What might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Today on Platypus, Michelle Venetucci and Shoko Yamada introduce a new series, exploring stuckness as a way to draw out structural conditions and meaning-making amongst experts:
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Today on Platypus, Rachel Lim explores how climate‑crisis ‘emergency’ rhetoric ignores colonial roots, urging us to confront racial capitalism and extractive violence:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/ther...
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"What kinships & constellations come into view when we approach ethnography with an indifference to the boundedness of categories?"
SCA Contributing Editor Poornima Rajeshwar interviews Naisargi N. Davé about her Gregory Bateson Prize winning book "Indifference."
A deadly, high-profile assault on a New Delhi bus in 2012 led to the installation of panic buttons on city's autorickshaws. Today on Platypus, William Stafford Jr. writes about the complex interplay of suspicion, affordance, and securitization that played out after.
blog.castac.org/2026/02/a-pr...
An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Don't forget our latest call to join CASTAC!
Today on Platypus, Rachel Lim explores how climate‑crisis ‘emergency’ rhetoric ignores colonial roots, urging us to confront racial capitalism and extractive violence:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/ther...
#STS
📩[Calls & Applications]
Contributions are invited for the edited volume “Theorizing Science Studies from Central and Eastern Europe”. Editors seek work that unsettles dominant categories through situated theorizing.
✍️Submit abstracts by March 31, 2026.
+Info tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
🔎 CASTAC is still seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications.
🌎 Open for everyone in the world: castac.org/cfa-public-r...
🗓️Final day to apply: February 26.
How do we facilitate meaningful conversations amongst researchers across disciplines? Anushree, Debopriya and Malcolm reflect and offer some answers from their own work where they deploy labor as a lens to think with labor movements and write collaboratively:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/tran...
Do you want to get involved with CASTAC? This is your direct way to do so!
How do we facilitate meaningful conversations amongst researchers across disciplines? Anushree, Debopriya and Malcolm reflect and offer some answers from their own work where they deploy labor as a lens to think with labor movements and write collaboratively:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/tran...
🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications.
🌎 Open for everyone in the world. Ready to apply? More information on the process: castac.org/cfa-public-r...
🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications.
🔍More information on the role and process here: castac.org/cfa-public-r...
We invite you to apply!
❗️Happening tomorrow
The latest installment of our #PhDInConversation event series features a discussion of PhD Student Nai Lee Kalema's research on the World Bank Group’s Global Digital Transformation initiative.
📺 Join us online at 5:30pm here: buff.ly/kUuh9Mr
Genealogies aren’t nostalgia, they’re accountability tools. Panel 2 asks how historical continuities can inform more critical approaches to data politics. Feb 18 uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105
#DataGovernance #STS
🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications.
🔍More information on the role and process here: castac.org/cfa-public-r...
We invite you to apply!
The MAHA movement is skeptical of hormonal birth control, favoring a high-tech take on much older techniques of cycle tracking. Anthropology PhD student Anna Wood explores what's behind this rightward shift in reproductive discourse and women's health:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed...
The MAHA movement is skeptical of hormonal birth control, favoring a high-tech take on much older techniques of cycle tracking. Anthropology PhD student Anna Wood explores what's behind this rightward shift in reproductive discourse and women's health:
blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed...
Submission to open panels—Extended deadline for 4S Toronto 2026!
Call closes Feb 9th 2026. You can submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...
How might we think of the role of culture, politics and history in writing with (and about) unions? Today on Platypus, Ambika Tandon, Debopriya Shome and Kaveri Medappa's post is the second in a series on the politics of writing about platform workers' organising.
blog.castac.org/2026/01/writ...
We're excited for another year of anthropological and social thinking about science and technology! Today, we invite you once again to meet our wonderful new team of Contributing Editors who keep our blog alive:
blog.castac.org/2026/01/plat...
#STS
How might we think of the role of culture, politics and history in writing with (and about) unions? Today on Platypus, Ambika Tandon, Debopriya Shome and Kaveri Medappa's post is the second in a series on the politics of writing about platform workers' organising.
blog.castac.org/2026/01/writ...
Don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested in contributing to Platypus!
We're excited for another year of anthropological and social thinking about science and technology! Today, we invite you once again to meet our wonderful new team of Contributing Editors who keep our blog alive:
blog.castac.org/2026/01/plat...
#STS
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As we look ahead to another engaging year of publishing a wide range of work from the social sciences on science and technology, we are thankful for the labor that our editorial team and our authors continue to put in. Today, we invite you to meet the 2026 team!🙌
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The Medical Anthropologists & Social Scientists in Health (MASSH) TIG is planning for our upcoming annual meeting in Albuquerque.
To learn more about the MASSH TIG, visit appliedanthro.org/membership/t...
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Join us TOMORROW for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1. How do communities use data to build alternatives and advance justice and democracy while navigating bias and power in data collection and governance? Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism
Event listing. Black and Purple text on lavender background. Text reads, "Upcoming Talks: Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. Speaker: Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin. Date: January 23, 2026. In this talk, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin will discuss their recent book and edited volume, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press in May 2025. New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. The book introduces a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies such as border surveillance and China’s credit system to sexcams and home assistants, the volume’s essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful."
Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social will speak about "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen" at this upcoming @labortechresearchnetwork.org event on Jan. 23:
Information and registration: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series
