A different HASTS community member every week. Spring 2017 has concluded—more to come! History | Anthropology | Science, Technology & Society at MIT.
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Steal this! @HASTS_MIT is an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration. There should be more :) Inspired by @sweden #publicscholarship
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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!
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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
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Companies should be up front about how they use our data, including examples, vs. depending on leaks and reverse engineering to gain clues.
New from me: Facebook will meet w/children’s privacy advocates about the leaked doc on ad-targeting "insecure" teens
wired.com/2017/05/welcome-ne…
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HASTS' own @shrapnelofme - #MIT student sues CIA for information about its #socialmedia jokes bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0… via @BostonGlobe
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A gorgeous Sunday read: Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully – Brain Pickings brainpickings.org/2015/11/18…
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“I think the internet is broken,” said Evan Williams, a Twitter founder. And things are only getting worse. nyti.ms/2qFsxzJ
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Something for the A in HASTS
Mesmerizing maps show the flow of refugees over the last 15 years read.bi/2pGFsh0 via @SAI
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This week in Cdn media, there has been an epic confrontation about appropriation + colonialism. Here's an explainer ow.ly/6P6Z30bTVaB
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In Prof @HRitvo's history seminar, MIT students explore animal intelligence, ethical issues—and their own opinions. bit.ly/2q7pFaZ
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The real-life consequences of biased algorithms: @undarkmag on the racial problem of facial recognition tech mitsha.re/pOQD30bSmpN
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This has been quite the week... and now, this.
Trump’s budget would cut EPA’s Office of Science and Technology nearly in half and slash cleanups nyti.ms/2q2oVoD
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Debate rages between biologists and chemists over whether life began on land or under the sea bit.ly/2qAqL2M
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Translating from Canadian: CBC Spark = great public broadcaster radio show on all things tech. @HeidiTworek = great media & tech scholar
Check out @HeidiTworek on CBC Spark discussing the idea of a digital Geneva Convention for cyber-warfare. @UBC_Arts
cbc.ca/radio/spark/1.4118527
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MIT and HASTS grads represent. Nice work, Anne and Yanni.
New in @eSTSjournal: The Enduring Allure of Numbers in the Wake of the 2016 US Election @yloukissas Anne Pollock estsjournal.org/article/view…
If you happen to be in Vancouver next week, I'll be on "The Big Thaw" panel at @vanaqua ow.ly/TRB630bSxpB #UBC @WallInstitute
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Our new exhibition opens today! #PowerinPrint: Posters of the Black Power Movement. ow.ly/rCQg30bGCER #BlackPower50
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Just looked at the panel. So awesome that @KimTallBear will be our panel discussant, and look fwd to meeting @2anotherworld
Looking forward to presenting with my #UBC colleague, @marylynnyoung Friday afternoon. Pretty good time slot. Can't wait to be back in BOS!