Come Trip Out! with us @utm.utoronto.ca in March!!!!

Trip Out! Symposium. Media and Altered States, March 4th and 5th, 2026. University of Toronto Mississauga. Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology.

Join the ICCIT from March 4-5 for Trip Out!, our third annual graduate-faculty research symposium. This year, invited scholars and graduate students will consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/upcomi...

The long-awaited new issue of POROI is out from @rhetstm.bsky.social, including my article about psychotropic drugs in wellness discourses! The article is timely because it critiques a certain kind of masculine subjectivity that's, um, in the news rn:
pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...

Disgustatory! A critical exploration of how Gothic tropes infiltrate wellness discourse, revealing the rhetorical forces behind our cultural obsession with food, health, a...

I just came back on here to show off my book with Jeremy Tirrell, coming out this summer from U of Alabama Press. (I wonder if anybody still sees me. Is anybody here?)
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736262...

We’re hiring!

Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.

More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

SAME

Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism

pre-order link via @bookshop-org.bsky.social:

bookshop.org/p/books/reco...

cover image for Reconsidering Reparations, featuring small black hands planting a seedling. Text of the cover: "Reconsidering Reparations Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. With a new preface by the author."

the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context

How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways Why wellness sells: How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways

Excited to speak on "How the idea of wellness drives markets in invisible ways" at @uoft.bsky.social's Dalla Lana School of Public Health for their Health Inc series. Join us! Wednesday 12-1 ET on Zoom. Register below. www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-the-id...

I'll be presenting a theory pill at the Space Out! symposium this Thursday! Stop by if you want to hear me ramble on about street furniture and public space in Toronto. 🛰️🇨🇦📚

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

I'm ashamed of the US right now.
(Often, even always, but acutely today.)

Come Space Out! with us at UTM next week!

If you are taking inspiration from movements *please study them.* 20th Century Civil rights organizers were very hard core about security. You should be too.

Here's some very basic guidance -- I don't know who made this site, but it checks out --
infosecforactivists.org

@eff.org also has a great resource on surveillance self-defense that is better to engage BEFORE you start any activities/relationships that could be criminalized:

ssd.eff.org

Opinion | The Problem With FIRE’s Data Their influential rankings are based on faulty information.

Excellent data journalism:
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

badass PhD spot:

And they say there's no need for TechComm in STS...

Holy shit, tho.
I would never, ever, ever want this to happen to me?
and at the same time I am kinda jealous of this guy

Open Call for Applications: The 2025-2026 ICDE Fellowship Program | Platform Cooperativism Consortium The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at The New School invites applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program, a leading opportunity for scholars researching cooperatives…

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at @thenewschool.bsky.social is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Fellowship Program. Apply by Feb 28, 2025: platform.coop/blog/open-ca... cc: @nssrnews.bsky.social @netzpolitik.bsky.social

OMG Robert Garcia 😆💙

LOLOLOL

whhaaaa?! ugh.

TOTALLY. And more of this for future, as *text* proliferates and depreciates in value? (sorry for the market metaphor)

I think that collaboration is the future of work in the humanities. And that the monograph is a myth, and we need to be a lot more frank--beyond mere citation--about all work being collaborative work.
Good collaborators are ready to concede this.
Clinging to the myth undoes good collaboration.

Come join us at UTM for some cosmic critique!

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

Editing Wikipedia is not a crime.

Wikipedia is getting ready to extend anonymity features to protect editors/authors in the US (as it does other editors/authors in similar totalitarian regimes).

New book dropping in May with University of Alabama press