I need everyone to know that laboratories, as a form of social organization, can be ~*magic*~

Q&A with Sarah Sharma, Author of Insufferable Tools Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is author of In the Meantime: Tempor…

Sarah Sharma has a super interesting, counterintuitive take on feminist technodeterminism. Fabulously enticing interview! Plus an amazing book and cover . . . @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/q...

RIP Iris Long. Sarah Schulman's interview with her for the ACT UP Oral History Project is definitely worth watching... www.actuporalhistory.org/numerical-in...

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Partner's response was: "Those are... big pants." 😂

Lol well given time and budget process constraints, it's replica walkmen this time. But who knows what I might find now that I'm looking!

I'm cooking up Hot Clown Pants Shiny Dad Sneaker Brooklyn Playground Mom Summer in my sewing workshop today, I don't think anyone (including me) is ready for this.

My lab requested two cassette walkmen for a project, who was I to say no??

I am entering another "I don't want to do words, I want to orchestrate Happenings" moment right now and it is great. A lot of leeway afforded by being teaching faculty, not TT

I am literally always thinking about this. Not how to place op eds or how to write pieces for the public. About ways to have scholars in conversation with people about their work. Like the agricultural extension service, but for every discipline. Like “come talk to a living Wikipedia rabbit hole.”

no one deserves this union more than my colleagues!!

(no one deserves to lose this battle more than our admin, either)

this is a great special issue and a very ominous little video

maybe all those guys back then really were just taking issue with Judith Butler's sentence structure choices but I will not be taking that bet

I will absolutely try to go, and I will feel ashamed every second.

It's Mean Girls mom ground zero, I just finished making a weird jacket primarily to wear to this neighborhood, like armor. Last time I was up there 2 coffee shops on one block inexplicably had lines out the door of dozens of teenager tourists in tiktok make up and Clean Girl aesthetic.

This sounds fun, but I also cannot emphasize enough what a deeply uncool location this is now omg it's next to the Chelsea Piers that charges $1000+ for toddler pool birthday parties

Sewing is hugely therapeutic for an anxious perfectionist. On the one hand, you're rewarded for cutting precisely on the dotted line. On the other hand: seam rippers, 5/8" seam allowances, and "I can always add a facing instead of a hem".

A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.

Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news:

#AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

Their photography teachers did a great job!!

I put some of the through the window shots next to stills from In the Mood For Love 😅

I ended my STS class lecture on the frontier myth talking about some of these photos: how they suggested intimacy and familiarity, rather than the grand vistas of empty spaces waiting to be claimed that has been such a trope in how Americans depict travel and exploration

Text reads: Call for papers, Special issue. The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data, in Sexuality & Culture. Guest editors: Dr Amin Ghaziani & Dr Kevin Guyan. Expressions of interest due: 1 June 2026.

🔥 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data.

I'm co-editing a Special Issue of Sexuality & Culture with Amin Ghaziani.

📝 Full details: link.springer.com/collections/hcbbadjbha

#CfP #callforpapers #sexuality #gender #data

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

new publication by @michielbron.bsky.social & me (mostly Michiel, tho) in Nuncius: "Scientific Instruments and/as Oil Spillovers: The Role of the Oil Industry in Developing Nuclear Instruments for the Manhattan Project." 1/x

doi.org/10.1163/1825...

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

You don't say

I may be an anthropologist who doesn't like doing ethnography at this point, but I am assuredly An Anthropologist and find new scholars' work absolutely delightful

Nothing makes me happier professionally than reading an in progress anthropology doctoral dissertation 🤩

If you catch the seam instead of enclosing it, you forever have unfinished edges framing the front collar of a jacket. Words!! Important!!!