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Ian Pollock

@ianfpollock.bsky.social

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New Melburnian, old New Yorker. ANU anthropology PhD, sometime-designer, always Mets fan. Posting on anthro, STS, economics, history, design, SE Asia (especially Indonesia), writing, birds, baseball.

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Post an unusual sign if you feel like it

Sign with an image of Psy crossed out with a red X, and the instruction "do not jump" written in Indonesian, English and Chinese

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The glories of Weird Duck Time! (via @rosemarymosco.com)

A four panel comic, titled "the four seasons of bird watching." Panel one: elegant songbird spring, with a goldfinch singing. Panel two: subtle treasures of summer, with a warbler. Panel three: magnificent fall migrations, with birds of prey. Panel four: weird duck time, with super weird-looking surf-scoters and mergansers.

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Homer Simpson licking his fingers after eating an entire tub of petroleum jelly

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Title of a court case: United States of America, v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, defendant-in-rem

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Seen on a Facebook community page from Indonesia, where it was posted with no caption or context. Can anyone help me unpack this? I'm spinning out #ngada #indonesia

An AI generated image of a young man riding a bicycle, pulling a passenger car with an infinite number of pregnant women receding into the distance.

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What is your 10/10 album?

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've been banging the drum for a while for researchers to treat relations with the people who use our work as carefully as we treat relations with the people we're learning from, our participants and interlocutors. Design research artifacts are a great place to do that engagement. #AusSTS2024

How might we... Engage more closely with the people who use our work? Support creative modeling and remodeling? Imagine imagination?

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And that’s a wrap on #AusSTS2024! Huge thanks to the organizers, everyone who participated, and you, for following along with me. Off now for a drink with the Top End STS crew. Back soon with a recap of my own paper. 👋

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What an absolute pleasure it is to be at ANU today! #AusSTS2024

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Weaving circle—a bit of crafting and yarning after today’s sessions. General consensus that this is lovely and every conference should have it 🪡 #AusSTS2024

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

MAR: Authorship of research papers is key to credit (and blame) for a piece of work. It's hugely important for early and mid-career researchers trying to build their careers. But there are no standard guidelines for it, conventions vary between disciplines, and nobody talks it out. #AusSTS2024

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

HV: this is your homework! Start the uncomfortable work of unpacking your own practices. #AusSTS2024

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ok, signing in for the acknowledgement/welcome to country at #AusSTS2024. Say hey if you’re here! 👋

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