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Lisa Yin Han

@thehanopticon.bsky.social
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Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉

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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"One must praxis with oil to understand oil. One must praxis with words to find new ways of circulating meaning. I call this ‘Heliotechnics/Heliotechniques’." Read this piece by Elia Vargas (and others!) in Issue 6.1 of the Journal of Environmental Media: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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Volume 6, Issue 1 | Intellect
Intellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My commentary 'AI is Trash' is now out with the Journal of Environmental Media! doi.org/10.1386/jem_... It's an attempt to be constructively pessimistic about the state of genAI, its political economy, and its environmental impacts. I curse! I grump!
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AI is trash | Intellect
This commentary discusses the rise of generative machine learning tools (so-called artificial intelligence [AI]) and their joint informational and environmental harms. It takes the argumentative stanc...
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Even when asked specifically only about environmental harm, the output ends with a reorientation away from that topic ("But there are a lot of efforts to stop this!") and a suggestion for the user to investigate those proposed solutions.
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Prompt: What are the environmental dangers of generative AI?
Summary:

    The carbon footprint of generative AI is significant due to energy-intensive training and massive inference demand.

    Without conscious management, generative AI could contribute noticeably to global carbon emissions.

    But advances in efficiency, renewable energy, and smarter AI design are helping reduce this footprint.

If you want, I can share more detailed numbers, or examples of efforts to green AI. Would that be useful?
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Prompt: What is the long term climate impact on AI?
Summary:

Climate change poses risks to AI’s physical and operational ecosystem.

AI development might be forced to become more sustainable and energy-efficient.

 AI can be a powerful tool to fight climate change but also risks worsening it if energy use isn’t managed responsibly.

Do you want to dive deeper into any of these points? Or maybe explore how AI can specifically help in climate adaptation?
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Is anyone researching the way that ChatGPT ends its responses with a recommendation of what to ask it next? Are there systematic studies of this? Because, anecdotally, it seems to function very similarly to search and content recommendation systems that direct the user's inquiry in particular ways.
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Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Fleck Prize winner for 2025! Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor 4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...
A photograph of Lisa Yin Han smiling at the camera, pictured outside in front of a tree and a grassy background, and is wearing metal glasses and a botanical printed top.
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Everyday ecofascism is next on my list!
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Deepwater Alchemy is officially on audiobook! Narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social who brought this book to life in a way I could never have imagined. Thank you @tantoraudio.bsky.social for adapting this! @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I got a chance to be back in conversation with Jonathan Bate for his Blue Humanities podcast! Episode is now live here: open.spotify.com/episode/7D4T... @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Deepwater Alchemy
Blue Humanities · Episode
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🎧 "Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." A thoughtful conversation between Lisa Yin Han ( @thehanopticon.bsky.social ) and Gloria Chan-Sook Kim, thinking elementally on microbes, ocean, catastrophic deferral, scalar mediation, resolution, the plume, + more. share.transistor.fm/s/f3b95b9a
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​Thinking elementally, from the microbe to the vast seafloor | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 102
​"Infrastructure is invisible until it breaks." How do we visualize something that cannot be physically seen? What limitations do existing knowledge structures impose that reverberate through planetar...
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Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is true in Indiana, too. I cannot afford ONE academic database for my LMC with my entire annual budget, let alone the dozens provided by the state library.
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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, we warmly welcome environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley for a first-of-its-kind special episode about their newly published books. We hope you enjoy!📚 edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...
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Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, & Ben Stanley Discuss Their New Titles - Edge Effects
Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their new books and critical topics in the environmental humanities.
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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Listening to @melhogan.bsky.social’s Data Fix podcast and bouncing in my seat listening to @thehanopticon.bsky.social talking about the sea floor. This is the specific book I need!! (Ordered it before I even finished listening.)
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Best part of my week was playing Citizen Sleeper 2. What an amazing game and story! 5 stars highly recommend
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Cant wait to talk oceans and extraction at McGill today for the Art History and Communication Studies series! Come see me this afternoon: www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/events/...
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.
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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The call for this year’s digital methods summer school is out! I did this during grad school and found it so helpful to explore and think deeply about methodologies for examining digital power. Highly recommend! The focus is on social media and AI this year www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tomorrow at UCLA! Elizabeth Deloughrey and I will be having a conversation about our favorite topic: the blue humanities!
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 07/02/2025
Probably time to share my film/media history starter pack again. A treasure trove of great folks in here! (Part II linked below...always adding more) go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #history #mediahistory #filmhistory #histbookchat #booksky
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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The state of publishing dominating the academic ecosystem journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
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Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scie...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Oh my god is it really not Friday or February yet
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A delightful sight! Can’t wait to dig in
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Media and STS friends! There's just 3 days left to submit your paper abstracts to our #4S2025 Open panel, Reverberation and/as Mediation. Submit by Feb 2 here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... Feel free to contact me or @mojojojosef.bsky.social for questions!
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Spring festival / Chinese new year! Gong xi fa cai! It's the year of the snake, a time to be intuitive, creative, and wise! And of course, cunning with our resistance and disobedience 🐍 🧧 To celebrate, I'm sharing my family's actual authentic dumpling recipe. You're welcome, Bluesky! 😜
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In case you ever wondered what this whole Doomsday Clock thing is about youtu.be/Q5WtaWdXIT0?...
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JoAG Extra: The Doomsday Clock
YouTube video by Jack of All Graves
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
how, specifically, does freezing research dollars hurt your state's economy? link for deets by state. keep in mind this is separate from all the other programs that support public schools, provide food for kids, supplies for hospitals, equipment for infrastructure. www.faseb.org/science-poli...
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Federal Research Funding Data
We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The new issue of the Journal of Environmental Media is out! There are some great articles about carbon tracking, news coverage of ecological crises, data centers, digital organizing for climate movements, and more! Check out issue 5.2 here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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Journal of Environmental Media | Intellect
The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, identity and social justice, and science communication through the prism of screen media, focusi...
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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Meta is building a 2GW+ data center that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan," 🫠🫠🫠https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-plans-60-65bn-capex-on-ai-data-center-boom-will-bring-1gw-of-compute-online-this-year/
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Meta plans $60-65bn capex on AI data center boom, will bring ~1GW of compute online this year
And re-announces its 2GW+ data center in Louisiana
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I started class today with an icebreaker for my students: what is a disaster that has shaped you? The responses were 😩. Hardly any repeats. Students talking about going without power, housing, almost dying, witnessing environmental injustice. Floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires. Just 3 said COVID
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Next up on my reading list, Slime, by Simon Estok (Cambridge UP, 2024)!
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A key takeaway: in order to confront the growing housing safety & affordability crisis, we need to understand our fates as shared, and reimagine a home insurance system that reduces risk and provides equitable & fair protection. climateandcommunity.org/research/sha... #SharedFates 9/9
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Shared Fates - Climate & Community Institute
Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
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In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Might as well just turn this course into an ARG at this point
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A queer black woman AI created by 10 white men, a white woman, and an Asian male. The inevitable next step in blackfishing
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
LA firefighters were defunded by $23 million this year while the LAPD was granted an additional $138 million. If it weren’t for mutual aid efforts like MALAN I’d be lost in my outrage on days like today. Stay safe, LA. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
So much money and water for AI and none for the burning homes, for the newly homeless baking in a heating world. There is no redemption for AI from an environmental standpoint. I will and always will be an AI hater.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
special issue on SOLIDARITY "we solicit work that explores understandings and practices of solidarity among individuals, groups, and/or academic disciplines—particularly when solidarity requires working across various lines of difference." www.midwest-mla.org/current-call...
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Current Calls for Submissions
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This book is great, and I appreciate the recommendations for more intentional means of discovering + supporting new music — i.e.; hosting and going to shows. College and independent radio (and non-profit criticism) are great for this, too!… [1/2]
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Spotify Wants You in the 'Mood Machine.' Liz Pelly Wants You in the Music Scene
"There's nothing better than discovering music through going to shows."
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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
OnlineFirst - "The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste" by @thehanopticon.bsky.social: #bluehumanities #STS #AI journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste - Lisa Yin Han, 2024
This paper examines the recent marketing and development of fish-inspired waste drones, designed to “take a bite out of water pollution” by collecting litter fr...
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Two great new books I’ve been reading over break! Sharing Spaces edited by @finnarne.me and @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social, and California Against the Sea by @rosannaxia.bsky.social
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just got a new article published in EPE: Nature and Space today! "The White Amur and the Wasteshark: Hungry Machines and Circumventive Remediations of Waste." Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The White Amur and the WasteShark: Hungry machines and circumventive remediations of waste - Lisa Yin Han, 2024
This paper examines the recent marketing and development of fish-inspired waste drones, designed to “take a bite out of water pollution” by collecting litter fr...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 21/12/2024
SLSA 2025 website is live! slsa2025.org
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2025 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference | Aug. 21-24, 2025 • Oregon State University
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 17/12/2024
I haven't gone through the whole list of open panels, but while I am at it, let me highlight a couple of cool ones: 1. This one on "Reverberation as/and Mediation" convened by @thehanopticon.bsky.social and @mojojojosef.bsky.social !
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