Anja Klein @AnjaOnly, Doktorandin am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie & @IRI_THESys, hat gemeinsam mit Kolleg*innen der #HU, @PIK_Klima & @sthlmresilience einen Leitfaden für eine reflektiertere Nutzung und Entwicklung von Computermodellen erarbeitet.
https://t.co/o1QxImq2Tz
In Gedenken an William Chedjou gingen über 400 Menschen von #Berlin-Gesundbrunnen nach Mitte auf die Straße, um Aufklärung und Gerechtigkeit zu fordern. #b2007
The paper is targeted at modellers, but also non-modellers, and we aim to provide sufficient introduction into both worlds, especially to support collaborative and interdisciplinary work. 3/3
Our paper on Situated Modelling is finally out, open access available and cite-able under this link (abstract below): https://t.co/2r4ywyhOEy
We bring together research on simulation and statistical modelling in feminist STS/anthropology/human geography with... 1/3 #sts#phdlife
modellers’ own reflections on their work in sustainability science on how modelling practices are situated and could be done differently. It is also applicable beyond sustainability issues and we’d love to discuss what this entails for differently situated modelling practices.2/3
The decimation of Anthropology at UK universities (Kent 😭; us at Goldsmiths facing becoming unviable due to rendundancies) is incredibly short-sighted.
A short 🧵 giving 8 reasons why the world needs anthropology and anthropologists, now more than ever 1/9:
Speaking out while working for a #university ?
Some tips to protect your career— cuz neither tenure nor the union will be enough.
(1) Put a copy of every file & email you care about your *own* computer or cloud. Do not leave anything valuable solely on university computing.
“I’m going to therapy but I am still depressed”…yeah sis, you have no social life, no friends, no community, you work 60 hour weeks and get paid the bare minimum and every single month your bills pile up and you can only afford to pay the bare minimum and so your anxiety grows.
If everyone is in therapy, why is everyone still so utterly miserable and rude and stuck and not growing and not changing and depressed and anxious and mean and isolated and lonely and just overall in a really shitty space?
Your job will require you to regularly loan the organization money through travel expenses and the purchasing of essential supplies. In return, our accounting office will create a discouragingly complex process for you to get your money back, and then treat you with suspicion.
Now that I've posted "Start Where the Pain Is," I'm starting to work on "Method in Technology Studies," which argues that we'd better do work that allows us to account for material reality and not get stuck at the level of ideas/discourses/ideologies.
https://t.co/nQOJpGIyb5
Not entirely comfortable doing this, but Twitter is where I think my thoughts out loud, and I recently read (*) "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" by Andreas Malm, and I have ... thoughts. A 🧵, obviously.
😍 First of all, I LOVED it, which I was not expecting. It is a thoughtful ...
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Meine Familie mit 7-Jährigem und Baby wurde gerade vom Schaffner aus der @DB_Bahn geworfen, weil sie kein Ticket fürs Kinderfahrrad hatten. Wir hatten ein solches Ticket dazu buchen wollen, aber es ging nicht, weil keine Plätze mehr frei waren.
Gestern hab ich einem Obdachlosen 10€ neben seinem Bett unter der Brücke legen wollen. Er ist aufgesprungen und wollte mich schlagen, hab einen Satz nach hinten gemacht und er hat mich direkt als NIGGER BITCH beschimpft und hat erst von mir gelassen als passant*innen kamen.
Am 27.03. starb eine bulgarische Familie bei einem vorsätzlichen Brandanschlag in Solingen. Es handelt sich um
🌹Katya (28 Jahre)
🌹Kuncho (29 Jahre)
🌹Dalia (3 Jahre) und
🌹Emilia (6 Monate).
Für die Beerdigung kann hier gespendet werden: https://t.co/1x1UxZvMAj