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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · 7d

favorite the thread of the night folks... right this way--

Boots @potatosocial.bsky.social · 7d

This is my new drag name. Sue Edge System

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · 16d

ugh...

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · 22d

Excellent comments by @darmenteras.bsky.social, can't wait to share w/ my #STS students. Makes me think of some of the strategies Tapuya Journal @tapuya.org mobilized to great ends. The part Dr. Armenteras doesn't say (as in Tapuya's case) is that building sideways often makes the science stronger.

Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 22d

Institutions and scientists claim to want to reform how scholars from historically overexploited countries are treated — but after too many invitations that offered only superficial opportunities, ecologist Dolors Armenteras has come to the conclusion that it’s “time to build sideways, not upwards”

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

www.nature.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do you believe in the university?"

Period.

And *this* guy... doesn't.

/end furious rant

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 13

Agreed! Yesterday's binaries are tomorrow's horizons...😎 There's a classic book by ‪@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social‬ called Affect and Artificial Intelligence that has lots to say about it in a wonderfully unexpected and (I think) profound way.

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hmmm... I'm not sure if the TTest (or that essay) tells us about computers as much as it does about the project of social robots (including the chatbots lay-ppl experience as AI). I love that paper by Turing. It definitely says lots about what he thinks of people (spoiler: not much).

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 8

Don't know if he is responsible for this image, but I do know that Paul Byers did lots of photography of the Macy group (see the awesome images in Byers' and Margaret Mead's book "The Small Conference: An Innovation in Communication").

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 6

... basically reproducing the Popperian bias that led psychology as a discipline to abandon qualitative and observational work and commit to controlled lab experiments in the 1950s and beyond, to (in my opinion) its great detriment)

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 6

(That said, psychology tends to be the low-hanging fruit discipline in this debate, and has been a favorite for the so-called "hard" sciences to dismiss as itself unscientific...

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 6

I feel like there is a good deal of this in the history of psychology, eg in autism research as described in this chapter by Ilona Roth oro.open.ac.uk/59798/3/5979...

oro.open.ac.uk

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 6

Reposting @floralashes.bsky.social's excellent question for the historians of science & sts folks... #histsci #philsci #sts #anthro what do you think?

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Scientists of Bluesky, help me!

Do you have an example of a question that was (1) studied using both observational and experimental methods, and (2) the observational results are far more trustworthy because of the circumstances and/or quality of design?

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #Science

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Jarvs🎮♿🏳️‍🌈 @jarvdusa.bsky.social · Aug 2

🚨 This is dangerous, not just outrageous.

Two major newspapers ran stories implying disabled people were faking it to get 2-for-1 Oasis tickets, simply because some wheelchair users stood up at the gig.

Let me explain why this kind of reporting is harmful. 🧵1/8

Composite image of news articles about Oasis fans misusing disabled tickets.

Transcribed Text:

Oasis fans buying 2-for-1 disabled tickets 'ditch wheelchairs once they get in' Oasis fan Mark Chapman was left deeply frustrated at the band's iconic reunion gig in Manchester's Heaton Park as 'non-disabled' gig-goers 'took over' the accessible area

'DISABLED' OASIS FANS STAND Stand by me! Moment dozens of 'disabled' Oasis fans get out of wheelchairs and start dancing... watched by bemused muscular dystrophy sufferer

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 5

I guess I don't understand the impulse here -- why post (of all things) STS classics as an anonymous and (possibly?) automated bot, as opposed to an identifiable human with an actual interest in the text being referenced?

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 1

Technical theater job alert, Chicago. Part-time, benefits eligible. #TheatreSky

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Theater Production Coordinator, Theater and Performance Studies

Department HUM Staff: TAPS Sub Admin 1 About the Department The Committee on Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) supports innovative work at the intersection of performance theory and practice acro...

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Aug 1

I missed the news of his passing -- thank you for sharing this!

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 29

you had me at epistemic Ikea effect

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 29

best thread of the night 🤌🏻😌

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 29

This was the next song the DJ played. youtu.be/uBvt8xqMNiY?...

Slim Gaillard - Matzoh Balls

YouTube video by anti credos

youtu.be

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 29

wow, mazeltov Shannon ❤️ You are brilliant and brave and I have no doubt this will be a great move for you. Also do not doubt those student comments are 25 yrs of extra!!!

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is amazing. Theatre making is kin making, even when you don't work together directly. The script connects us like one long hilarious family anecdote.

Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of A Chorus Line. To celebrate, about 173 of us who danced in that show gathered outside in the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts plaza, performed The Opening Away From the Mirror, One, and What I Did For Love. 💙

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 24

👅👅👅 I am intrigued!!! I'll be there, tongue out and critique-ready... 👅👅👅

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 23

This POS project friended me this morning. Comments and quote reposts disabled (wonder why). EU-funded? Hmmm... "Something is rotten in... "

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 23

Is this a joke? I am very much hoping this is a shitty joke, rather than our new shitty reality.

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 19

Not my area exactly but I did briefly dip into the Wilder Penfield archives at the Montreal Neurological Institute/Ostler Library pre covid. Penfield famously mapped the sensory cortex by stimulating brains of conscious epileptic patients who reported their sensations. What are you working on?

Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jul 1

A beautiful essay on trees as history and why Deleuze and Guattari got it wrong by anthropologist and friend Michael Berman

"Eating Trees and Becoming Buddhas"
muse.jhu.edu/article/959050

Project MUSE - Eating Trees, Becoming Buddhas: Trees and the Possibility of History

muse.jhu.edu

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Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social · Jun 11

Martin Savransky's @martinsavransky.bsky.social discussion of Stephanie Wakefield's new book "Miami in the Anthropocene" is such a wonderful read...

Savransky, M., (2025) “The Apocalypse We Become”, Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 6(1). doi: doi.org/10.16997/ahi...
#sts #histsci #philsci

The Apocalypse We Become

Review of Stephanie Wakefield, Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025).

doi.org

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