Karen Gregory
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
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Karen Gregory
@karengregory.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Workers Observatory — We See The City
The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them
workersobservatory.org
You can now follow The Workers Observatory on Bluesky:
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And see more here:
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And see more here:
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Support is building within the labor, academic and Palestine solidarity movements for a history professor at Texas State University who, shortly after receiving tenure, was fired after he made comments in his private capacity at a socialist conference www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Texas College Teacher Fired for Free Speech | Labor Notes
www.labornotes.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Support is building within the labor, academic and Palestine solidarity movements for a history professor at Texas State University who, shortly after receiving tenure, was fired after he made comments in his private capacity at a socialist conference www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social
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New article w @cearadau.bsky.social
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - Margie Cheesman et al. - Technosocial Reproduction and Humanitarian Reason
A white van rolled through the gates of a refugee camp in mainland Greece, its driver unloading a stack of pre-packaged lunches.
www.e-flux.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New article w @cearadau.bsky.social
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.
www.eflux.com/architecture...
Not in the UK at the moment, but what's the best thing to be reading about the budget announcement?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Not in the UK at the moment, but what's the best thing to be reading about the budget announcement?
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Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
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Looking forward to speaking here tomorrow:
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
Walking through the platform – Winter school 2025
Register here! Call for participation – Walking through the platform: a winter school on method, imagination, and praxis While certainly timing in many research fields, digital platforms studies often...
www.gameoftech.eu
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to speaking here tomorrow:
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
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Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
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What? Bridget, you and Labour are destroying universities - why won’t you help with the many crises across UKHE? That target won’t be reached because there won’t be provision for them to attend - especially when they’ll presumably have to live at home
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What? Bridget, you and Labour are destroying universities - why won’t you help with the many crises across UKHE? That target won’t be reached because there won’t be provision for them to attend - especially when they’ll presumably have to live at home
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📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
Rome, you're lovely. On to Naples. Stay cool, Pozzuoli.
Maybe knowing things is a mistake.
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rome, you're lovely. On to Naples. Stay cool, Pozzuoli.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Maybe knowing things is a mistake.
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Maybe knowing things is a mistake.
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Looking forward to speaking here tomorrow:
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
Walking through the platform – Winter school 2025
Register here! Call for participation – Walking through the platform: a winter school on method, imagination, and praxis While certainly timing in many research fields, digital platforms studies often...
www.gameoftech.eu
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Looking forward to speaking here tomorrow:
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
www.gameoftech.eu/eventi/winte...
"Roboherd"
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Roboherd"
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Doing the math on this and will definitely read it when I get five minutes of girl math infinity dream time to myself: networkcultures.org/longform/202...
Girl Math Fundamentals – Proof by Subversion
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” George Box - “Models are stupid and we need more of them.” Paul Smaldino Girl Math allowed girlies who just spent a little too much money to r
networkcultures.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Doing the math on this and will definitely read it when I get five minutes of girl math infinity dream time to myself: networkcultures.org/longform/202...
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"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
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They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
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I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
Senior Researcher, UCD Information&Comms Studies,Temp 56 months | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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The grace period for letting people travel to the UK without an electronic travel authorisation - never really advertised in writing - ends on 25 February 2026, Home Office announces www.gov.uk/government/n...
No permission, no travel: UK set to enforce ETA scheme
From February 2026, visitors will not be able to travel to the UK without advance permission.
www.gov.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The grace period for letting people travel to the UK without an electronic travel authorisation - never really advertised in writing - ends on 25 February 2026, Home Office announces www.gov.uk/government/n...
How many grants for "poorer British students" will you be able to fund when the international student tuition dries up and your universities close?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
How many grants for "poorer British students" will you be able to fund when the international student tuition dries up and your universities close?