The DISCO Network
@disconetwork.bsky.social
Envisioning an anti-racist + anti-ableist digital future.
Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
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With the start of the semester around the corner, we're excited to share (some of) our upcoming events for the 2025-26 academic year!
Mark your calendars 📅 for these panel discussions, each are open the public and HYBRID. CART will be provided.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio 🔗
Mark your calendars 📅 for these panel discussions, each are open the public and HYBRID. CART will be provided.
Learn more and register at the link in our bio 🔗
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THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025
#DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social
#DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
THIS WEDNESDAY NOV 12TH 8:30AM ET: Feminist AI - Frameworks, Practices, Refusals
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us for what promises to be a great transnational feminist dialogue around feminist approaches to AI.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who came to our "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" panel discussion!! We're honored to have hosted this incredible group of speakers in Ann Arbor last week and were delighted by the lively audience engagement 💜💜
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" panel discussion!! We're honored to have hosted this incredible group of speakers in Ann Arbor last week and were delighted by the lively audience engagement 💜💜
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Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
Cyborg-Technology Relations
| Journal of Human-Technology Relations
journals.open.tudelft.nl
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Cyborg-Technology Relations is now an *ongoing* topical collection with the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Plan your academic writing accordingly. :D
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
💟🗓️ TOMORROW:
Register for the next panel in our Voices in Protest series, happening tomorrow from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
Register for the next panel in our Voices in Protest series, happening tomorrow from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
We're thrilled to announce our next panel "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" on Thursday, NOVEMBER 6th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET 🟪🌌🌐
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
💟🗓️ TOMORROW:
Register for the next panel in our Voices in Protest series, happening tomorrow from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
Register for the next panel in our Voices in Protest series, happening tomorrow from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
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Teaching about AI? Here's a new zine from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance "meant to help readers move from thinking about AI as a purely digital, cloud-based technology to understanding it as something rooted in physical elements."
New Zine: Raw Materials for AI — AI + Planetary Justice Alliance
Raw Materials for AI is a visual introduction to the physical foundations of artificial intelligence, tracing seven key minerals – like cobalt, silicon, and lithium – used to build and power AI ...
aiplanetaryjustice.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Teaching about AI? Here's a new zine from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance "meant to help readers move from thinking about AI as a purely digital, cloud-based technology to understanding it as something rooted in physical elements."
Starting shortly! 🌟🍔 If you're in the UMD-College Park area, stop by Skinner 3115 for BCaT Eats this afternoon
More BCaT Lab events & details can be found: www.bcatlab.org/events
More BCaT Lab events & details can be found: www.bcatlab.org/events
Get ready for another BCaT Eats! Join us this Wednesday in Skinner 3115 from 12-1pm for some free food, games, and movies! 🍕
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Starting shortly! 🌟🍔 If you're in the UMD-College Park area, stop by Skinner 3115 for BCaT Eats this afternoon
More BCaT Lab events & details can be found: www.bcatlab.org/events
More BCaT Lab events & details can be found: www.bcatlab.org/events
We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
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🚨Less Than a Week Left to Apply!🚨
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!
airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!
airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🚨Less Than a Week Left to Apply!🚨
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!
airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!
airtable.com/appIrc1F9M5d...
We're thrilled to announce our next panel "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" on Thursday, NOVEMBER 6th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET 🟪🌌🌐
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We're thrilled to announce our next panel "Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda" on Thursday, NOVEMBER 6th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET 🟪🌌🌐
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/z9GJZ
ONE WEEK REMINDER 📅
Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82
Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ONE WEEK REMINDER 📅
Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82
Tune in for our VIRTUAL conversation on crip wisdom and critique, register by visiting the link in our bio or myumi.ch/jJN82
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Interested in applying for the Automating Black Joy Collaborative Project? Come share your ideas, skills, and find a research team at the Automating Black Joy sandbox session.
Wednesday, October 8th 10-12pm
Skinner 3115 & Zoom (link in bio)
Wednesday, October 8th 10-12pm
Skinner 3115 & Zoom (link in bio)
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Interested in applying for the Automating Black Joy Collaborative Project? Come share your ideas, skills, and find a research team at the Automating Black Joy sandbox session.
Wednesday, October 8th 10-12pm
Skinner 3115 & Zoom (link in bio)
Wednesday, October 8th 10-12pm
Skinner 3115 & Zoom (link in bio)
TOMORROW:
Check out the first of this new webinar series tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00 PM! 📚🔥
For our friends at UMD College Park, @bcatlab.bsky.social will be playing the livestream in Skinner 3115 & over Zoom www.bcatlab.org/events/9kk6t...
Check out the first of this new webinar series tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00 PM! 📚🔥
For our friends at UMD College Park, @bcatlab.bsky.social will be playing the livestream in Skinner 3115 & over Zoom www.bcatlab.org/events/9kk6t...
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TOMORROW:
Check out the first of this new webinar series tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00 PM! 📚🔥
For our friends at UMD College Park, @bcatlab.bsky.social will be playing the livestream in Skinner 3115 & over Zoom www.bcatlab.org/events/9kk6t...
Check out the first of this new webinar series tomorrow from 12:00 - 1:00 PM! 📚🔥
For our friends at UMD College Park, @bcatlab.bsky.social will be playing the livestream in Skinner 3115 & over Zoom www.bcatlab.org/events/9kk6t...
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The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!
Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication
MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication
MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!
Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication
MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication
MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...
TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY!! 🗓️❤️🔥
Join us VIRTUALLY for a conversation on crip wisdom and critique Thursday, October 16th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM (ET)
Join us VIRTUALLY for a conversation on crip wisdom and critique Thursday, October 16th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM (ET)
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY!! 🗓️❤️🔥
Join us VIRTUALLY for a conversation on crip wisdom and critique Thursday, October 16th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM (ET)
Join us VIRTUALLY for a conversation on crip wisdom and critique Thursday, October 16th from 4:00 - 5:30 PM (ET)
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Join the Center for Innovation, Law, and Society (CILS) for a talk with Dr. @timnitgebru.bsky.social about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.
This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV
#AGI #AI
This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV
#AGI #AI
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Join the Center for Innovation, Law, and Society (CILS) for a talk with Dr. @timnitgebru.bsky.social about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.
This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV
#AGI #AI
This in-person event will also be livestreamed: bit.ly/42kxaQV
#AGI #AI
Happy Color Protocols Publication Day to all who celebrate 🎉🪩
Congratulations to Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
Congratulations to Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
"Color Protocols," edited by Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255350...
September 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happy Color Protocols Publication Day to all who celebrate 🎉🪩
Congratulations to Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
Congratulations to Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
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Amazing opportunity at ISP!
📢 Apply now for the 2026–27 ISP Resident Fellowship at Yale Law School! We encourage projects on AI and the digital public sphere—free speech, content moderation, privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic governance. More info: law.yale.edu/isp/join-us#...
Fellowships
law.yale.edu
September 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Amazing opportunity at ISP!
UPCOMING:
We're looking forward to our Launch Party for Search History Volume 2: Into the Rabbit Hole! 🐇💫
Join us this FRIDAY, OCT 3rd from 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET in-person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor) or over Zoom for a laid-back celebration of the zine's release.
We're looking forward to our Launch Party for Search History Volume 2: Into the Rabbit Hole! 🐇💫
Join us this FRIDAY, OCT 3rd from 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET in-person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor) or over Zoom for a laid-back celebration of the zine's release.
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
UPCOMING:
We're looking forward to our Launch Party for Search History Volume 2: Into the Rabbit Hole! 🐇💫
Join us this FRIDAY, OCT 3rd from 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET in-person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor) or over Zoom for a laid-back celebration of the zine's release.
We're looking forward to our Launch Party for Search History Volume 2: Into the Rabbit Hole! 🐇💫
Join us this FRIDAY, OCT 3rd from 3:00 - 5:00 PM ET in-person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor) or over Zoom for a laid-back celebration of the zine's release.
TOMORROW:
This event is HYBRID, register by visiting: myumi.ch/QwGnk
The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘🕷️
This event is HYBRID, register by visiting: myumi.ch/QwGnk
The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘🕷️
What do smart dust, credit scores & sexcams have in common? Find out in “Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies” with Atanasoski & Parvin, part of the DSI Lecture Series.
🗓 Sept. 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🎟 Register: myumi.ch/QwGnk
🗓 Sept. 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🎟 Register: myumi.ch/QwGnk
September 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
TOMORROW:
This event is HYBRID, register by visiting: myumi.ch/QwGnk
The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘🕷️
This event is HYBRID, register by visiting: myumi.ch/QwGnk
The first 25 in-person attendees will receive a free copy of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen 📘🕷️
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My co-author Neda Atanasoski and I will be in Michigan (myumi.ch/R3N28) next week, discussing our recent book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press. Join us if you are around!
September 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My co-author Neda Atanasoski and I will be in Michigan (myumi.ch/R3N28) next week, discussing our recent book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press. Join us if you are around!
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
One week from today!
What do smart dust, credit scores & sexcams have in common? Find out in “Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies” with Atanasoski & Parvin, part of the DSI Lecture Series.
🗓 Sept. 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🎟 Register: myumi.ch/QwGnk
🗓 Sept. 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🎟 Register: myumi.ch/QwGnk
September 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One week from today!
REMINDER:
Happening tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th at 11AM [ET]
🌺 The BCaT Lab will be hosting a HYBRID Info Session for the Automating Black Joy project!
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio or scanning the QR code, & visit bcatlab.org/automating-black-joy for more details
Happening tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th at 11AM [ET]
🌺 The BCaT Lab will be hosting a HYBRID Info Session for the Automating Black Joy project!
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio or scanning the QR code, & visit bcatlab.org/automating-black-joy for more details
September 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
REMINDER:
Happening tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th at 11AM [ET]
🌺 The BCaT Lab will be hosting a HYBRID Info Session for the Automating Black Joy project!
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio or scanning the QR code, & visit bcatlab.org/automating-black-joy for more details
Happening tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 24th at 11AM [ET]
🌺 The BCaT Lab will be hosting a HYBRID Info Session for the Automating Black Joy project!
🔗 Register by visiting the link in our bio or scanning the QR code, & visit bcatlab.org/automating-black-joy for more details
Reposted by The DISCO Network
The BCaT Lab is back in session! We are
hosting a open house on Wednesday, September 24th
from 11-3pm at Skinner 3115 as well as a hybrid event
for our BCaT Applies session. Come to Skinner to
learn more about we have in store for this semester!
hosting a open house on Wednesday, September 24th
from 11-3pm at Skinner 3115 as well as a hybrid event
for our BCaT Applies session. Come to Skinner to
learn more about we have in store for this semester!
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The BCaT Lab is back in session! We are
hosting a open house on Wednesday, September 24th
from 11-3pm at Skinner 3115 as well as a hybrid event
for our BCaT Applies session. Come to Skinner to
learn more about we have in store for this semester!
hosting a open house on Wednesday, September 24th
from 11-3pm at Skinner 3115 as well as a hybrid event
for our BCaT Applies session. Come to Skinner to
learn more about we have in store for this semester!
Reposted by The DISCO Network
Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization.
dhandlib.org/recommended-...
#TeamRhetoric
#Academicsky
#CriticalAI
dhandlib.org/recommended-...
#TeamRhetoric
#Academicsky
#CriticalAI
RECOMMENDED: What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford ← dh+lib
dhandlib.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization.
dhandlib.org/recommended-...
#TeamRhetoric
#Academicsky
#CriticalAI
dhandlib.org/recommended-...
#TeamRhetoric
#Academicsky
#CriticalAI