Please consider submitting an abstract to this ASA SKAT Section session I am co-organizing: “Knowledge to Action in Times of Polycrisis” 🌎📡 session description 👇🏼

Check our Sessions 'Politics of Artificial Intelligence' and 'Knowledge to Action in Times of Polycrisis' atefsaid عاطف janna zou huang ASA SKAT Section ASA Political Sociology Section deadline is February 26, 2024. See you in Montreal!

Academic writing is writing a convoluted sentence, followed by another sentence beginning with “In other words,” and a way easier way of putting it that you should have just said in the first place

Very, very excited (but still slightly stunned) to say that my article about Silicon Valley and outer space colonization is now online at American Political Science Review. More—and many more thank yous!—to come, but for now the open access link is here.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My new article, “Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate,” is now out in AJS!

The paper asks how the economic power of interest groups + the cultural appeal of their messages shape which voices get heard in the US climate change debate.

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

My new major essay introduces the Santiago School of Technology as a counterpart to the Chicago School of Economics. I also suggest that Allende's greatest legacy may be his government's efforts to build a different technological world order newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨

Our friend Meredith Whittaker joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of 'open' AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

my novel has a cover! many thanks to 🎐 for the beautiful art

you should be able to buy it later this month

🙌🏼 We are thrilled to feature an exciting lineup of panelists: Matthew Clair Anna R. Haskins Chris Uggen Tiffany C. Hamidjaja and janna zou huang. Come for a generative discussion on publishing/practicing public sociology, stay for a copy of the most recent BJS! 🤩

Happy to see this article on labour & climate action out in Branch magazine! Thank you to co-writers Tamara Kneese and Ben Peters branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-5…

People seem to love #Oppenheimer but I'll just say it: I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script—Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans—had no voice.

My first article and solo pub is out now😭🙏🏼 I argue that global data centers are the outcome of community sociotechnical affordances and why we need to shift our imagination back to local power in negotiating data center politics 👉🏼 doi.org/10.1016/j.tech…

Today I learned that I got tenure at @stanford Communication! It took so many people, so much support. I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate. Also, neat timing that there was still a president around to sign it 🤗🎉

We got the chance to interview Dorothy Roberts ✨💫, legal scholar and activist extraordinaire, where she shares how her life experiences shape her abolition work; the inadequacy of reform; and pursuing radical scholarship in academia 🤩 CHECK IT OUT! 👉🏼berkeleyjournal.org/2023/07/13/dor…

Made it to Rio for #SASE2023 🇧🇷 looking forward to generative discussions in the climate change network 🌎

Just conducted my first interview for the second round of data collection for my paper on organizational sustainability - I love qualitative work because connecting with people is what keeps inspiring me in my research 🥸🤩

Thrilled to see my paper on climate information and sustainability in organizations accepted to my top choice ASA Sociology panel on organizational change 🌎🥹💫 excited to share this work from my MA project in Philly in august! 🔜

New DIIS Denmark working paper with Johannes Petry & Robin Jaspert on:

Mind the ESG gaps: transmission mechanisms and the governance of and by sustainable finance

diis.dk/en/research/mo…

Is it all #greenwashing or could #ESG have a sustainability impact?

🧵 with the key findings:

The FDIC backstop news broke while a plane full of techies was flying from SXSW to SF. They broke out in cheers.

nytimes.com/2023/03/13/tec…