Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDL Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Practical and playful - that's how I intended to write this piece on "Making Together" as a method. In it, I offer suggestions for researching sociotechnical objects and communities of practice by un/re/making things with others. Take a look at this excellent volume at kitsformethods.com. 131
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026📙Kits for Digital Methods: Doing Sociotechnical Research—edited by me and Nicole Taylor—is officially available for preorder today! 🔗 kitsformethods.com 🛒 Get 20% off when ordering directly from Routledge with promo code 26AFLY1. #anthropology #sts #digital #sociotechnical #newbook #research 140
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDCASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026📣 Join us for #CASPR2026 — CASTAC in the Spring! "Labor and Technoscientific Worlds: Historical Encounters and New Directions in the Field" — a roundtable with Kalpana Shankar, David Nemer & Lilly Irani honoring David Hakken. 📅 May 29 | 10:30AM–12:30PM CT 🎟️ Register: caspr2026.eventbrite.com 0167
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 27/02/2026New book alert! 📖 Lora Koycheva, my, and Matt Artz's new book ⭐ Anthropology and AI ⭐ is officially published with Routledge Books—as part of the Anthropology of Now series edited by David Eller! www.routledge.com/Anthropology... 120
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Exciting news! Lora Koycheva, my, and Matt Artz's new book ⭐ Anthropology and AI ⭐ is available for preorder starting tomorrow from Routledge Books—as part of the Anthropology of Now series edited by David Eller! anthropologyandai.comanthropologyandai.comAnthropology and AI by Koycheva, VandenBroek & ArtzAnthropology and AI explores the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a diverse collection of anthropological and social scientific perspectives. 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Where can TXST Anthropology take you next? Join us for a virtual open house to learn about grad programs in anthro at TXST. Meet our faculty, explore our centers and labs, and get details on our MA and Applied PhD programs. 📅 Fri, Oct 17, 10AM-12:45PM (Central) 🔗 Register: go.txst.edu/u1ego.txst.eduWhere can TXST Anthropology take you next? Join us for a virtual graduate school open house!Join us for a virtual open house to learn about graduate programs in anthropology at TXST on October 17 at 10AM. 000
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Good morning #4s2025 in Seattle! I'm excited to learn and mingle with STS folks! Starting off at the AI and Ground Truth with Dietmar Offenhuber, Beth Coleman and Gabriella Coleman. 🤩 Come say "Hi 👋" if you see me. 010
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Come work with me at @txst.edu! 🤩 Tenure-track Asst Prof in cultural anth with a #MedAnth focus. We seek a broadly trained cultural or linguistic anth whose expertise focuses on the study of health, illness and the institutional and social forces that shape them. jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53850jobs.hr.txstate.eduAssistant ProfessorThe Department of Anthropology at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Medical Anthropology, beginning F... 031
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 16/05/2025CASTAC has stickers! 🤩 Donate and receive 4" vinyl stickers to show your CASTAC support! 💰 Every contribution goes directly toward sustaining CASTAC’s current initiatives and building new ones. 🔗 castac.org/donate #anthropology #STS #technoscience #fundraising #donate @castac.bsky.social 130
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Today I got to celebrate the graduation of my two brilliant students, Manar Naser & Ian Whitehead, who completed their MA today. 🥳 It has been such a privilege to spend the last two years thinking with these inspirational students. You'll both be missed! Congratulations! 👏 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I recently got to sit down with Abigail Letsinger to chat about anthropology careers and the applications of anthropology to business and entrepreneurship on AnthroPuzzled 🎙️! Check it out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, or anthropuzzled.com 👉 tinyurl.com/anthropuzzled 010
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Final Call! CASPR 2025 starts 90 minutes! ⏰ 👉 caspr2025.eventbrite.com Come talk about Knowledge in Crisis with Alex Hanna, Emily Yates-Doerr, and Juno Salazar Parrenas at 11AM (CDT) TODAY!caspr2025.eventbrite.com[CASPR 2025] Knowledge in Crisis: Navigating Science in Uncertain TimesAs crises reshape knowledge itself—join leading thinkers tackling funding cuts, collapsing care systems & the weaponization of science. 020
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Excited for this session with @castac.bsky.social next Friday! 131
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 25/04/2025CASPR 2025 🌼"Knowledge in Crisis: Navigating Science in Uncertain Times" with @alexhanna.bsky.social, @eyatesd.bsky.social , & @youknowjuno.bsky.social—moderated by @castac.bsky.social. Panel + Breakout Q&A. 📅Friday May 2, 11AM - 1PM (Central) on Zoom ✍️Register: caspr2025.eventbrite.com 020
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 06/04/2025[CASPR 2025] Knowledge in Crisis: Navigating Science in Uncertain Times May 2 11AM CDT Join us for a roundtable discussion and Q&A with Alex Hanna, Emily Yates-Doerr, & Juno Salazar Parrenas, moderated by CASTAC Co-Chair Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes caspr2025.eventbrite.com #anthropology #STS 043
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 21/03/2025My graduate students have taken to sending me photos of their animals when they send me drafts of their work. So far I've received cats, dogs, baby goats, cows, and a calf. I return photos of my cats. In these unsettled and unsettling times, these small moments of connection and care mean so much. 120
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDCASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open for submissions! We invite current or recent graduate students to submit papers showcasing innovative research at the intersection of anthropology and STS. 🗓️ Deadline: June 1, 2025 🔗 Details: castac.org/castac-award...castac.orgDavid Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC 033
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDCASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🚨 Attention grad students! The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025. Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award... #Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLifecastac.orgDavid Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC 044
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I have this conversation often with students. This take is dangerous. It seems intuitive but it very much misunderstands how knowledge is produced in the social sciences; how and when that knowledge should be communicated for a general audience; and what good public access to research is for. 🧵 2427
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDGabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The tech/hacker community can do this work and the data is already being collected here, now someone needs to whip up a nice looking website: old.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track...old.reddit.comProject 2025 tracker is now live*If you are in the position to support my work, I have a [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/RusticGorilla),... 18752
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 30/01/2025There is nothing that can break me out of writing fatigue and apathy as quickly as reading recent research publications. I've spent my afternoon clearing out my backlog of journal ToC RSS feeds and now all I want to do is jump back into these inspiring, insightful, and energizing conversations. 🤩 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A close 2nd is the feel of opening the hollow, puffy, molded plastic cases of Disney VHS. No cardboard sleeves for these. Slightly textured, thick, clear plastic film protecting the images. A delicate squeak as you pulled the sides apart or closed them. The rattle of the VHS as you pried it out. 000
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Pressing the lever buttons on my cassette player—the resistance to being pressed, the hard plastic ridges, the audible click when pushed all the way down, and the way you needed to, with two fingers, press record at the same time and a tiny bit more than play to record your fav song on the radio. 000
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 21/01/2025For me: 1. To be an Archaeologist/Egyptologist. 2. Anthropology 3. Same major but switch subfields from archaeology to sociocultural anthropology. 4. Business and Design Anthropologist currently an Asst. Prof of Applied Anthropology (with a decade+ foray into IT, design and strategy) 020
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.” New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0... Few quotes follow 🧵 716060
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Is sociocultural #anthropology a career? 🤔 In my chapter for this brilliant new volume, I argue that anthropology is not a #career in the same way that other majors are—that is a specific set of skills and knowledge for a specific set of occupations.💡 bit.ly/4iFD2L5 🧵 152
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Setting aside the UX and Al fiasco that is #SpotifyWrapped this year, ionnalee, again this year, made the music that sang to my soul -(and this doesn't even include the listens on vinyl). Highly recommend this independent artist and her audiovisual Swedish electropop art. 💜 031
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDtante @tante.cc · 28/11/2024 "Bluesky's vision for the new “social internet” is very much a libertarian worldview that is as old as the commercial web itself. [...] What [technocrats] never admit to, though, is that the digital spaces we spend our time in are rarely communities. They're markets."fromjason.xyzBluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-AidThe battle for a better web is not one of good and evil. It's so much more boring than that. 14510
Reposted by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhDCASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Come work with us!! We're searching for a new team of Contributing and Multimodal Editors to write, create, curate, and edit pieces for Platypus, the CASTAC blog. Applications (CV & cover letter) due December 5 More info: blog.castac.org/call-for-mce... Please share widely!📩 042
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Happening tomorrow at 11:45AM (EDT) via zoom! Annual CASTAC Business Meeting Calling all #anthropology and #STS folks to join our community, learn what we're up to, and get involved! castac.org/bmtg 010
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Are you interested in STS and Anthropology? Join CASTAC! Our annual business meeting is November 2024, 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM (EDT) and online (via Zoom). All are welcome! We are a diverse community of academic and practicing anthropologists of all levels. 210
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 08/11/2024So incredibly lucky to be Manar Naser's thesis advisor! Can't wait to see this thesis complete later this year and where her career will go next! #anthropology #STS #AI 010
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Are you a millennial in your yacht rock era but still clinging to the 80s/90s like that was 10 yrs ago? Well, today I discovered Yacht Boy Summer. Float into the weekend with classics like Yacht Hole Sun, Yachtstruck, & Crazy Yacht. You're welcome. 🛥️ 🎶 open.spotify.com/album/0Ldc0X...open.spotify.comYacht Boy Summer 010
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 27/09/2024I'll be accepting 1-2 MA/PhD students to join my advisee workgroup in the InnoAnth Lab from this year's applicants. I mentor students interested in the areas of Science & Tech Studies, Design Anth, Business Anth, & related areas. Learn More: go.txstate.edu/05d 120
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 08/09/2024"Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found." www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/a...crikey.com.auAI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial findsA test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less. 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 07/08/2024Interested in SXSW EDU 2025? College of Liberal Arts TXST has put together a panel on the Humanity of AI with me, Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Anthony Cross, & Louie Dean Valencia. Sound interesting? Vote for our panel to be added to the program! panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/153805panelpicker.sxsw.comPanelPicker | SXSW Conference & FestivalsPanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU. 020
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 05/08/2024People don't know what they want until you show it to them." 🤦♀️ This mindset is a terrible misunderstanding of how innovation happens. 🧵 #anthropology #innovation #entrepreneurship 110
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Is anyone else all of a sudden getting a bunch of requests from students asking for interviews or meetings to discuss *their* research only to bait-and-switch it into a sales call or R&D interview for some for-profit company (that is not their own)? 😬media.tenor.comScott Scott Pilgrim GIFAlt: Anna Kendrick looking confused and a bit skeptical. 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 31/07/2024Ever notice that sometimes it feels like tech and business live on a different plane of existence from the rest of us—like when you see a business launch an AI "friend" necklace that records everything you say and do? 🙃 ... 100
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 30/07/2024"A career in the neoliberal university requires writing a lot, even more, ever faster. What have you published? What’s in your pipeline? I write ‘what I can,’ but oftentimes not ‘how I want.’" — Reading this, I felt it down to my bones. doi.org/10.1080/1475...doi.orgDear vulnerability … writing toget-her to escape and resist the neoliberal universityI am lost. My writing is lost. I feel isolated, under pressure, trapped in a cage. My writing is measured and molded, suffocating in a corset of norms and expectations in the neoliberal university.... 400
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 25/07/2024This has been rather obvious since early on. The elephant in the room isn't that AI might eat itself by eating some mythical wild Internet. It's that our economy is currently structured to favor fast, short-sighted gains over people, society, and culture. techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/m...techcrunch.com'Model collapse': Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse. 200
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 24/07/2024One of the fascinating elements of my research in Stockholm's innovation ecosystem, was in the dissonance between "how innovation happens" and "how to make innovation happen." 🤔media.tenor.comMath Calculating GIFAlt: Toddler looking confused while math equations and symbols float in front of her. 110
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 17/07/2024A strange part of doing the (necessarily, importantly, and relatively) slow work of ethnographic research among entrepreneurial communities is how quickly what was once described to me as absolute irreplaceable pillars of the community fade and disappear. 200
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 09/07/2024May everyone struggling to feel confident in their work and dreams be blessed with the level of audacity held by Spectrum as they spam their customers with upgrade emails during a Texas-sized internet outage. 🙏 000
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social · 06/07/2024New website dropped. I think it's time to finally figure out my online presence post-Twitter-Muskification. This is a start. Still not sure where I'll land. You can find all my profiles on the site. Follow for hot and researched takes on innovation, entrepreneurship, anthropology, etc. ak.vbroek.orgak.vbroek.orgAngela K. VandenBroek, PhD | Anthropologist of Innovation (and all the hype that entails)I am a sociocultural anthropologist researching technologies, innovation, and business as an assistant professor at Texas State University. 040