When you re-read a submitted manuscript and finds that you have accidentally written 'the shit towards' instead of 'shift towards'... #academiclife

biblioteken får fylla igen revorna i samhällsväven

Struggles when being in academia: The constant battle in your (or maybe it is just my) mind about whether to do the very necessary admin stuff or to read Simondon in the sun when one unscheduled hour approaches. #STS #academia

The most inspiring read of my summer. James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the entanglement of humans, nature and technologies, and ideas about what intelligence is and how to build ”smart” machines. #STS #AI

We need to start calling out big tech for their algorithmically faciltated emissions and their climate collapse by design default. Read our comment in Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...

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

So sad, Callon was such an important figure in STS. Who can forget those scallops? I met him once at the École des Mines, Bruno Latour introduced us, around 1990 - that was it. I wish I'd gotten to know him, too late now - yet the scallops and ANT live on #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

Lost genre identified on my dad’s old book shelf: The academic conference CD-ROM #academiclife

The cold river and the hot sun in my hometown in Northern Sweden right now ❤️ #Lycksele

I am happy to share that I am starting a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology & Society, with a specialization in #STS & medical AI, at Lund University. I will work in two research projects exploring ethical & epistemological dimensions of AI-supported predictive precision medicine 😊

Very happy to see that this special issue of Sociologisk Forskning is now out in the world and I am honored to have my paper included! "This ground truth is muddy anyway: Ground truth data assemblages for medical AI development" Check it out here doi.org/10.37062/sf.... (Open access)! #STS

Yesterday was a major milestone for me as I passed my PhD defense, making me a doctor in Technology and Society! So grateful to everyone involved in the defense and to all that have supported me on this journey. The thesis is available here: portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati...

Join The Digital STS Hub! The Digital STS Hub is a collaborative network of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University, Lund University, and Södertörn University who share an interest in the digital from an STS perspective. ....

Very timely and necessary critical intervention by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social ‬– highly recommended: «By embracing LLMs before developing any critical framework for their use in pedagogical and research contexts, the University allows itself to be governed by the contingent, ever-evolving ... 1/

Nailed my PhD thesis to the wall today as we do in Sweden in good time before defending. The public defence will be June 4th!

Meet the winners of the 2025 Dance Your PhD contest. There are four broad categories—physics, chemistry, biology, and social science—liberally defined. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

Another (hopefully the last) weekend of PhD thesis writing at the office #academia #academiclife #phdlife

Any students interested in critical perspectives on datafication? This fall I am giving a newly minted course: "The Data-driven Society: Social, Political, and Ethical Aspects of Datafication" (3 ECTS, in English, part-time) at Lund Uni. Apply before April 15! www.antagning.se/se/search?pe...

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Delighted that Anna Tsing and @avastmachine.bsky.social have been awarded @4sonline.bsky.social Bernal Prizes for 2025! The John Desmond Bernal Prize is award annually for lifetime achievements in (or profound influence on) #STS

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

The Holberg Prize committee making a statement - a good choice too. Especially in relation to what's happening in the US and at Columbia... #STS #histstm #postcol

#STS #historyoftechnology

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

Are you interested in the history of computer vision? Read my review of James E. Dobson's intriguing book, now published in the new issue of Tecnoscienza. #STS #criticaldatastudies doi.org/10.6092/issn...

“But we must never confuse function for purpose. We must not mistake what AI can do with whom AI should serve.”

1979 - We Have Always Been Techlashing

Pause and enjoy the starling murmuration that I witnessed yesterday evening. Mesmerising

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

(Call for applications) Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society at University College London histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/01/post... #medhum

I’ve created a Starter Pack for anyone interested in the Queer Medical Humanities 🩺🏥🏳️‍🌈 - interdisciplinary approaches to queer and LGBTQIA+ healthcare across the humanities, arts, social sciences and medicine go.bsky.app/5LB1Drg

Did you know… Purple isn’t real. It’s a pigment of the imagination! www.snexplores.org/article/colo...

📣 Bibliotekshögskolan i Borås söker en doktorand i projektet ”Kulturpolitik som säkerhetspolitik – kulturens roll i den nationella beredskapen”. 🦺🎭📚🎻🚨🪖 Deadline: 23 mars. Sprid gärna till alla som kan tänkas vara intresserade! Länk till annonsen: www.hb.se/Om-hogskolan...

intersting post on AI companions: artificial friends reduce loneliness but we lack longitudinal data to demonstrate this effect in the long-term. Adverse effects include social isolation, radicalization, privacy and security issues etc. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-comp...

"Using LLMs for historical research requires careful attention and disciplinary expertise." Can't find it again but someone asked about AI and historical research, and someone else recommended this @cblevins.bsky.social blogpost -- indeed interesting & helpful. cblevins.github.io/posts/llm-pr...

The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for @estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS 4sonline.org/news_manager...

The US decision to withdraw from @who.int undermines global health cooperation. The WHO Council on the Economics of #HealthForAll, which I co-chaired, underlined why collective investment in #HealthForAll is critical for people & economies. The Council's final report ➡️ www.who.int/publications...

Today was my final seminar/90 percent seminar. Another milestone passed on my PhD journey. I am so thankful for all people attending and I am especially grateful to my reviewer Dorthe Brogård Kristensen for all valuable feedback!

“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries” Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study. For no particular reason today. doi.org/10.1080/1520...

Apparently, I am now one of those academics who think that this is a chill holiday weekend read.

Can you explain your doctoral research through interpretive dance? The 17th annual #DanceYourPhD competition is open! Submit by 28 March for a chance to win $2000: scim.ag/3BcKi0e

Hello #sts, #envhum, #envhist folks! I am on the job market! In addition to job opportunities, I am also interested in learning more about how folks are thinking about their research statements and teaching statements. If you are willing, please share some examples for me to learn from!

AI-kommissionen föreslår att ett nationellt Centrum för AI och hälsa ska inrättas och att en svensk hälso(AI)modell ska utvecklas. "CAIH kan också utföra etisk AI-forskning med fokus på transparens och rättvisa" Blir intressant att följa ifall det blir verklighet. www.regeringen.se/rapporter/20...

"det kan mycket väl hamna på biblioteken. Biblioteken är en underskattad resurs." säger Svanberg angående den föreslagna folkbildningen i #AI , under dagens pressträff där AI-kommissionens förslag lämnades över. En får hoppas att det då också finns förslag om ökade resurser till #bibliotek

Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:

Recommended read: A new article by Josef Taalbi, of interest for STS, technofeminist and history of technology scholars: ”On the gendering of the early American electric car” doi.org/10.1016/j.ei... #EVs #STS #HistoryofTechnology

An inspiring keynote by prof Annette Markham, on the last day of #WASP-HS AI for Humanity and Society 2024, urging us to look for aspiration!

I had a lovely time this morning at the Fabulation for AI in health workshop, part of the #WASP-HS AI for Humanity and Society conference in Gothenburg.

All members of #EASST, don't forget to vote in the current council elections! easst.net/2024-council... With the hope for more collaboration across Europe, such as by thematic networks, I am voting for Francis Lee. #STS