✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

To all aspiring young #WomenInSTEM :
Mentee: Should I avoid being pregnant while trying to secure a faculty position?
Me: Be pregnant & go on interviews. If they don’t welcome you with open arms and offer childcare options, they don’t deserve you. #KnowYourWorth

At least 10% of women suffer from endometriosis & endure severe pain every month.

I’m one of them & just recovered from surgery.

Patriarchy tells us: Get used to periods being painful & keep quiet. Most of us aren’t diagnosed for about a decade.

Sharing to fight the silence.

This whole issue looks SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!

If you care about AI, power, AI and Power, good scholarship, etc.

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

'many of the very same discriminatory attitudes that animated eugenicists in the past (e.g., racism, xenophobia, classism, ableism, and sexism) remain widespread within the movement to build AGI, resulting in systems that harm marginalized groups and centralize power'

I’ve been waiting for this paper to drop like yall wait for the latest Kendrick or Bey hit! On eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @[email protected] on Mastodon + Dr. Émile P. Torres. <> firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

Solidarity to Goldsmiths colleagues.

theguardian.com/education/2024…

Very sad to see what is happening to Goldsmiths, Queen Mary and many other unis in UK. Great institutions admired internationally and the livelihoods of hundreds of people are being destroyed because of the obvious failure of 'free market' policies.

This deeply moving reflection by my dear former colleague Angela McRobbie is a devastating and searching analysis not just of what has gone wrong at Goldsmiths, but across the whole UK university sector. Do read if you care about the coming disaster: versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

This will be an excellent reading group with many fabulous speakers – organised by Wessel Reijers & Alberto Romele starting May 2024 – all details below:

Don’t miss out on the POSITIVE LUDDISM reading group conceptualised and organised by @wesselreijers and Alberto Romele – meetings start from May 2024. For more info see the schedule below and/or our homepage. We’re happy to be co-hosting the series:

Live on Zoom today 4 April 14:00 Central European Time: dominique routhier ◾️ & I discuss his new book 'With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation' (@VersoBooks) & my book CODE (@DukePress). DM either of us if you'd like the link & password to join!

I'll be discussing my PhD thesis chapter 'Intention' on aspirational technology use and✨cultural imaginaries of serotonin✨ at this Positive Luddism reading group in June!

Does the insufferable hype around AI also make you want to be a Luddite? Yet, at the same time you want to cultivate a positive stance towards our relation with technology?

Join our reading group on Positive Luddism, co-organised by Alberto Romele and Critical Data Lab

BMBF macht beruflich scheinbar gerade vor allem Gaslighting, und zwar in Vollzeit. Wie zynisch kann man sein, PostDocs als Wissenschaftsministerium so in die Pfanne zu hauen? Und wozu? Beschämend.

'For every additional citation a researcher gets, their annual salary increases by $15. The difference in citation rates between men and women also seems to explain a significant part of why women earn less, especially for full professors.'

🚨 New publication! @robertafischli and I argue for the importance of a European tradition of experiments with digital democracy that we call 'decentralized participatory democracy' - focussed on how citizens can build collective power and make decisions. tinyurl.com/yf6j7e8r

This interview gives a good summary of Ulises Ali Mejias and my framework of #datacolonialism : lse.ac.uk/research/resea…

Google s Applem vydělávají na vašich úzkostech a depresích
Technologičtí giganti vyvíjejí čím dál tím víc aplikací a služeb, které mají nabídnout péči v oblasti duševního zdraví. Jak se snaží vydělat na našem mentálním rozpoložení?
voxpot.cz/google-s-apple…

Great to see the Czech translation of our (w. @fmaschewski & NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected]) @Jacobin essay on data colonialism in health care (particularly regarding the mental health crisis) online with Voxpot – many thanks to the editorial team for translating it 🙏 voxpot.cz/google-s-apple…