Danya Glabau

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STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, feminist theories of technology, Asst Prof NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her

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I dunno, man; *i* think it's pretty okay work papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Heavenly Bodies: Why It Matters That Cyborgs Have Always Been About Disability, Mental Health, and Marginalizationpapers.ssrn.com This paper explores some history and theories about cyborgs — humans with biotechnological interventions which allow them to regulate their own internal bodily

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Thinking of becoming a Society for Disability Studies member? May 23 12-1:30 EST Authors Meet Authors Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Danya Glabau & Laura Forlano, Cyborg @allergyphd.bsky.social @laura4lano.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/upcomi...

Upcoming Author meets Author(s) Event | Society for Disability Studieswww.patreon.com Get more from Society for Disability Studies on Patreon

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If you're in the Boston area, you'll want to get in on this book event with @allergyphd.bsky.social and @laura4lano.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/e/cyborg-boo...

Cyborg Book Launch with Authors Laura Forlano and Danya Glabauwww.eventbrite.com A discussion with Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau about their new book "Cyborg"

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My latest at the Chronicle--on how editors assess yr book's "fit"--is up. I discuss 3 exs of monographs I acquired, trying to draw out portable lessons abt list-building, proposal-writing etc. Hopefully it's helpful for authors & folks interested in editorial work: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Advice | How Do Editors Assess Your Book’s ‘Fit’?www.chronicle.com An acquisitions editor sheds light on how publishers decide if your book is a good match for their lists.

I have been extremely transparent with my grad students about why they can't use AI writing tools in my seminar. It's paternalistic, but it boils down to: I want you to learn durable skills no one can take away from you in my class, like reading and writing complex ideas.

These kinds of arguments are so odd. “The future of education hinges on accepting that there’s no substantive difference between actually knowing how to do something and pretending you know how to do it. To remain relevant, schools must make showing how you pretended to do it central to assessment.”

The continued success of universities hinges on the response to the generative AI reckoning | Wonkhewonkhe.com The essay assessment is only the most obvious casualty of generative AI. Janice Kay, Chris Husbands and Jason Tangen explain why AI should prompt a total overhaul of education strategies

As a scholar of social reproduction and also a toddler parent, it's my professional opinion that new kids books trying to do counter-programming on gender norms for little girls are Bad, Actually: they articulate the norms they are trying to debunk and thereby fail at their task.

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Hey, remember MOOCs? Remember "the year of the MOOC?" Remember how UVA's board tried to fire the president because she wasn't sufficiently hyped about MOOCs? Remember how Sebastian Thrun (Udacity) said there would eventually be only 10 higher-ed outlets bc of MOOCs? Just thought I'd ask.

"LLMs must become a core part of the educational experience.... This imperative grows with each new development in text, image, and voice generation — even the potential for AI-driven lessons delivered by simulated celebrities." Uurrgghh. (And what about environmental damage of this proposal?)

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Boston friends! I'll be in town on March 19th to chat about my new book Cyborg with my coauthor, @laura4lano.bsky.social. Join us at Northeastern University at 5:30pm or via Zoom! www.eventbrite.com/e/cyborg-boo...

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This is a great time to remember one of the core lessons of shoshanna zuboff's AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE: automation rarely reduces time for human operators. Instead, it changes where the cognitive load of work is applied.

Knowing that a chatbot is “grading” your assignment is a great incentive for students to give minimum effort and craft assignments that are specific to the dictates of the machine: boring, rote, and drained of creativity and originality.

Teachers are embracing ChatGPT-powered gradingwww.axios.com Writable: AI tool that grades papers for teachers using ChatGPT

Nothing like a little Star Trek Voyager in the morning while I prep to teach cyborgs 🤖👽

A really good book if I may say so myself: "But work is not the same as labor. Compulsory labor under capitalism... is violent. The work of cyborg self-maintenance, by contrast, can be a source of creativity. Caring for cyborgs can be a source of intimate connections."

Not my partner, a law student working on labor and employment law, coming home from school with Paul Starr book recommendations for me 😂 Still trying to get him to read Gabe Winant's book though!

Guess what?! It's cyborgs week in my grad class!!! My class decided they wanted to read some of my new book CYBORG in our mix of texts this week 💓 Incredible to think of my work in conversation with other texts that have meant so much to me over the years

In reading-for-writing about baby surveillance today, my grad assistant reminded me of the chapter in @mw-m.bsky.social book about childhood as a time for "forming normative spatiotemporal desires", now enjoying this reread

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“The cycle-tracking boom comes as the so-called Fem Tech market expands. A broad category that includes menstrual care, maternal health care and pelvic and sexual health aids…”

For These Women, ‘Biohacking’ Their Periods Gives Them Powerwww.wsj.com Women are determining what to eat, how hard to work out and even when to pitch new clients by tracking their menstrual cycles with wearable devices and apps.

So the question I am already pondering, on page 4 of writing the new paper on baby tracking apps, is who wants to publish a socialist feminist, but in a modern intersectional paradigm, analysis of digital baby tracking tools??? Hmu with your suggestions

Prepping for grad STS seminar and we're getting to the feminist tech + cyborgs part of the semester: "[Haraway's cyborg] elaborates a new feminist ‘imaginary’ different from the ‘material reality’ of the existing technological order" (Judy Wajcman, "Feminist Theories of Technology," 2010)

Friday writing day!! Working on the intro to the baby tracking paper, including a verbal sketch of a fully connected baby nursery hellscape Never has @hypervisible.bsky.social and Golumbia's idea of "luxury surveillance" been more relevant to a project reallifemag.com/luxury-surve...

Luxury Surveillance — Real Lifereallifemag.com People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others

My second book baby has arrived!! Cyborg, co-authored with @laura4lano.bsky.social from @mitpress.bsky.social, is officially on shelves! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

Cyborgmitpress.mit.edu A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.This introduction to cyborg theory pro...

Two days after the release of my second book over here and I'm starting to write on my next project, the baby tracking paper. It is unavoidably very dark and after writing 500 words I'm feeling very bad about the state of the world.

Tfw it's the moment in your long simmering project on parenting advice that you have to go read the Emily Oster books 🫠

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Cyborg (co-authored with @allergyphd.bsky.social) is coming out on February 6th! Please pre-order from your favorite bookstore today (thank you!!): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755... And, B&N is offering 25% on all pre-orders to Premium Members with the code: PREORDER25.

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This book is gonna be hot fire and you should get your hands on it.

heyyyyyy friends I'm back, and with a new book! CYBORG is out February 6th with @laura4lano.bsky.social, preorders available via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

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You're gonna want this book

heyyyyyy friends I'm back, and with a new book! CYBORG is out February 6th with @laura4lano.bsky.social, preorders available via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

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