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karinavadophd.bsky.social
Woke up to an article acceptance! Woohoo! So very excited to see my essay on Gloria E. Anzaldúa's queer feminist philosophies of science out in the world soon. #AcademicSky #LatinxSky #STSsky
November 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
revkin.bsky.social
#STSsky #songwritersky #folkmusicsky
revkin.bsky.social Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · Nov 26
[Sound on] Folk legend Pete Seeger had a great and relevant riff - about anyone thinking of science as implicitly good. Here's how he laid it out for me in his kitchen one day. For more on my many years with Pete explore my music side here: revkin.substack.com/p/songs-are-...
November 26, 2024 at 4:53 PM
rachelankeny.bsky.social
Great entry level tenure track position in philosophy of life sciences in a fabulous group at WUR!
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...
#philsci #philsky #stssky
December 31, 2023 at 12:27 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
This starter pack has reached its limits. 150 STS scholars right here at your finger tips! #STS #STSSky

I won't make a new one... Now that there are many of us here, I think it might be more helpful if others created more specific lists.

bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 17, 2024 at 4:54 PM
piratev.bsky.social
#feministsky #philtech #stssky
slcra.bsky.social Sharon Crasnow @slcra.bsky.social · Dec 12

FEMMSS and Douglas College are jointly hosting an online workshop in Technologies and Feminist Thought, June 6th and 7th 2024. Dr. Tempest M. Henning will give the inaugural Catherine Hundleby Keynote Address. Abstracts due by February 29, 2024. Submit through Easy Chair:
easychair.org/cfp/FEMMSS8
Poster for FEMMSS conference with photo of Tempest Henning, the keynote speaker.
December 30, 2023 at 7:34 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
#STSsky
August 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
piratev.bsky.social
CFA: Paul K. Feyerabend: A Centennial Celebration
The 12th Annual Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference at The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas
values.utdallas.edu/2023/12/12/2...
Deadline: January 18
#philsci #stssky
December 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
With warm greetings for a wonderful start of 2024, and wishes for peace and kindness to our planet in the new year, here is the December issue of the EASST Review (STS newsletter) featuring our very own Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences! easst.net/wp-content/u... #philsky #stssky
December 29, 2023 at 4:04 PM
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
Happy new year! I took a break from social media to deal with family troubles, now started 2024 by contributing to EU consultation on t requirements and future of AI for research - as always, a great discussion with insightful expert views.🤞 its results help implement the AI Act! 🧪#philsky #stssky
January 10, 2024 at 10:50 AM
proshant.bsky.social
Fellow STS folks in the Nordics, especially those working on waste/discard studies, do consider submitting an abstract to my panel: Waste, or the afterlives of repair? Temporality, materiality, politics, at the Danish STS conference.

#STSSky #AnthroSky

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February 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
#philsky 🌿🧪#stssky #history #hps #philsci #philscisky #sts #data #ai #openscience #biomedicine #biology #cognition
October 30, 2023 at 10:58 AM
eyatesd.bsky.social
In Seattle for @4sweb.bsky.social? Come celebrate our books with us at The Pine Box (1600 Melrose Ave).

Thursday, September 4th, 7 to 11 PM.

Find us in the Bruce Lee Beer Garden! 📖 🎉 🍰

#4S2025 #AnthroSky #STSSky @carceralecologies.bsky.social @vivvychoi.bsky.social
Handmade flier with pink, yellow, green and yellow-green figures (all with clearly non-AI fingers) reading the book covers (but the figures are also drawn as if their bodies are the book covers) of the 4 books featured at the party. The flier includes the text that is repeated in the post.
August 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
🦟 Can the Mosquito Bite? 🦟
The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro

How does the use of a bacterium in vector control reconfigure biopolitical relations?

New article at @estsjournal.bsky.social! #STSsky #AnthroSky
Print Screen: Can the Mosquito Bite? The Multispecies Transmutation of Wolbachia Mosquitoes as Biotechnologies of Epidemic Control in Rio de Janeiro ABSTRACT A bite from the Aedes aegypti mosquito can transmit pathogenic viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. While public health campaigns have historically focused on eliminating this vector species, a project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, proposes to release A. aegypti carrying the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia. This microbe, passed from female A. aegypti to their progeny, would hinder viral transmission, making the bite less of a threat and promoting a more convivial coexistence. In releasing Wolbachia mosquitoes, project proponents presented their strategy as a solution for disease control that harnessed “nature,” instead of working against it. By juxtaposing historical accounts and ethnographic research in Rio with descriptions of biological processes, this article investigates how the microbe-mosquito dyad was turned into a biotechnology of epidemic control. Proponents of the Wolbachia project hoped that a change within multispecies relations—the novel human-bacterium-mosquito relationship—would change other multispecies relations—the historically constituted human-virus-mosquito relationships in Rio and beyond. This shift, which I term “multispecies transmutation,” highlights how relational alterations in both biologies and socialities created a new life-form (“Wolbachia mosquitoes”) and a new form of life (of multispecies coexistence). By tracing the more-than-human biopolitical arrangements put forward by the project, this article explores the recalibration of technoscientific solutions to global environmental health concerns. Multispecies transmutation offers a new framework for understanding the management of multispecies relations, showing how techniques of governance can target not individuals or populations per se, but rather interspecies connections.
August 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
joshbrake.com
Hey #philtech and #stssky, what’s the best book you read this year?

Bonus points if it’s something old that seems prescient for our current moment.
December 29, 2023 at 9:37 PM
doriantaylor.com
i would

a) totally read a monograph on the applications of inkjet printers (hello #STSsky)
b) use it as a banner example of the difference between technology and product (hello @fasterandworse.com)
January 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
If you're like me & are currently finalizing your syllabus, you should add this book to your course. Really.
#AnthroSky #STSSky #MedAnthro

My students & I had the opportunity to read a final draft, and it’s SO GOOD!
It sparked thoughtful, thought-provoking conversations. Plus, it’s open access!
About the Book A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Mal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policy makers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy—called the "first 1,000 days of life"—determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that the control of mothering is a paradigmatic technique of American violence that serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. She illustrates the efforts of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers to counter the harms of such mal-nutrition. Their powerful stories offer a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.
January 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across Science and Technology Studies (STS), Open Science (OS), and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers. #STS #STSSky

seekcommons.org/fellowship-a...
About SEEKCommons The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across Science and Technology Studies (STS), Open Science (OS), and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers. The SEEKCommons Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common technologies. Our program is designed to: Encourage new integrative practices involving socio-environmental and climate action research with OS practices; and Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on common research tools, issues, and challenges. We are seeking 9 fellows for the 2025 SEEKCommons Fellowship. More details below: Application Form ** Open: Nov. 7–Dec. 15, 2024 ** Successful Fellows notified: Jan. 31, 2025 Fellowship begins: Feb. 10, 2025 Fellowship ends: Nov. 10, 2025
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 PM
stefanocanali.bsky.social
New year, new paper with @simonlohse.bsky.social on @natureportfolio.bsky.social HSSC!

Looking back at epistemic battles during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present pluralism and contextualism as key ways to improve evidence-based policy.

doi.org/10.1057/s415...

#philsci #philsky #stssky
How to move beyond epistemic battles: pluralism and contextualism at the science-society interface -...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the scene of several epistemic battles at the science-society interface, creating deadlocks that have been hard to overcome. To cut through the paralysing elements of th...
doi.org
January 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM
unfinishedlines.club
hey #STSsky, #histsci #HiSTM & #HPS folks, I'm wondering whether anyone is aware of literature that looks at explores historical changes in the "literature review" in the 20th century?

e.g., the way Cochrane's systematic review displaced other review methodologies
April 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM
anthrobite.bsky.social
Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society #STSsky
About the role The postholder will be expected to develop a research programme in areas relevant to Science and Technology Studies, with a particular focus on nature- and environment-related subjects. For the purposes of this position, nature and environment may be construed liberally to include, but not be limited to, natural resources, human and more-than-human relationship, humans and other animals, the built environment, environmental history, environmental knowledge, climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, sustainability, all approached from an STS perspective. Applications from scholars with a focus on the Global South are especially welcome. This is a 100% FTE appointment starting in January 2026 until 31 July 2028.
September 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
wildbookchase.bsky.social
Question for #STSSKY I was hoping to find a nice little corpus of primary texts by American technologists and innovators like Hollerith, Hooper, Bush, etc. discussing issues related to American Democracy, or American Society. Would anyone know of either a collection, or have some suggestions?
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
taschn.bsky.social
Boosting to #STS #STSsky
January 10, 2024 at 4:52 PM
rachelankeny.bsky.social
#stssky
December 31, 2023 at 12:25 PM