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Last weekend I upgraded my wordpress installation to use Markdown on Save Improved, a plugin that saves two versions of each post, one …
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We were talking in class yesterday about how each of us became interested in social science, specifically sociology. What kind of …
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I’m giving a guest lecture to a STEM class in about two weeks. I plan to talk about my research into citizen science. One of the …
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I participated in a panel with some fellow third-year grad students in CCI this afternoon. We talked about our experiences with …
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The big story was winning the best conference paper award for my presentation, co-authored with my adviser Suzie Allard, on libraries …
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One of the research projects I began last spring is starting to show some initial results. I wanted to study the reception of some key …
2 min read Potentialities

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space by Neil Smith is a seminal work in marxist geography first published …
2 min read Review

I’ve been brainstorming some concerns about libraries and citizen science for a current writing project. On the face of it …
2 min read Potentialities

Venkatesh Rao, the blogger at ribbonfarm has written a three-part series “Entrepreneurs are the new labor” for Forbes. His …
3 min read Musings

Reading The Power Elite is a joy. Mills writes with clarity, verve, and emotion. He clearly feels that something is out of kilter in …
3 min read Musings