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(Dr) Emily Hofstetter@emdoesca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So for folks arriving to Edmonton for #icca2026 and looking for some local stuff to eat, watch & do, here's a 🧵. Fellow YEGers, feel free to add your own faves...

#icca2026 Just to start on it early, who else is not going to the conference dinner & wants to find some cheap eats? Gather ye friends, so we may eat dim sum. (or whatever).

Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...

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Today! June 17th. The 3rd in our fully-online symposium series on accessibility in art- and performance-based collaboration. With speakers Carla Rice, Claudia Alick and Louise Hickman. 12-2pm MT (That's 2-4pm on the east coast, 7-9pm in the UK). Register here: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Dark green flyer with collaged images including a child with walking braces, a woman seated on her partner's lap upon a yellow flower, a Greek pillar and a set of crutches. The flyer text reads: CRIPPING COLLABORATION, June 17th from 12-2 PM MT
How can we invite, embody, and sustain modes of collaboration that truly support extraordinary ways of thinking and making?

Presentations by Carla Rice, Claudia Alick and Louise Hickman, followed by exchanging thoughts and thinking together about the ideal conditions for a truly extraordinary collaboration.

Register here: https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/y8zE9mQ9RdeOVg1QRk3s3A
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the eSymposium.

If you're involved in the landscape of disability arts organizations, as a worker, an artist, a community member, a policy maker, please consider joining us for this free online discussion on Ecologies of Care.

a blue-green mushroom creature spreads her roots out through the bottom fifth of this yellow flyer. the flyer text has the title of the symposium ECOLOGIES OF CARE and the date and time: 15 June 4-6 PM MT. It lists the question:
"How can the artistic endeavors of the Smartwear Project contribute to supporting and strengthening existing networks that curate / present / give space & resources to disability arts practices?" And the speaker info:
Presentations by Nexi Alarcon, Jenn Kowalchuk, Sean Lee and Ginger Carlson, followed by exchanging thoughts and thinking together about how to support and expand an ecosystem of disability arts networks.

Register here:
https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/T1WsTvHpSCGl-R0FH7vPnA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the eSymposium.

Sisters of Frida @sistersofrida.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come one come all! The 1st in our fully online symposium series inviting conversations about disability justice strategies in the making, curating, commissioning, and presenting of art & performance. Provocations by artist-activists Carly Neis, Brooke Leifso & Aynaz Raoufian tinyurl.com/35t5sat6

Event flyer in blues and greens, texture and stitches. Flyer text includes the title (ARTISTS & ACCESSIBILITY), the event date and time (Wednesday June 10 from 4 to 6 PM Mountain Time), and the leading question: "How can we create and distribute open calls, artist supports, and opportunities that centre accessibility as a baseline, and not an afterthought?" Presentations by Carly Neis, Brooke Leifso and Aynaz Raoufian, followed by exchanging thoughts and thinking together about what accessibility means to artists.

London-based Deaf & Disabled women and gender-diverse people: 📢 Applications are OPEN for a new 2-year Sisters of Frida mentorship programme focused on activism, organising & disability justice. 📅 Deadline: 22 June www.sisofrida.org/sisters-of-f...

Sisters of Frida Mentorship Programme Application Form

Apply to the Sisters of Frida Mentorship Programme Please complete the application form below to apply for the Sisters of Frida Mentorship Programme. An Equality & Monitoring form is als…

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Nicolette Little@nicolettelittle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

edmontonians, step out for this!

Would love it if you can make it, Edmonton peeps! audreys.ca/events/49610... Please share ☺️ @gluzmania.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @theconversation.com @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social

2 yr postdoc on #openscience (OS): "Using qualitative methods...with the ultimate aim of developing an evidence-based model that synthesizes the roles of OS communities in the culture shift towards OS." #sts workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

Vacancy — Postdoc Researcher on Open Science Project

Are you a qualitative researcher who is curious about Open Science and how it is changing the way we do research? Join our team to investigate how Open Science communities contribute to the transition...

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#Job Postdoctoral Associate in Intersectional Feminist STS at Yale Univ Preferred focus areas: critical computing/artificial intelligence studies; labor and automation technologies; medicine/alternative medicine; chronic illness and/or disability studies. #sts #histsci #philsci tinyurl.com/mpksedcv

Postdoctoral Associate in Intersectional Feminist STS at Yale University

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job opportunity: teaching #sts type stuff to engineers at the @ualberta.bsky.social iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Tenured or Tenure-Track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Position in Engineering Education, Communication, and AI-Enabled Learning

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta invites applications for a faculty position in Engineerin...

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Nicolette Little@nicolettelittle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for the launch of @nicolettelittle.bsky.social new book "From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada" at Audreys Books on Tuesday June 9th, from 7-8:30pm.

Edmonton friends & colleagues — Join me for the launch of my new book, June 9 @ Audreys! Resfreshments served. @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @gluzmania.bsky.social @persephone.blue

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As the 4S deadline approaches (April 30!), Making & Doing co-chairs Gabi Schaffzin & Yelena Gluzman will host 2 online drop-in sessions to answer questions about M&D. #sts #histsci #philsci Sun. Apr 26 @ 8pm EDT yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Mon. Apr 27 @ 11am EDT yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

4S 2026 Toronto. Making & Doing AMA. 26 April 8pm EDT bit.ly/MDama1. 27 April 11am EDT bit.ly/MDama2. Registration recommended. M&D committee co-chairs would love to field your questions about the call, the adjudication process, and the conference itself! This will be an open session without much structure, so feel free to come at any point during the scheduled hour.

It is worth mentioning that this is the only position on 4S council with this citizenship/residency requirement. If any #sts homies are thinking of stepping up for this and need someone to nominate them, feel free to message or email me.

Society for Social Studies of Science@4sweb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're searching for nominations for a Treasurer for 2027–9 who needs to be a U.S. citizen, and resides in the U.S. Please nominate by April 10: www.4sonline.org/4s_nominatio...

Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're searching for nominations for a Treasurer for 2027–9 who needs to be a U.S. citizen, and resides in the U.S. Please nominate by April 10: www.4sonline.org/4s_nominatio...

Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Edmonton friends, mark June 9, 7pm in your calendar! Pls join me at Audreys for the launch of From Red Dresses to Memory Stones. www.ubcpress.ca/from-red-dre... @ualberta.bsky.social @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social @gluzmania.bsky.social @ethnographer.bsky.social @ubcpress.bsky.social

From Red Dresses to Memory Stones

From Red Dresses to Memory Stones - Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada; From Red Dresses to Memory Stones explores creative media activism to address gender-based violence, illumi...

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Today at the University of Alberta: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE, celebrating the radical and elusive composer of postwar experimental music David Tudor through a multifaceted evening of sound, dance, performance, and reflection. Sunday March 8th | 3 pm | Convocation Hall www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...

Ghosts in the Machine: A Celebration of David Tudor’s 100th Year

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Today (Wed March 4) at 3:30pm EST, Kim TallBear speaks on the global issue of self-Indigenization, particularly in the form of “ #Indigenous ethnic fraud,” or “ #pretendianism,” as it is referred to in North America. #sts In person & streaming: www.youtube.com/live/QgaF8yo...

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization

YouTube video by The Red Nation

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