It's publication day for my new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment @ucpress. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.

Really enjoyed this by @UmSejin “Stagnation Anxiety: The Hidden Insecurities of ‘Good Jobs’” doi.org/10.1177/073088842614…

I had the pleasure of reviewing @benjaminhsnyder's Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment. The book is about surveillance technology. But is also about the question of who is empowered to experiment, and who is to be experimented upon?journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

The 100th episode of People's and Things?!? It was a blast talking to @STS_News about my book Spy Plane on this very special episode of the 'ol P-n-T. athenaeum.vt.domains/peoples… @ucpress

“[Technology] makes mistakes and we’re willing to tolerate that in the civilian world…but when it comes to the battlefield a mistake can mean life or death. And it’s very easy for a machine to mistake a target. “ – @marywareham @hrw @UN_News_Centre youtube.com/watch?v=VqCMkXft…

“Slaveholders were often willing to pay a great deal of money to have an enslaved person incarcerated and tortured by a professional jailer.” buff.ly/3X1Mwat

I was deeply honored to speak with @SashaLilley on the legendary @kpfaradio show Against the Grain (@radioagainst) about my book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment. If you missed it live, you can check it out here: buff.ly/4fQ5cR8

It was such an honor to chat with @bsoderberg.bsky.social at one of my favorite places on planet earth: @redemmas.org If you missed it, you can watch a recording here buff.ly/4gPOSkj

So excited for my conversation with @notrivia tonight and so happy to be back in Baltimore 🧡

Join @notrivia and me @redemmas on December 10th. We'll be talking about my new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment. RSVP here buff.ly/3AssgGU

ATTN Qual Researchers: Here are some resources I’ve compiled on trauma-informed research practices. I used them to train my incredible team of RAs, who conducted 120 interviews with violence-involved men in Chicago. As researchers of crime and poverty, we often bear witness to people’s most challenging moments—probing, documenting, and analyzing their experiences. This work demands careful reflection: how we approach it can either perpetuate harm or foster healing and connection. The solution isn’t to avoid tough questions but to thoughtfully consider their impact—on our subjects, ourselves, and our teams. I’m still learning and would love to hear from others with similar experiences. Let’s keep this conversation going—here or beyond—and collaborate on ways to share knowledge on this front. Access here: shorturl.at/jCyWt

Proud to share the full text of my paper w/ @UMassSociology student Venus Green in @SREJournal "The Ruse of Recognition: Black Labor in the Afterlife of Slavery" @ASA_SREM academia.edu/123328094/The_R… via @academia

Proud to co-author this essay with @UMassSociology PhD student Venus Green in the @WIPsociology blog: “Anti-Blackness and the Historical Limits of Progressive Trade Unionism” - wipsociology.org/2024/11/11/…