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Fantastic new article from TrangLe on feminist data activism and why everyday women choose to take part in crowd-sourced activist projects. A must read for scholars in feminist media studies and the politics of data journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

This online talk with Thao Phan on the colonial dynamics of AI testbeds is happening tomorrow, 9am GMT / 8pm AEDT! Still time to register and all are welcome as always: tickettailor.com/events/centref… Future Intelligence CHIA Cambridge CRASSH, Cambridge Faculty of English

Did you catch Dr Thao Phan Thao Phan on ABC Radio Canberra Sunday Brunch show? Listen back to her conversation with Dr Kim Huynh on drone delivery trials and the long history of science and technology testing in the Australian colony abc.net.au/listen/program… ABC Radio Canberra

this move by Jason Clare MP & the Australian Research Council is outrageous. Our grants and work cannot be subjected to this political interference. All academics, our universities (Macquarie University) & associations (TASA) need to stand up against these attacks. archive.md/2025.01.31-093…

The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes. buff.ly/414cfS6

Thank you to Sydney University Staff for Palestine for standing up for academic freedom and the right to speak against genocide and racism.

Thanks to ourANU for featuring me in this cover story! "It’s not simply that ChatGPT is biased against women and minorities. It’s that these systems are controlled and deployed by people whose views are actively hostile to marginalised groups." reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/th…

The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is officially open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July Deadline is 14 March, 11:59pm Reach out to our convenors Christopher O'Neill and Carina Truyts with any questions! aussts.org/aussts-2025-cf…

Is this the death of inclusive of AI? Read this excellent interview with Dr Thao Phan Thao Phan, Lecturer in Sociology (STS), discussing the removal of inclusivity guardrails and other attacks on DEI across the AI sector

If you're in London, come along to this ripper seminar at Goldsmiths Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths feat. @mayameme + Scott Wark + me in conversation Who's Represented/What's Unrepresentable: AI and Race Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1…

For the past nine weeks I've been running a lecture series at Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths on 'race and/as technology.' We're having a double act for the last in the series: old mate Thao Phan and the incomparable Maya Indira Ganesh talking B2B. You should come, too.

London friends, don’t miss this!

Tonight! 🤘

Next week in Edinburgh! Performance lecture on 'Listening to Misrecognition' for the Edinburgh Futures Institute Critical Data Studies cluster, hosted by [email protected] Tuesday April 8, 4pm - 5pm Register here ⬇️ eventbrite.com/e/listening-to…

Our ANU Sociology staff making global connections! Dr Thao Phan Thao Phan presenting at the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series on GenAI, representation, and political violence Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

See you tomorrow Edinburgh!

Tonight! 🌜