iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Juan Pablo Alperin @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca · 05/10/2026

Conversations of #openscience are waning, and I feel we missed boat of making OS about changing culture to one that truly opens science to society. Real shame OS has remained just about opening research outputs. I've argued against this framing for years now, but wish I'd articulated it better.

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

has anyone written about pre-print culture in the snail mail era? What were the norms? At what point was a pre-print considered 'good enough' to send to colleagues? maybe @mbarany.com might have a lead here?

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Zwei neuere Befunde aus der Hochschulforschung stützen die Kritik des @nnwiss.bsky.social: 1) Heinze et al. zeigen in der neuen Forschung & Lehre, dass die ExStra hinsichtlich der Vergabe von Geldern eher eine zusätzliche Grundfinanzierung darstellt, die sich vor allem nach Größeneffekten richtet.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At SocArXiv, our intrepid volunteers screen a few dozen papers per day, using this moderation policy: socopen.org/moderation-p..., supplemented by this AI policy: socopen.org/ai-policy/. If that sounds fun or interesting or important to you, join us! Contact: socarxiv at gmail.

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Moderation Policy

This moderation policy is now supplemented by our AI Policy, here. If your paper has been rejected and you would like to appeal the decision, use this form. Policy revision date October 2025, by th…

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The best place to download my glossary entries on the nature of Internet "projects" and "hype histories" with the Institute of Network Cultures is here matterofimagination.neocities.org/glossary

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GWTF e.V. @gwtf-sts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

‪The Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the Society for Science and Technology Studies (GWTF) is now open. Varieties of science and technology in Europe: Shifting fortunes of STS in turbulent times Featuring a Winter School (09.-13. Nov.) and a Conference (12. & 13. Nov.). www.gwtf.de #sts

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Annual Meeting of the Society for Science and Technology Studies (GWTF e.V.) 2026 Conference (12.&13. Nov. 2026) and Winter School (09.-13. Nov. 2026), RWTH Aachen

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/06/2026

I agree with this - amid all the creative ideas people have had for new assessments, we also need an explicit, robust defence of the essay. Writing essays does something to your thinking and improves your neural wiring. You can produce essays (as objects) with AI, but you don't get this benefit.

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

📢 New RoRI Report: The Future of Peer Review Peer review is at a breaking point. Strained by hyper-competition & AI, we need system-wide reform. Read here: rori.figshare.com/articles/report/The_Future_of_Peer_Review_A_system-wide_perspective/32685351?file=65684898

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.

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Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices

Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Grad students, early career folks, non-historians, and practitioners in the field are very much encouraged to be a part of this issue! (As well as folks at any stage of their careers—we just want to especially encourage newer folks!)

Call for Abstracts:
Special Issue: New Perspectives on Computing History (50th Anniversary Issue)
Editor: Mar Hicks, University of Virginia, mhicks@virginia.edu

"New Perspectives on Computing History" is the second of two anniversary issues to celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the IEEE Annals. This special issue will focus on where our field is, and where it is heading-materially, methodologically, intellectually, and ideally. To do this, the issue is designed to encourage and platform the voices of newer and upcoming scholars in the field of the history of computing, and aligned disciplines, and ask them to reflect on where the field has been, and where it is going. This issue invites a broad variety of scholars and practitioners to reflect on the past and present of computing's history, through research-informed short articles (or practice-informed, in the case of practitioners). The envisioned length is roughly 2000-4000 words.

This issue seeks to expand the network of writers beyond just those who have frequently written for the IEEE Annals in the past, to ensure that this issue represents our changing field and welcomes in more voices as we embark on our next 50 years. For example, scholars in media studies, information studies, and a range of allied fields (see, for instance, Melissa Villa-Nicholas and Tonia Sutherland) have produced critical scholarship related to the history of computing, while practitioners in other fields (for example, Clarissa Redwine and Meredith Broussard) have written about the computing's historical and present enmeshment with social, political, and economic change. Essays that touch on issues like these—and beyond —would be welcome in this issue. While historical in nature, in alignment with our journals' mission, this call for papers also welcomes topics, methods, and fields related to the history of computing, and its likely future.
Some of the topics and methods welcomed for this issue include, but are not limited to:

- Discussions of computing history's trajectory as viewed through the lens of an individual scholar's specific research
- Histories of computing that discuss the role of workers, consumers, or activists
- Historical essays that focus on insights we can collectively gain from the changing topics and methods that have been commonly published in the Annals
- Historically-minded interventions and reflections from aligned fields like media studies, information studies, and STS
- Historically relevant practitioner contributions related to research or experiential insights from tech fields (e.g. tech worker labor organizers or tech workers participating

in movements to restrain "Big Tech" from enacting specific harms with the software they help write.)
- Histories of hardware and software that are attentive to global, national, and local political and cultural contexts
The goals of this special issue are to platform newer voices in the history of computing (both the up-and-coming authors on whom our future relies, as well as established voices from allied fields who have not published in Annals before), and to reflect the changing methodological and topical concerns reflected in the pages of the lEEE Annals at 50. This anniversary issue aims to ensure that the celebration of our past is also a springboard into our future, welcoming new voices, ideas, and topics into our pages.

Please send 200-500 word abstracts to the issue editor (mhicks@virginia.edu) for consideration for this issue by August 1, 2027. You are also welcome to write with questions at any time before submitting an abstract. Graduate students and recent PhDs are especially encouraged to submit. If your abstract is accepted, full submissions will then be requested (made through Author Portal by November 1, 2027).

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Oh shit that’s me

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“Data labelers train, refine, and moderate the outputs of AI tools made by the largest companies in the world, yet they are wildly underpaid and haven’t benefitted from the runaway valuations of AI companies.” Good to see folk who build what we call “AI” are creating unions to defend their rights.

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Wissenschaft im Dialog @w-i-d.de · 28/04/2026

Jetzt online: Kurzbericht zu Wisskomm in Zeiten der Postfaktizität. David Kaldewey @unwrittencross.bsky.social versteht #Wisskomm als mehr als Faktenvermittlung. Er zeigt vier Perspektiven auf, die in einer reflektierten Wisskomm-Praxis berücksichtigt werden sollten. transferunit.de/thema/kurzbe...

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Julia Schubert @juliaschubert.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

noch (knapp) eine Woche bis zur DL. Wir freuen uns weiterhin über Beiträge!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

As Alfredo Foucault once wrote

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Dagmar Hoffmann @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Stellenausschreibung an der Uni Siegen: Universitätsprofessur (W3, unbefristet) für Medientheorie mit Schwerpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz #KI #CriticalDataStudies #joboffer Bewerbungsschluss: 30.5.2026 jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Universi...

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Universitätsprofessur (W3) für Medientheorie mit Schwerpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz

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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A new Boards of Canada track was released yesterday. Today is a little bit brighter.

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YouTube video by Boards of Canada

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 16/04/2026

This bumper special issue was an absolute joy to co-edit. Get stuck in!

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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Exactly 💯

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Nature Reviews Physics @natrevphys.nature.com · 09/04/2026

Our April issue is live! 🩺Upconverting nanoparticles for biomedical applications 📊Metrics for spin-based computing 📏Quantum geometry and the hidden scales in materials 🦄Sub-diffraction confinement in dielectrics with narwhal wavefunctions www.nature.com/natrevphys/v...

Nature Reviews Physics April cover, which uses ice skaters as an artistic way to illustrate spin networks

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Phillip H. Roth @preprintculture.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Starting next Wednesday, we continue to explore questions of #digitality #complexity and digital complexity at @core-rwth.bsky.social with a cast of brilliant speakers!! #sts #philsci #sociology #theory

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Julia Schubert @juliaschubert.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Technologien der Antizipation" Wir organisieren eine Ad-hoc Gruppe in Mainz und freuen uns noch bis zum 30.4. über Beitragsvorschläge! Vollständiger CfP hier: kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Read immediately

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Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

End of an era: #FirstMonday, the first openly accessible peer review journals solely on the Internet,is shutting down after 30 years (1996-2026) firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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David Kaldewey @unwrittencross.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Jetzt online: Mein neuer Blogbeitrag zur Evaluation der #Exzellenzuniversitäten – über den 11. März als eine Entscheidung ohne Verlierer und die Reaktionen zwischen demonstrativer #Freude und stillem #Unbehagen rhine-ruhr-research.de/exstra-blatt... @rrcwisskomm.bsky.social

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ExStra-Blatt, Folge 8: Ein Tag ohne Verlierer? – RRC

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 18/02/2026

"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) @core-rwth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

💫Meet our fellows! Yi Gu is a scholar of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a particular focus on China. Her current work investigates the intersections of aesthetics, technology, and political economy, as well as the possibilities of digital methods for visual culture studies.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2026

Very nice thread about our piece on AI "peer" review.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“ Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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Johannes Schmitthenner @richtennach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe - Google Drive

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

One particular important aspect of this phenomenon is how the promotion of generative AI has inculcated into people that such programmes contain knowledge, & has access to or the ability to find knowledge inaccessible to human beings. Trust is being rerouted from human expertise to digital gods.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 08/11/2025

This isn't really a judgment on Openrxiv, which just reflects the reality of sustaining non-profit infrastructure right now, but it probably shows the need for institutions to get involved in funding the preprint landscape before it's all commercialised rather than community governed.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 08/11/2025

I wonder if the differing responses to AI are down to arXiv having a sustainability model that's more mature and dependent on institutional funding, while Openrxiv is newer and looking to more to commercial services and partnerships for sustainability.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

This is why we can’t have nice things

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

AfD here, but presumably would be same in other countries too: "mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I just updated my Keywords Index and it now links to over 550 short essays (sometimes articles) on concepts and terms that are necessary for studying media, information, and culture. A great place to start for literature reviews. textaural.com/keywords/

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 15/10/2025

Our amazing president and the American farmer he bailed out! 😍

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