I'm involved in a ridiculous number of calls for things with looming deadlines that might be of interest to this community. Rather than spamming y'all with updates about all of them, I put them into one brief list in the hopes that this might be helpful: Microsoft Research Postdocs. • Who: Newly minted/about-to-be-minted PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective • Deadline: December 12, 2011 • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/15/microsoft-research-social-media-postdoc-opening/ Special issue of JOBEM on Socially-Mediated Publicness. • Who: Scholars who want to publish their work on socially-mediated publicness in a fantastic journal experimenting with open-access • Deadline: December 12, 2011 for brief abstracts; January 6, 2012 for complete articles • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/09/13/socially-mediated-publicness-a-call-for-papers/ Digital Media & Learning Summer Institute. • Who: Graduate students/young postdocs doing work touching on policy and innovation around digital media & learning • Deadline: January 9, 2012 • Application & More Info: http://dmlcentral.net/call-for-applications-2012-summer-institute-program Microsoft Research PhD Internships. • Who: Current PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective • Deadline: January 10, 2012 • More Information: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/28/social-science-phd-internships-at-microsoft-research-new-england-spring-summer-2012/ Human Trafficking & Technology Research Grants. • Who: Scholars who can research the role of tech in different facets of human trafficking • Deadline: February 17, 2012 • Request for Proposals: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/education/human-trafficking-rfp.aspx