I'll be having a grumble about what I think everyone gets wrong about studying gig workers Oxford Internet Institute - Stop calling them low-skilled and we might start getting somewhere! oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

officially submitted!

And to add some shameless self-promotion, see my article in which I focus on astronomy activities in Madagascar and Africa more broadly to examine "universality as horizon" zfejsca.org/ojs/index.php/…

Very happy to see this in Platforms & Society - Gianmarco Cristofari categorizes 20 platform metaphors into 4 types & politics of language: Understanding the “platform” keyword: An inquiry on the contested use of metaphors in platform studies - Gianmarco Cristofari journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Incredible data journalism. This Article shows exactly what "algorithmic wage theft" looks like. We need more than the minimum wage & data transparency: we need new laws of work to prevent algorithmic wage discrimination. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

🚨I'm hiring!🚨 Join me in my new ERC-funded research project on the geopolitics of cloud computing, and get to live in the happiest country on Earth :) Now hiring a postdoc with computational data collection skills: diesl.eu/open-position-… #GEOCLOUD #DIESL

Join me tomorrow in NYC at The Word Is Change for the launch of THE WORLD AFTER AMAZON, our collection of short stories by rank-and-file Amazon workers that reclaim the radical imagination - more info at ~afteramazon dot world~

Looking forward to speaking at this session on Outer Space & the #Arctic Arctic Circle 🚀❄️ Thursday 17 October 10:05 - 11:00 in Björtuloft (Harpa 5th Level) with Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Michael Byers & Bjarni Már Magnússon

For those at UW or online, I'm excited to be discussing Silicon Valley Imperialism with Nassim Parvin, PhD and Jenna Grant this Friday at 12:30PT at CSDE UW! csde.washington.edu/seminar/silico… Duke University Press

👀👀 looks like #IAC2027 will be joining ARIESanthro here in Poland

MC Forelle & I wrote a paper about #assetization in the automotive sector, forthcoming in Engaging Science, Technology & Society. "Driving into a paywall: The subscriptionization of consumer vehicles." Pre-print here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

i need a fellowship to fund and support my important work of applying to other fellowships

"An Audacious Vision" by Hanna Nieber Hanna Nieber Part of //Living in a Mode of Despite//, a new AES collection edited by mascha schulz, Rishabh Raghavan, & Julia Vorhölter #anthrotwitter #ethnography Read it here! ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/online-content…

anyone living in Dublin? is the housing situation as dire as it seems?

It's publication day for my new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment University of California Press (is on Bluesky). Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.

November 15 / Planetary Thinking: Extraterritorial Northumbria Uni's amazing Paul Dolan is joined by Lauren Napier, expert in space law, and Pete Howson, political ecologist and researcher to discuss everything #NewSpace🚀with Q&A. Register here! 👇 tinyurl.com/mve4a9k7

New #OpenAccess article from @lucasdopaes and Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood. The potential of technology for tackling Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is well known, unlike the challenges that emerge from the realization of such potential... doi.org/10.1080/096440…

World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/sty…

Night has emerged as a fascinating arena to relook at the conventional labour social history. Here is the most recent intervention in this field, and the book is free to download. It has a chapter of mine on the Nights of Bombay Workers. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

someone should pay me to write about silicon valley's growing fixation on hardware, manufacturing, and defense tech