Okay but have you tried having a really stressful job and also planning a wedding
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Okay but have you tried having a really stressful job and also planning a wedding
Panel #66: Engaging Policy in STS Research and Practice Abstract: Throughout its history, the STS community has engaged with the important policy questions of the day, showing how public issues are constructed in tandem with evidenceand expertise, and how technological infrastructures are inseparable from social systems. STS scholars have worked to have their insights recognized by policy makers and have used their direct policy engagements to advance knowledge of policy processes. The past decade, however, has seen massive shifts in the policy landscape–including in the ways that research is funded, evidence is valued, and expertise is constructed–as well as new substantive issues at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. This panel asks what STS scholars are bringing to, and taking away from, their engagements with evolving policy processes. What STS tools best help us understand policy issues, and where do new circumstances require new theories and analytical methods? How can STS analysis not only advance knowledge but shape effective political action? And how does engagement with policy function as an intellectual project in its own right? This open panel invites submissions from across sectors (e.g., environment, innovation, health, criminal justice), and with historical and global perspectives (particularly outside the United States and Europe).
Thinking about, or engaging in, politics and public policy with an #STS lens? Apply to present your work in the open panels (#66) I am organizing with Gwen Ottinger and Jason Delborne
@4sweb.bsky.social in Toronto in October! (Paper abstracts due April 30th!) www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA.
Again.
Let’s hope it sticks this time.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
When I said I wanted Gen Z to change the world, I did not mean these two clowns, and I did not mean this
Can an AI procrastinate???? How clean is an AI house when a column is almost due?
It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".
Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.
As an AI ethics researcher, one major concern I have is whether the models being used to help governments drop bombs are doing so fairly and without subtle biases against certain groups
Deep Lake road sign
There are roughly 5000 residents of Deep Lake, NM, but only 4200 followers on the campaign so far. Give it a follow and help us get to 5000! You don't even have to move to a strange, isolated town in the desert! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
a yawning egyptian gosling, portrait view, backlit.
There's so much bad news out there I'm so glad there's good baby bird news. 🪶 🐣
Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought
Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least
The productive engine of philosophy depends on novelty and difference. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded.
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/03/phil...
Grading papers is the mind-killer. Grading papers is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my papers to be graded. I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
Noooo never question Pseudo, only give pets and attentions and treats
Tufted titmouse showing off his peanut
Everything sucks. Here's a bird with a peanut.
Pseudo's borrowing your phone at night
Photo of a small table at a coffee shop, covered in course prep materials: a textbook, notepad, five pens in four colors, extra hot latte, and the sad tiny little succulent the coffee shop puts out on the tables
Still life with class prep. 6 September 2025. #photography #philsci
Reminder: the deadline for contributed papers is coming up fast on 15 March!
“Trejo and Martschenko suggest a set of guidelines for polygenic embryo selection, starting with “a complete moratorium” in the short term and only allowing some traits to be selected after quality reproductive care is accessible to everyone, to avoid further systemic inequalities”
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
And Nazis from the other 49 states of the union.
And Nazis from other nations.
An analysis of 600 open research datasets finds about 3% with serious errors (often copy-paste mess-ups).
now I’m wondering: does this merit the headline the sleuth chose: datasets ‘riddled‘ with errors? Is 3% ‘riddled’-worthy?
Just war theory only it's Hegseth boasting on incel forums
Best case scenario seems to be "the status quo, but less stable and with a higher baseline level of ambient violence", which seems like it was totally worth killing a few thousand people and spending a few billion dollars to achieve.
Getting on my official ethicist soapbox to proclaim that war is bad, actually, and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP
FOLKS, WE GOT EM! The second gosling encounter of baby bird season 2026. 🪶 🐣
“This proved frustrating for Justice Sam Alito, whose commitment to originalism waned when confronted with the prospect of not prosecuting a brown man.“ is among the best descriptions of Alito I have read
