Natasha Carolan
natashacarolan.bsky.social
Natasha Carolan
@natashacarolan.bsky.social
Maker - Researcher - Academia + Industry. | Previously PhD @HighWireDTC | @DigitalFabricat | @Makielab | cúpla focail | She/They 🇪🇺
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Delighted for you @naomialderman.bsky.social! What an incredible community and game you have created, and of course @adrianhon.bsky.social. Onwards Runner 5!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:

zombiesrungame.com

observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Anyone use #Squarespace and ship in Canada using #Canadapost?
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Anyone I know using pre-orders on #Squarespace?
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
UK - this is for you.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Social media managment tools, recommendations? (Instagram specifically) TY!
August 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Please help my good buddies name their parcel tracking app/service. 📦🚚 3xs09gvoei1.typeform.com/to/pSd7K6QT
App Naming Survey
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
3xs09gvoei1.typeform.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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There is a story about a scorpion and a frog.
Huge news. AI summaries are collapsing traffic to primary sources
Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.
July 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If AI isn't going to deal with the laundry, what is the point?
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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@blaine.bsky.social’s talk at the #atmosphereconf was fantastic if you’re interested in the context and history of social media protocols.

youtu.be/InOn_1rAbUY
ATmosphereConf 2025: Network Punk: Welcome to the Jungle
YouTube video by Binary Bungalow
youtu.be
March 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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@blaine.bsky.social closed his #atmosphereconf @atprotocol.dev opening talk with this Ursula Franklin quote, which is oh so personally on the nose given the words “technology,” “democracy,” “justice,” and “power” (add “government”) are the axes about which my brain is perpetually spinning rn.
March 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed."
— Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'
March 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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vacancy for a Lecturer in Design Innovation & Service Design (PGT) (1.0 FTE)
School of Innovation and Technology - Glasgow

gsa.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Lecturer in Design Innovation & Service Design (PGT) (1.0 FTE)
Lecturer in Design Innovation & Service Design (PGT) (1.0 FTE), Lecturer in Design Innovation & Service Design (PGT) (1.0 FTE) School of Innovation and Technology Location - Glasgow Grade 7, £44,128...
gsa.engageats.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Do you know (or are you) a senior scientist in the USA who might like to move to Canada in the near future? The 2026 call for CERCs (Canada Excellence Research Chairs) was posted last month: 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🇨🇦
Canada Excellence Research Chairs - Home
The CERC Program offers eligible Canadian degree-granting universities the opportunity to establish research Chairs at their institutions in research areas that are of strategic importance to Canada.
www.cerc.gc.ca
February 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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so how long does this late-stage last again
February 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM
National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department

Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171
Deadline soon: 2 March
February 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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If you ever wondered who you would be when That Time Came, this is it.

This is the person.
February 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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We have 2 fully funded PhDs which include Fees and Stipend (at UK rates) in areas related to technology and creative practice.

Personally, I am interested in any proposals bringing solar punk ideas into design fiction artefact creation :)

imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/funde...
ImaginationLancaster - The Design Led Research Centre at Lancaster University.
We believe in the unstoppable power of imagination.
imagination.lancaster.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Me on DOGE for the MIT Tech Review:

"We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government."

www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1...
From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
As DOGE throws out the rule book for government tech, it’s time we plan for the worst—and look to each other for courage and support.
www.technologyreview.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Your annual reminder to donate to archive.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101!

They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs.

Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships.

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February 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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These days, writes @writermjs.bsky.social, wildfire season is never really over. The choices we make now about living with wildfires can prepare us for our fiery future and protect frontline workers in B.C. — or they can leave the most vulnerable behind. #bcpoli thenarwhal.ca/bc-three-thi...
3 things you should know about wildfires in B.C. | The Narwhal
Living with wildfires means confronting uncomfortable truths about protecting frontline firefighters
thenarwhal.ca
January 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM