Thao Phan
Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country
- Hello Naarm friends! I'm back in town next week and will be talking about genAI and the politics of representing violence. Will be joined in conversation after w Dr André Dao 📆 Tuesday 10 Feb, 4 - 5:30pm 📍 Arts West Research Lounge, University of Melbourne arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-cu...
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- Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!
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- Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...
- Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...
- Big shout out to all the excellent humans who cast their eyes on this and whose invaluable feedback helped push it across the line ✨ @noortjem.bsky.social @jackstilgoe.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social @pinkydigital.bsky.social
- Singapore you delicious bastard, I'm coming for you! 🦀 🍜 ✨ Join me for a public lecture on: Artificial Figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture 🗓️ Wed 19 November, 2 - 4pm 📍 Chinese Heritage Centre Auditorium, Nanyang Technical University Register: blogs.ntu.edu.sg/aimeetshuman...
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- Join me, Joel Stern, and Nic Carah for what's shaping up to be a stimulating seminar on Automating Everyday Life! ⚡Wed 30 July, 3 - 5pm AEST ⚡Register for zoom details I'll be talking about generative AI and the problem if representing political violence. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...
- Reposted by Thao PhanDay after this puff piece went out, I was called into a meeting to tell me I'm in a spill and fill along with three amazing friends and colleagues. To the meeting, I wore Nanyang 205S Sneakers. For those who know, they are as much a style item as a Tesco Bag for Life. 👟
- Shout out to the ANU Vice Chancellor's PR team for commissioning a puff piece so bad it tries to recuperate her public image by comparing her to corrupt millionaire Imelda Marcos and profiling her collection of designer shoes www.canberratimes.com.au/story/900277...
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- Shout out to the ANU Vice Chancellor's PR team for commissioning a puff piece so bad it tries to recuperate her public image by comparing her to corrupt millionaire Imelda Marcos and profiling her collection of designer shoes www.canberratimes.com.au/story/900277...
- Literally demanding compliments from journalists
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- 💎 NETWORK ANARCHY AND UNSTABLE DIFFUSIONS 💎 7 - 8 July Naarm/Melbourne @blueskychris.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @eryk.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au
- Reposted by Thao PhanUCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊
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- Reposted by Thao PhanOpen letter: The ANU executive is planning a new round of unnecessary and damaging cuts and forced redundancies. We are asking staff to sign this open letter calling on the executive to cancel planned CMPs and to be transparent about ANU’s finances. ANU colleagues please sign and share widely.
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- Marching with students at the ANU May day student strike to demand an end to the disastrous cuts on campus and to stop job losses at ANU ✊✊✊
- Reposted by Thao PhanIt's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
- See you tomorrow Edinburgh!
- And then a lecture/performance on 'Listening to Misrecognition' for the Edinburgh Futures Institute Critical Data Studies Cluster Tuesday 8 April, 4 - 5pm Hosted by @alex-taylor.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
- Bonus free public talk in London next week! I'll be talking AI and the long history of science and technology testing in the colony 7pm, Wednesday 9 April Royal Georges, 85 Tanner's Hill London Part of AI Rights & Wrongs series @universityofessex.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-rights-...
- Up next: performance lecture in Edinburgh! Register through Eventbrite
- And then a lecture/performance on 'Listening to Misrecognition' for the Edinburgh Futures Institute Critical Data Studies Cluster Tuesday 8 April, 4 - 5pm Hosted by @alex-taylor.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...
- Reposted by Thao PhanGreat to see @nteuact.bsky.social coming right at this to make it crystal clear that academic freedom is not up for grabs in Australia and at ANU. Happy to talk with anyone about the issue who wants to know more.
- It appears that ANU just send an email to staff that violates their freedom of speech policy policies.anu.edu.au/ppl/document.... Academic freedom: the freedom of academic staff and students to express their opinions in relation to the higher education provider in which they work or are enrolled;
- Happening tomorrow!
- Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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- Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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- Live long enough to become a diversity stock image in your VC's facile PR posts
- Happy IWD to everyone except the Vice Chancellor of ANU whose corrupt and incompetent management of the institution has meant that the “remarkable female leaders” she celebrates, including myself, wake up every day not knowing if we will even have a job in the coming weeks #VoteNoConfidence #ANU
- Happy IWD to everyone except the Vice Chancellor of ANU whose corrupt and incompetent management of the institution has meant that the “remarkable female leaders” she celebrates, including myself, wake up every day not knowing if we will even have a job in the coming weeks #VoteNoConfidence #ANU
- CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney & more!! Deadline 14 March
- Here at the @nteuact.bsky.social rally at ANU to protest the shameful cuts to our university! Up to 630 jobs slated to go under this manufactured crisis. Staff say ❌NO❌ to this Vice-Chancellor and her so-called "cybernetic leadership" (read: same old liberal managerialism) 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️
- Very happy to see this piece on Anticipatory Automated Mobilities from @pinkydigital.bsky.social and me out in the world! It's the introduction to a special issue on the same topic. Full issue coming soon! @admscentre.org.au www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- My two cents on AI & DEI featured in the ANU Reporter today ⬇️ “If it’s not safe for some of us then it’s not safe for any of us. But this is not the world we have to live in with AI...They may no longer value diversity, equity or inclusion but we still can." reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...
- The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July Deadline for proposals: 14 March Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social
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- Can someone please just tell me what #4S2025 panel to submit to? The list is 73 pages long and giving me vertigo 😵💫
