STS Futures Initiative is an ongoing project dedicated to opening new professional pathways for STS grad students, with support from @UCHRInews & @CSTMSBerkeley
Joined November 2020
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@seyiolojo and I have co-organized a *virtual* Fall Reading Group on "Black Study and STS"!
Our first meeting will be on Thursday, September 22nd. There we will discuss meeting times & cadence. DM if interested. For a longer description: 1/4
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organising a grad conference with @nnneim at @MCMBrownU this November under a theme v close to my heart: “Digital Histories,” with a keynote by @maramills! Plz submit! networks.h-net.org/node/7337…
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Submit your short/critical/creative work on reproductive rights & justice to @FeministTheory -- trying create a more immediate and open access space to think and write through current issues in feminism. Open format--visual/written/creative work welcome. feministtheoryjournal.com/20…
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Holy crap. Our department is hiring, big time: 9 postdocs and 13 assistant professors on resilience, human tech, inequality & diversity.
Want to work on the human factor in new neurotech and neuromodulation? Happy to help.
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We sent a news flash out! Quick review:
1. @SHOT_ECIG Workshop CFP is up and submissions open
2. #shot2022 info and preliminary program coming July 1st
3. Travel Grants application is OPEN
4. CFP for "Tech and Material Culture in Africa" conference
#histSTM #STS #history
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My book review for @CriticalInquiry of Seb Franklin's "The Digitally Disposed," a major contribution to theorising colonial and racialised underpinnings of digital infrastructures, is online here: bit.ly/3y3SASr
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NYU Postdocs in Data Justice and Racial Equity (July 8): The Digital Interests Lab is hiring 2 postdocs to start in Sept & possibly renew through 2024. $70K salary+benefits. Data Justice fellow: apply.interfolio.com/106757 Racial Equity fellow: apply.interfolio.com/106755
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From the latest issue of Catalyst (Vol. 8, No. 1):
Deboleena Roy (@deboleena_roy), “Transplacental and Molecular Migrations: Methyl Isocyanate Gas and Reproductive Bioeconomies in Bhopal”
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#feministSTS #Transplacental #MolecularMigrations #MIC #bhopal
ALT Quote from author Deboleena Roy on Tracing Colonial Legacies, that was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Catalyst (Vol. 8, No. 1): “Frontstaging the chemical MIC allows us to trace the specific pathways of colonial legacies that have assumed unfettered access to raw materials and biolabor extracted from the soil, plants, animals, and humans in Bhopal.”
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Updates from the June 2022 Presidential Message: The editorship of @STHV_journal officially changes over to the new Editorial Collective at the end of June. Congratulations to the incoming team and 4S expresses a huge thank you to Ed Hackett and Katie Vann for all their work.
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This week at @NYMag I wrote about the war on cash, the two kinds of money, and what the fuck is a stablecoin. nymag.com/intelligencer/2022…
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"If capitalism breeds the con, then its institutions shape the conditions of the gullibility it feeds on: belief in systems of safety and protection that do not, in fact, exist." harpers.org/archive/2022/07/…
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Today on NOTCHES, @caitmckinney discusses their book Information Activism (@DukePress ) and how lesbian feminists in North American during the 1980s and 1990s used new technologies to build movements, connections, and communities. ow.ly/qGwm50JCcbt #histsex
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Registration is OPEN for #ESOCITE4S22! Early bird rates until July 31st. Get ready for #Cholula #Puebla!
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My new essay--on the science of thermal sensation in colonial India and how it inflected debates about race & pigmentation--is out in BJHS Themes! (@BJHSeditor)
doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2022.3
Thanks to @MMAHendriksen & @wraggem for the invitation to write & a lot of encouragement
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1/14 It’s book release day for #MisconceivingMerit with @CechErin from @UChicagoPress!
Using survey, interview, & admin data, we show how academic STEM culture, esp. cherished beliefs in objectivity & meritocracy, CREATES unfair outcomes for scientists & hurts science.
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Blurbs for my forthcoming book CODE: FROM INFORMATION THEORY TO FRENCH THEORY surfaced! Thanks for the kind words Kate Hayles, @manovich and @fturner, and the indispensable @DukePress team including @courtney_berger @sandraylk @jonathansterne & many more dukeupress.edu/code
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We reached and surpassed peak scam, the crypto bubble burst, & many have had their happy schadenfreude moment, said their "I told you sos."
For @Harpers, I wrote about American gullibility, the ordinary victim of financial scams, and the case of Deborah: harpers.org/archive/2022/07/…