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Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social · 14d

@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts.

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”

Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded at...

www.ucpress.edu

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · 27d

📚 Join us for the launch of @k8henne.bsky.social and Matt Ventresca’s new book, which examines the social and regulatory impacts of concussion crisis discourses and how certain bodies are central within these narratives while others are pushed to the margins. Learn more & register: lnkd.in/epuPSjJb

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 14

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social · Aug 9

Crashing #ASA2025 to see our new @ucpress.bsky.social book, Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis, out in the world for the first time! Also open access!

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Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social · Jul 18

Extremely stoked to share a recent publication of mine in the journal Cities! Based on research I conducted last year, I look at what happens when 'innovation' takes root as a policy priority for city governments, through the prism of 'digital twin' projects.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

City digital twins and the urban laboratory: The practice and politics of ‘sandbox urbanism’

City Digital Twins (CDTs) are digital platforms that combine urban data to support city monitoring through predictive simulations and the visualizatio…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 24

RFK Jr: "My vision that is every American is wearing a wearable within four years."

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Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · Jun 23

Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS

If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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ANU Australian Studies Institute @anuausi.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢Applications Open for our 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program #AUJoin

Scholars of all academic disciplines who are based in 🇦🇺 & overseas academic institutions are encouraged to submit proposals related to the Program’s themes: ausi.anu.edu.au/news/applica...

Closing date 📅 23 June

Applications Open for AuSI’s 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program

The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for its 2025 Visiting Fellowship Program.

ausi.anu.edu.au

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Helen Dickinson @hdicko.bsky.social · Jun 3

New article from me, Jade Hart, Vanessa McDermott and @k8henne.bsky.social about use of generative AI in policy work theconversation.com/senior-publi...

Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity - but are worried about the risks

Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?

theconversation.com

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John Davisson @johndavisson.bsky.social · May 30

And by the way, Congress made the point explicit when it came back to amend the Privacy Act in 1988: no national data bank.

“Nothing in the amendments made by this Act [amending this section and repealing provisions set out as a note below] shall be construed to authorize—
“(1) the establishment or maintenance by any agency of a national data bank that combines, merges, or links information on individuals maintained in systems of records by other Federal agencies;
“(2) the direct linking of computerized systems of records maintained by Federal agencies;"

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ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) @anuregnet.bsky.social · May 22

Join researchers at UNSW Canberra and the ANU to hear about the use of Generative AI in government policy work. RegNet's @k8henne.bsky.social will be chairing the event, with remarks from the AI CoLab Alliance. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-future...

The future of Generative AI in policy work in Australia

This seminar aims to provide public servants, policymakers, and researchers with an overview of research and opportunities for discussion.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 17

Nice history of the Institute for Advanced Study. What began with physicists & mathematicians fleeing fascism has evolved into a community that also includes social scientists and humanists all pushing boundaries. The intellectual freedom the Bambergers championed still thrives in Princeton's woods.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 14

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · May 17

"'The School District of Phila has decided to support the grant activities, as much as financially possible, even w/o the fed 💰... [Boosting] the pipeline of certified school librarians and the 5-yr strategic plan [to] incrementally add... librarians + libraries'... will move ahead in some form."

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · May 10

Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Chapter 8: Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · May 4

‼️ Are you interested in children’s rights, digital forensics and digital evidence come and work with me and join a great team @crisresearch.bsky.social!

Deadline 9th of May !

#postdoc #digitalcriminology #criminology jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Postdoctoral Researcher Children's Rights and Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations

jobs.vub.be

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Apr 30

New OA book. Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Seeing Like a Platform | An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Mode

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · May 3

The “Starlink user agreement has a clause maintaining that ‘the parties recognize Mars as a free planet & that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.’ This is in direct violation of international treaties governing space”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy | Adam Becker

Musk and Bezos are the heirs to a quasi-religious belief in tech salvation. The rest of us are stuck in the real world

www.theguardian.com

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