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Defending Researchers: My Declaration in CITR v. Rubio
by Dr. Emma Briant 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear Colleagues, The Trump administration is using immigration law to punish and silence disinformation researchers, advocates, and trust-and-safety professionals on the basis of the misleading premise that by doing research and advocacy, they are ‘complicit’ in censorship. Four researchers have publicly been "barred" by the State Department, including several who had their visas revoked. But the policy is so vague it can potentially encompass researchers working on everything from fact-checking to researching propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, algorithms and social media as its potential targets. The government’s actions send a powerful chill through all of these researchers currently on visas in the United States, including me. By making an example of these four researchers, it has become clear that every researcher is under threat. We all get the message. This is why, as a member of Coalition for Independent Technology Research, I have added my own declaration next to those of threatened researchers in CITR v. Rubio. We hope this important case being fought by the Knight First Amendment Institute will protect the constitutional rights of visa-holders. The First Amendment exists precisely to prevent the government from punishing speech it dislikes. Right now the Trump Administration is stifling the ability to have an informed debate about online platforms, their responsibilities to their users and what role regulation should play. Read more about the case, or read my declaration and the others submitted here <https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/citr-v-rubio>. And if you'd like to spread the word and support, here are my posts on this: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emmalbriant_coalition-for-independent-techno… Substack: https://dremmalbriant.substack.com/p/my-declaration-in-citr-v-rubio?r=97fyx… And Knight First Amendment Institute's post on this: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/knightcolumbia_technology-researchers-ask-co… Thank you, Emma -- *Dr Emma L Briant* Visiting Associate Professor at University of Notre Dame, USA Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project, USA Associate at George Washington University, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, USA Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability, UK Affiliate at Monash University, Monash Global Peace and Security Centre, Australia Owner, Director and Consultant: Maven of Persuasion LLC LEARN MORE FROM ME: 🎓 Online course: https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?r… 📚 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dremmalbriant2459/streams 🌐 emma-briant.co.uk 🗣️ Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/> 📰 Sign up for my Newsletter <https://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/> 📘 Editor of *The Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry* (2024, with Bakir) 📘 Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *(2015) 📘 Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* (2013, with Philo and Donald) Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin “Women are like teabags . We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” - Unknown

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Research Papers
by Announce 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

*** Last Call for Research Papers *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 (*** Submission Deadline extended to 10 April 2026, AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability. VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software configuration, and customization. As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable, managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging —than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives. VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions). VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability- intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc. For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper and the best artifact paper. Topics of Interest We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements & Domain Engineering • Domain analysis and variability modeling • Decision modeling and support • Customization and personalization specification • Requirements variability and traceability Architecture & Design • Variability-aware software architectures • Architecture-centric product line engineering • Model-driven engineering (MDE) • Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems Implementation & Code Generation • Generative programming and code synthesis • Modularization techniques for reusable code • Programming languages and frameworks for variability • Open-source strategies for software reuse Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance • Testing and analysis of configurable systems • Safety and security in variable systems • Formal Methods for Software Product Lines • Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration • Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance Evolution, Maintenance & Operation • Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems • Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring • Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines • Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems • Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines AI and Data-Driven Methods • Machine learning for variability management • AI-assisted product configuration • Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories • Recommendation systems for reuse and customization Publication of Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Submission Guidelines Paper Types We invite the following types of submissions: • Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results. • Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision, motivation, and potential impact. Formatting Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details: https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten… Submission Link Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026 Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double- anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision. Revisions Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle, papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format. Best Paper Awards Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000. Journal Special Issue Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30% additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software Engineering journal (currently under negotiation). Important Dates (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline: 10 April 2026 (extended) • Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025 • Author Registration: 15 July 2025 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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M 3/30/26 & 4/6/26 & open @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting Agenda & News
by Scott MacLeod 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear World University and School community and networks, Association of Internet Researchers, Universitians, all, Greetings. And I hope this email finds you well. How are you doing? A With Julie Wong's Google Executive Engagement Lead Research, Labs, Technology and Society 188 The Embarcadero SF, CA 94105 card in hand, which she gave to me at a Stanford Hoover Institute event on AI productivity and Jobs ... Dear Julie, James (Manyika), Peter (Norvig), all, Greetings, and thanks again for your card, Julie and James, at the Stanford talk on Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs? https://www.hoover.org/events/productivity-gains-and-labor-pains-what-will-… Not having heard back from you yet, Julie, and with Peter knowing both wings of 1) World Univ & Sch (a 501 c 3 US federal tax exempt legal entity AND a state of California exempt legal entity) AND the 2) WUaS Corporation (a for-profit general stock company in the state of California legal entity), knowing about the #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, and knowing Google/Alphabet's iterating IT, AI and ML infrastructures and divisions (and see #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI": #WorldUniversityInSchool updated March 2, 2024 - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learn… - and knowing how Google and Alphabet's 190,000 employees are organized, I've added the email I sent you in this email thread on M 3/23/26, and more, here to this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-g… (in daily blog) and below in the PS. ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-g… B Again, and potentially for even clinical trials (RCTS - Randomized Controlled Trials on drugs, for example) I posit the reason that Google Street View with time slider seems to be developing relatively slowly as part of a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM - eg at the Harbin Gate house ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 {and in the years 2007, 2012 and 2024 to start regarding coding for the all-important #GTimeSlider with AI and ML} ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ & at the #GCellView #GMoleculeView etc levels is because Google AI and ML and Large Language Models, and for #UniversityTeachingHospitals too, are building these out and especially developing and wrangling the datasets, code sources, the AI libraries, the Wikidata AI & ML, eg for for aging reversal and extreme longevity eg even in particular for #EarNoseThroat & #BrainStrokes' aging reversal etc. and regarding. #WUaSMultimediaHospitalRoom prototypes. C How to make your voice heard and public World University and School community, networks, and Universitians (and I ask as presiding and recording clerk of World University and School)? D Again, World University and School is seeking to accredit further: I received this helpful video from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education with offices in the greater Philadelphia Pennsylvania area on my smartphone the other day See too - Your Voice Making Public Comments that Matter in Federal Policy (February 24, 2026) https://youtu.be/nSwBGMpQRAA with Professor Matsudaira, formerly inaugural Chief Economist at the Department of Education ... and am writing further to follow up on how even to 'deploy the full federal toolkit' (and see the MacArthur Foundation Urban.org set of Tweets below, regarding this phrase) - '2. Deploy the full federal toolkit.' https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/three-principles-national-housing-affordab… ... to potentially begin to accredit free World University and School first for students in the USA (BUT also for students in the other 200 countries - just as students come from all over the world to go to MIT partly because of its accreditation with NECHE - building on CC-4 licensed (which says WUaS can 1) share, 2) adapt it, 3) but non-commercially). ... Thoughts, ideas, ways to proceed, Heather Perfetti, President of Middle States Commission on Higher Education in Philadelphia, and Professor Matsudaira, formerly Deputy Under Secretary and inaugural Chief Economist at U.S. Department of Education - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-matsudaira-0b440492/ - and Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers? (WUaS sought accreditation initially with BPPE and WASC senior in California, as early as around 2012). AND could World University and School even begin to matriculate students at accrediting World University and School this autumn 2026? E Greetings from World University and School building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages (https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/ & https://ocw.mit.edu/) and Wikipedia / Wikidata in ~342 active languages. World University and School continues to plan online free to students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees, in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages, and as WUaS proceeds with accreditation, and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program too. F And to Revolutionize Education with Machine Learning and AI with World University In School And see again the incredible #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig, Google AI Director, re World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and Wikidata as backend structured knowledge database re Wikipedia in about ~342 languages - Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI #WorldUniversityInSchool Updated on Mar 02,2024 https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learn… Per this #ToolifyAIWUaS article too, World University and School is developing a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForSTEM - & think in #GoogleStreetView with #GTimeSliders, #GMaps, & #GeminiAI and at the #GCellView and #GMoleculeView levels - and as STEM field sites, and classrooms, for new kinds of digital university learning experiences ... G How best to further develop WUaS publishing from Google Street View with time slider, text in the sidebar, and in all 7159 living languages (and for the next Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project too)? Having taught at at least one university from a textbook, WUaS is also seeking to move beyond the textbook for our free online WUaS degrees as we accredit, - and, again, the 2nd wing of WUaS, the WUaS Corporation / Educational Services' Stores / Academic Press at WUaS in 7,159 living languages with ML and with human and machine translation, seeks to invent the book anew, publishing FROM Google Street View #TextInTheSidebar ... H World Univ & Sch's OPEN WUaS Weekly Business Meeting News and Q&A meet on Mondays, next on M March 30, 2026, at 9:00 AM Mexico City Time, 10:00 AM Pacific Time, 11 AM Mountain Time, 1:00 PM ET (US & Canada), 5:00 PM GMT, 10:30 PM India Time, 1:00 AM Tuesday the next day Hong Kong Time (but please CHECK your time converter from any of your 24 time zones to join this open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting) with Zoom URL in the open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News below and in the following WUaS blog posts. Here is the agenda and news for tomorrow's open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting, which I shared with you last week, so as to season, and to invite your thinking and feedback too - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains-… https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains.html Topic: M 3/30/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL Time: Mar 30, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78228197599?pwd=d3218lppoZcWGzkaGaJ0VPGQW7Gxhb.1 Meeting ID: 782 2819 7599 Passcode: pL8XAP AND here is the WUaS Agenda for M 4/6/26 - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/karakoram-mountains-k… https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/karakoram-mountains-kashmir.html Topic: M 4/6/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL Time: Apr 6, 2026 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77203168566?pwd=WcyJYF7IpKZwzlORM2eN2z28hNTePP.1 Meeting ID: 772 0316 8566 Passcode: nRh6Ut I World Univ & Sch is growing daily, and blog post by blog post too ... And waiting, I think, for the CA exempt filing process to advance, and the Candid Guidestar platform to develop too - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 ... And waiting for accreditation opportunities to further develop ... And for money ... How to grow an engaged and engaging research and wiki learning community - with wiki-teachers and wiki-learners teaching and learning in these subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (first in English but then in all 200 countries' main languages, with wiki-subjects you can create ... about what you love) - in all of this further, and both online & in Canyon 94516 potentially too? All the best, abolition-ally (a best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSabolition movement is growing to protect people ... https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/10/eagle-aquila-world-un… - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/10/eagle-aquila-world-university-an… ... and in WUaS seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet to facilitate wiki free universal education, and potentially to end poverty worldwide), Yogically, Friendly NtF NtQ Quaker & Unitarian Universalist church greetings, kind regards, Scott Scott GK MacLeod president(a)worlduniversityandschool.org Founder, President, CEO & Professor, Presiding and Recording Clerk (loosely in the manner of unprogrammed NtF Friends / Quakers) Recording will be posted here - https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos TwitterX and LinkedIN - Here is the open @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSunivs' #WUaSAgendaAndNews for M 3/30/26 @ 10aPT w #ZoomURL https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains-… -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains.html - https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos Re #MSCHE #WUaSaccreditation, how best #ProfessorMatsudaira to Deploy full #USfederalToolkit? https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2038454945545113689 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2038468803345154508 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2038469028885467484 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038468898048405536 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2038469105372778536 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2038469589018009725 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2038469707377123499 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_wuasunivs-wuasagendaandnews-z… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_wuasunivs-wuasagenda… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_wuasunivs-wuasag… * * * * World University and School / WUaS 1st of 2 WUaS wings - 501 c 3 / similar non-profit https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/1743292322190533933/778187890656…> CC licensed best STEAM OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch wing ... World University and School http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/1743292322190533933/778187890656…> Agenda item 0 Monday, March 23, 2026 Hindu Kush mountains: Recording of 3/23/26 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting #TaiwanWorldUnivAndSch ~ * (was - M 3/23/26 & 3/30/26 open @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting Agenda & News) As WUaS video minutes - Recording of 3/23/26 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting #TaiwanWorldUnivAndSch ~ https://youtu.be/jUjMXAYVYd4 using this 3/16 agenda - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-new-mexico-m… https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-nm.html https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos ~ AND Recording of 3/23/26 @WorldUnivAndSch #WUaSNewsAndQA & #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting ~https://youtu.be/jUjMXAYVYd4 using 3/16 agenda - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-new-mexico-m… -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/shiprock-nm.html -https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos How best to grow free #TaiwanWorldUnivAndSch from #WUaSwiki /Nation_State? https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2036177098549895291 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2036177305333277165 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2036179736322511209 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2036177584434847875 Video pic https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2036179192338067489 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2036179136872681544 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2036178981368873179 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2036178900062183542 AND slightly expanded - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_wuasnewsandqa-wuasweeklybusin… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_wuasnewsandqa-wuaswe… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_wuasnewsandqa-wu… https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains.html https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/03/hindu-kush-mountains-… Agenda item 1 Great to meet you on Tue March 17, 2026 at Stanford Hoover Institute at the AI Productivity & Jobs' panels, and thanks to you, and Google Senior Vice President James Manyika, for your card : Julie Wong Google Executive Engagement Lead Research, Labs, Technology and Society 188 The Embarcadero SF, CA 94105 510 725 5075 juliewong(a)google.com Dear Julie, James (Manyika), Peter (Norvig), all, Greetings, and thanks again for your card, Julie and James, at the Stanford talk on Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs? https://www.hoover.org/events/productivity-gains-and-labor-pains-what-will-… Not having heard back from you yet, Julie, and with Peter knowing both wings of 1) World Univ & Sch (a 501 c 3 US federal tax exempt legal entity AND a state of California exempt legal entity) AND the 2) WUaS Corporation (a for-profit general stock company in the state of California legal entity), knowing about the #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, and knowing Google/Alphabet's iterating IT, AI and ML infrastructures and divisions (and see #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI": #WorldUniversityInSchool updated March 2, 2024 - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learn… - and knowing how Google and Alphabet's 190,000 employees are organized, I've added the email I sent you in this email thread on M 3/23/26, and more, here to this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-g… (in daily blog) and below in the PS. WUaS (the WUaS Corporation) would eventually seek to produce pharmaceuticals too, besides doing randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForClinicalTrials (drawing sample populations from all 7.9 billion people on the planet), - and for aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging especially, FDA approved with time ... and in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForPharmaceuticals with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ... and with both Google's Isomorphic Labs (founded by Demis Hassabis) producing pharmaceuticals and Alphabet's Calico Labs too, working on developing these vaccines/drugs/pharmaceuticals too (and possibly other Google organizations). Eventually, and possibly as a first hire, WUaS would seek a possible Harvard MBA or similar to become the WUaS CEO, but WUaS has no money to speak of whatsoever - and as WUaS seeks to hire about 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years in each of all 200 countries and among speakers of all 7159 living languages. How best also to develop the #WUaSMultimediaHospitalRoom prototype in the shop in a newly safe, vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon, CA 94516 in all of this? And how best to communicate about this further with you as World Univ & Sch seeks further to grow in all ~200 countries in the world and in their official languages (per the Olympics) free major online world class research and teaching universities, and in all 7,159 known living languages, as wiki schools for open wiki-teaching and wiki-learning too, and in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything? Best regards, abolition, thanks so much, Scott GK MacLeod Also Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Ypsilopus zimbabweensis (orchid): How possibly @WorldUnivAndSch to explore engaging #GoogleResearch to build out #ClinicalTrialLLMs Randomized Controlled Trials RCTs? * * 1 A Great to meet you on Tue March 17, 2026 at Stanford Hoover Institute at the AI Productivity & Jobs' panels: Productivity Gains And Labor Pains: What Will AI Do To Jobs? * Julie Wong Google Executive Engagement Lead Research, Labs, Technology and Society 188 The Embarcadero SF, CA 94105 510 725 5075 juliewong(a)google.com * * 1 B How to possibly explore engaging Julie Wong to build out these clinical trials as large language models in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForClinicalTrials (#Hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN), 1 C and regarding the ~200 online WUaS Medical Schools/ Teaching Hospitals, also in a #RealisticVirtualEarth eg a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery (in the back of Toyota Teaching Hospital Buses / Toyota Ambulance Vans) and at the same time to build out a realistic virtual earth for aging reversal, a realistic virtual earth for extreme longevity and even an #AgingReversalMachine? * * 1 D AND - for vaccines and drugs in a realistic virtual earth - thinking Google Street View with time slider at the google cell & molecular levels - with avatar agent electronic health records digital twins and drawing samples from all 7.9 billion people on the planet - beyond https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12331930/ ? NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Aug 8;8:509. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01840-7 "Accelerating clinical evidence synthesis with large language models" https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-g… Agenda item 2 Berkeley Claremont Public library M March 23, 2026 - Vivek Hutheesing 2 A Dear Vivek, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekhutheesing/) Thanks for your emails as well. I looked at your App briefly before your emails. World Univ & Sch in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, and in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to facilitate people to people free universal education with free WUaS degrees online from home - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / sim AA / AS and Master's degrees in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages - and with wiki-teaching and wiki-learning for speakers of all 7159 known living languages in 200 countries, and to end poverty potentially, with a partnering email from Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - free money daily ... and by seeking to distribute it most people on the planet, and potentially the poorest 1 billion to end poverty, as the WUaS Corporation, our WUaS 2 wing, seeks also reimbursement from departments of education, and central banks for getting Mine Pi cryptocurrency from WUaS itself, possibly by multi-listing on most of all of ~ 200 countries' stock exchanges eventually. Are you in communication with Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary? With your MBA degree I'd think you'd have some great ideas re WUaS with time. 2 B Just emailed a 2nd time regarding #GrowWithGoogleWUaS's Julie Wong Google Executive Engagement Lead, Research, Labs, Technology and Society, which you'll find here toward the bottom (and had BCC-ed Pin and Ed too with this) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-g… - and suggested WUaS might be seeking a Harvard MBA or similar to develop the 2nd wing of WUaS, the WUaS corporation / the Press at WUaS in 7159 languages, the WUaS Educational Services' Stores - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - and as WUaS seeks also to develop pharmaceuticals / vaccines for aging reversal and extreme longevity FDA approved (and RCTs for these 10 years on average I've read), albeit WUaS has no money to speak of whatsoever; I haven't mentioned in these emails however World University and School being 8 limbs of Yoga-informed. Please keep WUaS in mind if you know of someone with a Harvard MBA or similar (since you went to Cornell for a BA in Finance, and Columbia for a MBA, I've read on your Linkedin). 2 C What are 10 great Indian novels inspired by Yoga, possibly comic, along the lines of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard? Yoga in novels question - What are 10 great novels from India that are potentially inspired by Yoga Asana, 8 limbs of Yoga, Patanjali's Yoga, possibly comic, and along the lines of "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" by Kieran Desai? https://g.co/gemini/share/6e13f65bb682 Finding novels that capture the specific blend of whimsical satire, spiritual absurdity, and the structured philosophy of Yoga found in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a delightful challenge. While many Indian novels touch on spirituality, these ten selections specifically lean into the "limbs" of Yoga—from the physical discipline of Asana to the ethical constraints of Yama and Niyama—often through a lens of irony, comedy, or social critique. 1. The Guide by R.K. Narayan This is perhaps the closest spiritual cousin to Desai’s work. It follows Raju, a tour guide who, through a series of comic misunderstandings, is mistaken for a holy man. It explores the Niyamas (internal disciplines) and the unintended path to Samadhi (enlightenment) with a sharp, dry wit. ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/colchicum-luteum.html Agenda item 3 Karen Brennan - Start with Questions: The Classroom as Design Studio & "Start with Questions" Book Party at HGSE - AND to Apply to #WUaSMultimediaHospitalRoom in #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForAgingReversal #ForLongevity too? Thanks @Karen_Brennan All for "Start with Questions" Book Party @ HGSE https://youtu.be/GcqTfTAJ4VQ SwQ: The Classroom as Design Studio https://youtu.be/Uj9-eIOrDmk -https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051460/start-with-questions/ Apply to #WUaSMultimediaHospitalRoom in #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForAgingReversal #ForLongevity too? Question marks' picture https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2035033976713486484 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2035033892089205170 https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2035033635322278154 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2035102634093552115 Book party picture https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2035101765566439637 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2035101954943361516 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2035101670993273164 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/colchicum-luteum.html Agenda item 4 The path to #ScottishIndependence in next ten years - and re Scotland WUaS too? The path to #ScottishIndependence in the next ten years? https://share.google/aimode/dFQ2VVkqNReRE76oW How could free-to-students' #ScotlandWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland ( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) building on #MITOCW for #freeWUaSdegrees, & in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, grow amidst these developments? https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2035876107854254149 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2035876432505971088 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2035876491020628324 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2035876550030356644 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2035876613259448377 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2035876683522384054 https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2035876377208263102 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/colchicum-luteum.html Agenda item 5 Might you be helping a #YogaFriend do #YogaPoses ... !and #AsWeMayLiveTo150andWellBeyond:) ? Hi Ma, Chris, Pin, Ed, all🥰, Just texted this to some of you - Hi Ma, Pin, Ed, how are you this Wednesday? Ma? Pin? Ed? Pin, do you explore Yoga daily? Might you be mediating these days, Ed - Yoga-wise even? (And my having met you, Ed, through your first wife who was taking a Yoga class I was teaching at All Souls' Episcopal Church in the Haight Ashbury in the mid 1990s). Might Ma you be helping the Longwood physical therapy person (& might s/he/they even get credentialed for this through Yoga Alliance in Virginia or similar?) do Yoga poses with slightly hippy from the '60s & '70s and from England and artist and poet and Unitarian like you Chris Michaels? ... !and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) with hippy & artist Yogini Angela Farmer's first 4 videos - https://angela-victor.com/who/angela/ - perhaps - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/sacred-lotus-nelumbo-nucifera.html - to help you Chris get stronger, aware, more flexible & re "The Harvard Medical School guide to yoga : 8 weeks to strength, awareness, and flexibility" book, written by 2 MD psychiatrists, too? ... Seeking at Yoga World University and School to #GrowWithGoogleWUaS - AND SEE ... Tue 3/24/26 Ypsilopus zimbabweensis orchid blog post - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/ypsilopus-zimbabweensis-orchid-gr… ... & for longevity genetics in a #RealisticVirtualEarth #forGenetics, for vaccines, for RCTs randomized controlled trials, and #forYogaAsana ... Exploring further in this Saturday's Restorative Yoga Explorations ... Stay tuned... Thoughts, questions, suggestions? Fondly, Scott http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/sacred-lotus-nelumbo-nucifera.html http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/longevity http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga with 8 limbs of Yoga https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/colchicum-luteum.html Agenda item 6 Friday, March 27, 2026 Karomia gigas: Greetings, Christian Acemah, from Friendly-informed free wiki World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and Swahili, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya WUaS in Swahili and pot for free WUaS degrees online from home, in Swahili with many STEM WUaS degrees 6 A letter to #SwahiliSpeaking Ugandan #Quaker #OlneyFriendsSchoolHead #ChristianAcemah2001 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/karomia-gigas.html abt beginning #STEMwuAs @WorldUnivAndSch in #SwahiliWUaS : https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Swahili_language building on https://ocw.mit.edu/ & https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ for #freeWUaSdegrees ~ https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2038042201796825350 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2038042624960123202 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038043059695579157 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2038040321750417863 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2038043258157518964 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2038042287171883298 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2038043704746004755 AND 6 B Starts of #TanzaniaWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tanzania,_United_Republic_of -#UgandaWUaS -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Uganda -#KenyaWUaS -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya & planned in Swahili : https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Swahili_language #ChristianAcemah2001 ? #OlneyFriendsSchool #BarnesvilleOH #QuakerRegards, @sgkmacleod ~ https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2038038691093037313 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2038039312420454689 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038039385455878402 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038039385455878402 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2038040019001323550 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2038040321750417863 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2038040493985235238 6 C Dear Christian (Acemah - cacemah(a)olneyfriends.org) Bob (Brockwell, and mainoffice(a)olneyfriends.org) & Lloyd (Guindon, Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation), A Friendly Quaker query : How best to grow free World University and School in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and in Swahili and with a significant STEM focus emerging from WUaS building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/? How best to begin to offer free online WUaS Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high sch / similar, AA/AS and Master's degrees in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and in Swahili ? And how best to grow WUaS free schools in all the languages in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in these languages and for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning and as WUaS develops free universal education wiki, MIT, and highest quality in Swahili regions? AND 6 D #WUaSunivs @WorldUnivAndSch may reach out to #KenyaYearlyMeetingQuaker - https://www.fwcc.directory/africameetings/ -#UgandaYearlyMeetingQuaker -https://www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/about-us/yearly-meetings #TanzaniaYearlyMeetingOfFriends - https://www.westernyearlymeeting.org/missionsandprojects#:~:text=Raising%20… & #HeadOfSchool #ChristianAcemah2001 #OlneyFriendsSchool #BarnesvilleOH ~ All retweeting the Twitter posts below https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2037263043437252668 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2037263412305215738 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2037264379121721701 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2037263589996953992 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2037264193385296083 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2037263260312093162 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2037263210441744444 6 E How best in the #SwahiliLanguageWUaS building on #MITOCW in 7 languages to grow #TanzaniaWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tanzania,_United_Republic_of - #KenyaWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Kenya & #UgandaWUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Uganda in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Swahili planned in Swahili for #freeToStudents #FreeWUaSdegrees ? https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2037259306350108909 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2037259389439271104 https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2037258835157733809 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2037260366087131267 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2037260729833971909 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2037259989937775014 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2037260278484918639 6 F Gemini AI - Where is Swahili spoken ? https://g.co/gemini/share/16b01062179e https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/karomia-gigas.html Agenda item 7 Excited @WorldUnivAndSch to bring an #8LimbsOfYoga #YogaAndScience http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/brahma-kamal-saussurea-obvallata.… eg #YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo to all 200 countries' #WUaSunivs & among #Quakers & #UnitarianUniversalists too https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga & in growing a #WUaSabolition movement worldwide ~ https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2038276256144445798 https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2038277836080037969 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038282630232485990 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2038282886168875155 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2038282482697814269 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2038282781726540183 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2038282975096541412 * Some new developments - Yoga ideas #QuakerYogaMacFlower #DesiderataWUaS https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html ~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learn… ~#YogaNotationsWUaS http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~#YogaWUaS @ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga #8LimbsOfYoga #WUaSabolition & #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga #WUaSYoga ~ https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2038333537565491263 https://x.com/i/status/2038333537565491263 https://x.com/i/status/2038334180745183364 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2038334180745183364 https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2038333820978778361 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2038334115955818927 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2038334019046416390 https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2038333882085548399 https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2038333946296160436 Agenda item 8 Saturday, March 28, 2026 Brahma Kamal (Saussurea obvallata): "Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * Might you be asking Gemini AI - https://gemini.google.com/ - Yoga and 8 limbs of Yoga questions regarding possibly living to 150 years of age and wll beyond, and with aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging, FDA approved (by 2050??, and see: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmHHxFQwxo which. is an interview by Dwarkesh Patel of Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church above in the Harvard Medical School in June of 2025) or before possibly too)? https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/brahma-kamal-saussurea-obvallata… 8 A Dear Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also a professor in Harvard Medical School), Unitarian Us' Chris Michaels and Ma/Janie, Annie, Alden, Sandy, George and Maitreyi (both professors in Harvard Medical School too), Peter (Norvig Stanford AI), Marlynn Wei MD JD (author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility"), Doortje (Van Kooten), Vivek (Hutheesing, - "Meditation and Yoga" your father said ... from India to the world as its greatest 'exports' - great (at around the 57 minute mark - https://vivekhutheesing.com/india-past-present-and-future/ in the great Q&A), All, Yoga greetings! Tomorrow Sat 3/28/26 for an exploratory "Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)" ??? ... and at around 8 am Pacific Time all together individually - or around 8 am in your time zone?? I've added this Yoga exploration here to "Brahma Kamal (Saussurea obvallata): "Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? ... - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/brahma-kamal-saussurea-obvallata… ... 8 B How do restorative Yoga asanas Yoga poses, especially shoulder stand salamba sarvangasana and bridge pose setu bandha sarvangasana reduce or reverse inflammation in cells and gene expression - and regarding developing aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies and vaccines? What are the scientific studies that examine this ? https://gemini.google.com/share/1fc9b346dbdf The intersection of yoga, transcriptomics (gene expression), and longevity is a rapidly growing area of research. While ancient traditions view poses like Shoulder Stand ($Sālamba Sarvaṅgāsana$) and Bridge Pose ($Setu Bandha Sarvaṅgāsana$) as youth-preserving, modern science translates this into the downregulation of chronic inflammation and the stabilization of cellular aging markers. Here is a breakdown of how restorative yoga influences genetics and cellular biology, the limits of current research, and how it relates to modern longevity therapies. ------------------------------ 1. Yoga and Gene Expression: The Science Modern research does not usually isolate a *single* pose for genetic testing; instead, it studies *comprehensive yoga programs* (comprising asanas, pranayama/breathwork, and meditation). The scientific consensus is that yoga modulates the *Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity (CTRA)*—a genetic profile triggered by chronic stress that elevates pro-inflammatory genes and suppresses antiviral genes. Key Molecular Mechanisms Observed: - *Downregulation of NF-$\kappa$B:* Nuclear Factor kappa B is the "master switch" for inflammation. Yoga practice consistently downregulates NF- $\kappa$B, reducing the transcription of pro-inflammatory cytokines like *IL-6* (Interleukin-6) and *TNF-$\alpha$* (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha). - *Upregulation of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1):* Known as the "longevity gene," SIRT1 regulates epigenetic stability, DNA repair, and mitochondrial function. - *Telomere Maintenance:* Studies on Yoga and Meditation-Based Lifestyle Interventions (YMLI) show significant increases in *telomerase activity* (the enzyme that maintains the protective caps on your chromosomes) and reductions in oxidative DNA damage (measured by markers like 8-OH2dG). *Key Study Example:* A 12-week restorative Iyengar yoga intervention (which heavily utilizes supported bridge and inversions) was shown to reduce inflammation-related gene expression and NF-$\kappa$B signaling in fatigued breast cancer survivors (*Ey et al.; Bower et al.*). ------------------------------ 2. Physiological Effects of Shoulder Stand and Bridge Pose While we cannot say "Bridge Pose alone changes Gene X," we do know the specific physiological triggers these poses induce, which act as mechanical and systemic catalysts for cellular shifts: A. Baroreflex and Parasympathetic Activation Both poses place the neck in a flexion "throat lock" (*Jālandhara Bandha*). - *Mechanics:* This applies gentle pressure to the carotid sinus baroreceptors (pressure sensors in the neck). - *Molecular Consequence:* The brain interprets this as high blood pressure and triggers the *vagus nerve* to calm the nervous system. Vagus nerve stimulation is a potent inhibitor of systemic inflammation (known as the *cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway*). B. Fluid Shifts and Lymphatic Drainage Shoulder stand is a full inversion, and Bridge is a mild inversion. - *Mechanics:* Reversing the pull of gravity drives venous blood and lymphatic fluid from the lower extremities toward the thoracic cavity and heart. - *Molecular Consequence:* This reduces interstitial edema (swelling) and facilitates the clearing of metabolic waste and cellular debris. ------------------------------ 3. The Leap to Genetic Drug Therapies & Vaccines To be direct as a peer: *Yoga does not operate like a genetic vaccine or a molecular drug therapy.* It is vital to separate the holistic, systemic reset of yoga from targeted biotechnology. - *How Biotechnology Works (Drugs/Vaccines):* Extreme longevity drugs (like senolytics, rapalogs, or mRNA therapies) target highly specific, isolated pathways (like mTOR pathways, clearing senescent "zombie" cells, or Yamanaka factor epigenetic reprogramming) using precise chemical delivery. - *How Yoga Works (Systemic Reset):* Yoga alters gene expression *upstream* by altering your internal environment. By shifting the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic (fight-or-flight) to parasympathetic (rest-and-digest), you lower cortisol and oxidative stress. This "tells" the cells they are safe, which naturally shifts genetic expression toward repair rather than defense. Yoga is a lifestyle intervention that optimizes the biological terrain, while genetic vaccines are targeted microscopic interventions. They are complementary, but functional equivalents. ------------------------------ 4. Notable Scientific Literature If you are building your Realistic Virtual Earth or research databases, here are the foundational research verticals to review: *Research Focus* *Notable Findings & Mechanisms* *Key Scientific Pathways* *Systemic Reviews of Yoga Transcriptomics* Yoga leaves a "molecular signature," downregulating stress-induced inflammatory genes. NF-$\kappa$B, IL-6, TNF-$\alpha$, SIRT1 *Telomerase & Cellular Aging* 12-week Yoga-Based Lifestyle Interventions (YBLI) improve telomerase activity and reduce oxidative stress. Telomerase, 8-OH2dG, TAC *Vagally-Mediated Anti-inflammatory Pathway* Postures affecting the carotid baroreceptors stimulate the vagus nerve to halt systemic cytokine production. Acetylcholine, Macrophages ------------------------------ Would you like me to generate a specific list of PubMed citations and titles regarding yoga transcriptomics and telomere biology for your research database? https://gemini.google.com/share/1fc9b346dbdf PPPPPS https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20and%20Victor%20yoga https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/brahma-kamal-saussurea-obvallata… Agenda item 9 Property deed for 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon CA 94516 in Contra Costa county questions Dear Konrad (Alt, attorney), Ed (Smyth MD), Grant (Fine, attorney), (US senator and former Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren), all, https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/03/memecylon-grande.html * * * * WUaS Corporation 2nd of 2 WUaS wings - for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California - WUaS Corporation - WUaS Press WUaS Corporation / Academic Press in 7159 languages with machine learning <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/1743292322190533933/778187890656…> http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html <https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/1743292322190533933/778187890656…> Agenda item A Regarding - Walmart's India Presence and Subsidiaries https://gemini.google.com/share/95058c1edade * And - Walmart Celebrates More Than 20 Years in India With Showcase of Innovation, Growth and Partnerships https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/06/24/walmart-celebrates-more-than-… And - Does Walmart have any retail stores in India & if so how many? Yes, Walmart operates retail-focused wholesale stores in India, but they are not traditional consumer retail outlets. As of late 2025/early 2026, Walmart operates 26 "Best Price Modern Wholesale" stores * * How does or would a store within a store there work - such as a small WUaS Educational Service Store for books computers robotics groceries hospital technologies AND printing books on demand in any of the 22 scheduled languages + in India etc - and for WUaS outreach to Indian students fir free WUaS degrees online from home ? And regarding - *Walmart's India Presence and Subsidiaries* https://gemini.google.com/share/95058c1edade <https://www.blogger.com/u/3/blog/post/edit/638374728831520369/4812703530420…> Walmart operates in India primarily through *Flipkart*, *PhonePe*, and its wholesale arm, *Best Price* (now integrated with Flipkart Wholesale). *Best Price / Flipkart Wholesale (Physical Stores)* Walmart's cash-and-carry stores are located in the following cities: *State* *Cities* *Andhra Pradesh* Guntur, Kurnool, Rajahmundry, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Vizag *Telangana* Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal *Punjab* Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Zirakpur, Bathinda *Haryana* Ambala, Yamunanagar, Rohtak, Panipat *Uttar Pradesh* Agra, Lucknow, Meerut, Ghaziabad *Madhya Pradesh* Bhopal, Indore *Maharashtra* Aurangabad, Amravati *Rajasthan* Kota *Jammu & Kashmir* Jammu *Uttarakhand* Dehradun, Haldwani, Haridwar ------------------------------ *Subsidiaries & Tech Centers* - *Flipkart:* Headquartered in *Bengaluru* (Karnataka). It operates fulfillment centers in major hubs including *Mumbai*, *Delhi-NCR*, *Kolkata*, *Chennai*, *Hyderabad*, *Ahmedabad*, *Jaipur*, and *Guwahati*. - *PhonePe:* Headquartered in *Bengaluru* (Karnataka). - *Walmart Global Tech:* Research and development centers are located in *Bengaluru*, *Chennai*, and *Gurugram*. - *Myntra:* Headquartered in *Bengaluru* (Karnataka). Would you like me to find the nearest Flipkart fulfillment center to a specific location in the Bay Area for your research? AND Searched on Walmart Flipkart India storefront in 2 states? Walmart's presence in India, following its acquisition of a majority stake in Flipkart <https://www.blogger.com/u/3/blog/post/edit/638374728831520369/4812703530420…> in 2018, primarily operates through a combination of e-commerce, digital payments (PhonePe), and wholesale cash-and-carry stores (formerly Best Price). While the 21 physical "Best Price" stores—located across nine states—were sold to Flipkart in 2020 to form Flipkart Wholesale, Walmart's primary focus in India is on digital growth rather than physical storefronts. [image: The New York Times]The New York Times +4 Based on reported activities, the Walmart/Flipkart operation has a strong infrastructure presence in several states, with specific investments in: - Uttar Pradesh: Flipkart operates massive fulfillment centers in the state, including one that opened in 2024 to support quick commerce and regional logistics, creating thousands of jobs. - West Bengal: A major 2-million-square-foot fulfillment center operates near Kolkata, supporting both e-commerce and wholesale operations. [image: Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette +1 Key Aspects of the India Storefront (2025–2026): - Flipkart Wholesale: Targets mom-and-pop stores (*kiranas*) and MSMEs, providing a curated selection of products. - Shopsy: A hyper-value e-commerce platform aimed at tier-2 and tier-3 cities. - Logistics & Digital: Flipkart’s backend logistics (Ekart) and Payments platform (PhonePe) are the main drivers of the business. - IPO Prep: The group has moved its holding company to India to prepare for a planned public stock listing. 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ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab seminar on 'Climate’s Computational Infrastructures', Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW) and Prof Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) Click to teach Gmail this conversation is important
by Thao Phan 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Please join us for this ANU School of Sociology x ANU Computational Culture Lab event on 'Climate’s Computational Infrastructures' featuring works in progress from Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW) and Prof Adrian Mackenzie (ANU). - *Date: *Thursday 9 April, 2026 - *Time: *12 - 1:30pm (AEST) - *Location: *RSSS Room 4.69, and Zoom - *Register to receive zoom link: * https://events.humanitix.com/anu-school-of-sociology-x-cclab-seminar-climat… What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary futures? How do computational ensembles pull together computing architectures, data pipelines, calculative practices, and institutional settings to make climate knowledge actionable? What happens to uncertainty and the incomputable richness of ecologies as computational models become decisive in managing Earth futures? In this seminar, Michael Richardson and Adrian Mackenzie offer two works-in-progress as invitations for a robust discussion of climate modelling and planetary computation as increasingly operative ensembles for making and managing futures. --- *Computing Earth: what sort of thing is a computable planet?* Michael Richardson (with Anna Munster, Adrian Mackenzie, Baden Pailthorpe, Kathrin Maurer & Antoine Bousquet) Earth is increasingly staged as a computable object: not a singular replica, but an operational object assembled through technical ensembles that render Earth systems addressable, actionable, and governable. Drawing on Simondon and theories of computability, we argue that planetary computation stabilises prediction as decision by coordinating models, datasets, compute infrastructures, standards, interfaces, and institutional mandates. Using Destination Earth (DestinE) as a diagnostic case, we show how platform gateways, data backbones, and twin engines package probabilistic projections and scenario products for intervention contexts. Incomputability persists as operational remainder, intensified by machine-learning compression, surrogates, and latent spaces that redistribute uncertainty as risk. Michael Richardson is Professor of Media & Culture at UNSW Sydney and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making + Society. His latest book is *Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Ecology, and Data after the End of the World* (Duke University Press, 2024). Coupled sensitivities: calculative agencies and overflows in climate overshoot Adrian Mackenzie Climate models function as an experiential membrane. Rather than being mere diagnostic tools, these computational ensembles form a "membrane" that filters and shapes human experiences of time, agency, and mundane feelings of comfort or discomfort. Senses of crisis or futures, and the witnessing of injustice or loss are now fundamentally inseparable from the calculative agency of models. Modeling, however, is a dynamic calculative agency. It uses "framing" to disentangle the climate as calculable geophysical and socioeconomic processes. This framing inevitably produces "incessant overflows" that can be seen at various points over the last few decades. Anomalies defy existing computational frames and force a recursive re-evaluation of models and the propositions they support. Describing the temporal effects of these overflows, the paper will suggest that 'coupled sensitivity' reconfigures what counts as experience of climate. This concept designates a shift where the physical susceptibility of the Earth system to change becomes inextricably linked to the heightened sensitivity and attunement imbued with model projections, scenarios, attributions and pathways. Contemporary engagements with anxiety, inaction, or overshoot might be understood in terms of coupled sensitivity. *Adrian Mackenzie *is Professor in Sociology at ANU. His latest book is *1000 Platforms: Ensembles as Ontological Experiences *(Bristol University Press, 2025)

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APRALO Policy Forum – IDN Policies and Implementation
by Joly MacFie 29 Mar '26

29 Mar '26

*** ISOC LIVE recaps are now also available at https://isoclive.substack.com/ <https://isoclive.substack.com/> *** [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/20386> VIDEO <https://youtu.be/4Ejx3SijE74> | AUDIO <https://archive.org/download/apralo-multilingual-2/apralo-multilingual-2.mp3> | RECAP <https://www.patreon.com/posts/154218345/> | ARCHIVE <https://archive.org/details/apralo-multilingual-2> | PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/20386> On 26 March 2026, , the APRALO Policy Forum <https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/OOrdBg> hosted ‘IDN Policies and Implementation <https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/x/OOrdBg>‘, the second of the series of 3 webinars to introduce ICANN’s goal for a “Multilingual Internet” and its engagement of relevant stakeholders to deliver this goal. The session tackled 4 topics: the history and background of IDN variant issues, the policy development work across GNSO and ccNSO, implementation of IDN policies in the 2026 new gTLD round, and upcoming policy work still in the pipeline. PRESENTERS Sarmad Hussain – Senior Director, IDN & UA Programs, ICANN Pitinan Kooarmornpatana – IDN Programs Director, ICANN HOST / MODERATOR Satish Babu – ALAC Member, APRALO -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Two research faculty positions in Dublin
by Tromble, Rebekah 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, I'm excited to share that Northeastern University's Dublin Innovation Institute is accepting applications for two open-rank research faculty positions in computational social science, with a focus on research that advances our understanding of how people acquire, process, and share information in democratic societies and/or in the service of democratic norms. These roles are also tied to the Institute for Information, the Internet & Democracy<https://www.nuinfoinstitute.org/> at Northeastern, and those hired for these positions will work closely with me, Prof. David Lazer, Prof. John Wihbey, and Dr. Laura Edelson to build an exciting new research agenda that helps catalyze more transatlantic collaborations and scholarship. The Dublin Innovation Institute (DII) is an Irish registered company, wholly owned by Northeastern University, and physically based at University College Dublin (UCD). Indeed, DII emerged out of a deep collaboration and long-standing partnership between UCD and Northeastern. Further details are available here: https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main… Please feel free to reach out to me (search committee member, r.tromble(a)northeastern.edu) and/or Prof. David Lazer (chair of the search committee, D.Lazer(a)northeastern.edu) with questions. Rebekah --- Dr. Rebekah Tromble Professor of Political Science and Computer Science, Northeastern University | Director of Global Partnerships, Institute for Information, the Internet & Democracy, Northeastern University | Co-founder, Executive Board Member, Coalition for Independent Technology Research<https://independenttechresearch.org/> | Co-founder, Expert Voices Together<https://expertvoicestogether.org/> | Co-founder, Researcher Support Consortium<https://researchersupport.org/> |

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Reason and Communication: Jürgen Habermas’s Legacy for Media and Communication Studies
by Christian Fuchs 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Christian Fuchs. 2026. Reason and Communication: Jürgen Habermas’s Legacy for Media and Communication Studies. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 24 (1): 54-72. https://doi.org/10.31269/7112an90 What is Jürgen Habermas’s legacy for media and communication studies? Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026), a towering figure in critical theory, profoundly shaped media and communication studies by emphasising communication as the cornerstone of social existence. His theory of communicative action, rooted in the interplay between language, culture, and society, redefined communication as both a means of social reproduction and a site of democratic potential. Habermas’s concept of the public sphere – where communicative rationality confronts instrumental reason – remains essential for analysing how power structures, from capitalism to digital authoritarianism, distort democratic discourse. His critique of the colonisation of the lifeworld by systemic forces such as money and power offers a framework for assessing contemporary challenges, including algorithmic control, fragmented digital publics, and the rise of far-right ideologies online. By linking communication to emancipatory ideals, Habermas challenged scholars to interrogate the tensions between economic imperatives and democratic promises. His anti-fascist stance, informed by post-war Germany’s reckoning with Nazism, underscores the urgency of defending universalism and humanism against resurgent authoritarianism. While his dualisms (e.g., lifeworld vs system) invite debate, Habermas’s legacy lies in his insistence that communication is not merely instrumental but inherently normative – a space for contesting domination and imagining alternatives. This article explores how Habermas’s ideas on communication, the public sphere, and (anti-)fascism provide critical tools to navigate today’s mediated landscapes, where digital capitalism and ideological polarisation threaten the very foundations of democratic dialogue. Engaging with Habermas means confronting his blind spots while building on his vision of communication as a recursive process of social transformation. His work compels us to ask: How can we reclaim the public sphere in an era of algorithmic fragmentation and ideological extremism? Habermas’s answers, though provisional, remain indispensable for theorising communication’s role in fostering – or undermining – justice and solidarity.

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Third Call for Papers (Research Track)
by Announce 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

*** Third Call for Papers (Research Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading conference on software reliability research and practice. ISSRE focuses on techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, security, and resilience of software systems. As modern software increasingly integrates AI/ML components, operates autonomously, and spans cloud-to-edge environments, ensuring reliable system behavior is more critical than ever. Topics of Interest ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of software reliability across contemporary software-intensive systems, including systems that incorporate AI/ML components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations of Reliability and Dependability • Principles, models, metrics, empirical methods, and theories of software reliability, resilience, robustness, and safety • Systematic approaches to fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, and fault forecasting in modern software systems • Testing and debugging, formal methods, model checking, static/dynamic analysis, verification, and runtime assurance Reliability in AI-Driven and Autonomic Systems • Reliability engineering for AI-enabled, autonomous, self-adaptive, and cyber-physical systems • Assurance, testing, verification, and certification of AI/ML components, including foundation and generative models • Reliability of AI-generated code: validation, verification, explainability, defect analysis, and trustworthy automation of development tasks • Impact of AI on software lifecycle processes (design, testing, evolution, operations, and quality management) AI Techniques for Reliability Engineering • Machine learning for defect prediction, anomaly detection, debugging assistance, fault localization, and test automation • Learning-based approaches to self-healing, resilience management, predictive maintenance, and reliability optimization • Reliability governance in AI-driven DevOps pipelines, including transparency, interpretability, and auditability Software Reliability in Emerging System Domains • Reliability assurance for cloud, edge, IoT, 5G/6G, cyber-physical, high-performance, and network softwarization environments • Dependability of open-source ecosystems, data-driven pipelines, model hubs, and AI-assisted contributions • Benchmarking, stress testing, workload modeling, and measurement frameworks for large-scale and AI-based systems Trustworthiness, Security, and Responsible Software Engineering • Intersections of reliability with security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance • Societal, ethical, and human impacts of pervasive AI-enabled software systems • Responsible governance of AI-based systems, including lifecycle assurance, auditability, and risk analysis Human-Centered, Empirical, and Reproducible Reliability Research • Field studies, experience reports, user studies, and human factors in reliability engineering • Public datasets, benchmark suites, reproducibility packages, and replication/negative- result studies • Tooling, automation, continuous reliability monitoring, observability, and operational feedback loops Research Track Paper Categories The research track at ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality submissions of technical research papers that describe original, unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas, contribute new evidence to established research directions, or reflect on practical experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories: • Research (RES) papers • Practical experience reports (PER) • Tools and artefacts (TAR) papers Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category. All the papers of the three categories are regular and full papers, and will be published in the same ISSRE proceedings. RES Papers RES papers (12 pages, including references) should describe a novel contribution to the reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via concrete evidence and appropriate positioning within the state of the art. RES papers are also expected to explain the validation process and its limitations clearly. PER Papers PER papers (12 pages, including references) should provide an in-depth exposition of practical experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and industry practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should be lessons learned from applying established research tools and methods to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge acquired through empirical studies conducted using various research methodologies. Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where or why current research cannot be applied in an industrially relevant context. TAR Papers TAR papers (6 – 10 pages, including references) should describe a new tool or artefact. Tool-focused TAR papers must present either a new tool or a novel and substantial extension of an existing tool. They should include a description of (i) the theoretical foundations, (ii) the design and implementation aspects, and (iii) experiments with realistic case studies. Making the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged. Artefact-focused TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii) experimental data sets. Dataset papers should introduce a new dataset that supports experimentation, benchmarking, evaluation, or training in AI-driven software engineering. Submissions should describe: (i) dataset motivation and scope, (ii) data collection and processing methodology, (iii) dataset structure and statistics, and (iv) potential use cases. Benchmark papers should present a new benchmark suite for evaluating tools, LLMs, or algorithms. Submissions should include: (i) benchmark design principles, (ii) task definitions and evaluation metrics, (iii) baseline results, and (iv) reproducibility package. The ISSRE conference encourages authors of all three categories of research track papers to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Authors are encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Should the paper be accepted, the authors will have the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and quality of the research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only contribute to the progress of our field but also stand a chance to earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the conference proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work. At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an author and present the paper in person at the conference. Best Research Paper Award ISSRE is pleased to announce the IEEE Best Research Paper Award, awarded every year to the best paper in the Research Track. Special Journal Issue Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal (under negotiation as in previous editions of the conference). The Call for Papers will be available soon. Review Process & Quality Assurance in ISSRE 2026 (New) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Major Revision Guidelines Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Rapid Response Reviewers (RRRs) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Anonymizing Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Formatting Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/ Paper Submission Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee through a double-blind reviewing process, with a limited use of outside referees. Papers will be held in complete confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after the paper acceptance. Authors must anonymize their submissions in accordance with the guidelines above. Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization rules will be desk-rejected without review. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Conference Proceedings The authors of accepted papers must omit the paper’s type from the title to keep consistency among all the camera-ready versions in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex). Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2026 • Author Rebuttal Period: June 5 – June 8, 2026 • Decisions and Early Notification: June 15, 2026 • Author Revision Period: June 16 – July 3, 2026 • Notification to Authors: July 8, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Research Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Conference “Un/Making Boundaries: Seams, Borders, and Fences in Sensor Media Environments”, 16-17 April, Uni Siegen (DE)
by van Geenen, Daniela 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, The CRC Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen (Germany) is happy to invite you to the “Un/Making Boundaries” Conference on 16 and 17 April 2026! This conference taking place on location in the city centre of Siegen (exact location will be communicated upon registration) will feature interdisciplinary discussions of the role of seams, borders and fences in the contemporary sensor media environments that ubiquitously permeate urban and rural spaces as well as borderlands without being necessarily visible or directly accessible for academic inquiry or public scrutiny. Please find a short version of the conference abstract below and the complete abstract, including an overview of the conference program in attached PDF. Conference “Un/Making Boundaries: Seams, Borders, and Fences in Sensor Media Environments” Dates: 16 - 17 April 2026 Location: University of Siegen (on location) Registration: https://my.liberaforms.org/registration-unmaking-boundaries Digital media are marked by particular ambivalences towards bordering and the un/making of all kinds of boundaries. To function as seamlessly as possible, such media depend on the interoperability of various hardware and software components, devices and apps as well as on the expectations and practices of those who shape and operate them. Today’s sensor societies’ (cf. Andrejevic and Burdon 2015) promise of ‘seamless interoperability’ drives the growing implementation of so-called ‘smart’, networked computational infrastructures in urban and rural environments, for the governance of public spaces and to establish and uphold border regimes, in order to sense, capture and control human and non-human entities. Such ‘smart’ computational infrastructures thrive on and bring about increasingly unbounded - or “frameless” (Andrejevic 2018) - modes of data collection. This conference aims at bringing three sites where boundaries are made, un- and re-made into a fruitful dialogue, inquiring into (deep) bordering as cooperative practice and the (re)configuration of seamlessness as an ongoing achievement: 1. In the southern EU borderlands, asymmetric seamless data collection translates into violent regimes of migration control, into practices of sensing and counter-sensing those regimes, and into attempts to cross material and digital borders. 2. On ‘smart’ farms, the virtualisation of pasture fencing creates zones in which containment or exclusion is negotiated between more-than-human actors, that is, between livestock and the various devices used for tracking, monitoring and, ultimately, restricting their movement via operant conditioning. 3. In urban spaces, “smart city” discourses and their innovation agenda’s promise to optimise the management of public spaces through platform technologies and networked digital devices offering “seamless” interaction and interoperability, while everyday practices of governing and navigating urban areas reveal their socio-technical “seams” opening up opportunities for situational forms of critical engagement. The conference features both contributions that engage with these sites and contributions that offer a theoretical meta-perspective on seams, borders, frames and their respective absences. ———————————————————————————— All the best Daniela van Geenen | PhD Candidate | Project A03 “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces” | CRC Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Special issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” (Convergence): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1 Geenen, D. van, Es, K. van, & Gray, J. W. (2023). Pluralising critical technical practice. Convergence. Special Issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, 13548565231192105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231192105 Chao, J., Geenen, D. van, Gerlitz, C., & Vlist, F. N. van der (2024). Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice. Convergence. Special Issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, 30(1), 236–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791 Burkhardt, M., Geenen, D. van, Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D., & Volmar, A. (Eds.). (2022). Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data. transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5561-2/interrogating-dataficati… See also: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1346-3253

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New open access book: Gender and Digital Media (2026, Routledge)
by Kata Kyrola 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

** Cross‑posting for reach; thanks for understanding!** Dear All, We’re delighted to announce the publication of a new textbook, Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion (Routledge), edited by Hakan Ergül. The book is now available in both e‑book and print formats. The full book is freely accessible as Open Access (funded by UCL) via the link below. Please feel free to download and share! https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Digital-Media-A-Critical-Companion/Erg… The book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the evolving relationship between gender and digital media. With chapters on queer and trans communities online, digital intimacy, feminist approaches to technology, gaming, fandom and fanfiction, digital diaspora, identity, representation, and gendered hate, it highlights how gender is shaped and expressed across intersections of class, race, age, sexuality, and technology. Our key objective is to foreground diversity—both in the topics explored and in the voices represented. Positioned at the crossroads of media studies, cultural studies, sociology, and feminist approaches to technology—and extending into audience and fan studies, film and reception studies, Internet studies, critical race theory, posthuman thought, postcolonial theory, game studies, and transgender and queer studies—the book brings range of perspectives together through a shared critical orientation. The book gathers situated knowledge and lived experiences from a wide range of cultural and geographical contexts. With contributions spanning Bangladesh to Chile, India to China, and including Iran, Palestine, Turkey, the UK, and the US, the volume weaves together voices that cross geopolitical, cultural, and epistemic boundaries, centering decolonial engagements with gender and digital media. Each chapter is followed by a critical essay written by a graduate student. These short pieces draw on MA and PhD research or course assignments, offering concrete examples of how the book’s theories and methods can be mobilized in practice. Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, media sociology, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences more broadly. Here is the list of authors and their contributions: Table of contents Editorial introduction Hakan Ergül Chapter 1. Understanding gender and digital media: key concepts Kate Gilchrist and Hakan Ergül PART I: BECOMING gendered selves, desire, and the digital everyday Chapter 2. Gender and identity in the postmodern, posthuman, and postdigital era Sara Hawley Essay 2. Flowing together, apart: an allo‑autoethnography of inscribing female kinship and intimacy Tanya Geggie Chapter 3. Queer and transgender studies of digital media Kata Kyrölä Essay 3. Kuaxingbie and transgender in the age of digital platforms Zhuanxu Xu Chapter 4. Dating and romance online: reimagining intimacy, transforming the self, and negotiating risk Kate Gilchrist Essay 4. Queer Indian youth and online intimacy: examining intimate relationships on social media Jaskirat Chapter 5. Fandom and digital media: a sandbox for creative gender, sexuality, and feminist configurations Audrey Jean Essay 5. Self‑perception in slash fanfiction characters: queer gaze and desire towards the male body in Star Trek slash fanfiction Audrey Jean PART II: SEEING representation, race, and the politics of the gaze Chapter 6. How we are seen: why representation still matters Kata Kyrölä Essay 6. Ambiguous representation of bisexuality in the film Chasing Amy Yuanwanruo Chen Chapter 7. Ten things I hate about genres: gender and genre in the post‑digital era Lucía-Gloria Vázquez-Rodríguez Essay 7. Challenging tradition: a comparative analysis of gender representation in shōnen through Hinata Hyuga and Mikasa Ackerman Mala Annamma Mathew Chapter 8. Understanding the historical foundations of race, beauty, and gendered hatred online Karen Wilkes Essay 8. Social media influencing Laila Strachan PART III: RESISTING belonging, activism, and masculinities online Chapter 9. Gender and minoritised childhoods in the digital era Feryal Awan Essay 9. Digital politics of young activists in Chile Laura Manzi Araneda Chapter 10. The manosphere between the global and the local Sama Khosravi Ooryad & Jacob Johanssen Essay 10. Online hate, memes, and the rising Iranian manosphere Sama Khosravi Ooryad Chapter 11. Gender and belonging in digital diasporic spaces Hakan Ergül Essay 11. “This country rejected me before meeting me”: challenging migrant representation as Other in European media Maya Aziz Part IV: INTERVENING games, gendered technologies, and feminist futures Chapter 12. Researching digital games, players, and gender Diane Carr Essay 12. Gaming and the abject in survival horror Shiqing Li Chapter 13. Haptic histories, virtual traces: excavating gender‑diverse XR innovation Sarah Atkinson Essay 13. Feminist epistemologies for preserving XR Zeynep Abes Dr. Kata Kyrölä pronouns: they/them Associate Professor in Media Studies Co-Chair of UCL LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group (LESG) Department of Culture, Communication and Media Knowledge Lab, IOE, University College London https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/84463-kata-kyrola

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