Ana
@anthrotechana.bsky.social
anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | views my own 📍OR based [contain typos] 🏳️🌈 she/her
Cultural anthropologist position with the National Park Service! www.usajobs.gov/job/87806540...
Cultural Anthropologist
You will serve as a Cultural Anthropologist working in San Francisco, California for the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Pacific West, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Resource...
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As firefighters continue working to contain wildfires that are burning more than 2 million acres in Oregon, most of the state will be blanketed with smoky air through at least Wednesday night.
People urged to limit outdoor activities as smoke blankets the Northwest
Air quality advisories are in effect for most of the Pacific Northwest through at least Wednesday. Air quality near some wildfires reached hazardous levels as of Tuesday morning.
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Posting into the void it seems… Can anyone see this?
Ana@anthrotechana.bsky.social · 2w agoAm I a little off or have talks about small modular reactors to power data centers really diminished in the past months?
Am I a little off or have talks about small modular reactors to power data centers really diminished in the past months?
Washington County city becomes the state’s first to approve a moratorium on land use applications for data centers.
Hillsboro approves data center moratorium
Washington County city becomes state's first to approve moratorium on land use applications for data centers.
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As a scholar interested in the many definitions of infrastructure, this one made me want to read the whole thing 😅
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo agoText of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻
Thank you @melhogan.bsky.social for having me and @cellllla.bsky.social in wonderful company to talk about the research in PA we are doing with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @anthrotechana.bsky.social at @datasociety.bsky.social!
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 4w agoThis episode recaps some of the highlights from this amazing set of speakers: aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...
This episode recaps some of the highlights from this amazing set of speakers: aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...
Just Tech: Take Back Tech Workshop Series - How to Stop a Data Center - Aydelotte
Across the U.S. data centers are being constructed at an unprecedented pace, raising concerns about the environmental impacts, energy costs, and the social benefits of A.I. technologies relative to th...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix@melhogan.bsky.social · 4w agoNew episode: pca.st/episode/5846...
Egypt absolutely got screwed this game. This isn't a game. This is FIFA making sure Argentina advances.
🎙️ New Platypod episode! Dr. Ana Carolina de Assis @anthrotechana.bsky.social talks with Dr. Luis Felipe R. Murillo about Common Circuits, his book on minor computing communities and the alternative futures they make possible against AI's enclosure of knowledge. 🎧 blog.castac.org/2026/06/plat...
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
Refusal to Review
I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …
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📣 Deadline extended! The David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize is now accepting submissions until June 29, 2026. Recognizing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. Self-submissions welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-award...
David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC
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1. Use this to see which candidates is on the take from AI companies in the upcoming midterms. aimoneywatch.org 2. Organize against them. 3. Don’t vote for them.
AI Money Watch — Track Big Tech’s super PAC
Leading the Future is spending $125 million to defeat AI safeguards. See which candidates Big Tech is backing — and which are being attacked for supporting AI regulation.
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Grad students and recent graduates working in the anthro of tech and adjacent fields: submit your paper for the 2026 David Hakken Paper Prize by June 15! This is a great opportunity to receive feedback on your work and to connect with the awesome CASTAC community ✨👩💻
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣 The David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize is now accepting submissions! Recognizing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. Deadline: June 15, 2026. Self-submissions welcome. #CASTAC #Anthropology castac.org/castac-award...
According to a new Gallup poll, women are driving the increasing opposition to data centers. This aligns with what D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social is seeing in her research on PA's data center industry, she tells @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2026/05/wome...
Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all.
New polling shows women have stronger concerns than men over the implications of the massive and costly complexes used to power AI.
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I'm watching today's Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee meeting on Energy and will no doubt have thoughts... 🧵
