digital connectivity in the 21st c has also made active design engagement a collective endeavour: people work in + for *communities* when making, hacking, prosuming + they innovate *global platforms*. STS examines how groups use + alter *imaginaries* to mobilize participants.

Adele E. Clarke (1945-2024) sadly passed away on Friday. A student of Anselm L. Strauss, she expanded Grounded Theory into Situational Analysis, married Symbolic Interactionism to STS and contributed immensely to the study of biomedicine. Met her in 2006.

Join us to explore the beauty, intelligence, & collaborative nature of slime mold as a medium for art-making. (Note: slime mold is safe for at-home use.) Register Today: https://t.co/TdhfJS2l2k *Online Workshop

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data. You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly. More on this feature here:

I found this essay by @susan_nerberg on the past, present & future of the Sámi people, & the brutal legacies of colonialism & war in the far north of Europe, to be brilliant: moving, troubling––& always fascinating. Superb photographs too. https://t.co/LIyNaGj682

On the 3rd anniversary of David Graeber's sudden passing, revisit Andrej Grubačić's thoughts on our friend, comrade, and mentor https://t.co/YQNHjt3mxs and watch the @AnthCIIS 3rd Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture with David Wengrow https://t.co/AierYQr8EJ

Kooste: Hallituksenvastaisia mielenosoituksia ympäri Suomea. Tulevina viikkoina järjestetään useita mielenosoituksia vastaan oikeistohallitusta, jonka kesätauko päättyy 5. syyskuuta. #meemmevaikene #alashallitus https://t.co/s40W3K2FCK

BREAKING: 93 more unmarked graves of Indigenous children – many of them infants – were just found at a residential school in Canada that was part of a government policy of cultural genocide. 10,000 Indigenous kids stolen by Canada are still thought to be in unmarked graves. ⤵️

This seems like an important data point https://t.co/fhViPuGbL3

The beauty of an ecological technology—an ecotechnology, or a liberatory technology, or an alternative technology—is that people can understand it if they are willing to try to devote some degree of effort to doing so. https://t.co/VNHdDm7zuw

If you're worried about climate and want to make a difference, 🎙️ start a conversation 🤲 join a climate action group 💰 make your $ count 💡spark ideas at work & school 🗳️ hold politicians accountable 🏡 reduce your 👣 AND amplify by talking about it https://t.co/bsu280GT2P

In breaking news (which shocks absolutely no one), @WWAttribution has found that human-caused climate change made this year's record-breaking 🇨🇦 wildfire season--by no means over--at least 7x more likely & doubled the risk of the most intense wildfires.

🟢 As Emílio states, "𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧". The process of writing and recording cultivates good communication skills when 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦. 🖇 https://t.co/gewrpCuGkG

Plurivesal Design Book Club is back! Morgan Martino will lead a discussion about 'Decolonizing Design Innovation: Design Anthropology Critical Anthropology, and Indigenous Knowledge" from the anthology "Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice".

Huomenna mennään Turku ilman natseja -mielenosoitus vuosimallia 2023! Tapahtuma Facebookissa: https://t.co/UYnkTQXGz3 Inatagramissa: https://t.co/wJS5w8nIdD #Turku #ilmannatseja #antirasismi #antifasismi #eiluottamusta

In "Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI," a new working paper, @mer__edith, @davidthewid and @sarahbmyers document a new kind of -washing: #openwashing: https://t.co/wy4CsorICc 6/

No, this is not a joke. An “educational” video about climate change approved for use in Florida’s public schools includes several climate-denial talking points and compares environmental advocates to Nazis. So we had a scientist fact-check it.

A tropical storm is expected to hit California for the first time since 1939 — this is just the latest example of what scientist @KHayhoe calls ‘global weirding’

This book is of key interest to scholars and makers of deliberative democracy, constitutional politics, democratization, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, social policy and law. Feat. @Welpita @Dr_SBussu and + #wilderdemocracy

Here's the double-featured newsletter of @GuerrillaTrans ✨It's not only their 10th anniversary but also they've just launched their 2nd Love Work Open Call, learn everything about it! Here's the English issue💛: https://t.co/BnY2VTv3oS