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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a link will go in my newsletter - hope that's ok!
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i'll get it sent to my parent's house - and pick it up during the holidays 😆
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Dana Foundation @danafoundation.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Dana Foundation is supporting a collection of articles in @issuesinst.bsky.social exploring science's social contract. The authors propose strategies for strengthening the relationship between science and society in the years ahead. #neurosociety #scicomms #neurosky #sciencepolicy
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An Exploration of Science's Social Contract
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
looks great!! ordered 📦
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026
networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now
networksofny2026.bigcartel.com
Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)
SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
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Call for Applicants — CRC Spring 2026
Cross-Reference Coalition — Spring ‘26 Call for Applicants SEARCH & DISCOVERY James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier, Travels in the Air, ed. James Glaisher (Phil...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
notes from an evening on growing feminist technocultures 페미니스트 테크노문화 키우기 with Woman Open Tech Lab (Seoul): jonathangray.org/2026/07/08/n... with @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @jymak.bsky.social @angelaytchan.net @aleesteele.bsky.social London Permacomputing Club & many more! ✨
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notes and pictures from growing feminist technocultures workshop
Some notes and pictures from an evening on growing feminist technocultures with Youjin Jeon from Woman Open Tech Lab in Seoul.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thanks to @cassidoo.co - I was reminded that an interview I did a while back for People & Blogs is out! In case you'd like to read: manuelmoreale.com/interview/an...
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Anne Lee Steele – Manu
Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? I’m Anne. I’ve spent almost a decade in what I call the ‘open ecosystem', the first five …
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Heya! Thanks so much for reaching out and reading - it's been a pleasure to get messages from folks about it, I didn't realise it had such a wide readership :) Was there any part that resonated with you?
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 18/02/2026
"In its mainstream form, Open Science explains the Global South’s slower research pace as a matter of weak infrastructure, low capacity, or scarce resources. Diversity and inclusion shrink to questions of representation while systemic issues vanish from view." Excellent from @batoolmm.bsky.social
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine
The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I'll be stewarding a team through their next org strategy over the next six months! As touch stones, I've been looking towards other examples across the ecosystems I know, would love to know if there are others I can add to this moodboard: www.are.na/anne-lee-ste...
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org policy / strategy / roadmap documents | Are.na
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
loved this episode @davidthewid.bsky.social - thank you! <3
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Some weekend listening for you! Nice to sit down with @alixdunn.com to talk about the toxic love training that gave us AI: Big Tech, the US Military, and the Academy… csm.transistor.fm/episodes/com...
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Computer Says Maybe | Computer Says Kill: The Toxic Love Triangle of Big Tech, Big War & Big Science w/ David Gray Widder
Academia, Big Tech, and the military are caught in a sordid love triangle — and their love language is money.More like this: Computer Says Kill: The Blank Check to Beat China w/ Lis SiegelFor part ...
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 15/05/2026
"twt is dead!" "bsky is dead!" all of these websites are dead. we scavenge the bones, cavernous ribcages of bygone giants arching overhead like cathedral vaults. and in the diffused shade cast by these dead web gods, we grow gardens
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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
❇️🌿 we are a fan of permacomputing.net
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permacomputing
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Missed our event? Check out this website made by Sam Mercer – the virtual home of all the websites shown: unthinking.photography/projects/con...
Screenshot of desktop with emoji icons and labels of different websites.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
If there's anything I've learned from interdisciplinary work, it's that disciplines create world views, & bridging them (let along understanding one) requires time & patience... but also joy & play! 1. Mapping + Walking: zenodo.org/records/1967... 2. Poetic computing 101: zenodo.org/records/1988...
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Walking + Mapping: Methods for Presence & Attention
Lecture for cross-year studio: Graphic Communication Design MA, Central Saint Martins
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Last week with scientists, research software engineers, community managers at the Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop: talking through what poetry can teach us about computing, the poetics of computing... & making blackout poetry with a C++ textbook and mathematician's novel!
Three rows of colored paper stuck onto a wall that have different pages pasted onto them, which have been colored on and annotated.A page of text has been completed blotted out except for the phrase: Men of Mathematics. What's Happening.An entire page has been blacked out except for every instance of the world: "class".
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A few signs of life: walking and mapping with graphic design MA students at Central Saint Martin's a few weeks ago: talking through mapping and walking as ways of cultivating attention, and how documenting our psycho-geography is just as important as mapping the physical spaces we live in.
Handdrawn maps that people have drawn of the area surrounding Coal Drop Yards in London, annotated with things people remember, and looking wildly different.Handdrawn maps that people have drawn of the area surrounding Coal Drop Yards in London, annotated with things people remember, and looking wildly different.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Next week, I'll be facilitating a 'BYOW - Bring Your Own Website' event, as a part of the 'Connection Established: Digital Folklore & Web Craft' exhibit. Join us and bring your website! 📅 Friday, 24 Apr 2026 | 18:00–20:00 📍 The Photographers’ Gallery thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/con...
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Connection Established: Bring Your Own Website
Drawing from the spir
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
oops sorry @maxy.bsky.social and @shheeelllbby.bsky.social ! <3
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Maxwell Neely-Cohen @maxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across the Korean Peninsula. It is about a personal project a few years in the making. Thank you to Max & Shelby for being wonderful, patient editors: thehtml.review/05/tell-umma...
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thanks so much for coming, James! It was a pleasure to meet you - and I'm so glad you enjoyed the walk. I hope you'll never be able to see a manhole or a smallcell installation the same way again. 😀
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Finally read this 😳 A co founded 3 yrs ago by three 19-year-olds, now billionaires, entraps once gainfully employed professionals to atomize, instrumentalize, rubric-ize + obviate their expertise — "explain humor using clear, logical language, incldg refs to... slang, trends + social norms" 😫
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
so glad this came up on my feed, thank you 🫶
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
For folks that missed Open Data Day: I added a few more internet walk dates for April, May and June! 📡 🛰️ 📻 ☎️ These tours have been such contained moments of joy and curiosity amidst so much chaos that I thought I'd give a few more. To sign up, please use luma: luma.com/internet-int...
Screenshot of flier that has a picture of manhole, wifi installation, and city wifi zone zine in london. Includes the following information:

2026 internet infrastructure walks

the internet is everywhere - but where does it come from, really? 
  
🌍 earth day
25 april - saturday
11:00 - 13:00

🌐 international internet day
17 may - sunday
14:00 - 16:00

👁️ national surveillance camera day
11 june - saturday
14:00 - 16:00

sign up: luma.com/internet-intra-walks
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
For my fellowship with the @softwaresaved.bsky.social this year, I’ll be seeding connections between the worlds of creative computation and academic computing. Please fill out this short form – and share it with others who might be interested too: tinyurl.com/ssi-ac-art-c...
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DWeb @getdweb.net · 09/01/2026
🏕️ DWeb Camp 2026 is happening in the Berlin area on Jul 8–12 ✨ Are you curious, excited, want to participate? Fill out this survey! We would love to shape the first-ever DWeb Camp in Europe together! Detailed location and further info soon 👀
DWeb Camp 2019 group photo.
Photo by Mitch Maher.Person with megaphone outside of big igloo tent at night at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.Person dancing at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.People sitting around a bonfire at DWeb Camp 2019.
Photo by Mitch Maher.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
this is so fascinating, eileen!
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Eileen (╹◡╹) @bumble.blue · 30/01/2026
look mum I’m in a documentary about the next big thing in software www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8... (thx @cultrepo.bsky.social and @localfirstconf.com !)
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Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc
YouTube video by CultRepo
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Note: I'm surprised to find that we're already almost at full capacity on Luma! If there's enough interest via the waitlist, I may organise another date on Saturday the 7th! 🤗
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Open Research FOSDEM @fosdemresearch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📣🍻☕We will be having an **Open Research social event** this Saturday ahead of the session on Sunday. All speakers and attendees are welcome to join! 📍Le tavernier (10min walk from FOSDEM) maps.app.goo.gl/QPoe645NW129... 🗓️ Sat 31st 19:00
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As a part of #OpenDataDay organized by @okfn.bsky.social, I'll be running another internet infrastructure tour... this time, with an open data twist! ​🗓️ Sunday, 8 March ​⏰ 10:30 - 12:30 ​📍London, United Kingdom I have capacity for 25 or so folks, please sign up using luma: luma.com/zy0hjdkx
internet infrastructure of London walking tour: sunday, 8 march 2026, 10:30am - 12:30pm
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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📣 A Note on Recent GitHub Access Changes Recently, some of our contributors received an automated GitHub message stating they had been “removed as a collaborator.” This wording felt abrupt and can be misleading for our previous collaborators and contributors, so we want to clarify:
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Relearning how to post across platforms -- This interview (release in December) was an opportunity to share lessons I've learned after 3 years of stewarding the @turingway.bsky.social community. Thank you to the Educopia team for enabling me to reflect out loud! educopia.org/blog/an-inte...
educopia.org
An Interview with Anne Lee Steele, STUDIO SANSHIN [Systems Leadership Series #4] — Educopia
Anne Lee Steele talks about the evolving open ecosystem, the human side of systems leadership, and what it takes to sustain collaborative digital communities today.
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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 07/04/2025
We’re back for #Gitcoin Grants Round 23! Building a decentralized tool to preserve vulnerable web content. Support @dwebpress.bsky.social and help grow censorship-resistant infrastructure: explorer.gitcoin.co#/round/42161...
explorer.gitcoin.co
Gitcoin Grants Stack
Grants power growth in Web3. Make your voice heard and support open-source software and public goods across the EVM ecosystem
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Open Research FOSDEM @fosdemresearch.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Reminder that you have ONE WEEK to submit your talk proposals to our Open Research devroom for @fosdem #FOSDEM2026 on all things research ⏳Deadline: 1st of December 🌐 research-fosdem.github.io 🗓️ Sunday 1st February 📍 Brussels, Belgium
Poster with the call for participation info of the post, asking for 15 or 25 minutes presentation
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LungA School (office) @lungaschool.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Archived recording of ANTIUNIVERSITY 2025 ~ Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology, and Technology chaired by Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social youtu.be/fylp8RsdelY?...
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
- Chantelle Lue-Elton (@schoolofcommons.bsky.social) - @markrohtmaajackson.bsky.social (@lungaschool.bsky.social) We just had our check-in call, and I'm so excited for this conversation. During what feels like a broader crisis of imagination, there is so much for learn from these folks.
Photo of Chantelle Lue-Elton of the School of Commons: Chantelle Lue is a researcher and facilitator from Southern Africa, currently based in London. Her work focuses on the development and circulation of archival projects, self-organized practices, and the dynamics of the internet age. Through her expanded practice, she explores themes of marginality, liminality, otherness, and kinship, with a strong emphasis on commoning as praxis.
Since 2023, Chantelle has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), where she shapes communications and the Public Program, and supports the Alumn* Network.Photo of Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and biography: Dr. Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson is an American-British artist and curator, and and the Director of the alternative, experimental art situation LungA School in Seyisfjörour, Iceland. Prior to this, they were the Curator at IMT Gallery, London, from 2005-2023 and Assistant Professor in Fine Art Critical Theory and Curatorial Practices at Northumbria University. They have been part of a number of collaborative artistic practices including NEUSCHLOSS, Blue Mountain Arcturus and Plastique Fantastique, and their book on curating was published by Routledge in 2023.Photo of Anne Lee Steele (facilitator) and biography: Anne Lee Steele is a researcher, facilitator, and artist based in London. Her work in public interest technology and research has been supported by organisations like the Alan Turing Institute, Internet Society, Wikimedia Deutschland, and Open Knowledge Foundation among others. Her multimedia art practice has been exhibited in venues such as International Body of Art, Mozilla Festival and AlxDesign. Most recently, she founded STUDIO SANSHIN to house her creative practice, which explores the intersection of heritage, technology and ecology. She has been a student of artist-run school for years.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
These leaders of schools will discuss their relationships to legacy institutions, tactics for sustaining alternative education, visions for the future, and more. - Benjamin Gaulon (NØ SCHOOL NEVERS) - Rachel Uwa (@schoolofma.bsky.social) - Peter Schmidt (@schoolofattention.bsky.social)
Photo and biography of Benjamin Gaulon of No School Nevers: Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator and cultural producer based in Paris. He has previously released work under the name
"recyclism". His research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling. His projects can be softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source.
Together with Dasha Ilina, he is a founding member of the collective NO, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impact of information and communication technologies in France and beyond, since its creation in 2018. They are both co-directors of NO SCHOOL NEVERS since its first edition in 2019.Photo Rachel Uwa of the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe: Biography: Rachel Uwa is founder and director of the educational nonprofit School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe (Make-Believe Foundation gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)), which creates one-of-a-kind hands-on learning experiences in the areas of art, technology, design, and human connection. She designs and curates the majority of programming for School of Machines.
Rachel is also an artist, educator, and organizer with over 20 years experience consulting and organizing for social justice and tech communities and events big and small. She helps non-profits, educational institutions, companies and individuals looking to strengthen the work they do and build new initiatives.
She is currently co-developing two new projects, School of Humans and Make-Believe Studio Berlin.Photo of Peter Schmidt from the Strother School of Radical Attention. Biography: Peter Schmidt is a writer, organizer, and facilitator from Missouri. He is a member of the Friends of Attention coalition, and leads workshops, seminars, and study groups at the Strother School of Radical Attention, where he is co-founder and Program Director. He is a co-editor of ATTENSITY! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, forthcoming from Crown (US) and Penguin (UK) in January 2026.
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Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
As a part of this year's #AntiuniversityFestival, I'm so excited to be organising the online panel: "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology". 📅 Thursday, 16 October ⏰ 9:00 EST / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST Sign up on luma to get the zoom link: luma.com/3rpoc79c
Cyanotype image with the title "Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology and Technology" with subtitle "16 October. 9 EST / 14 BST / 15 CEST" with a luma link below. Five logos from five schools are below the poster for the School of Radical Attention, School of Machines, No School Nevers, School of Commons, and LungA School.
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