Is racisme de voorbije jaren toegenomen? En kunnen en willen onze overheden iets doen aan dat maatschappelijk probleem? Nina Henkens van Kif Kif laat haar licht schijnen op diversiteit en discriminatie vandaag. buff.ly/47jSrvb

If sleep is the only kind of rest you get this weekend, You're setting yourself up to fail next week. There are actually 7 types of rest we need, explains Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, And sleep is only a PART of ONE of those 7:

CFP: Surveillance & Society is seeking contributions for a special issue on “Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and Invisibility” (guest edited by Natasha Tusikov). DEADLINE: March 1, 2025. #surveillance #resistance #datajustice Details here: tinyurl.com/3az2eztn

Six 4.5-year postdoc research fellowships in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, University of Stirling, central Scotland! Please circulate this ad for outstanding researchers to work with me in an interdisciplinary team stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-… (closing 6 Oct).

Sean O'Driscoll, Chairman of the Governing Authority at UCC Ireland makes a strong case for a fit-for-purpose funding model for higher education in this Irish Examiner article. 🔗 irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4147…

Interesting interview with my wonderful colleague Dr Joel Walmsley #AI #philosophyofAI

📢 The online #CriticalAI seminar series returns ✨Anna Schjøtt Hansen Tobias Blanke and I are thrilled to announce the program of the 24–25 series🙌 ✨Once again, open to everyone to critically engage with, critique and challenge #AI regimes across different fields of application

From the FBI's most unwanted to partners for life, their first hug to their last (on camera at least!) Today marks 31 years since #TheXFiles first aired on FOX. Happy Anniversary to the best show and the best fandom ever!

It works!

50 years ago today I became a vegetarian. Within a few weeks, I realized there was a connection between feminism & vegetarianism, meat eating & masculinity. 15 years later, "The Sexual Politics of Meat" was published. In Dec it appears in a new edition bloomsbury.com/us/sexual-poli…

today marks the 31st anniversary of the x files

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"

THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS

I’m a couple steps ahead of you with a book on why pets are such malleable, powerful, and identity-rich communication tools online. Come for the great cover, stay for crazy cat lady discussions, political pet memes, and the identity politics of pets on social media.

PhD student: “I’ve had an idea and I think it’s pretty awesome…” PhD supervisor:

NEW FELLOWSHIP: The Institute is delighted to announce a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. The Artist at Risk Fellowship will support an artist to spend 2 months as a Visiting Fellow at IASH in May/June/July 2025. 🇵🇸

New postdoc position alert! Excited to announce that our HumAIn project Universitetet i Oslo is recruiting another postdoc. This time in the Cultural Studies dept, on the theme of "Narrative Cultures and Futures of AI”(deadline 31 October): jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Interesting PhD Studentship focusing on care and care relations available for January 2025 at UCC Ireland (via AppliedSocialStudies & ISS21). Deadline for applications is Friday 8th November 2024. For more information, see: shorturl.at/QpFdI #PhD #care #socialscience

I moved to Santa Cruz exactly 10 years ago…and now I’m in Ireland ☘️ #timeflies