Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to? wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Together with his family, his cherished colleagues, many friends, admiring readers, and grateful students, we mourn the loss of Michel Callon, who passed away on July 28th. He was one of the intellectual giants of our era. See this insightful interview sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

Environment and History 31.2 is available online now! This is a special issue entitled 'Sensing the World: Exploring Sensory Histories of the Environment,' edited by @gpetrick.bsky.social & @gfitz.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31/2 #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking → Why finance is a worldmaking force → Why derisking undermines itself → Why we need a Smart Green State instead Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I enjoyed reading this @policysciences.bsky.social article by @dc-a.bsky.social & García. It identifies challenges for Peru's street-level bureaucrats in poverty policy implementation, such as unclear eligibility & poverty definitions inconsistent with reality. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨New publication (w/ L. Garcia): Our article explores the daily labor of Peruvian street-level bureaucrats in charge of translating people's sociomaterial conditions into data for a system that provides automated economic classifications to access social welfare services. doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/4

Call for papers: @4sweb.bsky.social 4S Open Panel on "Assetization through time and space" organized by myself, Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susi Geiger, & Jacob Hellman #STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

"In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, placing money, credit, and smuggling at the center of the region's shifting fortunes." doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"How discounted cash flow became the natural way of responding to our collective problems" - José Ossandón interviews Liliana Doganova @delaeconomia.bsky.social estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/h...

Sitting above this is that Sam Altman has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit lines that he pulls on from JP Morgan that he then puts into companies that do business with OpenAI. Yet another mark in the "everything with this is completely sane" column. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...

I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook! “Are We All Dead in the Long Run?” Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

the oil spillover - read all about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You probably know the story of the Chicago Boys in Chile under Pinochet. But neoliberalism has a longer history in Latin America. We invited HPE Project grantees César Castillo-García, Matilde Ciolli, and @antonio-galindo.bsky.social to a roundtable to discuss: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-lat...

Have to finish setting this up later but for now: new publication! Using the Birmingham School's subcultural theory to look at political compass memes, we attempt to theorize how "digital political subcultures" are refashioning political subjectivity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

boundary2 just published a forum on the gordian knot of finance, where @stefeich.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, Janet Roitman, Dick Bryan, and myself reflect on the infuriating hold of finance on economic policy (and how to break it) www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...

What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common? Thank you to Anna Lytvynova for this wonderful conference report on the event that @taschn.bsky.social and I organized last June in Lausanne. easst.net/easst-review...

✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Paranoid Finance' now out also in the U.S. of A. @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

What's coming for F&S?!? Find out here: cup.org/3YNQROk

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Beyond mining: physical commodity traders, market intermediation and the role of (de-)coupling - Stefan Leins @stefananthro.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Not to be that person, but my 2018 piece “why do people share fake news” made this exact point! georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/u... [PDF]

Thanks to Dean Curran for publishing the video of my talk on 'Inventing Value' in October: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddK-...

Did we do this right @tgpb.bsky.social go.bsky.app/FHKepBP

In a new initiative, Editorial Board members are writing extended review essays of recently published books that provoke debates important to the journal. First up, Daniel Neyland on Discounting the Future by Liliana Doganova, published by Zone Books www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next out: "Speculative relations in Lima." In this piece, I ask how can encounters with limits unsettle abstractions and redirect the course of events? 🧵👇 (1/3) 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/720367 #anthropology #atmosphere #envhum #ethnography #infrastructure #Peru #sts #water

First out: "Ecology of Capture", published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 🧵👇(1/4) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0014... #anthropology #atmosphere #envhum #ethnography #infrastructure #Peru #sts #water

Oh look what came out www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

In case you missed Verónica Tozzi Thompson's talk "Trust, Testimony, and the Epistemic Value of Historical Narrative" yesterday, worry not. It's already on the Youtube channel of the Centre for Philosophical Studies of History: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3G....

"We tend to forget that sea level is—far from a natural index—a product of technically and culturally determined assumptions." 🌊📏 New book by environmental historian Wilko Graf von Hardenberg: "Sea Level: A History" 🔗 bit.ly/49aou1K #HistSci #EnvHist #Oceanography

We're holding our 1st Institute Research Workshop next week, showcasing our research on critical studies of #science, #technology & #innovation 5th & 6th December at 10am EST and via Zoom More details on our website: www.yorku.ca/research/its/ #STS #technoscience #sociology #anthropology

A while back the great people at the Journal of Social History asked me to write a piece about agency and environmental history as part of a retrospective on Walter Johnson’s tremendous article. It’s now live in the world in case you need a nerd-read #envhist #envhum academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-...

this looks very good: "Charting venture capital’s 1950s emergence, 1960s formalization, and 1970s institutionalization, I show how early venture capital investors built a financial infrastructure that safeguarded the appreciation of their assets" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢Exciting News! Tapuya is now on Bluesky! Find us at @tapuya.org and explore our Starter Pack designed to kick off a thriving Latin American STS community.📦 Join the conversation, connect with us, and let’s build this space together! go.bsky.app/JxBWBbS 🚀 #Bluesky #LatinAmericanSTS

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Lawrence Rosen's "Validating Historical Interpretations: An Approach from Cultural Anthropology" discusses the criteria historians and anthropologists use to validate their interpretations. Read this #OpenAccess article here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

Just started this pack on researchers who work with the philosophy of history broadly understood (including the history of historiography) - please let me know if you want to be added. We're not many and we're spread quite far and wide, so anything helps. go.bsky.app/NoGHFec

Really enjoyed talking to @melancholyleftist.substack.com about Fictions of Financialization, for New Books Network. The episode is up now! newbooksnetwork.com/fictions-of-...

Just created this starter pack. Let me know if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/ptifSR

Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join. go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9

✨New article✨: Check out "Seeds, Dams, and Khipus : Latin America's Eclectic Recent History of Technology" co-authored with @dc-a.bsky.social and @pr-c.bsky.social in Technology & Culture.

We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!

Have made a Historians of Latin America starter pack. Happy to add more people! go.bsky.app/5j61FSo

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

After reading all the talk about Bluesky at the other site, I decided to log in only find that I was included in a starter pack for STS folks (thank you @anthrobite.bsky.social! 🙏) and I now have 200+ followers (from like a dozen? lol). I can't promise consistent posting here but I hope that's okay.