Public Data Lab

publicdatalab.bsky.social

20 October 2026 19:25

✨ job ✨ - @medialab-scpo.bsky.social hiring an engineer to support a project developing browser extensions for researching platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. deadline 26th October. please share with those who might be interested! publicdatalab.org/2026/10/20/j...

Miriam Posner

miriamposner.com

20 October 2026 19:24

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Meredith Martin

mmvty.bsky.social

19 October 2026 22:10

apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural industries (literature, music, film, visual arts). Looking humanistic approaches to AI systems!

The Syllabus

the-syllabus.bsky.social

18 October 2026 13:33

Through tracing New York's social housing from municipal public housing and union cooperatives to Mitchell-Lama, this essay argues that chronic underfunding and privatization, not public ownership, produce today's failures. By Samuel Stein in @nplusonemag.com buff.ly/mG9eaQU

Sebastian Gießmann

sebgiessmann.bsky.social

17 October 2026 17:58

Carolyn Marvin for the win! Besides resisting the Uber robots, she has written one of the most brilliant media historical books. It is aptly called "When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century". Oxford University Press, 1988.