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Danya Glabau

@allergyphd.bsky.social

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STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

*taps the sign*

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · Feb 21

No we are talking about deskilling and firing people, the AI industry default setting

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

Ahhhh very exciting!!

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 10h

Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI is now available in physical form! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences, a dark pink book with orange vines.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 10h

Turns out when @hypervisible.blacksky.app called OpenAI a "social arsonist" last week, he had no idea just how accurate that was.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 9h

It looks like it's sold out in HARDCOVER! I'm sure there will be another printing soon. Excellent book.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h

Based on the scale of the vandalism, it's clear that many New Yorkers are not on board with the concept of a wearable AI pendant.

Vandals deface ads for AI necklaces that listen to all your conversations

Critics attacked subway ads to defend human friends and broadly criticize AI.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12h

"New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

“Desire for proximity to or success at doing science must be read within the context of the automatic/unearned epistemically power that Science holds.”

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

”Drawing on analyses of failure (Halberstam 2011) and willfulness (Ahmed 2014), I suggest a re-evaluation of “success” and “failure” in doing “real” science.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

I CANNOT wait to talk about this passage, on page 20, in lab meeting on Friday:

“I read our desires to do science and fears of science through the insights of feminists who have been trained as scientists, who have had the “passion” to do science and “failed” at their science careers. [it me]

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

Failure and willfulness! Yessss

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13h

Hot damn, this book intro says a lot of what I was going to write for a AAA talk next month, down to situating the politics of resources for feminist labs in the specific article that motivated my submitted abstract. Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking along these lines at least

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

I've been going nonstop for two weeks but today I have a couple hours carved out for this terrific book, which my lab will discuss this Friday

Poster holds a copy of Sig/Sara Giordano's book Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

The bus: above ground, no claustrophobia, possible for me to take with a stroller, doesn't cause back pain, no stairs to cause hip pain, more amusing for my kid, easier to get a seat

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

I can take the subway but I prefer the bus so I love this

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

And yes those are the clown pants. Very comfy.

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

I've been going nonstop for two weeks but today I have a couple hours carved out for this terrific book, which my lab will discuss this Friday

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 16h

Love to get home from campus and slip back into my red and white striped clown pants

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17h

when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos

Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos

seems like an app with real staying power

www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 21h

In a first, I don't know if I'm up to teaching the Cyborg Manifesto this morning

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 2d

Call for abstracts: "Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance" paper session for the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17-21, 2026

I'm co-organizing this session with some amazing scholars. Here's our extended abstract:

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Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 1d

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoy a writing prompt 🤔

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d

feel like academia should bring back the writing convention of "Author X claims Y. Fine. But our analysis of Y is based on..." That petty little "Fine." is so good

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

I have my dad's skill of being both a hermit and up in everyone's business. An ideal personality type for academia.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 2d

It is clear that I'm Not Reading for my own class tomorrow morning. Six extra hours of meetings last week, including four straight hours while speedrunning COVID from the vaccine, broke me.

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 2d

The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Self-Destruction | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/GUoqbGT