Check out Wiki Workers United - CWA's press release. This is just the beginning! We are not done fighting for our rights. We remain united. We remain committed to one another. And we will continue organizing together. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Wiki Workers United US/CWA Will File for NLRB Election After Wikimedia Foundation Declines Voluntary Recognition

Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US-CWA) has released a statement after announcing today that it will file for a union election with the NLRB after the Wikimedia Foundation declined the union's request f...

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Today's incredibly cursed addition to my trans history archive: the copy of a John Money book that Janice Raymond used to write "The Transsexual Empire" and kick trans-exclusionary feminism into overdrive. It's got her handwritten notes and everything.

It’s really something how people get up in arms about accessibility and equity when the thing in question is pervert glasses or Dark Clippy. I don’t see you folks showing up when Ticketmaster says there’s no way a wheelchair user can come to concerts or that sign language is “too distracting”.

"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Y'all absolutely the fuck not. In fact, I think this is makes a STRONG case for why conferences like CHI and FAccT should pull out of the ACM. I highly recommend that you tell ACM what you think about your work being co-opted into planet-killing misinformation machines.

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

If you would like to share your thoughts, please use this link (buff.ly/fnANR1x). ACM leadership will take your feedback into account while we develop and implement our AI content strategy over the coming months.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Holy shit. A big influence on my first book and my current project, and one of my advisor’s committee members. The intro to “Pharmaceutical Reason” is still one of the best things I’ve ever read.

professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)@inquiline.myatproto.social · 3w ago

I am deeply and truly sorry to share the passing of Andrew Lakoff last week. Andy was an extraordinarily generous colleague in addition to his excellent scholarship. My heart goes out to his family. Announcement from our campus STS center, which he founded: t.e2ma.net/message/xx3p...

My methods training was okay to good but it definitely left me with the impression that analysis was something like 80% estimating 15% presentation 5% wrangling and it’s actually 96% wrangling

This article is a breath of fresh air, and brings substance and citations to something I’ve come to believe for several years. Treating a radicalization problem as polarization leads to inappropriate or even harmful solutions, and also dips into victims-blaming. 🧵

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

“Constantly responding to attacks, correcting distortions, and defending the legitimacy of one’s own field of research can result in intellectual burnout”. Great piece by @massimoprearo.bsky.social on political fatigue and epistemic struggles in anti-gender research theloop.ecpr.eu/the-politica...

🌈 The political fatigue of doing feminist and queer research in anti-gender times

Anti-gender politics does not only attack rights. It attacks the knowledge that makes those rights intelligible. Massimo Prearo argues that anti-gender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a p...

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Don’t worry, they’ve heard people’s concerns about space for lecturers and solved it by implementing a complete hiring freeze university-wide.

Dan Isbell@danielrisbell.bsky.social · last mo.

100% chance that there are departments short on lab space or offices for GAs/lecturers.

The actual Tavistock scandal was that the clinic had enormous waiting lists and too many young people were going without care. This article seeks to use a reference to it to make you think "oh yeah I heard there was a scandal" in your brain to legitimize the description of care as scandalous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Front page of today's Sunday Telegraph - "[GC] Minister sidelined from puberty blocker trial consultation" "...she would have rightly cancelled it, at least until the child victims of the appalling Tavistock scandal had been tracked down to find out how badly damaged they are."

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

My book editor just pointed out that I had replied to the concern "this book uses the passive voice too much" in the passive voice, so if you excuse me I need to walk into the ocean now.

folks said it couldn't be done, but they did it, they invented anti-woke living constitutionalism

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"

I think this quote really demonstrates for me something that is quite weird and hard about watching reactions to sector redundancies while precarious - because I am expected to do exactly this next year. And no one seems to find it a problem. (1/2)

Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · last mo.

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last mo.

Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.

BREAKING: Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a global first by becoming the first group of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition.

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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heaven for #histmed people is “securing access to the full records of the first 100 dialysis patients who went through the Life or Death Committee”. This is niche as hell and I don’t care because it’s also exciting as hell!

@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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The export control directive banning state of the art language models from Anthropic is only counterproductive to the US AI industry if you don’t view it as yet another act in the current production of AI safety theatrics.

Every social media post I make being angry about transphobia gets SO much more attention from cis people than ones celebrating phenomenal trans people - I know it's human nature, but I wish that ratio could even out. ILĀ is one of the most talented musicians I've ever worked with: www.hausofila.com

88 signatures so far - if you live in the UK PLEASE email your MP about adding their name - it will take you less than 5 minutes with the form below. Yes, even if your MP is a transphobe - it's good for them to know how many of their constituents disagree with them.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

I have a piece in The Baffler today! It's from my historical research on trans medicine, and it's about solidarity and feminism and avoiding helplessness and the time a bunch of cis activists in 1970s Boston got so pissed about gatekeeping around gender-affirming care they started their own clinic.

The Good Doctors | Os Keyes

The history of the Boston Gender Identity Service proves that solidarity across apparent divides is not only possible but essential.

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I have a piece in The Baffler today! It's from my historical research on trans medicine, and it's about solidarity and feminism and avoiding helplessness and the time a bunch of cis activists in 1970s Boston got so pissed about gatekeeping around gender-affirming care they started their own clinic.

The Good Doctors | Os Keyes

The history of the Boston Gender Identity Service proves that solidarity across apparent divides is not only possible but essential.

thebaffler.com

timely for this to be out this week: a longread from me about the history of trans healthcare in the UK i.e. why we are in the mess we are in featuring some historical enemies – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, John Randell – and an amazing line about gender doctors from @notrightruth.bsky.social

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 5mo ago

History shows us the UK’s Trans+ healthcare system isn’t broken – it’s working exactly as it was meant to. @ludovicparsons.bsky.social, explores the history of the creation of the Trans+ healthcare system, and its gatekeeping by design 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/a-brief-hist...

I feel this in the marrow of my bones. The future of a university should be shaped by leaders whose own careers depend materially on the future they are shaping.

Matthew Gracie@infosecgoon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away. Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.