HASTS / brb @HASTS_MIT
A different HASTS community member every week. Spring 2017 has concluded—more to come! History | Anthropology | Science, Technology & Society at MIT. hasts.mit.edu/2015/02/17/has… 2014 DH Award nominee Joined May 2012-
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Thanks again to @shrapnelofme to organizing this account for HASTS, and huge congrats on a successful defense of your PhD this week!
That's it for hosting HASTS this week! Back to regular updates from @candiscallison It's been fun to think with #MIT and HASTS again.
For the STS in HASTS - some great follows for #ScholarSunday @rameshmedia @safiyanoble @alondra @ruha9 @raulpacheco
Companies should be up front about how they use our data, including examples, vs. depending on leaks and reverse engineering to gain clues.
Companies should be up front about how they use our data, including examples, vs. depending on leaks and reverse engineering to gain clues.
HASTS' own @shrapnelofme - #MIT student sues CIA for information about its #socialmedia jokes bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/… via @BostonGlobe
A gorgeous Sunday read: Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully – Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/2015/11/18/mar…
“I think the internet is broken,” said Evan Williams, a Twitter founder. And things are only getting worse. nyti.ms/2qFsxzJ
Something for the A in HASTS
This week in Cdn media, there has been an epic confrontation about appropriation + colonialism. Here's an explainer ow.ly/6P6Z30bTVaB
In Prof @HRitvo's history seminar, MIT students explore animal intelligence, ethical issues—and their own opinions. bit.ly/2q7pFaZ
Tom Ozden-Schilling!
The real-life consequences of biased algorithms: @undarkmag on the racial problem of facial recognition tech mitsha.re/pOQD30bSmpN
This has been quite the week... and now, this.
This has been quite the week... and now, this.
Debate rages between biologists and chemists over whether life began on land or under the sea bit.ly/2qAqL2M
Translating from Canadian: CBC Spark = great public broadcaster radio show on all things tech. @HeidiTworek = great media & tech scholar
Translating from Canadian: CBC Spark = great public broadcaster radio show on all things tech. @HeidiTworek = great media & tech scholar
MIT and HASTS grads represent. Nice work, Anne and Yanni.
MIT and HASTS grads represent. Nice work, Anne and Yanni.
If you happen to be in Vancouver next week, I'll be on "The Big Thaw" panel at @vanaqua ow.ly/TRB630bSxpB #UBC @WallInstitute
Our new exhibition opens today! #PowerinPrint: Posters of the Black Power Movement. ow.ly/rCQg30bGCER #BlackPower50
Just looked at the panel. So awesome that @KimTallBear will be our panel discussant, and look fwd to meeting @2anotherworld
Just looked at the panel. So awesome that @KimTallBear will be our panel discussant, and look fwd to meeting @2anotherworld

Nick Seaver @npseaver
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwa... @ranjodhd
9K Followers 7K Following Media Theory+STS+Literature+CS. Assoc. Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP2, @SocLitSciArts. 📚:🖥️+📝+🗄️+🎮+🧫+🔬+🧠+🏭+🌏. ☭. Not a professional account
MIT School of Humanit... @MIT_SHASS
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Lee Vinsel @STS_News
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Will Deringer @WilliamDeringer
2K Followers 2K Following Scholar of sophisters, economists, and calculators. STS at MIT @mitpsts @HASTS_MIT. Author of CALCULATED VALUES: https://t.co/5c8n64R56H. "TILT" (2005) fan account.
Steven Gonzalez Monse... @cloudAnthro
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Ben Gross @bhgross144
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MIT Students @MITstudents
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Massachusetts Institu... @MIT
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Yuanqian Wang @YW63693720431
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Shion Choong @shion_scholar
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A glass bead game @_webrecords
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Rafael Sá @RfdcsS
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy
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Jacinta Eyzaguirre @jacintaeyza_
27 Followers 282 Following · Some men see things as they are, and say Why. Others dream of things that never were, and say Why Not ·
N @RollinNolan96
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little old lady @cmmsb1234
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Felipe Trujillo Bilba... @FelipeTrujillo
268 Followers 652 Following #FirstGen PhD (c) 🇨🇱| @historia_uc | Anthropologist & History MsC @filhumuah_ | STS |Kranzberg Fellow 23 | @sochisttech Global Community Scholar 23-25
Thatoo @Thatoo234095
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grk @grk1363925
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Finn West @dorsalfinnwest
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Kosuke @nomadic_island
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Indomie kecap @ruangjules
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Matías M 🦋 @tiasb... @tiasbasta
549 Followers 4K Following Latino(americano) #Open #Data #Environment #Science #Technology #Innovation #DigitalMethods PhD @FlacsoMx Postdoc @NotreDame Fellow @OpenEnviroDat Cuentista ✍️
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GingerGindger @GingerGindger
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Lana 🌿 @hissing_booth
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Beverlyne Kemunto Nya... @KemuntoBev
151 Followers 405 Following RA @OPHI_Oxford ~ MPhil @UniofOxford @ODID_QEH Alumna @McGillU 🎓 ~ Development Interdisciplinarian 🔎 ~ Culture Nerd..💡🤎 🇰🇪 Kenyan丨🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Wanderer
Nanyi Jiang @nanyi_j
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Ramyar Khalili @RamyarKhalili
396 Followers 1K Following Anthropologist of Technology. Archivist. Pythonista.
Ashley Sweetman @AshleySweetman
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Teresa @Teresa06433381
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Kathleen Creel @KathleenACreel
3K Followers 4K Following Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Computer Science @Northeastern. Machine learning & scientific knowledge; ethics of automated decision-making.
Amy @amysohgp
56 Followers 193 Following nus cnm grad student studying multispecies + tech. infinity nikki connoisseur. my pronouns are she/her.
Kopfkino @neartogood
91 Followers 1K Following English Lit & Cultural Studies. Modernisms, translation, world lit. | “不必等候炬火” | She/Her.
BabblingBeaver @Babbling_Beaver
2K Followers 513 Following Fake News you can trust from transgressive nerds at MIT.
lalalandscape @GloomySunnyRain
1 Followers 102 Following
Abhinav Ghosh @abhinavghosh_
956 Followers 2K Following education policy and learning inequities in low- and middle-income countries. phd candidate @harvard. previously @UWMadEducation.
Noura W. @Nouwahby
283 Followers 2K Following Urban researcher. Cairo always. Postdoc @CamUniGeography Previously w/ @CSIC_IKC @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_uni. Back to @GAPP_AUC. Editing @araburbanism
Qiankun Zhong @QiankunZhong
264 Followers 367 Following postdoc @Max_Planck_CHM| PhD @ucdavis comm. I study why individuals communicate, conceal, and collectively decide on things through cultural evolution
Yemok Jeon @YemokJeon
41 Followers 90 Following PhD student @ihmjhu | former KF Junior Scholar @thewilsoncenter | 20c East Asia history of Public Health
Cecilia Passanti @passantic
301 Followers 2K Following PhD candidate on voting technologies and biometrics in Africa. STS, Anthropology, African Studies
Jarrod Hore @JarrodHore
2K Followers 2K Following Settler historian on Dharawal land. Gondwana/Land, geologies, photographs, colonialism. Co-Director & Scientia Lecturer @earthhistories @unsw | IG jarrodhore
Megan Moore @living_currency
38 Followers 304 Following anthro phd cand.* thinking cosmically about disability & technology
Matthew Jordan @mattyj612
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Berk @gasterophilus94
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DALET AI @Dalet_AI
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Runnie Du Shen 🪷 @bts6666663
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Rachel Fox @rachel_e_fox
976 Followers 357 Following Anti-racist, anti-capitalist, fat liberation feminist. Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University. she/her #acab
Dylan C. Carter @CarterDylan1995
81 Followers 240 Following Bulbasaur is the only celebrity worth stanning.
Nick Seaver @npseaver
16K Followers 2K Following anthropology, algorithms, attention | assoc prof @tuftsuniversity | mr @thisischristina | he/him | "very relatable, but not exactly chill"
MIT School of Humanit... @MIT_SHASS
16K Followers 3K Following Our distinguished faculty do field-defining work and develop the values, vision, and ethical compass of tomorrow’s leaders.
Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney
12K Followers 8K Following Stanford Teacher of the Year, Chinese Computing & IT + Where Research Begins, Father of 2, #firstgen, Historian, Guggenheim Fellow, Songwriter, LOC Kluge Chair
Lee Vinsel @STS_News
8K Followers 1K Following I do technology studies, make Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded @The_Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
NiCHE @NiCHE_Canada
8K Followers 8K Following The Network in Canadian History & Environment. NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history. #envhist
The MIT Press @mitpre... @mitpress
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Duke University Press @DukePress
51K Followers 2K Following Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
Ben Gross @bhgross144
5K Followers 4K Following Assoc. Dir. for Research Svcs. @ransomcenter; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018) All tweets my own
Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts
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MIT Students @MITstudents
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American Historical A... @AHAhistorians
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd
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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain
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Massachusetts Institu... @MIT
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Center for Science an... @columbiacss
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Cambridge University ... @cambUP_History
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Graduate Programs at ... @ionegrad
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MIT Anthropology @MITanthropology
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The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe
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Heidi Tworek @HeidiTworek
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UArctic @uarctic
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The Conversation - Au... @ConversationEDU
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National Native News @NNNnativenews
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Priestley Centre for ... @PriestleyCentre
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James D. Ford @ccadapt
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PHD Comics @PHDcomics
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Kwame Anthony Appiah @KAnthonyAppiah
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Undark Magazine @undarkmag
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Gates Foundation @gatesfoundation
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Ramesh Srinivasan @RameshMedias
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USC Annenberg @USCAnnenberg
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Paul D. Miller @djspooky
43K Followers 3K Following Artist, writer, musician. National Geographic Explorer. Editor at Large of The Brooklyn Rail. Climate Activist. Fully vaccinated. Realist. https://t.co/06e5jkshH6
STS at Virginia Tech @sts_vt
2K Followers 375 Following Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg and Falls Church, VA. Home of the MS/PhD program in Science & Technology Studies
Internet Ethics @IEthics
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RealScientists @realscientists
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Ellen K. Pao @ekp
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Kimberly Bryant @6Gems
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Mad Price Ball @madprime
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Ed Yong is not here @edyong209
338K Followers 2K Following Science writer. Author of AN IMMENSE WORLD. Not on Twitter any more. Find me on Bluesky or through my newsletter: https://t.co/sUMoqFWZWg.
Stanford CIS @StanfordCIS
17K Followers 169 Following Stanford Center for Internet & Society. See also CIS staff @vanschewick
Ida B. Wells Society @IBWellsSociety
22K Followers 1K Following The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting aims to increase the ranks, retention and profile of reporters/editors of color in investigative reporting.
Anthropocene Curricul... @anthrocommons
3K Followers 825 Following The AC project explores, in an experimental and exemplary manner, pathways toward a new interdisciplinary culture of knowledge & education.
People's Science @Peoples_Science
1K Followers 268 Following People's Science authored by @ruha9 explores the social dimensions of science & biotech (Stanford University Press). https://t.co/nmpvYJc8Ig
brian.e.noble @2anotherworld
7 Followers 60 Following anthropologist, knowledge, science, ethoecology, decolonization, dinosaurs, animality, Indigenous-Settler relations, shared terran futures
SATSU York @UoY_SATSU
2K Followers 2K Following Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) based in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. Directors @tuttonrichard and Jenn Chubb
Kyle Whyte @kylepowyswhyte
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BBC Science News @BBCScienceNews
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nature @Nature
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Digital Ethics Center... @DECYale
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NYT Science @NYTScience
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Clark Miller @clarkamiller
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STS Klagenfurt @STSklagenfurt
437 Followers 415 Following Institute for Science, Technology and Society Studies Klagenfurt, Austria, @alpenadriauni
Exeter Socio Philo An... @UofESPA
746 Followers 511 Following The latest research, news and events from the Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology and Criminology groups at University of Exeter
Dr Cheryl Lancaster @Stem_Cell_Hist
639 Followers 648 Following Teaching Fellow, Durham University, Department of Philosophy. Always interested in stem cell history (and related topics!)
Lilia Kilburn @LiliaKilburn
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Bernhard Gissibl @bgi... @BGissibl
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Bernhard C. Schär @BernhardSchaer
2K Followers 1K Following Currently writing: 'Pluralising Europe. A Swiss History of Empire, c. 1830-1900' @sspunil