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Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy
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Congrats! They are lucky to have you at CU!

Congrats, Chuncheng!

The Social Science Matrix @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring a Researcher/Program Manager in Finance and Democracy: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...

Postdoc opportunity @cornelluniversity.bsky.social STS! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

Heads up, #4S2025 !
So excited for my Making and Doing workshop on "How to Get Off," teaching y'all how to evade Big Tech, on Thursday 1:30-3PM!
Then reflections on long-term fieldwork on Friday at 1:30PM
And my TECH/MONEY talk Friday at 3:40 on why NASA goes over budget ...
See you in Seattle!

Thank you, @ntnsndr.in, for your generous read of the book!

🙏 "Behind the Startup demonstrates, more fully than any work before it, the specific structural forces that so consistently ensure that platform startups betray their stated ideals....If this book does not achieve its purpose in reorienting future research, the field and not the book is to blame."

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

Excited to share new work with the brilliant Zothan Mawii: "Gigs North & South." We describe gig platforms as accelerants to long-term informalization under premature deindustrialization. Gigs north and gigs south look similar but are distributed differently, through a process of uneven development.

Thanks to @wsj.com for the review of HEDGED OUT: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street by @megantobiasneely.bsky.social‬: "explain[s] the new financial order by dissecting the people who run the investment firms":

Such an interesting piece by Vertesi and Enriquez from our latest issue. Don't forget to check out the other fascinating contributions: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...

40% off Behind the Startup and a boatload of other great titles @ucpress.bsky.social, use promo code MAY40!

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The tech we rely on is powered by millions of low-paid, invisible cloudworkers.

Our new report drops 20 May.
Join us to talk fairness, AI, and platform accountability.
🕑 2 PM BST
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#Fairwork #Cloudwork #WorkerRights #InvisibleLabour #AI

🗓️ The next #STS Switzerland conference will take place in Zurich on 10-12 Sept. 2025!

Join @loicriom.bsky.social and me for our panel on:

💥What Holds #Startups Together? Exploring Infrastructures, Places, and Knowledge💥

🔗 sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

@sts-ch.bsky.social

Congrats Caleb!

For SASE members who may be interested:

MPIfG is accepting apps for its Visiting Researchers Program (Winter 2025/26). 2–12 mo stays in Cologne for researchers in econ soc & political econ.

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#AcademicJobs #SASE

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share!
- 2yr postdoc in wealth research
- 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty
- 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy
- 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology
- tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

At the release party for

Fairwork US Ratings 2025: When AI Eats the Manager

"In the US, we've found the distribution is only at the bottom." And this is an org that has, to this point, largely focused on AI sweatshops in the so-called Global south.

We have extended the call for abstracts until 28 February! The WORK2025 conference welcomes presentations from a wide variety of interdisciplinary, empirical and theoretical perspectives. Submit your abstract at www.work2025.fi and join us in Turku, Finland, or online!

So cool, congrats Janet!

We will hear an interesting keynote speech from Associate Professor @bshestakofsky.bsky.social (USA) titled “Venture Capitalism and Beyond” on the second day of the WORK2025 conference!

Abstract submission is open until February 20th at www.work2025.fi!

I’m co-editing an “AI and society in China” special issue for Chinese Sociological Review. Paper proposal due on 04/30. Full manuscript due on 09/15. Let me know if you have any questions! More info:
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