I research and write about humans, technology, and economic things. "Not a real doctor" -my kid. He/they. Opinions are mine.
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bfosbrook retweeted
20 Oct 2020
New paper: @teeepain and I wrote a short piece for the recent #CSCW2020 workshop on Reconsidering Scale and Scaling, wherein we try to map the dimensions of "scale thinking" in Valley culture and map out resistances in mutual aid arxiv.org/abs/2010.08850
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bfosbrook retweeted
30 Jan 2020
.@astradisastra: "By definition, democracy implies collectivity; it depends on an inclusive and vibrant public sphere in which we can all listen to one another. We ignore that listening at our peril." @NewYorker
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bfosbrook retweeted
27 Jan 2020
I wrote for @logicmagazine about what we might learn from the experiment Biosphere 2 about the possibilities of technologically assisted ecological reproduction and repair, thinking with @reproutopia, Shulamith Firestone, & my editor @bentarnoff logicmag.io/nature/a-repair-…
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bfosbrook retweeted
20 Dec 2019
An absolute must read on surveillance data and mobile tracking - extremely well written and accessible, not to mention alarming. nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
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bfosbrook retweeted
11 Nov 2019
The minimum wage debate is really a sociology of science problem.
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8 Nov 2019
Before being allowed to step on the ice to help my son's team, I am required by the Ontario Hockey Federation to take "Understanding Discrimination Based Upon Gender Identity and Expression" 1/3
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8 Nov 2019
As someone who grew up playing women's hockey and experienced homophobia and transphobia on/off the ice, I find the initiative encouraging 2/3
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8 Nov 2019
And, if 30,000 hockey coaches across Ontario can be required to sit through training about transphobia and intersectionality, then organizations have no excuse 3/3
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bfosbrook retweeted
3 Nov 2019
History of #Capitalism Summer #Camp is back at it again in 2020! Learn the "other stuff" you always wish that you knew!
.@lawcha_org .@TheBHCNews .@AHAhistorians .@STS_News
#twitterstorians
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In the race to automate or enable better access to public services, govts sometimes fail to question whether people actually need the service or how it can be improved. Learn from @biancawylie in our ongoing series on a more equitable innovation economy bit.ly/2me8SH3
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28 Aug 2019
This is such an insightful investigation because it shows how the whole system, from the limited technologies to the deficient training, harms trans people.
26 Aug 2019
TSA body scanners have different settings for male and female. They issue an “alarm” when an unexpected body part is detected.
We heard from dozens of transgender and gender nonconforming travelers who faced humiliating searches after a false alarm. propub.li/2MyzWNe
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bfosbrook retweeted
5 Jun 2019
Canada.
Where people are more upset about the use of the word “genocide” than the actual treatment of Indigenous people.
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bfosbrook retweeted
12 Apr 2019
Number of times Doug Ford’s budget mentioned the words “alcohol” or “beer”: 46. Number of times “poverty” was mentioned: 0. Priorities.
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bfosbrook retweeted
8 Apr 2019
Reading up on the race organizations literature for the upcoming workshop with @asociologist, and, although it seems obvious to say, how much this framework helps to understand big tech firms as fundamentally white organizations.
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28 Mar 2019
post-docs and academic researchers, please help: how would you explain your job in one sentence to a toddler?
toddler: mommy is a doctor. and, daddy is a doctor.
partner, a medical doctor: yes, mommy is a doctor. she helps sick people. daddy is...ummm...something different.
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bfosbrook retweeted
25 Mar 2019
Last summer, @LeapingRobot, @dcbrock, the historian of business and technology Margaret Graham, and I held a workshop, which included a bunch of smart people, on the notion of the "4th Industrial Revolution." Today we are publishing the papers from it. medium.com/whats-at-stake-in…
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bfosbrook retweeted
23 Mar 2019
This #AEFP2019 presidential address by @clconaway on the use of research in policy is so good it inspired a thread. Lessons to take away: caldercouncil.org/maximizing…
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20 Mar 2019
THIS: Inside the Growing World of Queer Truckers rollingstone.com/culture/cul… via @RollingStone
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bfosbrook retweeted
19 Mar 2019
And in today’s installment of why-good-schedules-are-good-for-workers-and-business, I discuss experimental evidence that shows that better schedules translate to better sleep. (1/6)
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