Workforce researcher who specialises in ethnographic methods, hospitality, & the platform economy
Tyler Riordan
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Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol
"An analysis of seven rent platforms ... revealed millions of leasing documents could be accessed by threat actors."
Thanks to negligent privacy practices, it is easy to access troves of highly sensitive information stored on rental management platforms www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The big pander?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
I wrote about the archaeology 🏺of porridge in Africa and what it means for food systems with Alison Crowther.
If you're interested in interactions between culture, food, and biogeography, and their evolution over time - give it a skim (open access).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
In the lead up to Extreme Heat Awareness Day, I spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about some of the risks #fooddelivery riders face
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Even though Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency that banned all but essential vehicles like ambulances, police cars and utility trucks from the roads, the 80,000 deliveristas were among those exempt.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/n...
Exclusive: ‘This is a blatant and disturbing disregard for the law and for people’s security,’ digital rights advocate says
How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.
Following Haaland's work on “porridge and pot” cuisine and Stahl's “cartographies of taste” as a means of exploring cultural and ecological dynamics, this pa...
Riders embroiled in a dispute over pay and conditions with food delivery company HungryPanda in Sydney say Chinese police have asserted pressure back home to stop them protesting.
Higher ed workers in australia, the NTEU are looking for stories about how LLMs/"AI" have affected your work and working conditions. Are you spending more time marking, but receiving the same time allocation? Do you have the flexibility/autonomy you need to design appropriate assessment?
