Science, Technology, & Human Values

I should also mention that it is part of an upcoming thematic collection with sthv with a series of other wonderful papers on noise sound and knowledge in and as disturbance in changing climates that we are putting together in the context of the wavematters project (wavematters.eu).

Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations - Brett Mommersteeg, 2026 Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...

I have a new article on confusions and the sense of vibration published in @sthv.bsky.social . It’s partly about experiences that do not neatly fold into clear and distinct categories and classifications, and how to think with them.

Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China - Angela Ke Li, 2026 Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China" by Angela Ke Li #technopolitics #migrantlabor #algorithmicmanagement #designlogic #fooddelivery journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How exciting is this!?

Unruly Aquifers: Groundwater, Karst Landscapes, and a Post-Yugoslav Border Site - Dženeta Hodžić, 2026 This paper deploys the concept of unruliness to examine ethnographically how groundwater in karst landscapes resists being rendered knowable and governable. Foc...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Unruly Aquifers: Groundwater, Karst Landscapes, and a Post-Yugoslav Border Site" by Dženeta Hodžić #unruliness #groundwater #karst #hydrogeology #transboundary journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Post-Socialist Biotech: Labor, Value, and Risk in China's Transitional Economy" by Taomo Zhou + Hallam Stevens #risk #labour #value #biotech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Making Queer Kin in the Labor of the Greenhouse" by Xan Sarah Chacko #botanicalhumanities #coloniality #greenhouse #kinship #feministSTS #pedagogy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation - Riikka Homanen, 2025 Donor conception is an area where increased emphasis on “openness” has produced major changes to legal, medical, and kinship practices. Anonymous gamete donatio...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation" by Riikka Homanen #donoridentity #kinship #sociotechnical #technology #fertility #markets journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Obligation to Know and the Right to Know: A Relational Approach to Environmental Justice Communication and Datafication" by Katherine L. Dickinson, Leah Horgan, Stephanie Pease, Carla Nyquist, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science - Timothy McLellan, 2025 This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in Ch...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science" by Timothy McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social #agroforestry #environmentalhumanities #fastscience #institutions #naturebasedsolutions #temporalempathy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China - Jun Zhang, Jack Linzhou Xing, Gonçalo D. Santos, 2025 This article reactivates the concept of myth—which is well-developed in social science literature—to study digital technologies and platform economies. It conce...

New OnlineFirst article: "Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China" by Jun Zhang, Jack Linzhou Xing + Gonçalo D. Santos #enchantment #technology #platform #mythology #techno-optimism #speculativecapitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics - Daniel Navon, Kathryne Metcalf, 2025 How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to ...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics" by
Daniel Navon + Kathryne Metcalf #endophenotypes #deepphenotyping #psychiatry #biobanks #raredisease #postgenomics #genetics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "From The Lancet to Duterte: How COVID-19 Scientific Articles Figured in Policy and Public Discourse in the Philippines" by Gideon Lasco #knowledgetranslation #evidence #expertise #COVID-19 #TheLancet #globalhealth #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

During this time, the inbox will be unattended. But rest assured that if you get in touch during this time we will get back to you in the new year. 📥 📨 📤

Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.

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More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems - Myung-Ae Choi, Buhm Soon Park, 2025 What can social scientists contribute to the development of AI? To date, their efforts have primarily been viewed through the lens of AI's social consequen...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems" by
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings" by Shelly Tsui, Sebastian Pfotenhauer + Gunter Bombaerts #engagement #citizenship #innovation #smartcity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile - Hugo Sir, 2025 In this paper, I examine the social, subjective, and scientific implications of the hunter hypothesis, an evolutionary etiology for Attention Deficit Hyperactiv...

New OnlineFirst article: "The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile" by Hugo Sir #evolutionaryetiologies #ADHD #neurodiversity #biosociality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⏰Deadline is tomorrow!!! ⏰

Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data - Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, Becky Mansfield, 2025 Vocal opposition to fracking (the practice of fracturing the subsurface to increase oil and gas production), from shale deposits in Pennsylvania to oil fields i...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am so looking forward to spending time with the next generations of STS scholars in South Korea next summer (I'll be keynote instructor)! It's a great opportunity especially for those who are STS-curious, and may not have strong training in the field.

Join us! Applications close on December 10th.

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media - Emily Dawson, 2025 Science saturates popular culture, but how might we understand the roles played by popular culture in producing scientific knowledge? Based on fieldwork and int...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: '“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media' by Emily Dawson #media #popularculture #television #newspapers #sciencecommunication #knowledgeproduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NB. this is the first in an exciting Thematic Collection of articles on "Critical STS Pedagogies." More coming very soon.

New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...