with @c-westermeier.bsky.social - an amazing scholar and human being!

How do states renegotiate globalization? As a commentary to @iliasalami.bsky.social insightful piece for @dialogueshg.bsky.social, I explore China as a laboratory for rethinking statecraft. Drawing on the work of @quinnslobodian.com and @rebeccakarl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Intelligence artificielle : les Emirats arabes unis construiront en France un data center géant

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... expect it to come under more attacks as a result

We are in the era of hyper-competitive and hyper-transactional geopolitics. in this hot-headed world, Europe’s best approach is to remain level-headed. And build a foreign policy that stays true to who we are and deliver for our people and partners. Read my full speech here → europa.eu/!C7FvF7

The Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) raises and steers funding to increase European investment into critical technology projects. . The STEP seal signifies excellence and significant economic potential for the #SingleMarket.

Europol has reached a significant milestone in the fight against organised crime, with 3,500 law enforcement authorities now connected through its Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA). 👮👮‍♀️ Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

File under #databasedstatecraft and #digital/sovereignty