Sektionsveranstaltung mitorganisiert von Simon Egbert, Stefanie Raible und @juliaschubert.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen rund um die Herstellung von Zukunftswissen. Insbesondere, aber nicht nur, aus Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. #sts

Now available for preorder - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy by Daniela Russ "Consistently brilliant and illuminating, Working Nature announces the arrival of a major new voice on the scene of ecological Marxism.” - Andreas Malm

Anschauen! 👇

Call for Papers unserer Sektionsveranstaltung: „Zukunftswissen“ und seine Herstellung. Eine von zwei Sektionsveranstaltungen für @dgskongress2026.bsky.social. kongress2026.soziologie.de/calls-for-pa... pdf hier: kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us... #dgs2026

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Ein ebenso lesenswerter wie herausfordernder Beitrag zur politiktheoretischen, soziologischen und feministischen Verhältnisbestimmung von Ökonomie und Natur: @vkluzik.bsky.social bespricht „Free Gifts. Capitalism and the Politics of Nature“ von @alybatt.bsky.social www.soziopolis.de/skizzen-eine...

Another post on oil and Venezuela. matthuber.substack.com/p/us-oil-cap...

[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers. One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

Absurd to describe being locked into a device all day as loneliness, this isn’t the sorrows of young werther.

“It’s the beating heart of our field,” Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and the director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, wrote.. “Generations of scientists have trained there" Yes @kimcobb.bsky.social, this is so self-defeating. Stop the madness www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

When @katharinehayhoe.com and @thehonestbroker.bsky.social agree (and they do) you know we need NCAR. And of course I agree, having begun my climate reporting there in 1984! Relevant links etc here: revkin.substack.com/p/trumps-dem...

And happy release Franziska von Verschuer @franziskavv.bsky.social 🧊🥳 You want to read some cutting edge feminist science studies addressing questions of political ecology? Check out the book here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... It‘s Open Access!

Perspective on the news about the Trump administration seeking to break up the NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research from the ground at the AGU meeting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

"Umwelt - Technik - Wissen" - Ein großartiges Gemeinschafts- und Verflechtungsprojekt mit jungen Autor:innen aus der ganzen DACH-Region! Herzlichen Dank an alle Beteiligten und viel Spaß bei der Lektüre (Open Access)! #envhist #histtech #histsci #envirotech www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Liebe Soziologiebubble, die ZTS lädt ein zum Schwerpunkt 100 Jahre Niklas Luhmann. Wir freuen uns, wenn Ihr den Call teilen mögt.

From the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Sneak-peek auf das Buch aus unserem @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social Projekt zu "Fristen, Fristen, Fristen" blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/zif/ent...

the most anticipated book of 2026: bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !! www.versobooks.com/products/334...

In seiner wissenschaftssoziologischen Analyse richtet Marc Strotmann den Blick auf die Zwischenräume, in denen sich die Neurotechnologie-Forscher:innen bewegen, und betrachtet deren komplexes Zusammenspiel in einer emergenten Wissenschaft. 📚 www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The... #velbrückwissenschaft

Job Alert! Professur (Open Rank: W2 oder W1 mit Tenure Track auf W2) ,,Digitale Transformation in Arbeit und Gesellschaft". Gemeinsame Berufung von @tu-dortmund.de und @cais-research.bsky.social nach Jülicher Modell. Ausschreibung unter: service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18...

Beck to the Future?! 40 Jahre Risikogesellschaft Super Vortrag (und was für Folien!!) von @toteraltermann.bsky.social und @vkluzik.bsky.social heute im Kolloquium der Umweltsoziologie in Frankfurt

Very happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...

Unsere Tagung zu 'Kapitalistische Dynamiken' in Basel hat jetzt ein Programm: die Beiträge reichen von der Kommodifizierung des Monsoonrisikos, Gewalt als Operationsmodus des Kapitalismus, zur Militarisierung des Investitionsregimes in den USA. Kommt vorbei – eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig!

I am very pleased to share the program of our international workshop, "The Position of Sociological Theory in Germany and Italy". Co-organized by @larsdoepking.bsky.social and me. It will take place at the DHI in Rome from November 20th to 21st.

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

🚨 EXTENDED DEADLINE!! 🚨 👉🏼 Der Call für unser erstes Theorielabor ist noch bis zum 15.11. offen! 👉🏼 Doktorand:innen und Postdocs im Bereich der soziologischen Theorie: Wir freuen uns über Eure Bewerbungen! soziologie.de/fileadmin/se...

Come talk with us about Energy's History in Spore (Neukölln) on 3 November 2025. Register here: spore-initiative.org/de/programm-...

on my way to Bielefeld! 'Science in Practice and in Society' -- the inaugural conference of the institute for Studies of Science (ISoS): www.uni-bielefeld.de/zwe/isos/eve...

Fantastic book launch in Frankfurt for The Politics of Feeling last night! Great responses/questions - periodisation and how to tell a story of change, relation between affect and ideology, importance of disintermediation, spatial thinking in the book, sexual fantasies in right wing populism, etc

tomorrow!

We are happy to have @benandersongeog.bsky.social discuss “The Politics of Feeling”, a new book he wrote together with @ajsecor.bsky.social, in Frankfurt. Tuesday, Oct 21 at 6:15pm on Campus Westend (SH1.101). @fskelton.bsky.social and @soviele.bsky.social will share comments. Come join us!

books aren't written and published, they grow infinitely slowly into the world, one word, page, book proposal, grey strand of hair, sleepless night and website at a time

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today: It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering. www.versobooks.com/products/331...

Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips. wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...

Heute!

Julia Schubert @juliaschubert.bsky.social "Die Soziologisierung der Klimaforschung" Aus "Wir alle sind verwundbar"ergibt sich die Formierung eines neuen gesellschaftspolitischen Forschungsfeldes. Das ist Ausdruck einer 'Soziologisierung der Klimawissenschaften' ist.

Wie werden Klimawissenschaften über Gesellschaft sprechfähig? @juliaschubert.bsky.social über "extreme event attribution" als aussersoziologisches Soziologisieren.

kleine Erinnerung: heute findet unsere Mitgliederversammlung statt (17-18 Uhr, Raum MG272). Wir freuen uns auf Euch!

Our #prediction series is announced, Mattering Press 2025 👋. There is power in prediction. In the first volume of the Predictions series, a set of #sts authors makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of pred... https://stefanlaser.net/2025/09/24/our-prediction-series-is-announced.html

Los geht's. @youssef-ibrahim.bsky.social eröffnet unsere gemeinsame Sektionstagung mit @theoriesektion.bsky.social. #dgs2025

finally! I have been pestering several people for weeks with how exciting this book is. (and it is OA too) congratulations Youssef!

Mi, 24.9, 14.15-17, Raum LX 1203, zusammen mit der @theoriesektion.bsky.social: "Soziologie der Transformation oder Transformation der Soziologie? Zum Verhältnis von Soziologie und außersoziologischem Soziologisieren"

Der 42. DGS Kongress rückt näher und wir sind mit zwei spannenden Sektionsveranstaltungen vertreten -- kommt vorbei!

On the train up to Uppsala for #ESEH2025 🛤️ Together with Albert van Wijngaarden, I'll be convening two sessions: 🧊 Wednesday @ 11:00-12:30: "Historians in the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science" 🌦️ Thursday @ 09:00-10:30: "Should We Rethink Histories of Weather and Climate Modification?"

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...

how are collective expert bodies assembled? and how are epistemological questions linked to questions of political structure formation in this process? very pleased to see our new paper out! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Is “abundance” basically “development” with a glow-up? What does it mean to talk about development when the Trump administration is basically on a project of reversing development? and how should we be talking about “development” in 2025, anyway? new article: www.compactmag.com/article/the-...