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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today's cancer crawl, mostly on brains, with a little diversion into hearts at the end. superbon.net/2025/02/05/t...

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That damn blood/brain barrier – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today's cancer crawl: some symptom side effect improvement and cat watercolour. superbon.net/2025/01/24/2...

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24 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: Pause or Shift? – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Need a break from today's political news? Have you tried thinking about cancer? This isn't the most fun post--mostly me documenting all the self-experimentation I'm doing just trying to improve breathing, sleep, and swallowing. superbon.net/2025/01/20/2...

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20 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: Works in Progress – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today's cancer crawl: Wile E. Coyote, super genius; or, a trifecta of side effects. superbon.net/2025/01/14/1...

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14 Jan 25 Cancer Crawl: Trifecta – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Today's cancer crawl, with me accidentally getting high at work, plus Atul Gawande Being Mortal, and Ivan Illich Medical Nemesis. superbon.net/2025/01/12/1...

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12 Jan 2024 Cancer Crawl: radical monopolies and end of life; semi-independent – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Today's cancer crawl collects some helpful suggestions from friends about living solo and dealing with flareups. superbon.net/2025/01/04/4...

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4 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: flareup strategies – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Disabled/chronically ill friends: how do you prepare for debilitating flareups or episodes when on your own? I posted about that issue in today's Cancer Crawl, superbon.net/2024/12/29/2...

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29 Dec 2024 Cancer Crawl: shake it like you mean it, or not chillaxed – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The latest cancer crawl with met plans and a few small achievements: superbon.net/2024/12/26/2...

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26 Dec 2024 Cancer Crawl: Smol Mets; a few achievements to note – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Today's cancer crawl, featuring good news for once--the drugs appear to be working. No guarantees but I'm happy to keep going down this path. More details here: superbon.net/2024/12/17/1...

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17 Dec 2024 Cancer Crawl: Exhale slowly – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A postscript to Saturday's cancer crawl, but with more vomiting and a wild musical dream: superbon.net/2024/12/16/c...

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Cancer Crawl 16 December: Yesterday did not go as planned; extended technique – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Yeah it sucks. I should be hang-outable soonish, though, if you're not out on tour.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Today's cancer crawl covering the last week: I've had 1.6 litres of fluid removed, I meditate on the meaning of protein, and MRIs of the head are not good musical experiences. superbon.net/2024/12/14/c...

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Cancer Crawl 14 December 2024: 1.6 litres; protein and cheese news; the wait – Super Bon!

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I've also been blogging the experience over at https//superbon.net and will be posting links to new posts here. The cancer blog has been running on and off since 2009 so if you select the "cancer" category, you get the full narrative if you read from the beginning.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My partner flew out, my local friends have looked after me, and the Radcliffe people have been great. My department even bailed me out of a big bureaucratic task (yes, I'm on leave but you can't TOTALLY abandon your job). I've been doing my physical therapy and rehabbing all I can.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We start me on new drugs. But now my lungs are messed up. I need supplemental oxygen. I'm totally reconditioned for things like walking up stairs. And of course the new meds have side effects.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The shortness of breath gets bad enough that I am hospitalized twice. The second time I go in via ambulance and let me tell you, I have never been sicker. I wind up in the cancer ward, where I'm told my cancer has morphed into "high grade metastatic thyroid cancer BRAF-600 mutation."

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Except the concussion symptoms seem to be coming back. Then, I start noticing I'm short of breath. I've had a rare kind of metastatic thyroid cancer for 15 years, and it's been controlled with medication. I had a CT scan August 25th right before I left and my oncologist says "go have a great year."

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In late August, I arrive in Cambridge MA to join a group of 50 fellows at the Radcliffe Institute. My partner and I are temporarily living apart because she has the same deal as me but at Stanford for the year. We'll talk every day and visit. No problem, right?

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

...and it did eventually get better. I still sometimes notice sensitivity to certain kinds of lighting and a touch of hyperacusis, but it's not like it was. All good right? Time to go on a much-needed sabbatical, right? Um....

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

That evening, I am walking down the street and a branch falls on my head. I felt a little woozy, then fine, then three weeks later the concussion symptoms hit hard. That killed my winter semester. I followed the "exposure therapy" protocol with an osteopath and physical therapist...

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As promised, the story of 2024. It begins in December 2023, when, after an ice storm, the trees of Montreal are covered a beautiful sheen of ice. That morning, I sign off as a committee member on a thesis proposal critiquing environmentalists' overemphasis on trees. (1/)

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This year I'm not in Montreal, I'm in Cambridge MA at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Which is wonderful. Unfortunately, 2024 has been a rough medical year for me, which I'll tell share more about tomorrow.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I also edited the Sound Studies Reader, which is getting a little long in the tooth. I'm signed up to do a second edition but am debating whether I'll be able to do it. www.routledge.com/The-Sound-St...

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The Sound Studies Reader

The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sci...

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My third book is Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment, which does what it says on the tin--it tries to rethink the concept of impairment. It came out during the pandemic, so can I say that the fatigue chapter was a "sleeper hit"? <rimshot> www.dukeupress.edu/diminished-f...

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The conceit of MP3: The Meaning of a Format is that it's a 100-year history of what was then a 19-year-old format. It sets then-contemporary debates about mp3s against a long media history of compression, formatting, and circulation. There is a cat chapter. www.dukeupress.edu/mp3

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm author of three books. The Audible Past is on the origins of sound reproduction technologies -- telephones, microphones, phonographs, radios. It's part cultural history of technology, part weirdo media theory. You do get exploding corpses in the last chapter. www.dukeupress.edu/the-audible-...

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The Audible Past

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

hello friends. People have been kind enough to include me in starter packs, so I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Jonathan. I love cats! I'm disabled. My day job is professor at McGill University where I study the things listed in my profile. I also play music and make sound art. 1/

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Alicia Kozma @johnnyrico.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Media scholars - CFP for Console-ing Passions is out. Consider applying, especially if you haven't been before; it's a great conference! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

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Console-ing Passions Conference 2025 | School of Film, Media & Theatre | Georgia State University

The Console-ing Passions 2025 conference is an international conference on television, video, audio, new media, and feminism.

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Cait Mckinney @caitmckinney.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Today is the official publication day for my new book, I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman from @UMinnPress. You can pick up a copy here or read the ebook for free: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791828... Get 40% with code MN91270

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“Echo chambers I have loved”: AKG BX20; Cooper Time Cube; Eventide H90…. While we’re at it, let’s also have a few words in praise of silos. Otherwise where does the grain get stored?

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Them [talking in slow motion]: Have you tried yogaaaaaa.... Me: [pterodactyl shriek]

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Cool! (The article, not the phenomenon.)

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Job Position, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Digital Technologies, University of Toronto (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - Social Sciences and Digital Technologies

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: Pizza delivery Knife salesman Catalog telemarketer Taco Bell drone Newspaper delivery Maintained a small illegal library for a psych department Undergrad peer advisor

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The last day to sign our letter to the NIH calling on the director to fund the ME/CFS Research Roadmap is this Friday, Nov. 15th! US signers: bit.ly/FundRoadmapUS International signers: bit.ly/FundRoadmapG... It will take all of us to show that we are united! #PwME #MECFS #LongCovid

Black square with white text and red accents. Text: NIH, fund the ME/CFS Research Roadmap! Deadline to sign 11/15/24.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Did my starter packs today. Disabled writers but no disabled artists and/or musicians? And media studies is bewildering (I am maybe being picky) and there is no Science and Technology Studies starter pack yet. C'est la vie. At least there's a sound studies starter pack.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Cool! I just followed everyone. Seems like they should add some people though.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So this is going to be a thing now for academics? I'll give it another try.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Congratulations to our authors who have been named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows: Thomas Beller, Deborah A. Thomas , Lorraine O'Grady, Krista Thompson, Jack Halberstam, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, Bruno, Bosteels, @jonathansterne.bsky.social , & Laura U. Marks . www.gf.org/announcements/

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Announcements – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I just got an email with the subject heading “MRF LOI Advanced to Stage 2” and I couldn’t tell if someone was writing me about their cancer or a grant application. (It was the latter.)

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Courses for Winter 2024! Part 2: COMS 411: Disability, Technology, Communication. sterneworks.org/wp-content/u...

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Courses for Winter 2024! Part 1: COMS 611: Critical Perspectives on Machine Listening. Lots of very fresh work and some classics, and in anticipation of a yet-to-be announced <cough>waitingforfunding</cough> symposium. sterneworks.org/wp-content/u...

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

A cool comparative TV studies job: apply.interfolio.com/131152

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

In "The Bars Are Ours," Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Read the introduction for free on our website now. ow.ly/PGgV50PL6V7

Cover of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America,1960 and After by Lucas Hilderbrand. Cover is a painting of nine men crowded together in the red and blue lights of a club or bar. Each man is shown from the torso up, all are muscular, with smiles but indistinct eyes. Some sport earings, cowboy hats, and styled moustaches, and one wears a mohawk.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Just declined a review request for a paper using eye-tracking technology to label people as depressed through a "complete machine learning pipeline." #ablistAI

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Shocking news of the day: 25% of students surveyed in my Zoom class said they were nostalgic for Zoom classes. I am amazed that it was that high. I am not nostalgic and expect to resume in person on Tuesday now that my Covid seems be abating.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

TIL there is a god of paperwork. Anecdotal prior experience had suggested that there is no god of paperwork.

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Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Update: I am now completely out of superlatives until Friday.

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