Deepwater Alchemy is officially on audiobook! Narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social who brought this book to life in a way I could never have imagined. Thank you @tantoraudio.bsky.social for adapting this! @uminnpress.bsky.social

The call for this year’s digital methods summer school is out! I did this during grad school and found it so helpful to explore and think deeply about methodologies for examining digital power. Highly recommend! The focus is on social media and AI this year www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...

Tomorrow at UCLA! Elizabeth Deloughrey and I will be having a conversation about our favorite topic: the blue humanities!

A delightful sight! Can’t wait to dig in

Media and STS friends! There's just 3 days left to submit your paper abstracts to our #4S2025 Open panel, Reverberation and/as Mediation. Submit by Feb 2 here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... Feel free to contact me or @mojojojosef.bsky.social for questions!

Oops, the last part got cut off! Finishing move: Boil until the dumplings float, then eat with a sauce of black vinegar, sesame oil, and crushed raw garlic (if you’re brave)! That's the Han family way!

Happy Spring festival / Chinese new year! Gong xi fa cai! It's the year of the snake, a time to be intuitive, creative, and wise! And of course, cunning with our resistance and disobedience 🐍 🧧

To celebrate, I'm sharing my family's actual authentic dumpling recipe. You're welcome, Bluesky! 😜

Next up on my reading list, Slime, by Simon Estok (Cambridge UP, 2024)!

Might as well just turn this course into an ARG at this point

A queer black woman AI created by 10 white men, a white woman, and an Asian male. The inevitable next step in blackfishing

So much money and water for AI and none for the burning homes, for the newly homeless baking in a heating world. There is no redemption for AI from an environmental standpoint. I will and always will be an AI hater.

Two great new books I’ve been reading over break! Sharing Spaces edited by @finnarne.me and @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social, and California Against the Sea by @rosannaxia.bsky.social

I completely forgot to share this article on biofouling when it first came out! For me this was the beginning if a new rabbithole that I’ve been chasing ever since. Justice for slimes! muse.jhu.edu/article/931667

Doctors and patients being rounded up at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Northern Gaza. Another bone chilling image among many on my daily feeds. Are people on Bluesky doomscrolling what I’m doomscrolling? I wasn’t shutting up about Palestine on Instagram so I definitely won’t be shutting up here

Omg I made it on the academics with cats starter pack! Fredo is so happy 😸

Teaching PSA: zine assignments are the best assignments! These were from a keywords project in my Intro to Digital Media Studies class. Aren’t they gorgeous? ✨

I just saw there’s an academics with dogs starter pack. Whither the academics with cats? Here’s my #slowblinksunday contribution

For those who don't know me, a quick intro to my work! This is Deepwater Alchemy, published this year via @uminnpress.bsky.social! You can grab a copy and hear me talk about it on The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social and the UMN Podcast under the extras here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791594...