Sustainable digital construction work futures The often-called “twin transitions” - to digital (e.g., automated, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic) and sustainable (e.g., net zero, clean energy) futures - are likely to have key implicat...

The article introduces "anticipatory infrastructures" and "anticipatory realism" to untangle tech visions from grounded realities. The article highlights the need for realistic and plausible interfaces between a construction industry in transition and an emerging workforce: doi.org/10.1080/0144...

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A few months later - as can happen with review processes - I'm happy to add a third post to this thread...

The latest article with @pinkydigital.bsky.social, @nedhadesilva.bsky.social & Hannah Korsmeyer explores both digital and sustainable transitions in construction ⤵️

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introduced students to the ancient social media phenomenon of "facebook official" relationships today...

...it received the cringe it deserves

funny one from Word given the current clime

whelp

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON.

Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

So glad to see this article finally out! I loved working with this team and it was a great opportunity to develop qualitative methods for generative AI research. I feel this is an important contribution that we are currently expanding on in a multilingual context, so stay tuned! ✍️ 🖥️

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google maps pinhole designers:

This is a flyer inviting participants to join a study to share their thoughts on making new social media platforms safe and welcoming

Are you active on platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, or Eurosky? Please consider participating in an asynchronous brainstorming activity to share your suggestions to make them safer. See project details and sign up here tinyurl.com/44adp9cx

@qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

damn, chicken crimpy has taken another size hit

Rebuilding civic confidence in Australia As Australia grapples with social polarisation and youth disengagement, civic education has re-emerged as a critical line of defence for democratic resilience.

TL;DR(?)

A short summary of this work is published (Monash Lens)

We frame our work around the broader need to for universities to catch young people up on key civic skills and political knowledge ⤵️

In the context of a large institution with domestic and international students, the paper offers reflections on the value of the concept of ‘volunteerism’ to navigate the mixed incentives for universities as places for education, individual self-development, and civic engagement.

A diverse cohort of students share their experiences of how education, community, and social causes are connected. These students felt a ‘need to give back’ to community, but often lack the knowledge, experience, and time to volunteer.

Volunteerism as Civic Education: Recommendations for University-Led Volunteer Courses Higher education institutions often seek to integrate student volunteering with their community identity and course curricula. Focused on a newly designed course grounded in volunteerism and combin...

📜 ‼️ In our recent paper, Laura Woodbridge, Zareh Ghazarian and myself reflect on the development of a new volunteering-led course. Read @ Journal of Political Science Education below ⤵️

day for it

ai summaries calling it "US-Greenland tensions" is some dire shit

"there's a second season of Beast Games"

A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!

Social Media Research Toolkit - Social Media Lab The Social Media Research Toolkit is a curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab.

We have just updated our Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of over 50 research tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab. The kit only features tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic research. socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

nobody:
me: new scimago colourway just dropped

death, taxes, and ARC RMS timeout

bumping into google scholar 'labs' ai and elsevier's ai on the same morning... what a treat 🙄

did they accidentally read the room when they called the feature "generative fill"?

but my organisation works so efficiently when it cross-posts across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Teams, and defaults to making announcements for each these via email (the wonderful Outlook) 🥺🥺🥺

i'm not afraid to say what you're all thinking...

recaptcha getting too hard

Didn't think I'd encounter this again in the wild, but here we are. An example of how to use AI to summarise existing materials, with an AI figure as the example. It's giving "the call is coming from inside the house"...

Generative AI and Broken Futures - Sarah Pink, Hannah Korsmeyer, Ben Lyall, 2025 In this article we consider and demonstrate the use of Generative AI (GenAI) in the design of qualitative futures research materials. We discuss how GenAI, and ...

'Generative AI and Broken Futures' in Qualitative Inquiry details an AI-method approach that takes the fieldwork and generates broken visions of futures which participants then 'fix' with their realistic, ground-truth-led understandings of the realities of their industry.

Quiet Sustainability | 6 | Tacit Knowledge and Emic Capacities in Buil Notions of “digital transformation” capture an imagined future in which day-to-day work, in many industries, undergoes sweeping digitalisation and automation.

'Quiet Sustainability' is an in-depth sample of our qualitative fieldwork, ft. two participants and their work in the context of uncertain climate futures. The book is *chef's kiss* 👨‍🍳 if you have any interest in wildly deep fieldwork, storytelling, the climate crisis, and skills/labour.

📚 Double publication plug! I have some new works to share, conveniently related to the same project: AUTOWORK, led by Sarah Pink + co-authored w/ Hannah Korsmeyer.

Although the research began some years ago, the focus of each still feels salient. Summaries and links in the next two replies ⤵️