Epistemic violence in STEM textbooks: A Feminist critique of biostatistics

Mar 27 2023

This post raises the issue of epistemic violence in STEM textbooks. The case of ...

The world in a billion points: Interview with ScanLAB Projects

Mar 13 2023

This week, ScanLAB co-founder William Trossell elaborates on the studio’s ...

Performing Bias: Thoughts about Curating Machine Vision Datasets

Feb 23 2023

Linda Kronman reflects on the challenges of designing datasets, recounting her e...

Great Nicobar’s great betrayal

Feb 19 2023

As the Indian government clears a mega-infrastructure project in Great Nicobar I...

The South as a laboratory (again)? Dealing with calls for “alternatives” in the North

Feb 13 2023

In this piece, Guilherme Cavalcante Silva reflects on the use of the Global Sout...

(Some)Bodies doing the work: Thoughts from the field on labor and automation in agriculture

Jan 16 2023

Matt Comi reflects on his fieldwork on the innovative practices of hop farmers i...

Looking ahead: Reviewing a year of diversity at Backchannels in 2022

Jan 9 2023

Joseph Satish V presents an overview of the themes and issues that were covered ...

Intersectional Feminism and Tech Ethics: Staying out of the Intellectual Chess Game

Nov 21 2022

As a researcher of Philosophy at the AI for Retail (AIR) Lab Delft, Madelaine Le...

Politics of Technology in India’s Smart Cities Mission

Nov 14 2022

Through his reflections on India’s Smart Cities Mission, Venkata Subrahman...

From Honest Brokers to Thoughtful Partisans?

Nov 7 2022

In this post, Taylor Dotson reflects on the potential role of scientists in publ...

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