#AcademicRunPlaylist - 3/21/25

It felt way colder out than the temp, and while struggling on my run to save my fingers I still was able to listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an important talk by Kimberly Krawiec on repugnant transactions and taboo trades at the Cambridge Faculty of Law. Krawiec goes over the geographic differences between legal and illegal market transactions in the medical space and indicates the ethical challenge of banning transactions such as selling plasma or trading kidneys. Also I learned that the US supplies 70% of the world's plasma! Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fP9WSIzECk

Next was a short talk by Patrick Wallis on how apprenticeship transformed premodern England at the LSE. I cannot wait to read this book, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sJnZzbaDU

Next was a fantastic talk by James Mellody on consensus building in remote collaborations at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. Mellody presents a deep qualitative study of three NASA scientific groups and how colocation patterns influenced group dynamics and decision making processes, revealing difficult tradeoffs. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PteQIfg614

Next was a great talk by William Ocasio on the attention-based view of the firm at the Strategic Management Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD7Jxzx91c8

Next was a fascinating talk by Nima Fazeli on dexterous robot tool manipulation through touch and vision at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhbGGtKr9NI

Next was an interesting talk by Daniel Solove on AI and privacy at TeachPrivacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46koYxTGvU

Next was a compelling talk by Oliver Haimson on trans technologies at Stanford. Hopefully US universities will continue to support free inquiry into essential areas such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtkUBnwqVQ

Last was "Black Trans Feminism" by Marquis Bey. This is a very critical studies book, for better and for worse. For those interested in gender studies it definitely fits in that intellectual tradition and adds some unique insights. I actually liked the introduction, which was quite long, most, and would highly recommend that even to folks not in this field of study https://www.dukeupress.edu/black-trans-feminism