One month to go to get in your abstracts for AusSTS 2026! Stay tuned for more info on plenaries, field trips and more
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One month to go to get in your abstracts for AusSTS 2026! Stay tuned for more info on plenaries, field trips and more
A little piece in which Max and I show how Aotearoa is exercising its regressive political interests through science, research, and education policy.
Super excited to be hosting AusSTS in Te Whanganui-a-Tara this year! Send us your abstracts! Come hang out in the *Antipodean* windy city! ๐ช
Let this be the first thing to go in those pristine 2026 diaries
An excellent piece worth reading. @courtneyaddison.bsky.social and I have an upcoming piece covering much of the same ground, though we suggest in many ways we are not just following the footsteps of fascist USA but leading the way.
My book 'Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia' is out today with Stanford University Press. A long time coming and a big labour of love, I feel very excited to see this out in the world!
Ahhh congrats Mardi! Canโt wait to read this
NZ academics... please take a moment to read this.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sandra Hardingโs legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.
๐ฏ๏ธdoi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Massive congrats Vivian! Celebrating this from afar!
NEW JOB! Algorithmic Kitchen is hiring a postdoc!
The project is seeking a Research Associate with expertise in STS, design, HCI, or critical disability studies to co-create innovative methods and prototypes.
Apply by 5 Oct 2025
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ
auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...
Our next #SSNseminar deals in responses to extreme heat, examining the rift between policy and everyday realities, the gendered nature of heat vulnerability and possibilities and challenges thereto. Join the SSN and Aalok Khandekar, Thursday 7 August www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!
Earlier today I shared Culture Machine's CFP for a collection about shitty university enterprise software, tech vendors, etc. โย an editorial project that sounds positively delightful ๐ค I also enjoy thinking about the nepotism and kickbacks behind procurement ๐ซ
We're advertising for a Head of School (Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences) and a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science. Would loooove to have a geographer in either role but especially HoS...
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It's #AusSTS25 this week in Naarm Melbourne! We are very proud to be able to sponsor @aussts.bsky.social once again - it's a great event + is growing each year
Last year, I had the privilege of delivering the Andrew Webster lecture at the University of York, on the organised irresponsibility of artificial intelligence @satsu-york.bsky.social. The lecture is now online, here vimeo.com/1056586027/a... @stsucl.bsky.social
Closing tomorrow!
Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...
Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty by Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi & Michelle Murphy in Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/0162...
Yes, the government has managed to squeeze more value out of international students *and* academics while continuing to denigrate and defund any critical scholarship.
We are recruiting for a PhD candidate to join us on the "Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia" ARC Discovery Project + conduct their own Anthropology project (pref. starting late 2025). Full CfA + scholarship details coming soon @karidahlgren.bsky.social @chrismayes.bsky.social
"In the field of Science and Technology Studies, our responsibility is not merely to study what is happening... [but rather work as part of an engaged and situated knowledge practice." Read this from @siobhanfgm.bsky.social in @tapuya.org ๐๐
Congrats Brad, look forward to reading this!
The editorial collective have been in Naarm Melbourne for our annual planning meeting! Some big things in the works... ๐ฎ๐โจ Looking forward to sharing them with our STS colleagues soon.
It's that season once again ๐ โ๏ธ โ๏ธ ๐ฑ so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal ๐ฌ โฐ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of โemergencyโ today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...