Bio

I’m an STSS-y researcher working in information security. Originally from the United Kingdom, I’ve lived in the United States since 2013-y. I try not to think about the fact that literally every country I’ve been resident in has collapsed into petty-minded fascism.

I’m a member of the Technology Advisory Board of Nonprofit Quarterly, rOpenSci, and a variety of small bodies nobody has ever heard of. I spend whatever time I have left over reading books, writing code and trying to make the world a marginally less sucky place. From September 2017 I will be a PhD student in the University of Washington’s Department of Human-Centred Design and Engineering

This site is an eclectic mishmash of writings on the R programming language and various additions to it, leftist politics, research around data science ethics, ethnography, the intersection of human-computer interaction and indigenous studies, Judaism and whatever the hell else I feel like.

My pronouns are they/them, and if you want to contact me: poke me on Twitter, I guess.

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