Anne Lee Steele

@aleesteele.bsky.social

www.aleesteele.com

"In its mainstream form, Open Science explains the Global South’s slower research pace as a matter of weak infrastructure, low capacity, or scarce resources. Diversity and inclusion shrink to questions of representation while systemic issues vanish from view." Excellent from @batoolmm.bsky.social

Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine

The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.

magazine.scienceforthepeople.org

"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens

A few signs of life: walking and mapping with graphic design MA students at Central Saint Martin's a few weeks ago: talking through mapping and walking as ways of cultivating attention, and how documenting our psycho-geography is just as important as mapping the physical spaces we live in.

Handdrawn maps that people have drawn of the area surrounding Coal Drop Yards in London, annotated with things people remember, and looking wildly different.Handdrawn maps that people have drawn of the area surrounding Coal Drop Yards in London, annotated with things people remember, and looking wildly different.

Finally read this 😳 A co founded 3 yrs ago by three 19-year-olds, now billionaires, entraps once gainfully employed professionals to atomize, instrumentalize, rubric-ize + obviate their expertise — "explain humor using clear, logical language, incldg refs to... slang, trends + social norms" 😫

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 5mo ago

AI companies are hiring people to produce data for practically any job you can imagine: chefs, management consultants, archivists, private investigators, rental-counter clerks. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted.

🏕️ DWeb Camp 2026 is happening in the Berlin area on Jul 8–12 ✨ Are you curious, excited, want to participate? Fill out this survey! We would love to shape the first-ever DWeb Camp in Europe together! Detailed location and further info soon 👀

DWeb Camp 2019 group photo.
Photo by Mitch Maher.Person with megaphone outside of big igloo tent at night at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.Person dancing at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.People sitting around a bonfire at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.

📣 A Note on Recent GitHub Access Changes Recently, some of our contributors received an automated GitHub message stating they had been “removed as a collaborator.” This wording felt abrupt and can be misleading for our previous collaborators and contributors, so we want to clarify: