Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader by Gloria Wekker. The cover has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title apears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title. The author's name is in the bottom right corner in orange with the editors' names in yellow below separated by a cream dotted line. Directly below is written "foreword by Angela Y. Davis" in light red in all caps.

"The Gloria Wekker Reader," edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/jhDDyXf

Humbling to proof your own transcriptions a year or two after making them — a good reminder that people also hallucinate words 🙃

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)

#rstats #EconSky

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

Screen cap from linked article: Abstract The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial

Screencap from linked article Ethics approval The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Image of book cover: Watching Women by Stephanie Brown

Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!

ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

The first three articles:
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most

The issue gathers scholarly, curatorial, and critical work across digital humanities, critical AI & data studies, artistic research, feminist and decolonial theory, examining the entanglements between AI imaginaries, machine learning, and archival theory, practice, and power.

Edited by @ktmac.bsky.social, myself, @toniasutherland.bsky.social, Caroline Bassett, Eun Seo Jo & @louravn.bsky.social Ravn, this issue brings together one of the first collective efforts to articulate an archival turn in AI research.

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate Yukio-Pegio Gunji Yuta Nishiyama Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Kobe University Kobe 657-8501, Japan Andrew Adamatzky Unconventional Computing Centre University of the West of England Bristol, Únited Kingdom Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behavior. Swarms of the crabs are tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments demonstrate that swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment.

figure of a crab-based logic gate

18/ crabs are Turing-complete

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

MIT study: the technology that our professors have been working on for 50 years isn’t working 🫠

Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)

The cover of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities with the top words in yellow and the bottom in red

Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.

@ikkibop.bsky.social !

I've seen a lot of upset over the NASA library being closed.

But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else.

Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?

Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...

"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked.

“You look terrible,” my work wife said.

I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.