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turns out i never did an post: hi, i'm mols. i'm an academic working in the science and technology studies/comm studies/info studies space. i do work on the philosophy, theory, and history of digital technologies and "innovation economies." i used to write a lot about digital activism. i'm currently on book leave writing about the role of east coast financiers in the development of venture capital policy in the 1970s. you can find most of my work at oddletters.com

mols attempts to herd cats/organize a pile of academics to agree on a dinner reservation time so some grad students can make friends and also get fed

as always if you would like stickers just boop me a message and accept that i will mail them out at a semi-random time

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extremely tempting to put "i can lift 200 pounds" in my annual review materials

im reviewing an ms for a scholarly press and the thing that is bugging me the most is how badly the author appears to have misunderstood THE MATRIX

today we discussed IMPERIAL SAN FRANCISCO in my graduate reading seminar on technogentrification and im just really proud of all my students

that's all ☺️

165 pound squat today! if you would really like to mess up your perspective on weights and measures, i recommend lifting, because i just looked at that number and sincerely thought 'eh, that's ok _i guess_'

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because i have never even _thought_ about this but it seems like every other post that features a photo of a ceramic with a crazed glaze has folks jumping into the comments yelling about "bacteria and mold"

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does anyone know why reddit is obsessed with "mold and bacteria" getting into cracks in ceramic dishes?

_on campus food services maybe corruption_

_definitely gonna get my sandwich back and not result in me getting fired_

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hi who here thinks i should write an expose on why my cheap on-campus breakfast sandwich was replaced by one that is literally half as big and two dollars more and try to get the independent student newspaper to publish it

today i lifted 200 pounds three times in a row, which is different than lifting 200 pounds once, three times!

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I had no idea until this morning that the 2023 CSST summer research institute is happening in Boulder, but here you are! For late stage PhD/early career researchers in sociotechnical spaces. https://sociotech.net/2023-csst-summer-research-institute-boulder/

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