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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Aug 27

Doing research and attending conferences can leave us, PhD students, financially strained. I hope my two cents on applying for postgraduate research and conference funding help my fellows feel a little less broke (cruel optimism🥲)

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Bit of a late post, but Tanvi, @danafahadi.bsky.social and I made a powerful team at the #InterAsiaCulturalStudiesConference✨

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you two for being super helpful and patiently guiding us through the whole publishing process!

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jul 30

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excited to speak at #IACS2025 #InterAsiaCulturalStudiesConference with my fabulous friends @danafahadi.bsky.social & Tanvi ✨ Catch us tomorrow at 9:40am if you’re around!

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 1

Kirkus Reviews nonfiction editor @johnmcmurtrie.bsky.social recommends "More Butch Heroes" in a Pride Month round-up of new standout LGBTQ+ titles:

Pride Month Reads: 5 New LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Books | Kirkus Reviews

These essential titles shed light on queer lives, past and present.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jun 2

Conference season kicked off last week with a panel at #ACSS2025 alongside my cultural studies buddies. I talked briefly about queer feminist print and digital temporality. Excited to share a more developed version at the upcoming #IACS2025 ✨

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Jan 16

More tech guardrails are coming down ... "Google has told the EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite the requirements of a new EU law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios." www.axios.com/2025/01/16/g...

Google won't add fact-checks despite new EU law

The company informed EU officials in a new letter.

www.axios.com

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jan 17

Was reading Chan’s new book yesterday and it was so good! Eugenics has never dies and the data fever today finds its lineage there.

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Jan 2

For my first piece of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I spoke with Anita Say Chan on the history of eugenicists corrupting data to be discriminatory–which continues today in Big Tech. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech

A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.

www.motherjones.com

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Dec 29

COMMENTARY by @ulises-mejias.bsky.social Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity

futureu.education/higher-ed/co...

COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U

By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...

futureu.education

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Dec 30

The computer has taken many forms over its long history. In "Home Computers," Alex Wiltshire celebrates early home computers, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk: https://www.popmatters.com/alex-wiltshire-home-computers-2645925361.html

Cover image for "Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation," featuring a vintage desktop computer.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Dec 27

Like bots, deepfakes are part of the online landscape. Here's our primer on deepfakes. What they are, how they are made, and why they threaten democratic societies. deepfakestracker.org/deepfakes-fa... #medialiteracy

DeepfakesTracker.org FAQs

A primer on deepfakes. What they are, how they are made, and why they are a threat to democracies.

deepfakestracker.org

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Eva C.Y. Li @evacyli.bsky.social · Nov 29

Good news that our #GirlsLove paper is now published online. It's the first academic journal in English that explores the recent #GL boom in Thailand, queer media from the Global South!🏳️‍🌈
It's Open Access so it's free to read ✨https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2024.2433564

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Jilly Boyce Kay @jillybkay.bsky.social · Nov 21

A recent article of mine: 'The reactionary turn in popular feminism'

Open access in @femmediastudies.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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CJ de Boix, mechanical owl, they/them👽🌈♿ @cjdeboix.bsky.social · Dec 4

Reminder again that Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim, that explores her theory of debility--especially of racialized populations--as a form of state oppression and control, is free to download from her website ♿https://jasbirkpuar.com/the-right-to-maim/

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Dec 3

Thank you (again) for sharing this and getting me on Bluesky🤣

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Dec 3

That’s why I’m finally here—got an Altmetric alert today that my article was mentioned on Bluesky🤣

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

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Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Dec 3

Just keeping an 👀here. Still figuring out what to do with all these social media accounts #academicsky

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