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Nora Draper

@noradraper.bsky.social
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researcher, teacher, writer associate professor of media and communication at UNH privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries

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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Cannot wait to teach with this! Congratulations all!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Take control of AI at your uni! @aaup.org now compiles guidance and tools for artificial intelligence, including working group reports, bargaining and union resources, auditing and public records request tools, and sample syllabus language. Please share widely: www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/01/2026
Under DHS’ use-of-force policy, moves that cut off a person's breathing “must not be used as a means to control non-compliant subjects or persons resisting arrest.” But videos we reviewed showed agents using these restraints to do just that.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/01/2026
1/ Ciji Graham was the mother of 2-year-old SJ, a sister to 9 younger siblings, a beloved friend. She's also the 7th case we’ve found of a pregnant woman in a state restricting abortion who died after being unable to access standard care. This is her story.
Ciji Graham, a Black woman wearing glasses, holds an infant boy wearing a black hoodie.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
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Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall. I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Essential thread on the (lack of) ethics in the ChangeMyView Reddit research project and how/why to do better
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Looks beautiful and fascinating! Congratulations!!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/04/2025
can’t tell you how much joy i get from seeing pierre poilievre lost his seat
Pierre Poilievre declared defeated in his seat
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
He could, for instance, have written about any number of topics. Here are some ideas for free. 1. What cults are the Anthropic crew in, and what is the ideological ancestry of these cults? (We've done the work for him here, hint hint, its eugenics: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...).
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: 

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell 
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit today to protect international students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico from the Trump administration's abrupt and unlawful termination of their legal status.
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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wow, we are now being officially advised against travel to the USA by the Canadian Association of University Teachers. I never thought I'd see the day. ☹️ #AcademicChatter
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Tobias Ewé @sonocculture.com · 03/04/2025
“It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff ‘with AI,’ informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025
Review of Careless People written by former head of public policy for Bangladesh at Meta.
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A former Meta employee reviews the new Facebook memoir
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir is a courageous feat, but it glosses over her own indifference to warnings from policymakers, civil society, and internal teams outside the U.S. about serious harm to commu...
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Sandra Harding’s writing highlights science’s political role in the everyday lives of everyday people. May we remember her words and celebrate her vision. A tremendous loss
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Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Come work with me! 1 year postdoc opportunity to work with me on workers' roles in AI safety. Social science and participatory methods a must, experience working with trade unions a + More info & apply here --> qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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Andrea Houston @dreahouston.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
In all the bluster and the threats of tariffs and annexation, nationalist jokes and hockey game boos, this is where my mind always went. You can always count on @brandimorin.bsky.social to bring the perspective that mainstream media ignores. #landback
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
CFPB's former chief technologist issues an urgent warning to the court that several years' worth of sensitive data is about to be destroyed, with damaging consequences storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
VICTORY: The NH House just voted to withdraw HB 476, a 15-week abortion ban. Extreme and baseless anti-abortion rights policies have no place in the Granite State, period. #nhpolitics
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Also provides really great context for that VC interview from last week that framed the tech worker resistance as a employees getting caught up in fashionable progressive causes
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This new article from @histoftech.bsky.social provides essential testimony of resistance within tech industry. It’s also valuable for anyone (like me!) researching the history of worker organizing w/in science and tech companies
firstmonday.org
History in the making: Whistleblowers and big tech | First Monday
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“People, young and old, have particular needs that they’re satisfying by moving time and attention to these phones. Again, that may not be ideal. But there is a huge gap between “not ideal” or even “bad for us” on balance and being the chief cause of such a high level of distress among youth.”
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A thoughtful and nuanced response to claims that social media and smartphones are the root cause of a crisis in teen mental health
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One thing getting me through this week is all the reminders of the wonder of Ichiro Suzuki. What a gift to be a baseball fan while that guy was playing
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025
Sharing this because what Mia says here about the Wired headline is an important lesson about how to do your job when it really fucking matters
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
As a Canadian I still have access to TikTok and will describe what's happening there for the low low price of $10.00CAD per minute.
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
We did a nat’l survey after that election and people were *even more* concerned about behavioral data use for political messaging than commercial messaging. People have never loved this part of the tech/politics romance, no matter who is involved.
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is disappointing. The best thing about conferences is hearing smart people grapple with timely topics and issues. But sometimes they feel more like showcases for already “finished” work
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Really proud of this special theme and profoundly grateful to the authors and guest editors for sharing their insights! Thanks to @bigdatasoc.bsky.social for hosting us!
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Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I know that many folks are following along with the astonishing uptick in RedNote downloads (comm/creator studies researchers have been studying Xiaohongshu *for years*). This news is worrisome: www.advocate.com/news/what-is...
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What is RedNote? The TikTok alternative that doesn't allow showing skin or LGBTQ+ content
With heavy censorship of bodies and LGBTQ+ topics, RedNote might not be everything TikTok refugees are seeking.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I’m hiring a (well paid) Ph.D. intern to work with me and the Viva UX research lead on a qualitative research project about employee connection, organizational culture, and Copilot adoption. Based in Cambridge MA. Deadline January 31. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
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Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I love this moving account of the shifting and ambivalent relationship to surveillance that can come with becoming a parent from @kristenradtke.bsky.social in @theverge.com
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How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New from me: I profiled Clear, the airport biometric company that is looking to become the “universal identity platform” of the physical world...and which has (according to its CTO) “1 of the largest private repositories of identities on the planet." www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1...
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Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport
The company that has helped millions of people cut security lines wants to give you a frictionless future—in exchange for your face.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Democrats also blamed their 2004 election loss on gay marriage, which Kerry had distanced himself from.
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Privacy Law Starter Pack - Part 2 - Privacy Strikes Back I was capped at 150 for my Privacy Law Starter Pack - Part 1, so I created a new pack bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Privacy Law Starter Pack Check back from time to time, as I will plan to keep this updated. And ping me if you want to be added. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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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
Assistant Professor - Social Sciences and Digital Technologies
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Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have such deep admiration for good science writing. I am so excited that this new biography of the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose written by a beloved family member is being deservedly praised for its candid portrayal of a deeply complex figure
A hand holding the book “The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius” by Patchen Barss
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