Happy to say that Humanesis (2013) is now available in a snazzy open access format. I don't think I have it in me to recommend that anyone read something that I first drafted >15 years ago, but I'm glad that if anyone wants to they can do so for free! manifold.umn.edu/projects/cec...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

So much looking forward to this! Thank you @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for the invite and for organising such a great event ✨

It’s finally here. :)

Very pleased that the new Bitstance album, Frederick, is out! It's weird and wonderful in different ways than Array. Listen on Bandcamp at the link below, or on whatever streaming service you prefer. (Although it may take a day or two to be live on Spotify.) bitstance.bandcamp.com/album/freder...

Last night people bikes rode in the rain for bike lanes. Immediately @torontopolice.bsky.social were antagonistic. A dozen bike cops arrived early & took over the main gathering point. The bike cops attending were the same ones who had arrested the @fridaysforfuture.bsky.social Stantec protestors.

Jonathan Sterne managed to be an incredibly disciplined historian (he did the work) without being overly disciplined--a whole career of weird little essays. Not that he separated himself from his fields, he thought constantly about research as a social endeavor. Like this essay on materiality.

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

How it started, how it’s going

For Toronto folks: this book talk/launch should be great www.eventbrite.com/e/geosonics-...

Learn how Musk is using algorithms to destroy the social compact we have with government and rob us blind. This is not inevitable. We can and must fight back. Sarah Roberts explains how AI relies on humans on Speaking Out of Place. Podcast link in thread. Please support us

Listening in the Afterlife of Data A Discussion with David Cecchetto David Cecchetto 2025 newbooksnetwork.com/041-listenin...

Absolutely thrilled that Bitstance Radio is finally up and working properly. The beta version has been a frequent soundtrack in my life for months. bitstance.org

University of Basel, media studies department, offers a 100% PhD position on the status of prompts and prompting in AI models. I will be one of the co-supervisors. scholarshipdb.net/scholarships...

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

The CU Boulder Media Studies Department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor! We’re seeking candidates with expertise in global media, screen cultures, and digital production cultures. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

I think because so many things have become unnecessarily hard we've conflated all hard things with being unnecessarily hard. And that's not true.

Re: the boastful/weird claims to invade other sovereign nations is predicated on the fact that Trump's narcissism is so severe he cannot even fathom the existence of other countries with their own cultures, concerns, and though he may have been to some places, he's only ever inside himself.

“The University of Pennsylvania is part of a group of elite universities facing a lawsuit accusing them of forming a “price-fixing cartel” to avoid paying financial aid… Lawyers say Penn and the other schools give preference to applicants from wealthy families while claiming to be need-blind.” 🙀

Reminder that this position for a Computational Visual Designer is still open! Come work with me at OSU design.osu.edu/news/ohio-st...

I’ve never seen Wicked the musical or the movie and yet somehow social media has incepted each one of the ear worms into my head

🚨 Sussex AI PhD studentships - call is open now! Scholarships are available for researchers working at the intersection of multiple academic fields. I am interested in supervising doctoral projects with strong philosophical approaches/research questions. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Hard to believe it has been three years without Phannie. Raising a glass to her memory tonight

Exciting-as-exciting can be assistant prof with endowed chair job alert at the Citizen Lab: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/assi...

Fyi folks here is a postdoc/PhD position opening at my lab, @DHLabBasel, in Basel. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Assoc/Full Prof. of Design position at U Michigan apply.interfolio.com/159321?fbcli...

This is the one! #SLSA is the conference and organization where I feel most at home! Lots of interdisciplinary media studies, including theory/philosophy, as well as game studies, lit + science, art, and pleasantly weird experimental stuff!

We're hiring! Open expertise! Application due in 5 days - DM with any questions! can242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

With the many absurd #SCMS2025 rejections today, seems apt to mention the SLSA CFP is out here: litsciarts.org/2024/11/09/s... SLSA interprets its annual themes extremely capaciously, and chooses venues with the aim to accommodate the vast majority of apps—consider repurposing your panels for it!

First time sharing from Wordpress. Please click through for the CFP for the Spiral Film & Philosophy Conference -- May 23-24, 2025 in Toronto! I'll be giving the keynote!

Really looking forward to my first SCMS as part of a panel on Synthetic Media with @rakeshsengupta.bsky.social, Nadine Chan, and @shanedenson.bsky.social #scms2025

Our Fall Sale is underway. If you are outside the US & Latin America, shop with our partners, @capacademicbooks.bsky.social and Univ. of Toronto Press for faster & cheaper shipping. www.combinedacademic... utpdistribution.com/...

New Job! Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance at #YorkU (Canada). Deadline 20 December 2024. #STS #law #AIgovernance More details about the role are contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl

For those in the area (I am not, alas), this event tomorrow will be terrific: history-of-art.osu.edu/events/jenni...

Come work with us at Digital Media at Georgia Tech in our open rank TT call! Especially folks working in STS, media studies, media theory, game design, game studies, queer design, or interactive narrative (see the call for more specifics). Info and application here: bit.ly/GTDigitalMed...

Some tasty drinks from last night's (mostly) Sicilian dinner party...and a successful attempt at my first pasta n'casciata

"I noticed on bluesky today..."

IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect. Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024). 100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025. Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title.

I am of the opinion that 90s Xenakis is some of the funniest music ever written. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ol...

Princeton is continuing its the interdisciplinary data science search, and my fellow #DH folks should absolutely apply! I'm not involved in the search, but I was hired under this initiative and can attest to their investment in a truly interdisciplinary vision of data science!