David Wyatt

Such a powerful paper from @chiarboni.bsky.social & colleagues on ethico-political stakes of machine learning in psychiatric risk models. An exploration of doubt in the decisions of nurses & clinicians and how algorithmic pre-emption forecloses the ethics of doubt link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

A dachshund stands in a store, visible through glass doors marked with a "no dachshunds" graphic silhouette sign. The interior shows shopping carts and tiled flooring.

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Key humanities research infrastructure under grave threat at Australian National University (ANU); jobs of 11 of 14 sociologists at Macquarie University on the line (with university proposing to cut Sociology and Politics major)

Why Walking Helps Us Think Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

This reminds me:

Submission to Workshop - From Tech Lash to Tech Fash: Strategic Reflections on a Decade of Collective Organizing in Computing

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here is a short blog post by Aferdita Bytyqi and myself on the importance of data solidarity and data cosmopolitanism in the context of the European Health Data Space:

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Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Happy to see this out in one of my fave journals - led by @crismontenegro.bsky.social We unpack distinct contributions of PPIE & qual sociology, suggest why they are at times conflated, and why they shouldn't be.

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_soc

Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology

This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026.

Read full Call for Papers below:
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Standing Together: A United Front For Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️

[Visual description: A series of three graphics showing a joint statement from Birmingham Pride, Brighton Pride, Pride in London and Manchester Pride.

Academia needs to reckon with its destructive obsession with new shiny 'future leader' 'potential' vs. nurture & maintenance.

A patient and public involvement (PPI) webcomic illustrated by Camille Aubry, work based on a study on the labour of the PPI workforce by Dr Stan Papolias.

A new webcomic developed by Dr Stan Papoulias, patient and public involvement research theme lead at ARC South London, and illustrator Camille Aubry brings to life the experiences and challenges of patient and public involvement. #PPI 👇

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SLOW DOWN - the UK launch The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies presents Kohei Saito in conversation with Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

On April 15, we're hosting the much-anticipated UK launch of @koheisaito.bsky.social's SLOW DOWN

Kohei Saito will be in conversation with our Centre Director Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

6pm, Logan Hall, 20 Bedford Way

@ariskomporozos.bsky.social
@sriucl.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We also created an online tool for the structured assessment of the public value of data use: pluto.univie.ac.at

@nikolausf.substack.com #AlgoSoc2025

Sussex says OfS acting beyond powers as it seeks judicial review University handed record fine over free speech breaches claims ruling gives ‘free rein’ to racists and sexists

The University of Sussex has accused the Office for Students of “giving free rein” to “antisemitic, anti-Muslim, homophobic, racist, sexist, and anti-trans speech” as it begins legal action to challenge the regulator’s decision to fine it £585,000, reports @helenpacker.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

Congratulations! So so pleased for you xx

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Nice to see this special issue of Science, Technology and Human Values @sthv.bsky.social on 'The Hidden Labor of Translation' now out, which includes an afterward by me. Some really nice papers in this issue journals.sagepub.com/toc/STH/curr...

Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy - Jana Bacevic, 2023 This article introduces the concept of epistemic positioning to theorize the relationship between identity-based epistemic judgements and the reproduction of so...

Hey, y'know when you like someone's argument but repost someone else's post? I've actually writte about that too! More precisely, I've written about erasure-by-omission and what it does to diversity in the long run. Check it out! (it's from 2021). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Yep, I’m in there. So if you use meta AI you’re stealing from me. Personally from me

We've extended the deadline to apply until March 10!

Recorded! Here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGK...

Check out this amazing zine edited by our MSc student, Hannah Lev. Featuring a collection of illustrations, writing, photographs, and other art forms, Boundary Work explores how, in an increasingly data-saturated cultural landscape, narratives can compel us and make us wonder. boundary-work.com/home

I mean "defend the university" sure sure but how about we have a discussion about what "the university" is, how it's run, and whom it serves, and then let's also talk collective ownership, participatory budgeting, and democratic decision-making

Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics - Judith Green, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, Phil Edwards, 2025 This article explores the multiplicity of publics that are enacted in relation to infrastructures. We take the case of street lighting infrastructure in the UK ...

Really pleased this is out in @sthv.bsky.social with fab colleagues Mike Michael, Phil Edwards & Rebecca Stienbach 1/5
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Are you working on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of recent medical research and emerging medical technologies? This is your chance to join an inspiring community of researchers in a serene and collaborative environment! Deadline 2025-03-06

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Photo of a white man's hand holding a book titled THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE. subtitled A RUTHLESS CRITICISM of TECHNOLOGY and CAPITALISM. author JATHAN SADOWSKI. The cover is a mottled red and orange with an image of a circular toothed gear with a crossed wrench and hammer inside. The title is rockered over the top of the gear and the subtitle is rockered below the gear.

Back cover of THE MECHANIC AND THE LUDDITE book. DEMYSTIFIES HOW TWO SYSTEMS — TECHNOLOGY AND CAPITALISM — WORK TOGETHER AND EQUIPS US WITH TOOLS TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Our society is constantly serving the needs of technology and capitalism. Neither system exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite provides the critical tools we need to deconstruct these systems-how they work and what work they do in our lives. But It's not enough to know how the machinery of capitalism and technology operate; we also need to know whom the machines serve in order to decide whether they should be taken apart, rebuilt, or destroyed for good. With signature style, Jathan Sadowski gives readers a provocative and handy manual for understand- ing the power of technology and capitalism and, crucially, the power we must take back. "Jathan Sadowski is one of the most incisive and important thinkers on technology and capitalism today. This urgent book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the deeper political economy that shapes the digital domain and, by extension, every facet of modern life -ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Security: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart "Smart, urgent, and bluntly powerful, this book is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand how technology gets made — and whom it's made to serve. The time for a thunderous new Luddite politics is now and Sadowski's accessible manifesto delivers" -BRIAN MERCHANT, author of flood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Sadowski's crisp and active prose generously illuminates technology's relationship to flows of money and power and the whims of those who wield them." MEREDITH WHITTAKER, Chief Advisor and Cofounder, Al Now Institute JATHAN SADOWSKI is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is author of Too Smart and host of the podcast This Machine Kills

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism

Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

The new conglomerates - Nick Srnicek, 2024

I've got a short provocation in this great new journal, arguing that big tech is as much about spanning across markets as it is about dominating within markets journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

One year fixed term contracts are never “an exciting opportunity” and I wish people would stop announcing them as such on social media.

#SubPost

On microbes, antibiotics, publics, and phages... and other stuff I'll miss Catherine's insights into

Monetising Digital Data in Higher Education: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups - Postdigital Science and Education Digital data are a building block of postdigital higher education and, as such, are believed to be economically and socially valuable. However, data need to be made valuable via a complex set of polit...

Colleagues & I have two new papers out on #data & #edtech, second one ...

- Monetising Digital Data in Higher Education: Analysing the Strategies and Struggles of EdTech Startups (link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

#assetization #STS #highereducation #education #digital