Haven't been on Bluesky for a while, so I am yet to share some highlights from previous weeks. Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense. We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more... youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one
@velocitygravity.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling. Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors. Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real. AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. It/ve/vem👾
Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE! Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠 Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...
Early Career Scholars Podcasts | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
chstm.org
Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social #ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon
Artificial Intelligence: To Participate or to Abolish?
Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open di...
interregnum.ghost.io
Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time. www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...
Connections across time: Activism as a nurturing network
We write as activists, advocates and historians about the ongoing impact of strike action taken by nursery workers 40 years ago and the way activism can nourish the profession. Despite the...
bera.ac.uk
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
doi.org
Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999. #ImpossibleExchange
In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...
Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement
Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…
makingsciencepublic.com
Day 1 of the visit (Weds 17th) concludes with a guest lecture, at 5.30pm, at the Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen, by Prof. Matthew J. Smith (UCL), Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery. Places to attend in person are available and all welcome bit.ly/3IjbMVj 2/2
The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'” Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”. After registering, you will r...
Dr.Lepawsky (Geography) asks whether the 'Tech Right' are evil geniuses in this one-hour hybrid roundtable discussion. Angela Carter (CRC, Political Science), Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, Soc...
us02web.zoom.us
Portrait series of my old friend and poet Vaios Fotis, posing as André Breton, 2010. See comments for more. flic.kr/p/7y33tu
Root/Chop version 3.4: Shame on you
flic.kr
First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...
Dropout Boogie, by Your Old Droog & MF DOOM
1 track album
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com
And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended. This is what academia can be 🫶
Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.
Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.
Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference. Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online! @gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference. Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online! @gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
💮Keynote time💮 🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥 Opening by our Dani Shanley! @gemmamilne.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social
A very special applause for our group's rising star Isa Luiten! Isa not only presented her amazing work on NewSpace and Hype from her forthcoming Thesis, but is also our tireless research assistant, keeping the Hype Studies group and conference in place. Thank you, Isa!
Hosted by Ezequiel Soriano, greetings from our Shitpublishing Workshop! 'Nuff said.
Fantastic panel today on 'AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance' with amazing contributions by Kat Fuller, @danmk.bsky.social, Tianqi Kou, Dana Calacci, Nasser Eledroos, and Jacek Mańko who also acted as stellar chair, debating power across multiple themes, from anti-trans hype to AGI!
We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!
Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...
I wish I was here;
We’re excited to share the final programme for the first Hype Studies Conference: (Don’t) Believe the Hype?! 📅 10–12 September 2025 📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 🌐 Fully hybrid & free 👉 Full schedule: hypestudies.org/media/pages/... 👉 All speakers & abstracts: hypestudies.org/media/pages/...
Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday
We were really honoured to see a full room and so many online attendees at our conference's Opening session. Picture 4: what our audience is presently hyped about 😊😊