Danya Glabau
@allergyphd.bsky.social
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
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Danya Glabau
@allergyphd.bsky.social
· Feb 21
No we are talking about deskilling and firing people, the AI industry default setting
*taps the sign*
How did I so completely, fully, totally become my mother.
Ok it’s all jumpsuits all the time, plus like two alternate options, one with big pants and one with normal pants but maybe my department of invisible labor tee
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
How did I so completely, fully, totally become my mother.
Ok so what is my conference packing strategy? Funny pants every day? Only jumpsuits?
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ok so what is my conference packing strategy? Funny pants every day? Only jumpsuits?
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But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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Makes a great “white elephant” if the goal is making coworkers or your church group wonder who has wronged you and what bionic secrets you hide.
Honored to have the cheapest book on this list. Give it to someone you like (or feel so-so about).
Keep scrolling, third from the bottom.
I’m being silly but am actually super excited to be on any list (outside of a burn book).
www.wired.com/gallery/best...
Keep scrolling, third from the bottom.
I’m being silly but am actually super excited to be on any list (outside of a burn book).
www.wired.com/gallery/best...
25 Great Tech Books to Gift (or Keep for Yourself)
Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.
www.wired.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Makes a great “white elephant” if the goal is making coworkers or your church group wonder who has wronged you and what bionic secrets you hide.
The weirdest part of AAA is always Friday night where, since I did not in fact graduate from ANY anthropology programs, I am just a hanger on to various department alumni parties
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The weirdest part of AAA is always Friday night where, since I did not in fact graduate from ANY anthropology programs, I am just a hanger on to various department alumni parties
Anyway glad I'm taking up an embodied hobby after the year this has been, gotta be offline more because...
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Anyway glad I'm taking up an embodied hobby after the year this has been, gotta be offline more because...
Wow 3pm and my first time logging on today... Is.. is everyone alright? How ya doing buddies??? Looks like you have a lot on your plates
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Wow 3pm and my first time logging on today... Is.. is everyone alright? How ya doing buddies??? Looks like you have a lot on your plates
Priceless thread, this is the most chilling so far
at UPitt, they use GenAI to work on ethics applications!!! holy shit. I had to comment on that :(
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Priceless thread, this is the most chilling so far
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You can't beat the low price of free.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
You can't beat the low price of free.
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Our fall class, which is exploring The Misfit, has drawn a wonderfully heterogenous group representing a range of knowledge institutions, city agencies, and artistic practices! Please help us spread the word about our spring class — and please consider applying!
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Our fall class, which is exploring The Misfit, has drawn a wonderfully heterogenous group representing a range of knowledge institutions, city agencies, and artistic practices! Please help us spread the word about our spring class — and please consider applying!
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My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!
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Chasing Flames: Racial Capitalism in Fire Ecology Research and Praxis
This dissertation explores fire ecology and its applications in settler colonial environments. It introduces the framework of pyrosociality to understand fire’s role in ecosystems, guided by an analys...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online!
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...
I loved the second season, the third truly was a disappointment
"The low-stakes Strange New Worlds was in search of a more ambitious thesis than 'Star Trek was already great.'"
Adam Kotsko reviews season 3 of Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-new-lows/
Adam Kotsko reviews season 3 of Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-new-lows/
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I loved the second season, the third truly was a disappointment
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Getting excited for AAA! Can't wait to see all my anthro weirdos.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Getting excited for AAA! Can't wait to see all my anthro weirdos.
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I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.
I can't tell you how excited I am to maybe, one day, own a couple sweaters that fit my body proportions properly because I MADE THEM
One side effect of being home sick for so many days is that I finished a long neglected beginner knitting project and I'm now applying my PhD level research drive to a new hobby
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I can't tell you how excited I am to maybe, one day, own a couple sweaters that fit my body proportions properly because I MADE THEM
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
One side effect of being home sick for so many days is that I finished a long neglected beginner knitting project and I'm now applying my PhD level research drive to a new hobby
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
One side effect of being home sick for so many days is that I finished a long neglected beginner knitting project and I'm now applying my PhD level research drive to a new hobby
The foot skin thing was a legitimately brand new feeling. How often do you feel something brand new at 40???
End of day seven. I think -- just maybe -- I'm finally winning against Coxsackievirus. While I woke up to the skin peeling off the bottom of one of my feet, I do not feel like garbage this evening for once. I might even pick away at the pile of undone work from last week??
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The foot skin thing was a legitimately brand new feeling. How often do you feel something brand new at 40???
End of day seven. I think -- just maybe -- I'm finally winning against Coxsackievirus. While I woke up to the skin peeling off the bottom of one of my feet, I do not feel like garbage this evening for once. I might even pick away at the pile of undone work from last week??
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
End of day seven. I think -- just maybe -- I'm finally winning against Coxsackievirus. While I woke up to the skin peeling off the bottom of one of my feet, I do not feel like garbage this evening for once. I might even pick away at the pile of undone work from last week??
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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Me: I like robots.
*hears this ad*
Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
*hears this ad*
Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Me: I like robots.
*hears this ad*
Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
*hears this ad*
Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM