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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tandon blog post here: engineering.nyu.edu/news/remote-...

Full paper here (please email for pdf if you need it!): dl-acm-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....

Remote work spurs grassroots environmental action in New York City | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Aug 22

Presenting work today at Aarhus Critical Computing about my volunteer activities at 45 St Green Space over the past 5 years. In the paper, I describe the links between post-pandemic work from home trends and changes to collective organizing and New Yorkers' relationship to space.

Remote work spurs grassroots environmental action in New York City | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jun 23

The guidance will be split into current empirical/tactical knowledge of social media use in social movements, theoretical innovations, and ethical and safety guidance for researchers working in this field. To join, please fill in the Google form on our website. Hybrid participation is welcome.

Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jun 23

This will be a design workshop style sprint to create a list of guidance for researchers who study the links between social media and social movements, based on the collective knowledge-making of researchers and activists interested in varied social movements across global contexts.

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jun 23

Alex Lu, Priyank Chandra, Adrian Petterson and I are hosting a workshop at Aarhus Critical Computing on 18 Aug: Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis: A Workshop on Empirics, Theory and Research Guidance. Please join us!

sites.google.com/view/aarhus2...

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Apr 28

I gave a talk about my book "Media Ruins" last week and it is now available as a webinar for members of ASIS&T -- please feel free to view (if a member) here: www.asist.org/meetings-eve...

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Apr 3

will you be giving a book talk in the city?

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Apr 3

@allergyphd.bsky.social & @lmesseri.bsky.social are putting together a roundtable for AAA: "Specters of Technology.” They are looking for 3-5 participants to reflect on the sociotechnical “collisions of scholarship, pedagogy, and life that do not always take center stage in our published research"

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Feb 20

A fun excuse to come visit us @nyutandon.bsky.social next Friday -- all are welcome. I think we all need some hands on DIY play these days...

Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · Feb 20

Next Friday's FLESH FEEDBACK ("Playing with wearable sensations workshop") will feature IDM's Kit McDermott and me giving short set-up talks before breaking out for some hands/bodies-on play with DIY and commercially-released haptics devices. 3-4:30 @ NYU Tandon.
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FLESH FEEDBACK: Playing with Wearable Sensations workshop

FLESH FEEDBACK continues with short talks by Kit McDermott & Dave Parisi, followed by hands/bodies-on play with wearable haptics.

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Feb 20

Zohran Mamdani's instagram video ads for mayoral candidacy are something else. If this guy doesn't become mayor, we should definitely give him an Internet TV show

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Feb 19

Oh hey it’s the cover of my new book, “Bangkok After Dark” (May 2025, @dukepress.bsky.social).

I love the design! I am beyond excited for you to read this thing.

A book cover with a standing piano player in a white shirt, and the title “Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies” in front of orange and green shapes.

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Feb 13

Hope to see some of you at IPK tonight! In these confusing times, it is only more important to come together and celebrate members in our community who are doing good and important work. Cyborg synthesizes some of the best STS feminist scholarship for students, scholars, and the public.

Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 27

Upcoming NYU IPK event to celebrate
@allergyphd.bsky.social
& Laura Forlano's brilliant-concise-MIT top seller book "Cyborg" on 2/13 at 5:30 pm, moderated by me and
@daveparisi.bsky.social

Join us!

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

Book Talk | Danya Glabau & Laura Forlano | Cyborg – Institute for Public Knowledge

ipk.nyu.edu

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Feb 13

Honored that Media Ruins was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Benda Prize (for a first book in English on Southeast Asia) by the Association of Asian Studies. Please check out the books awarded this year -- what an amazing collection! I want to read them all. www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

AAS 2025 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies

The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the AAS 2025 Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony to recog...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 5

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Feb 5

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”

www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

www.404media.co

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Feb 3

"Last week, outpatient influenza data was missing, so I visited the websites of all 50 state health departments... That data was later brought back online, but then CDC’s main data repository (data.cdc.gov) was taken down. For the second week in a row, I was back to rounding up data by hand."

Flu spikes

Influenza-like illness hits a second peak

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 30

Congrats - this looks wonderful

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 29

I heard this this morning too and it put me in a total tizzy

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 29

Where are folks getting their news? I'm getting a much clearer interpretation of the impacts of what's going on from personal networks close to institutions affected by EOs than any news source. I want to keep better track but everything feels disaggregated - any tips appreciated.

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jan 29

hey all! i'm organizing an open panel at 4S in Seattle this year on the tech entrepreneurs who are trying to build new cities/states (e.g., Prospera, California Forever)

For more info, click here (www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...) The panel is #185 :)

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 27

Based on 5 years of engagement in a community greenspace (through the pandemic), I've been thinking & writing about how urban life has become increasingly mediated/isolated & what this means for the hopes for - and inequalities in - place-based environmental activism. LMK if you'd like to join!

Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 27

The NY Metro Seminar Environmental History is workshopping a new paper about why remote and independent workers have found solace from alienated lives in community gardening. We'll meet at 2 pm 2/12 on Zoom with @marcdo.bsky.social

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 27

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · Jan 27

Upcoming NYU IPK event to celebrate
@allergyphd.bsky.social
& Laura Forlano's brilliant-concise-MIT top seller book "Cyborg" on 2/13 at 5:30 pm, moderated by me and
@daveparisi.bsky.social

Join us!

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

Book Talk | Danya Glabau & Laura Forlano | Cyborg – Institute for Public Knowledge

ipk.nyu.edu

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Jan 15

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

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