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Bartosz Slosarski

@slosarski.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his

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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We are organizing an open panel on the futures of data activism at this year's @4sweb.bsky.social 4S conference in Toronto. Applications are welcome until the end of April. We invite you to submit proposals and share this call! More info: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?
The image shows the cover of the report "Trans Digital Rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for Gender-diverse Communities" on the left. Besides the title, it says 2025 as the year of publication and the authors' names are Jess Reia, Rachel Leach and Sophie Li. The design is a colourful geometric pattern. There is a QR code on the right.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/01/2026
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...
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The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My latest article "The Consequences of Data Activism: Data Sustainability Package in Air and Biodiversity Data Politics" has just been published in "Social Movement Studies," in which I discuss what are the opportunities and threats associated with the use of data by activists.
Abstract of the research article „The Consequences of Data Activism”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish! @amymaher.bsky.social 🥰 #ThematicAnalysis #Qualitative
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Andreas Hepp @ahepp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more. #QDA #opensource zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...
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OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience!
We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) Closing date: 13th March 2025 www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...
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Phd admission competition | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
Faculty of SciencesCall for admission to) Ph.D. positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore for the academic year 2025-2026 (41st cycle) The application process will be available at this link starting f...
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
what the hell 😅
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.
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Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which...
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 20/01/2025
I’m going to try to avoid posting “OMG did you see what Trump/Musk did?” content unless really relevant to Europe getting its shit together. There’s only a limited amount of energy in my life and I know where it needs to be focused.
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Emiliano Treré @emilianotrere.com · 20/01/2025
In this new format of the recently launched SAGE journal Dialogues on Digital Society, our @mitpress.bsky.social book Algorithms of Resistance shorturl.at/deLVW has been reviewed by 3 scholars to which we then respond. Smart way to dust off book reviewing! All Open Access, including our book :)
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control
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Ruch Ośmiu Gwiazd @ruchosmiugwiazd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Last season of the USA is gonna be epic
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Wow, finally, climate change has stopped being real. Whew!
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Before PhD: I don't know During PhD: that is beyond the scope of my current knowledge After PhD: I don't know
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/12/2024
just learned that Eagle Eye Cherry was his NAME (and that he’s Don Cherry’s son?)
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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds is available open access w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... You can order the book in hardcover and paperback, too, if you need a last minute Christmas present: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
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Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Wonderful teaching resource with further reading suggestions by @robkitchin.bsky.social, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods! This is so useful for building a fundamental understanding of everything data-related before getting into more complex discussions.
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Critical Data Studies
Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produce...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🤡 “The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply, the people said. One of the sources said the policy under discussion would take the form of an executive order”
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POLITICO Pro: White House weighing executive action to spur data centers
The exact nature of the action is still under discussion, said two people familiar with the matter.
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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social. 🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies
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Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
CFP: Digital Sociology: New Theoretical Approaches, New Methodological Perspectives, New Research Areas studiasocjologiczne.pl/p,482,call-f...
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Studia Socjologiczne - Call for Papers
Studia Socjologiczne są kwartalnikiem polskiego środowiska socjologicznego. W wersji drukowanej ukazują się nieprzerwanie od 1961 roku. Obecnie dostępne są również w wersji elektronicznej w otwartym d...
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#books #bookrecommendations #authors #privacy
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I just joined Bluesky. I’m an environmental macrosociologist at UBC studying the societal drivers of the climate crisis. Hope to link up with others here with similar interests. #climate #ClimateCrisis #sociology #Political-Economy #inequality
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Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Our special Issue on platforms, power & friction is officially out with shiny volume and issue numbers in @icsjournal.bsky.social, just in time for thinking about the interplay between platform power and authoritarianism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
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Information, Communication & Society
Special Issue: Platforms, Power, and Friction. Guest Editors: Pawel Popiel and Krishnan Vasudevan. Volume 27, Issue 10 of Information, Communication & Society
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/11/2024
At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interesting read. Paul Bialski's (@bialski.bsky.social) Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press). So much of life is all about good enough (rather than excellence or perfection) due to the mess of compromises to get by press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Middle Tech
Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16/11/2024
BlueSky disappeared one of my #StarterParks, so I had to reconstruct it. My packs are: 1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX 2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe 3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL
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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you are invested in #PhilTech and would like to be added to this list, please chat me and give me your handle + the handle of another person from an underrepresented group in our field or adjacent field who should also be on this list. Thanks! go.bsky.app/BhbK7AE
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
My OA article "Data phronesis and the duality of care in the air quality data politics" has just been published in „Information, Communication and Society”. In it, I address the situated valuation of data practices in disputes over air quality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
As part of introducing myself, I'm sharing my recent article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, in which I explore the concept of data arenas as a relational field for strategic actors in diverse areas of the contentious politics of data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Sociology #STS #PhilTech
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Data arenas: The relational dynamics of data activism - Bartosz Ślosarski, 2023
The article proposes the theoretical category of data arenas as a relational field for strategic actors in diverse areas of the contentious politics of data (Be...
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
❗️New OA Article❗️ Harmonizing biodiversity data in European Union environmental politics as socio-technical practices of birdwatcher communities, scientists, and policymakers. #sts #envhum #sociology #academia Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is a great starter pack in the digital democracy, AI, media, politics, journalism space ⬇️🔥
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
❗️New OA Article❗️ Harmonizing biodiversity data in European Union environmental politics as socio-technical practices of birdwatcher communities, scientists, and policymakers. #sts #envhum #sociology #academia Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw as an Assistant Professor in digital sociology and social theory! Excited for this new chapter!
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Defended! 🥳
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
»Generative AI is just another word for surveillance capitalism. Taking our data with dubious consent and activating it through services it sells back to us. It is a visualisation of the way we organise things, a pretty picture version of the technologies that sorted and categorised us all along.«
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The Age of Noise
Video & Text from FACT 2024 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Just out! Introduction to the „Care-ful Data Studies” special issue of Information, Communication & Society by Irena Zakharova and Juliane Jarke. Much needed theoretical shift from critique to caring in data worlds! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Care-ful data studies: or, what do we see, when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care?
In this special issue, we ask: What do we see when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care? Following the footsteps of feminist writers, activists, and academics who take care as a v...
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Since Bluesky has been opened, I would like to connect with newcomers in the digital #STS, #citizenscience, and #sociology area. Who are worth following? Thanks for sharing!
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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
This looks awesome! "Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of [how publics] can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology."
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From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory - Ali Meghji, 2024
This article develops an alternative vision of public sociology. Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, thi...
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Moa Eriksson Krutrök @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Order your inspection copy of mine and @simonlindgren.bsky.social’s newest book “Researching Digital Media and Society”, here:
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Researching Digital Media and Society
Hello, would you like to continue browsing the SAGE website?
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
"Computational power can be confronted only through cooperation, mutual aid, and collective power." Looking forward to digging into this open access book from Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré on "how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains." direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our l
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 07/02/2024
Welcome to Bluesky, everyone! We opened access yesterday, and we just crossed 4M people total on the network. 🎉 • 800k+ new users have signed up • Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second • 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours We're so excited to have you here!
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Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
My OA article "Data phronesis and the duality of care in the air quality data politics" has just been published in „Information, Communication and Society”. In it, I address the situated valuation of data practices in disputes over air quality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
This will be my auto reply the rest of the month
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