Sama Khosravi-Ooryad

Getting close to wrapping up my PhD, it warms my heart to see that my PhD-papers are widely read and cited since publication, 8k views and 30 citations in total. 🔥
It motivates me to keep going. 🙌🏽

Link to the articles:
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Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

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@samakhosraviooryad.bsky.social's #somatechnics article (doi.org/10.3366/soma...) was made OA as one of Somatechnics' most outstanding pieces. Check out both "The Somatechnics of Violence" special issues curated by myself, Chantelle Gray & Delphi Carstens here (www.euppublishing.com/toc/soma/14/1)

My article at the journal Somatechnics has been selected as an ‘innovative somatechnics research from the past decade and a half of the journal’ and is featured in a special issue (Bodies of Power).
I am honored to receive this recognition for my research.
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Upcoming seminar ⬇️
Prof Jo Littler (Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis @mediacomgold.bsky.social) will outline The Care Manifesto (co-written with members of the Care Collective) & explore corporate carewashing.
📅 4pm, 15 May
More: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb8... @jolittler.bsky.social

All the thrill is mine.🤩

Feminism and the Far-Right A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

I will talk at this brilliant symposium on “Feminism and the Far-Right” on June 6th at Goldsmith among epic critical thinkers in my field. Thanks so much to Dr. @kat-hig.bsky.social for hosting this event. 💖

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

Feminism and the Far-Right A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky.

I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes.

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Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work.

Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

Another research citing my work. I LOVE this field, lol!
Welcome to this brave Bro’s world, babe!

Hello bluesky! Read more about our Standing Group here: ecpr.eu/StandingGrou...

These incels deradicalised themselves — and now they’re trying to help others As Netflix’s Adolescence spotlights the dangers of incel ideology, we speak to three young men who’ve taken steps to steer themselves away from the manosphere

‘I want to be the best man possible’: Meet the manosphere-curious men trying to deradicalise themselves online

In the Netherlands, three far-right youth were found guilty in a Rotterdam court of incitement and given suspended sentences (time served basically), with one of the youths being found guilty of participation in a terrorist organization (The Base)

Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour This conceptual article examines the relational dynamic between the research field focusing on the far right and those critical scholars that endeavour to undertake these studies. It is theoretically ...

A new article by Ov Christian Norocel and Iris B. Segers in the European Journal of Politics and Gender stresses the need to address unequal emotional labor demands in academia and urges institutions to better support scholars in roles requiring significant emotional labor. shorturl.at/Qotd2

Painted four or five stories high on the side of the building in Japan one of Nara's characteristically sardonic-looking cartoon girls

Yoshitomo Nara

Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

The haunting past: memory and far right studies - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism with Lorna Richardson (University of East Anglia) and Daniel Jones (University of Northampton)

Join us on March 20 for @crexuio.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social and CASEI webinar series on methods and ethics for researching the far right! We will discuss how collective memory and heritage are appropriated and mobilised by the far right. Don't miss it! 🌟 www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

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PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.

We are looking for a #PhDstudent in the NWO-VIDI project “Iran’s Secular Shift” which investigates Iran’s evolving secular landscape using mixed-method; an opportunity to contribute to a pioneering study on non-religion, atheism & secularism in #Iran @pooyan1983.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

EU asks X for internal documents about algorithms as it steps up investigation Musk’s company has been accused of manipulating systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility

EU is asking X for internal documents about its algorithms.

"The company has been accused of manipulating the platform’s systems to give far-right posts and politicians greater visibility over other political groups."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

PhD-Position in Gender Studies: Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture PhD-Position in Gender Studies: Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture Gender studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University We are now recruiting a PhD-student in Gender Studies for conducting

Apply for this PhD position and join the amazing team and research project at Lund University:

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The first page of my article. Includes title, author info, abstract, and first few paragraphs of intro.

Really excited to share my latest article, "Articulating algorithmic ableism: The suppression and surveillance of disabled TikTok creators," is now published in Journal of Gender Studies!

A beautiful conversation between disability + creator studies.

Read here ↪️ shorturl.at/ft5

PhD-Position in Gender Studies: Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture PhD-Position in Gender Studies: Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture Gender studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University We are now recruiting a PhD-student in Gender Studies for conducting

Apply for this PhD position and join the amazing team and research project at Lund University:

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The level of ingenuity they have for coming up with ways to be evil, in both grand and petty ways.

Brian Massumi book on fascism, incoming from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/the-personal...

The second article of my ongoing research is published and open access @FeministMediaStudies.
I theorise the concept of ‘memeing back’ and argue for more robust, aesthetic, anonymous, collective, & grassroots digital feminisms.
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Introduction: Feminist Worldmaking and Horror Film - MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture Read Peirse's introduction to the project and watch McLeod' trailer for DWGHFH cut to original music by _HEAVYLEG.

Delve into our exciting new issue 'Doing Women's Global Horror Film History'. The introduction by Alison Peirse and trailer by Dayna McLeod show how this issue became "a model of feminist, decolonial worldmaking".
maifeminism.com/introduction...