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I'll be giving a keynote at Harvard on Saturday morning called "Infrastructuring Private/Infrastructuring Public: Technology-Mediated Work and the Crisis of Space" in the Harvard-Yale Southeast Asian Studies graduate conference. Registration details & abstract below.

My 2 yo and I are optimistically reading about Pooh’s favorite things about spring

"Authored by Dr Karen Gregory and Boyan Karabaliev, the report shows that workplace safety regulations, considered standard in most industries, are inadequate or fully lacking when it comes to app-based ridehailing and delivery services." workersobservatory.org/news/new-res...

Sped-read "Life After Ambition" by Amil Niazi that just came out. It's sadly not the greatest book; the pieces of her story don't hang together into a coherent whole. Also it's hard to buy that she is "post-ambition" when she has a column in the Cut AND a book out with three really little kids.

Academic job announcement! Stony Brook University is hiring a fellow in South Asian and South Asian American Studies. Good gig in a good department, come be my colleague. Can convert to tenure-track after two years. www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asia...

I’ll be talking in the NYU Integrated Design + Media “ExtraOrdinary” series — about re-situating and adapting work from a 25-year academic career to a networked urban commons — next Thursday, Feb 12, at 5:30 www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...

Alert: Art funding available for a public art installation in Jamaica Bay, NYC! The goal of the grant is to increase public awareness of flooding, sea-level rise, and climate resilience, while celebrating the ecological and cultural significance of Jamaica Bay. Applications due Feb 25.

please check out this handbook - it's a great resource for teaching! Ingrid Erickson, Melissa Mazmanian and I have a chapter, as do some big hitters in the field. Honored to be in their company! Thanks to the editors for putting it together over such a long process

MoMA is seeking a Research and Development Fellow (a two-year position) to support its R&D Salons! recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...

We are hiring an advisor position in the TCS department at NYU Tandon, particularly for Integrated Design and Media (IDM) students. Come work with a great group of faculty, staff and students : ) uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15156/a...

Friends, there are several CS positions open at NYU; calling in my socio-technical researchers including HCI researchers cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/jobs...

I'm looking for new PhD students interested in areas including: the work required by practitioners to address social values/ethics in tech design; tech non-use & refusal; tech and urban transit; or tech worker histories. More info about our work: ethicsinfrastructures.lmc.gatech.edu/2024/10/26/a...

cool job with the wonderful Lara Houston in Cambridge.... more than human approach to actuarial science !?! jobs.aru.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

My dept's hiring! Industry Assistant Prof (non-tt renewable) with a very reasonable teaching expectation & a roster full of amazing & creative colleagues. Full details in the link. apply.interfolio.com/176445

Relational Logistics and Alternative Supply Chains of Last Resort with @rsoden.bsky.social was just published from CSCW. Here is a blog post about this work put together by Tandon's media team: engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-tan... And here is a print of the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Presenting work today at Aarhus Critical Computing about my volunteer activities at 45 St Green Space over the past 5 years. In the paper, I describe the links between post-pandemic work from home trends and changes to collective organizing and New Yorkers' relationship to space.

Alex Lu, Priyank Chandra, Adrian Petterson and I are hosting a workshop at Aarhus Critical Computing on 18 Aug: Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis: A Workshop on Empirics, Theory and Research Guidance. Please join us! sites.google.com/view/aarhus2...

I gave a talk about my book "Media Ruins" last week and it is now available as a webinar for members of ASIS&T -- please feel free to view (if a member) here: www.asist.org/meetings-eve...

@allergyphd.bsky.social & @lmesseri.bsky.social are putting together a roundtable for AAA: "Specters of Technology.” They are looking for 3-5 participants to reflect on the sociotechnical “collisions of scholarship, pedagogy, and life that do not always take center stage in our published research"

A fun excuse to come visit us @nyutandon.bsky.social next Friday -- all are welcome. I think we all need some hands on DIY play these days...

Oh hey it’s the cover of my new book, “Bangkok After Dark” (May 2025, @dukepress.bsky.social). I love the design! I am beyond excited for you to read this thing.

Hope to see some of you at IPK tonight! In these confusing times, it is only more important to come together and celebrate members in our community who are doing good and important work. Cyborg synthesizes some of the best STS feminist scholarship for students, scholars, and the public.

Honored that Media Ruins was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Benda Prize (for a first book in English on Southeast Asia) by the Association of Asian Studies. Please check out the books awarded this year -- what an amazing collection! I want to read them all. www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

hey all! i'm organizing an open panel at 4S in Seattle this year on the tech entrepreneurs who are trying to build new cities/states (e.g., Prospera, California Forever) For more info, click here (www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...) The panel is #185 :)

The NY Metro Seminar Environmental History is workshopping a new paper about why remote and independent workers have found solace from alienated lives in community gardening. We'll meet at 2 pm 2/12 on Zoom with @marcdo.bsky.social

Upcoming NYU IPK event to celebrate @allergyphd.bsky.social & Laura Forlano's brilliant-concise-MIT top seller book "Cyborg" on 2/13 at 5:30 pm, moderated by me and @daveparisi.bsky.social Join us! ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

🚨EVENT!🚨 LaborTech's End-of-Year Showcase! **Happening Thurs, Dec 12-Fri, Dec 13** Come for discussions on how to organize, research, & teach around labor + tech issues, with spotlights on South Asia and Latin America! For more info/to RSVP: bit.ly/4fIoBE2

"Many women in academia weren’t delaying parenthood by choice. Rather, they found themselves unable to reconcile their biological clocks with the unpredictable, demanding pace of an academic career." www.science.org/content/arti...

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

If there are other lists of scholars/activists in the STS/ critical HCI space, I'd love to follow : )

Excited to move into this app. For academics studying work & tech who want to make the switch from T/X: @mathewiantorno.com has made it even easier for us! He created a Labor and Technology "starter pack” here: go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3