My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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Thrilled that this is out in the world now. Especially delighted to have a small (speculative fictional) piece in this text! @ www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

Mattering Press@matteringpress.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony

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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing誌に日米半導体協定の論文が掲載されてた．テクノオリエンタリズムについて．

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal@ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 8mo ago

Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .

📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻 Supported by The NOMIS Foundation

with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social

meson press@mesonpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻 Supported by The NOMIS Foundation

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This is happening later today at Cambridge in case you are around!!!

Cambridge Digital Humanities@camdighum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us on Thursday for our final CDH Open research seminar of term with the brilliant @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 💫 5pm in the ARB Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/

Join us on Thursday for our final CDH Open research seminar of term with the brilliant @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 💫 5pm in the ARB Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/

The Parallel Form, or the Logic of the Graphic - CDH

Speaker Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Basel Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal holds the professorship in Digital Humanities, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and M...

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal@ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 3mo ago

Next week, I am talking about seriality, parallelism, and the infrastructural conditions around the ubiquity of graphic cards at the @camdighum.bsky.social Open Research Seminar. 28th of May, 1700, at SG2, Alison Richard Building. Drop by if you are in the area! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/

right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You might think it's racist to melt down about the appearance of a black woman in a movie, but have you considered that progressives do a totally different thing?

Next week, I am talking about seriality, parallelism, and the infrastructural conditions around the ubiquity of graphic cards at the @camdighum.bsky.social Open Research Seminar. 28th of May, 1700, at SG2, Alison Richard Building. Drop by if you are in the area! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/

The Parallel Form, or the Logic of the Graphic - CDH

Speaker Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Basel Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal holds the professorship in Digital Humanities, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and M...

cdh.cam.ac.uk

If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!

If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!

Local friends, you should join us for a symposium I am organizing next week in Basel in association with STS-CH. Featuring a really great lineup! Program and registration at contralab.online/sts-conference

Really looking forward to this great Media Theory/STS event in Basel next week! Convened and curated by the fabulous @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 🔉

Delighted to soon be traveling to Basel for the below event: Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines May 7, 2026 In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH) contralab.online/sts-conference

oh god, literary critic “Client Brooks” is the cherry on top

Chris Hanlon@chrishanlon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably

In the wake of Lenin, who once declared how Communism is Soviets plus Electricity, I am really excited to be speaking online this weekend (Saturday, the 25th of April) at the Hangzhou Normal University, 杭州师范大学, about how Media might be Infrastructure plus Semiotics.

[overused Marx quote about capital as vampiric dead labour]

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Talking about tokens in "How to do things with words (and images), redux" at Trondheim tom. at 1315, in conjunction with the workshop of the AIsthesis network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery hosted by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. www.ntnu.edu/ikm/research...

AI Media - Department of Art and Media Studies - NTNU

The research interests of the group include:

ntnu.edu

If you are in Zurich today, come hear me talk today—on the scientific work of media translation—at the Humanities Colloquium in ETH at 1615. ets.ethz.ch/ets-news-en/...

Humanities Colloquium Spring Semester 2026

The Humanities Colloquium in the Spring Semester 2026, starts on February 18

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Here’s the Top 17 Bankruptcy Filings That Will Get You Through Friday

FYI University of Basel is hiring a professor in English Linguistics (open rank). Application deadline: 16 March, 2026. Please feel free to pass it on! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Universität Basel: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank)

A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel...

jobs.unibas.ch

Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org

A search index of expert podcasts, videos and essays.

Explore our curated database of essays, podcasts, and videos authored by the world's leading experts and designed for the public.

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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...

Just ordered one (1) takeout dinner in the Helevetic Confederation better known as Switzerland: