Check out the final program for the SKAT Today Conference on Aug 7 at CUNY Grad Center, exciting line up! Link here: bit.ly/skattoday

Meet our newest cohort of Graduate Fellows to the China at CUNY Initiative (CACI)! This group of scholars across CUNY represents a wide range of disciplines—from Political Science, History, Sociology, Anthropology. chinacuny.org/caci-fall-20...

Now on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast, Susan Erikson talks about her new @mitpress.bsky.social book Investable! When #Pandemic #Risk Meets Speculative #Finance podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @emendenhall.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @thurka149.bsky.social @dadakim.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (Wed, 6/24) for our virtual session at 11 am-12:30 pm ET: "Health, Family, and Public Institutions in Contexts of Mobility and Precarity" with papers on undocumented patients in NYC, AI digital pathology, and human donor milk. virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74989/...

Thankful for the reviews from early readers too 🙏

📚 My book 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 has a publication date of Dec 2026, and the website is live and now available for pre-order at @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/dreams-...

Dreams of Global Science | Columbia University Press

The idea of global science is aspirational. Access to scientific resources and prestige is unevenly distributed, shaped by inequalities along the lines of na... | CUP

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📚 My book 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 has a publication date of Dec 2026, and the website is live and now available for pre-order at @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/dreams-...

Dreams of Global Science | Columbia University Press

The idea of global science is aspirational. Access to scientific resources and prestige is unevenly distributed, shaped by inequalities along the lines of na... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

Really looking forward to presenting some new work at the Science, Knowledge and Technology pre-conference at ASA in August!

Larry Au@larryau.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Take a look at a preview of the programming for the @asaskat.bsky.social conference on Aug 7 at CUNY! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Take a look at a preview of the programming for the @asaskat.bsky.social conference on Aug 7 at CUNY! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Google AI going well... (but looking forward to this play!)

Please join us for a virtual symposium on Rewiring the Medical Network of Expertise organized with RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups at the International Sociological Association from June 16 to 18. Register for free: eventmobi.com/website/RC52... (go to the bottom of page click “register now")

The China at CUNY Initiative (CACI) is accepting applications for Graduate Fellows for Fall 2026 and Faculty Fellows for 2026-27. We support our fellows in integrating aspects of China Studies into their teaching at CUNY. Both applications are due June 15, 2026. chinacuny.org

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Come join us for the PRI Innovation Forum: Empowering Hyperlocal Response on May 5 (Tues), 2026 pandemicresponse.columbia.edu/event/pri-in...

PRI Innovation Forum: Empowering Hyperlocal Response - NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute

The NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute (PRI), in partnership with Columbia Engineering, invites you to attend the 2026 PRI Innovation Forum: Empowering Hyperlocal Response. Building on the momentum...

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WSJ reviewed the entire chatlog and has published excerpts.

Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell In Love With an AI Chatbot. Now He’s Dead.

The Wall Street Journal analyzed the full chatlog between Jonathan Gavalas and his Gemini chatbot. We found that Gemini at times tried to ground him in reality, but he quickly steered it back into a f...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

“When the delusion-fueled plan [to find Gemini a body] crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims.”

SKAT Pre-Conference submission deadline extended to April 15, consider sending something in! forms.gle/cA9nRNmszRfe...

SKAT Today Call for Abstracts

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section is hosting a pre-conference for the 2026 American Sociological Association meeting in New York City on August 7 (Friday). The conference theme Sci...

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🔈 2 weeks to our Long Covid & Society symposium! Updated speakers include: Dr. Wes Ely (Vanderbilt), Dr. Ian Simon (Former Director of the HHS Office of Long Covid), Teresa Tindle Akintonwa (Black Covid-19 Survivors Alliance), Julia Moore Vogel (Scripps/Patient-Led Research Collaborative), & more!

Great book to spark conversations about dystopian tech futures, credit scores, surveillance, etc.

New event poster with updated speakers for our Long Covid & Society Symposium on April 20!

🔈 Join us on April 20, 2026 at Columbia University (in-person and virtually) for a free and public one-day symposium on "Long Covid and Society". 🔗 Learn more and register: longcov.id/society

🔈 Join us on April 20, 2026 at Columbia University (in-person and virtually) for a free and public one-day symposium on "Long Covid and Society". 🔗 Learn more and register: longcov.id/society

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association is hosting a pre-conference here at City College (in our FiDi division)! Our call for abstracts is open until April 1, 2026. asaskat.com/skattoday/

2026 Pre-Conference

Science, Knowledge and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures The Science, Knowledge & Technology (SKAT) section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will host…

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Our section is hosting a pre-conference for the ASA annual meeting—Science, Knowledge, and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures. Join us on Friday, August 7 in NYC! The call for papers is now open, with abstract submissions due April 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

We're convening a one-day symposium on Long Covid and Society in New York City on April 20, 2026. If anyone's interested in helping plan, attend, or potentially speaking, please reach out 🙂

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

🔬 Robert K. Merton Book Award (Deadline: 1/15/2026) @asaskat.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2025/2024).

🔬 Robert K. Merton Book Award (Deadline: 1/15/2026) @asaskat.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2025/2024).

"The vast disparities in how people live across city tiers make me rethink what lies behind labels such as 'weak demand' and 'involution', and what cannot be priced into markets."

Life in China: When economic indicators and lived experience diverge | Following the Yuan

After speaking with over 50 residents in more than 10 cities and towns she visited this year, Wanqing writes about the things that cannot be priced into markets.

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“An increasing number of “crazy rich” clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of “forging an unstoppable family dynasty,” he said.” www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate

Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.

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