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When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project

Lyndsey Beutin, Cal Biruk October 23, 2025
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Connect1d is a Canadian organization that was founded to involve the experiences of type 1 diabetics in research about type 1 diabetes. Its website states, “Many of us have lived experience with T1D, and we want to work closely with the diabetes community to co-create what the future of living with T1D looks like” (accessed Sept 15, 2025). It sounds good, so then, what is wrong with this image (see below)? (read more...)

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Platypod, Episode Six: An Anthropology of Algorithmic Recommendation Systems

Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes April 6, 2023
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Download the transcript of this interview. On the morning of Friday, March 10, 2023 Nick Seaver and I met over Zoom to talk about his new book Computing Taste: Algorithms and Makers of Music Recommendation, which was published in 2022 by the University of Chicago Press. In that meeting, we recorded an episode for the Playpod podcast, which is available at the link above. (read more...)

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