Gowhar Farooq

This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

public data cultures at Internet Archive Europe, 9th February 2026 There will be a book event for Public Data Cultures book at the Internet Archive Europe in Amsterdam on 9th February 2026.

looking forward to "wayback studio" exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchive.eu ✨
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI | CNN Business While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount ...

"Our best baseline estimate is that roughly 28,000 more jobs for translators would’ve been added in the absence of machine translation," says Dr @carlbfrey.bsky.social in @cnn.com’s new article on how AI is reshaping language work.

Read more: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/t...

📢CfP: The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity conference @wzb.bsky.social

We want to bring together cultural evolution scholars & social
scientists to explore how evolutionary perspectives can contribute to empirical research on migration & diversity.

Keynote by @michael.muthukrishna.com

Program Manager - 134205 Program Manager - 134205 | Careers at UC San Diego

Job alert at UCSD Labor Center: Program Manager!

employment.ucsd.edu/program-mana...

Escaping the trap of US tech dependence Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.

It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and tra...

incredible lineup in this Geopolitics forum on "Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza: Infrastructure and Global Solidarity"

w/ Rafeef Ziadah, Christian Henderson, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sharri Plonskid, Charmaine Chua, Riya Al Sanah & Elia El Khazen

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

Small 🧵 on my chapter, which combines a review of the literature on #assets with a conceptual argument:

Assets are boundary objects that facilitate various forms of social relations. We thus need to study their lifecycle from assetization, asset management to deassetization to understand them.

Vacancy — PhD Position on the Effects of Digital Media on Youth Are you interested in understanding the impact of digital media on youth? We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student who wants to explore the impact of digital technologies (i.e., smartphones and/o...

Jobs! Susanne Baumgartner @ascor.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student and a Post doc for her new project "The Effect of Digital Media on Youth" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

And werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Call for Applications: #researchers and #policyadvocates will network around #disinformation, #AI, #InternetMeasurement and governance during the Global Gathering in Estoril. buff.ly/wBpAuuM

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

📢CFP Alert:
Symposium on Information Controls at King's College, London happening this May.
Abstract submission deadline is March 31.
Please share with folks working on censorship, mis/disinformation and digital surveillance.

KING’S BRIDGE Scholarships Arts & Humanities Faculty Master’s Scholarships for Black, Asian, and Minority Home Students

Master's scholarship at King's College London for Black, Asian and minority home students!

My faculty (Arts & Humanities) is offering three postgraduate taught programmes scholarships (fees) - closing day is 14 May.

Details here: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

Trustworthy Infrastructures is hiring! Come work with @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, and me, as we look to build out our Nodes & Conduits project. We're really looking forward to getting to know you and your work - please don't hesitate to reach out with any additional questions!

🥁 Drumroll, please - the schedule for #asen2025 is up now at asen.ac.uk/conferenc...!

Punitive indifference is both morally and economically costly.

📢CFP Alert:
Symposium on Information Controls at King's College, London happening this May.
Abstract submission deadline is March 31.
Please share with folks working on censorship, mis/disinformation and digital surveillance.

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE

An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Donate to Signal Private Messenger Your donation helps pay for the development, servers, and bandwidth of an app used by millions around the world for private and instantaneous communication. Please make a donation today.

A LOT of folks in the US have moved away from texts, WhatsApp, iMessage, etc. to Signal. That’s a good thing. Also - Signal is a non-profit. If you’re relying on @signal.org to have your back, make sure you have their back too. Go donate and get your friends to do so as well!

signal.org/donate/

Can the Government Read My Text Messages? Can the Government Read My Text Messages?

Learn how governments are able to read certain text messages, and how to ensure your messages are end-to-end encrypted on Digital Rights Bytes, our new site dedicated to helping break down tech issues into byte-sized pieces.

With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!

More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, U.N. says Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, according to the UN.

A total of 281 humanitarian workers have been killed.

230 were killed by Israel.

What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers? The rush to build new computing and energy infrastructure for artificial intelligence comes with a lot of unintended consequences—especially if this new infrastructure isn’t actually needed.

I wrote about the narrative that AI will create an energy crisis: a great way to build unnecessary fossil fuel infrastructure & cement the market share of a few big companies w/o stopping to ask if that’s necessary

ft. @jgkoomey.bsky.social & @smw.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1894...

Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025

My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!