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Roger Burrows
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Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture.

Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide. .. more

Engineering 22%
Economics 22%
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co

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#CentresOfExcellence #CE26

ARC has "postponed" announcement of Centres of Excellence outcomes!

It says "due diligence checks" are still being carried out on some applications.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
Reply to some great comments on mine and Gavin Wood’s piece on #housing, the asset economy and a resurgence of rentier capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reply to Comments on the Edges of Owner Occupation versus Rentier Capitalism
This piece replies to some fine scholarship from the six commentators who have taken up the pen in response to our focus article. We hope our reply does them justice and invites others to join the ...
www.tandfonline.com

I think, on balance, my most played Fall album. But Shiftwork and Nation coming up on the outside … just reread Hanley mid week book after listening to the Oh Brother podcasts

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Roger Burrows and Amber Howard point to the importance of digital infrastructures and algorithmic risk profiling in their commentary "Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation"
Precarity in Common? Algorithmic Risk Profiling and the Politicization of ‘the Edges’ Of owner-Occupation
This article offers a critical response to Smith and Wood’s concept of “the edges” of owner-occupation. While the category remains analytically diffuse, we argue that digital infrastructures – part...
www.tandfonline.com

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NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).
The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter
How Stuff Matters
www.eventbrite.com.au

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From the Archive: David Beer and Roger Burrows, 'Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data' - focuses on prosumption practices, digital technologies and the playful vitality of the ‘glossy topics’ that constitute popular culture. (2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data - David Beer, Roger Burrows, 2013
Digital data inundation has far-reaching implications for: disciplinary jurisdiction; the relationship between the academy, commerce and the state; and the very...
journals.sagepub.com

I think we have responded to this excellent piece…but not online as yet

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A new Migrant Research Institute at Goldsmiths is looking for an academic director www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...
Migrant Futures Institute
Redefining migration studies through creative inquiry and civic engagement.
www.gold.ac.uk

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal
Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.
humanities.org.au

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Ah shit, as soon as I posted it I realised I left Mike Masnick ( @mmasnick.bsky.social ) off the list.

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Molly White @molly.wiki
404 Media @404media.co
Brian Merchant @brianmerchant.bsky.social
Doug Rushkoff @rushkoff.com

That's definitely an incomplete list, but it will tap you into a larger network of people fighting the good fight.

Feel free to add your own suggestions in the replies!

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Wired Magazine @wired.com
Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social
Quinn Slobodian www.quinnslobodian.com
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social
Jonathan Taplin @jttaplin.bsky.social

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Gil Duran @gilduran.com
Parix Marx @parismarx.com (and their podcast @techwontsave.us )
Jenny Kohn @jennycohn.bsky.social
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com
Emile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social

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Having immersed myself in the 'Dark Enlightenment' topic for some time now, I sometimes wonder how we (regular people who believe in democracy) can fight back.

It made me think that it's worth giving a shout-out to some of the people I might term (loosely) 'the resistance'.

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You should live in Australia mate, you’d be pissed all the time…