Salman Khan
@salmankhilji.bsky.social
Sociologist and cultural geographer. Postdoc @ Edinburgh Uni. Wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
This account combines academic updates, thoughts & amateur photography.
This account combines academic updates, thoughts & amateur photography.
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Salman Khan
@salmankhilji.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving
Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …
www.sciencedirect.com
Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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The image of the philosopher is obscured by all his necessary disguises, but also by all the betrayals that turn him into the philosopher of religion, the philosopher of the State, the collector of current values and the functionary of history.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The image of the philosopher is obscured by all his necessary disguises, but also by all the betrayals that turn him into the philosopher of religion, the philosopher of the State, the collector of current values and the functionary of history.
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So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
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Blue sky morning on Bruntsfield Links
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Blue sky morning on Bruntsfield Links
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More from the misty Meadows this morning
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
More from the misty Meadows this morning
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think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
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Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Beyond the media's omission of migrants navigating a path to ILR paying thousands of £ for the NHS, visa fees, NI, etc., and of any opposing views, this to me is as clear a plan to strip dignity away from those who choose to build a life here as can be. And it's been given legitimacy.
Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants
The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Beyond the media's omission of migrants navigating a path to ILR paying thousands of £ for the NHS, visa fees, NI, etc., and of any opposing views, this to me is as clear a plan to strip dignity away from those who choose to build a life here as can be. And it's been given legitimacy.
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What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
I'm a bit concerned about the use of the word "clash" here, @theguardian.com. Not only does this imply 'two-sideism' (my favourite bit is designation of anti-racist protesters as "hardcore" - turns out the only thing they were 'hardcore' about is techno) but also a physical conflict. Was there one?
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
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Don’t buy the hysteria. Ignore the right-wing propaganda. Buy the facts. The UK’s problems are no more being caused by immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth. @timharford.ft.com
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
www.ft.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Don’t buy the hysteria. Ignore the right-wing propaganda. Buy the facts. The UK’s problems are no more being caused by immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth. @timharford.ft.com
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But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:
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It's fairly pointless fact-checking this sort of racist bilge, but as it happens I live in Plaistow and -- of course the area is undoubtedly multicultural, one of the most diverse in the country -- but there are certainly white children here. I've got two of them in my house.
This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It's fairly pointless fact-checking this sort of racist bilge, but as it happens I live in Plaistow and -- of course the area is undoubtedly multicultural, one of the most diverse in the country -- but there are certainly white children here. I've got two of them in my house.
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“The Overton window moves when there are no ideas to fight the ideas moving it.”
@lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally.
His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”
@lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally.
His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“The Overton window moves when there are no ideas to fight the ideas moving it.”
@lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally.
His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”
@lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally.
His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”
Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving
Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reminder: if interested in learning about Uber drivers' struggles for finding value in their work, and some of the ways in which they contend with diminished chances of doing so, come by Room 2.220 at 2:30pm tomorrow! #wesconf25 @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages.
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reminder: if interested in learning about Uber drivers' struggles for finding value in their work, and some of the ways in which they contend with diminished chances of doing so, come by Room 2.220 at 2:30pm tomorrow! #wesconf25 @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages.
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages.
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)
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3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp
September 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp
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Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’
Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’
Illegal immigration and the climate crisis were hotly debated by the novelist and the former tram driver. But did they end up on the same track?
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’
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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
trying to relate a Deleuzian/materialist analysis of everyday socio-spatial enactments of race with the racial capitalism literature, and this by Kendra Strauss provided the best opening for it.
'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
trying to relate a Deleuzian/materialist analysis of everyday socio-spatial enactments of race with the racial capitalism literature, and this by Kendra Strauss provided the best opening for it.
'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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2. Domaining: associating certain knowers (usually based on their perceived characteristics/identity) with certain domains of knowledge, and thus limiting their knowledge claim to contribution *within that field* (see also: why is de Beauvoir a 'feminist philosopher' and Sartre a 'philosopher')
July 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
2. Domaining: associating certain knowers (usually based on their perceived characteristics/identity) with certain domains of knowledge, and thus limiting their knowledge claim to contribution *within that field* (see also: why is de Beauvoir a 'feminist philosopher' and Sartre a 'philosopher')
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Happy #100th citation to "Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning" (2021, not 2023), surpassing "Knowing neoliberalism", my erstwhile-most-cited article! 🎉 This is especially remarkable as the article is itself subject to practices of citational erasure/omission/appropriation it theorises...
July 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy #100th citation to "Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning" (2021, not 2023), surpassing "Knowing neoliberalism", my erstwhile-most-cited article! 🎉 This is especially remarkable as the article is itself subject to practices of citational erasure/omission/appropriation it theorises...
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New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports!
We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women
Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing
#ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women
Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing
#ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Scientific Reports!
We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women
Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing
#ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
We investigated emotional & psychological impact of late ADHD diagnoses in women
Highlighting how undiagnosed ADHD contributes to life-long challenges & how diagnosis in adulthood can be life-changing
#ADHD #WomenWithADHD #ADHDawareness
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Platform companies like Uber helped normalise this dynamic pricing and workers have pushed back with attempts to monitor and track rates (see Worker Info Exchange), but yes, "without a public record of all fares, it would be difficult... to determine if Delta is charging vastly different fares..."
We went from the customer is always right to the customer is always ripe for the picking.
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
fortune.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Platform companies like Uber helped normalise this dynamic pricing and workers have pushed back with attempts to monitor and track rates (see Worker Info Exchange), but yes, "without a public record of all fares, it would be difficult... to determine if Delta is charging vastly different fares..."