Kate Henne

Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis” Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded at...

@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

📚 Join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social and Matt Ventresca’s new book, which examines the social and regulatory impacts of concussion crisis discourses and how certain bodies are central within these narratives while others are pushed to the margins. Learn more & register: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Crashing #ASA2025 to see our new @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, out in the world for the first time! Also open access!

City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’ City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…

Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS

If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:

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Applications Open for AuSI’s 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for its 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program.

📢Applications Open for our 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program #AUJoin

Scholars of all academic disciplines who are based in 🇦🇺 & overseas academic institutions are encouraged to submit proposals related to the Program’s themes: ausi.anu.edu.au/news/applica...

Closing date 📅 23 June

Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity - but are worried about the risks Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?

New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...

And by the way, Congress made the point explicit when it came back to amend the Privacy Act in 1988: no national data bank.

The future of Generative AI in policy work in Australia This seminar aims to provide public servants, policymakers, and researchers with an overview of research and opportunities for discussion.

Join researchers at UNSW Canberra and the ANU to hear about the use of Generative AI in government policy work. RegNet's @k8henne.bsky.social will be chairing the event, with remarks from the AI CoLab Alliance. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-future...

Nice history of the Institute for Advanced Study. What began with physicists & mathematicians fleeing fascism has evolved into a community that also includes social scientists and humanists all pushing boundaries. The intellectual freedom the Bambergers championed still thrives in Princeton's woods.

"'The School District of Phila has decided to support the grant activities, as much as financially possible, even w/o the fed 💰... [Boosting] the pipeline of certified school librarians and the 5-yr strategic plan [to] incrementally add... librarians + libraries'... will move ahead in some form."

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Chapter 8: Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps

Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world

‼️ Are you interested in children’s rights, digital forensics and digital evidence come and work with me and join a great team @crisresearch.bsky.social!

Deadline 9th of May !

#postdoc #digitalcriminology #criminology jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Seeing Like a Platform | An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Mode Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is

New OA book. Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real world

The “Starlink user agreement has a clause maintaining that ‘the parties recognize Mars as a free planet & that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.’ This is in direct violation of international treaties governing space”
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Oh, OK, that is pretty sweet... haha maybe next time! 🥰

ha, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, I have been thinking of you all night, b/c I caught a gig at Smith's this evening (you would've loved it) and then came home to watch the results!

haha, well, keepin' it real! And, tbh, I probably should've gone across the street to the local school and gotten my democracy sausage. Next time! 😉

I hafta admit voting at the Museum of Australian Democracy in my first Australian election was pretty great 🗳️ #auspol

Barnaby looks well.

Flexing that I saw this before the rest of you (it's awesome)

📢 Call for Applications ⁉️

Would you like to be part of the editorial team of a discipline-leading journal❓

@policysociety.bsky.social is seeking a new dynamic editorial team to improve the impact of the journal further & shape the debates in our field

The call is here 👇

Hey #STS friends!
Quick announcement for a great panel at the upcoming STS-CH 2025 conference in Zurich (Sept 10-12):
🔥🔥 Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions 🔥🔥
To submit your papers: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
Looking forward!

Canadian researchers should be very concerned by Poilievre's promise to politicize federal research funding in Canada by ending supposedly mandatory 'woke ideology.'

A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued Some police officials are pushing back after a wealthy community gifted the department scores of controversial, high-tech cameras that scan license plates.

Who could have guessed that when a rich neighborhood association donated $200,000 worth of automated license plate readers to the police foundation that they’d also want to dictate how the cameras are used.

Catching up after a much-needed break… Coming back to a thoughtful summary of a longer piece by my ANU colleague @begoldsmith.bsky.social