2026
2025
The FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream 2025 Review
You Can't Contain Me, You Can Only Hope to Stop Me
A Guide for #AOIR2025 and Social Media
Reimplemented and It Feels So Good
What Does This Z Key Do?: Thoughts on Zotero versus Zettlr
The Plight of the Reviewer: Lessons from AI Generation and Software
Sharing my book, one random bit at a time
Move Slowly and Build Bridges Cover Reveal
I Ain't Gonna Work on ChatGPT's Farm No More
Copyediting: The Bane of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream
FOSS Academic Workflow, 2025 Edition
Standards War?
The ASM Bibliography is Going Home
You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting
Introducing: the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers
Making Alternative Social Media in a Corporate Social Media World
Watching Threads, Bluesky and Decentralization, and ActivityPub Trust and Safety
You Can't Contain Me, You Can Only Hope to Stop Me
A Guide for #AOIR2025 and Social Media
Reimplemented and It Feels So Good
What Does This Z Key Do?: Thoughts on Zotero versus Zettlr
The Plight of the Reviewer: Lessons from AI Generation and Software
Sharing my book, one random bit at a time
Move Slowly and Build Bridges Cover Reveal
I Ain't Gonna Work on ChatGPT's Farm No More
Copyediting: The Bane of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream
FOSS Academic Workflow, 2025 Edition
Standards War?
The ASM Bibliography is Going Home
You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting
Introducing: the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers
Making Alternative Social Media in a Corporate Social Media World
Watching Threads, Bluesky and Decentralization, and ActivityPub Trust and Safety
2024
Threads and the Failure of Global Content Moderation
Marp + BeautifulSoup
ASM Update: Can this platform survive?
Marp!
ASM update: libraries, libraries everywhere
ASM Update: New Research Edition
ASM Updates: Bluesky growth continues
ASM Update for November 8, 2024
Hey, Journalists: X is Now Truth Social
York Circle Lecture: Fleeing Facebook and Exiting X
From reverse engineering to building bridges: adventures in alternative social media
Goodbye, Firefox?
ASM Update: Mastodon Research Ethics and the Ethical Quandaries of Tech Advocacy
Zotero 7 Early Review
Hitting a Nerve and Presenting at IETF
On Threads's Blocklist
Maven Ain't So Mavenly
Thinking of Switching to Linux, Fellow Academics?
Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?
Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On
Researching the Fediverse: Instances and Individuals
Move Slowly and Build Bridges -- Preview
Marp + BeautifulSoup
ASM Update: Can this platform survive?
Marp!
ASM update: libraries, libraries everywhere
ASM Update: New Research Edition
ASM Updates: Bluesky growth continues
ASM Update for November 8, 2024
Hey, Journalists: X is Now Truth Social
York Circle Lecture: Fleeing Facebook and Exiting X
From reverse engineering to building bridges: adventures in alternative social media
Goodbye, Firefox?
ASM Update: Mastodon Research Ethics and the Ethical Quandaries of Tech Advocacy
Zotero 7 Early Review
Hitting a Nerve and Presenting at IETF
On Threads's Blocklist
Maven Ain't So Mavenly
Thinking of Switching to Linux, Fellow Academics?
Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?
Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On
Researching the Fediverse: Instances and Individuals
Move Slowly and Build Bridges -- Preview
2023
Thoughts on Threads, or Is Mark Zuckerberg Jesus?
Ethics and Codes of Conduct on Mastodon
How Universities Lost the Internet
Alternative Social Media Preconference at AoIR
ActivityPub, the Non-Standard Standard
A defense of the humble, importable blocklist
ASM update, Bibliography Edition
Move Slowly and Build Bridges to be published by Oxford University Press
ASM update, August 12 2023
Seeking Grad Students and Postdocs
ASM Update, June 25 2023
ASM Update, June 16 2023
Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 2
AoIR Social's Code of Conduct
AOIR.social!
Bumps, Slumps and the Killer Hype Cycle
Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 1
FOSS Academic Year in Review 2022
Ethics and Codes of Conduct on Mastodon
How Universities Lost the Internet
Alternative Social Media Preconference at AoIR
ActivityPub, the Non-Standard Standard
A defense of the humble, importable blocklist
ASM update, Bibliography Edition
Move Slowly and Build Bridges to be published by Oxford University Press
ASM update, August 12 2023
Seeking Grad Students and Postdocs
ASM Update, June 25 2023
ASM Update, June 16 2023
Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 2
AoIR Social's Code of Conduct
AOIR.social!
Bumps, Slumps and the Killer Hype Cycle
Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 1
FOSS Academic Year in Review 2022
2022
A Very Playvicious Christmas
Two New Publications
AOIR.social?
FOSS Finds, Content Moderation webinar
Twitter Isn't That Important
Expanding The Conversation (notes on the Pew Alternative Social Media Report)
More Mastodon Scraping Without Consent (Notes on Nobre et al 2022)
A Deep Dive into a Zotero Workflow
FOSS Finds, Scuttlebutt Edition
Movin' North
FOSS Finds, On Demand Edition
(I'm) Mashing That Subscribe Button
FOSS Finds, StoryCorps Edition
FOSS Interview Workflow
New Book, Old Book
FOSS Finds
Coding Freedom, by Biella Coleman
I Have Settled on Zettlr
FOSS Finds
Very Kool + Jellyfin
FOSS Finds, Environment and Labor Edition
FOSS Finds
Goal 2, Initiate
Two New Publications
AOIR.social?
FOSS Finds, Content Moderation webinar
Twitter Isn't That Important
Expanding The Conversation (notes on the Pew Alternative Social Media Report)
More Mastodon Scraping Without Consent (Notes on Nobre et al 2022)
A Deep Dive into a Zotero Workflow
FOSS Finds, Scuttlebutt Edition
Movin' North
FOSS Finds, On Demand Edition
(I'm) Mashing That Subscribe Button
FOSS Finds, StoryCorps Edition
FOSS Interview Workflow
New Book, Old Book
FOSS Finds
Coding Freedom, by Biella Coleman
I Have Settled on Zettlr
FOSS Finds
Very Kool + Jellyfin
FOSS Finds, Environment and Labor Edition
FOSS Finds
Goal 2, Initiate
2021
Test post for Mastodon Comments
Tuxies 2021
In Praise of Mastodon, Again
Nextcloud Appointments!
September update
Manjaro Mania!
(Almost) De-Googled Research
A Vacation and F-Droid
FALD Updates
Messin' with Wireguard
Sudo Install Dark Mode
Review of Zotero's New PDF Annotation Features
RM Mess
Cutting-Edge Zotero
GDPR Compliance
PDF Hell
A Lost Weekend of Lost Posts
Linux on Mars
A Survey for Mastodon Developers, Admins, and Users
I Asked Mastodon About FOSS for Academics. Here's What They Said
Staticman Comments Test Post
20 Years of Wikipedia
In Praise of Mastodon After an Insurrection, or, What if Donald Trump Had Joined Mastodon?
Tuxies 2021
In Praise of Mastodon, Again
Nextcloud Appointments!
September update
Manjaro Mania!
(Almost) De-Googled Research
A Vacation and F-Droid
FALD Updates
Messin' with Wireguard
Sudo Install Dark Mode
Review of Zotero's New PDF Annotation Features
RM Mess
Cutting-Edge Zotero
GDPR Compliance
PDF Hell
A Lost Weekend of Lost Posts
Linux on Mars
A Survey for Mastodon Developers, Admins, and Users
I Asked Mastodon About FOSS for Academics. Here's What They Said
Staticman Comments Test Post
20 Years of Wikipedia
In Praise of Mastodon After an Insurrection, or, What if Donald Trump Had Joined Mastodon?
2020
Minor Update -- New Publication, No More Hyvor
My Workflow
Minor Update -- Tagging System
My FOSS Journey
The Tuxies, Academic Style
Dreaming in Code
Zotero Tips and Tricks
Introduction
Alternative Social Media: Canadian Edition
My Workflow
Minor Update -- Tagging System
My FOSS Journey
The Tuxies, Academic Style
Dreaming in Code
Zotero Tips and Tricks
Introduction
Alternative Social Media: Canadian Edition
2019
2018
2017
2016
What Would Feminist Alternative Social Media Look Like?
Fibreculture special issue on Activism and Technology
Fibreculture special issue on Activism and Technology