@cyberlyrad.bsky.social gave a talk about How To Get Off major social platforms at #4s2025 -- here is is some material to help you through your next Tech Reclamation project!

Back from #4S2025 and still dwelling on new ideas from Rebekah Cupitt, expansive work from Jihan Sherman and @elegantcollisions.bsky.social, and a powerful call to action from @avastmachine.bsky.social. It was also a privilege to present with Haley Lepp, Anushah Hossain, Caroline Storey and more.

Is that *our* Fragilities I see in good place? 😍
(So sad I couldn’t attend #4S2025)

@mvenetucci.bsky.social Loved your #4s2025 talk yesterday and found it so resonant! Was sorry I couldn't stay for the discussion, looking forward to reading whatever you publish on this topic.

So many great #4s2025 talks I will be thinking about for a long time.

Facilitating a hybrid panel? Turns out it’s just as hard, if not harder, than doing AV for concerts. Speaking from experience. #4S2025

Ella Klik offers a haunting paper on interplanetary data storage + post-finitude. Not loss, but indefinite deferral. Data centers on the moon, archives in orbit. #StorageStudies #4S2025

Sofia Haytin presents her important ongoing work on Israeli user migration from Twitter to Bluesky as a “no-politics” platform where politics is only deferred. Escapist, wholesome, but avoidance is never neutral. #PlatformMigration #4S2025

Bono Olgado shares his beautiful work on Data Mortis: after database migration, some data disappears, other fragments persist. A fragile afterlife of information and a new political economy of data expertise in human rights. #databasing #Archiving #STS #4S2025

Melissa Vincent presents her amazing work on data loss grief: disenfranchised mourning in digital capitalism. Anticipatory grief, infrastructural grief. A neo-emotion for our times. #DataLossGrief #4S2025

@adamegriff.bsky.social offers a beautiful mediation of
LiveJournal as digital archaeology. Rehydration methods, ethical refusals, the remains of usernames and spam. Abandoned platforms. #DigitalArchaeology #4S2025

First of, @maxy.bsky.social discusses
cultural fragility and complicity. Easy to dismiss “small” losses—until we remember Beowulf and Bach nearly vanished. Data loss as corporate complicity, malice, or neglect? #Archiving #4S2025

It's 10.40pm here in Copenhagen and we've just entered the third session of this panel series on data loss at #4S2025! Here's are some ongoing reflections on the amazing papers in the series! #STS #DataLoss

at #4s2025 in an hour i will reveal whether you can talk your way out of social problems or not in the "writing things down" session

if you are at #4s2025 this afternoon, in the un-blackboxing AI session nina will explain how all of this marketing copy helps to render people into gelatinous blobs of undifferentiated labour

#4S2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58104: bit.ly/UCPEX4S

hey #4s2025!

did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state.

First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

Today! Come on over #4s2025

I'll be presenting at 1040 at #4s2025 on the "New Alliances between EduTech and Politics: Defining the Field of Education in Digital Societies" session, Sheraton 2nd fl, Juniper room.

Text reads, "Society for the Social Studies of Science 2025 Conference Exhibit. Use code 4S25 for 30% off when you order from dukeupress.edu." Background features assorted book and journal covers arranged in columns.

#4S2025 ends today, but our 30% discount lasts through October 16! Use code 4S25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. Valid on all books and journal issues. #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies buff.ly/5uHoaLm

Networked States? The Tech Billionaires Building New Cities and the Locals Fighting Back 2

Since they have actually let me into the US, you can listen to me talk at #4S2025 about "Exit from the Valley" in person.

The story I'll be telling is way less networked than you would think - it's about soil, brick and mortar. And it is a story of citizen protest halting big tech mega projects.

As it turns out I can only 9h-timeshift my body for about a day. Which makes four days of transatlantic online conferencing at #4S2025 a physical impossibility. Caffeine will only get you so far with Zoom. What's the equivalent to jetlag? A zoomlag?

Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥

September is starting off crazy busy/chaotic. But not as chaotic as #SpiderJesus💥 Today at 1:30PT/4:30ET I'm presenting (remotely) a preliminary work on #AIJesusSlop at #4S2025. Dive deep into observer theories and how this slop is so much more than #spam. See ya there! 🙏

477. Oceans of Data: Knowledge Production in Aquatic Environments Panel 10:40 to 12:30 PM Summit (Convention Center) 331 Participants: From Data Streams to Outflow Streams: Reverse-Engineering a Coastal Water Monitoring Initiative James Hodges, San José State University Distributive Efficient Sea Hannah Tollefson, University of Toronto Countercultural Techniques: Wave Forecasting, Shoreline Media, and the Technocultural Origins of Coastal Meteorology Rob Arcand, McGill University Chair: James Hodges, San José State University

🌊🌊🌊 I've arrived at #4S2025 - and found out my panel was rescheduled!

🌊🌊🌊 Come check out OCEANS OF DATA

🌊🌊🌊 10:40AM tomorrow, Saturday Sept 6

🌊🌊🌊 Summit (Convention Center) 331

Session 466. Data Loss Reverberations: Exploring Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies 3
09/06, 1:30–3:20 PM (GMT-7)
Talk: “Rescuing Data, Resisting Loss: The Politics of Environmental Data Preservation in the Post-2025 U.S.”

#4S2025 #DataRescue #Seattle #SocialScience

View of Seattle’s Pike Place Market entrance with the iconic “Public Market Center” neon sign, red umbrellas, and people walking on the cobblestone street in the late afternoon light.

Tomorrow, our colleague @ztirfhtor.bsky.social will share insights from her PhD at the @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Seattle!

If you’re at #4S2025, come by and join the discussion!
And here’s a little greeting straight from Seattle

#Conference #Seattle #SocialScience #DataRescue

Two authors holding a copy of their book in front of a book exhibit

Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski with their fabulous new book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. 💖 #4S2025
@dukepress.bsky.social @nassimparvin.bsky.social

if you are attending #4S2025, in just over an hour, we (@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social) have an exciting panel starting on breakdown, failure, care and repair in AI. In the programme, you can find it under "Echoes of Human Care and AI Repair in Times of Broken Machines"! Join us online on Zoom!

Echoing (!) @ktmac.bsky.social — very glad to be bringing together three panels tomorrow at #4S2025 on #dataloss. We will be tracing how erasure, disappearance, and dispossession work as privative and constitutive forces and modes of resistance in digital systems. Please join us online or in-room!