We're hiring!👀👀 The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract) More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager... Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025 Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

CfP: “The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus” (conference) 📆17–19 March 2026 ✍️Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025 This #conference seeks to critically examine the entanglements between the #military and the #environment.

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

🚨New job: Journals Coordinator. This role supports the day-to-day activities involved in publishing our journals and is the main publisher contact for many journals on the list. #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing 🌟Deadline: 5 October 2025:

This is disastrous, quite frankly.

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Will Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for this? Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.

👀 I'm hiring two roles for a new initiative launching soon (watch this space!) 👀 A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2

One week left to apply 📅 We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher. Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research? Apply here: www.jrf.org.uk/careers.

@hypestudies.bsky.social is/was a conference with a difference. Non-hierarchical, welcoming and stimulating. After party at a cool little club, and many other (serious) memories. 🕺🏾 👨🏾‍💻 #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco

Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now! Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏

So many insights springing out of our Hype Studies conference in Barcelona. One, from investigative journalist Christo Buschek: the news outfits currently winning are those that resisted the previous wave of online hype @hypestudies.bsky.social. Christo was one of the team behind this

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

I wish I was here;

Suuuuuper HYPED!

Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...

@hypestudies.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow, choo choo! I'm very excited to share our preprint with @cianooo.bsky.social and Joshua Moon: "Can buzzwords create infrastructures? Reflecting on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach" . zenodo.org/records/1699...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The best job I've ever had was at Demos. They're hiring people to work on AI and digital things. demos.co.uk/researcher-d... and demos.co.uk/lead-researc...

I can strongly recommend diving into this reading list. More than honoured to see my work being in great company and that the resources collected and curated by the @hypestudies.bsky.social are already finding good homes.

I'm gearing up for next week's Hype Studies conference in Barcelona, so I'm thinking about this stuff a lot. @davekarpf.bsky.social makes some great points here, but there's a 'Yes and...'

Preparations are almost complete. The countdown is on! aaaand there's still time to join us online. Register via hypestudies.org/conference/c...

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

What is deep hype? 🕳️ This week at @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference I'll present a paper where I define deep hype as a "long-term dynamic that projects civilisational transformation through uncertain futures, making its promises unverifiable in the present" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19749

✨OPPORTUNITY: Researcher (Environment & Net Zero) 🕐 Full-time (32hr week) 📍 London-based (hybrid) 🪙 £42,868 - £45,850 🗓️ DL: 28 Sept 2025 Do you want to shape bold, evidence-based environmental policy and drive systemic change? Apply now👇 neweconomics.org/about/work-w...

Last call for a postdoc in computational social science @unumerit.bsky.social, working on our Metascience project on public values in AI research

Hi #STS peers and other ethnographers! I am looking for good work on ethics of ethnographic research. In general but also particularly in healthcare/medical settings. Do you have any suggestions? Please, let me know! #STS #ethnography #research #researchethics

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors)- The University of Edinburgh - Science, Technology and Innovation Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOG796/p...

Hello hive mind! Do you have any follow recommendations/starter packs of people working at the intersection of digital AND market studies/econ sociology/economics geography? I'm familiar with those who write high profile books or are in the STS circles but quite aware there must be more!

REVEALED: Bristolians (Rory, 11 months and Hattie, 3 years 4 months) struggle to adjust to the outside world and after failing mandatory age verification introduced by the new online safety law.

Our list of hype studies resources is now open to the public! hypestudies.org/resources

Research Fellow in the Ethics of Predictive Technologies- University of Oxford - Suite 1 Littlegate House 16-17 St Ebbe’s Street Oxford, OX1 1PT #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ938/r...

Lecturer in Security and Technology King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA313/l...

If you need a life time of weekend reading recommendations...check out our new library of @hypestudies.bsky.social resources with over 160 papers, books and blogs on all things promises, frenzies and disappointments! hypestudies.org/news/the-lib...

@hypestudies.bsky.social conference programme is now out! Head to hypestudies.org/conference/p... and explore a rich schedule of talks, workshops, art exhibits and films. Oh, and did we mention we're running a party?👨‍🎤

Still trying to make sense of this new cyber space we've got here...

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

OpenAI will, starting in 2028, have to start paying $30bn a year to Oracle, $28bn to Microsoft for Azure, and also $2.9bn to CoreWeave for compute. That’s $60.9 billion *in compute costs alone*. This company is an absolute joke and should be treated as such. www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

Today 5pm BST! Don’t miss the hybrid event on “The Realities of Autonomous Weapons” with editors Thomas C. Bächle & Jascha Bareis & guest Lucy Suchman. Moderation @olamichalec.bsky.social. @itas.bsky.social @kit.edu @brisunipress.bsky.social 👉Free tickets: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

I've built a website 😀 Check out energyfutures.co.uk for my research updates on disruptions, risks and innovations in critical infrastructures. Credits to Ian Keaveny / Crash stop for creating fanstastic glitchy backdrop to the site 🏚️

📣 🚨 Now Open: NABS+ Commissioning Call 🚨 🚀 Looking to drive real-world impact through research to shape the future of national security and defence? NABS+ is inviting applications for innovative, small-scale research projects.

On the 9th July at 12, we'll be holding a guest seminar on AI and Hype by @velocitygravity.bsky.social who will be talking about his latest paper "To Have Done with The Metaphor of Summers and Winters: Can AI And Internet History Cure Hype?" Come to the @bdfi.bsky.social or join us online!

Come to the book launch: The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (10th July; 5pm at @bdfi.bsky.social *and* online. Collab with @brisunipress.bsky.social ) – a panel with Lucy Suchman; Thomas Christian Bächle; Jascha Bareis Register here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

Book Launch: The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. The event will discuss controversial technology, showing how autonomous weapon systems mediate between reality and fiction. 📍Bristol Digital Futures Institute 📅Thurs, 10 July, 17:30 - 19:30. 🔗https://buff.ly/XwdPsYc

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A few weeks ago my comrades from @hypestudies.bsky.social put together a panel at Techno Assessment conference in Vienna (ETAC). You can now view the summary of the session and individual contributions here ! hypestudies.org/news/hype-st...

I'm 🫨very 🙀 excited to see my dad playing live soon!

Hello world! Hype studies are now on blue sky. Follow @hypestudies.bsky.social for updates and hot takes.