A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be at a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social seminar in Austria on 'Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st century'. Three days of wonderful conversation in a summer resort town imagining the future of biocultural anthropology @danilynrutherford.bsky.social

I'm really excited to be in conversation with colleagues at Aarhus University very soon!

Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts

I wrote this short piece about the time when I was a ghost. Part of a special forum I edited with Amanda Domingues for Anthropology Theory Commons - thanks @mdicenta.bsky.social for the thread and for your awesome contribution!

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news! @thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

I'm very proud to be part of this groundbreaking publication just out in the Lancet, arguing for a bioethics as planetary health ethics. Includes seven practical steps for putting the 'bios' back into bioethics. #bioethics #planetary #STS

Very much looking forward to hosting Aalok Khandekar from IIT-Hyderabad for a @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on Community-based climate adaptation. With two fabulous discussants, Sujatha Raman and Robert Faggian. Join us in the city or online!

Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting.... @tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!

Day 2 of #AusSTS25 is underway! If you can’t be with us at Deakin Downtown, you can listen along to @elizabethstephens.bsky.social’s fascinating keynote now on YouTube (link below)

Workshop in the beautiful gallery of the National Communication Museum #AusSTS25

And our AMAZING co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social talking us through the next few days ahead

Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶 You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises

Starting in a few minutes!

Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇

✨ Good morning Narrm!✨ It's day 1 of #AusSTS2025 and we are looking forward to three days of conversations, workshops, performances, and other experiments with all things #signalsandnoises📡🎛️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Two sleeps until Doing Interdisciplinarity, the Deakin Science and Society Network's flagship event for 2025! Not too late to book for this in-person celebration and reflection on what works in interdisciplinary research @tdneale.bsky.social @carinatruyts.bsky.social @silk-tim.bsky.social

AusSTS is about to take off this week! Even if you haven't managed to get registered (it's totally full), you can access some of the STS goodness through our livestreamed keynotes and interact with the YouTube audience.

On the 9th of July, at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn, as a part of the @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference, I will be talking about infrastructures of noise at the keynote panel along with Glen Berman, Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, and Kate Mannell. (3/4)

Are you heading to @aussts.bsky.social #AusSTS25 #SignalsAndNoises in July in Melbourne? #STS If so I hand-curated a Bluesky list of people I could find from the conference program: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

Ethik @ Lunch continues this Friday! We are excited to welcome @profemmakowal.bsky.social (Deakin University, Australia) for a talk on: "Ethics of Qualitative Research in Minority Settings" We warmly invite you to join us! 🔗 Program & access: www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet... #bioethics

The best part of this crazy academic life is reading insightful pieces on your work that reveal connections you didn't see before. Thanks @benjhegarty.bsky.social & @mgbevans.bsky.social for making it happen and Frédéric Keck, Beth Greenhough, Trevor Engel, and Ros Williams for their engagement.

Great to see this forum published in TAJA, and newly grateful to @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Lynette Russell and David Trigger for their generous engagement with Haunting Biology.

I’m speaking at UNAM (online) in an hour! Tune in on YouTube if you like!

Jump on now to join @profemmakowal.bsky.social and Toija Cinque speaking interdisciplinarity at this #SSN and #DeakinRDA workshop youtube.com/live/1Iu0cP_...

It's not every day that an interdisciplinarian & distinguished public analyst like Catherine Bennett sits down to share the inner workings and lessons gleaned from a collaborative public inquiry process. Join the SSN and @profemmakowal.bsky.social on Thursday www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

We've published plenty of book reviews since our Nov 2024 issue. Playing catchup with some direct posts now... Paul Turnbull reviews 'Haunting Biology. Science and Indigeneity in Australia', by @profemmakowal.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just one week until this event, register to join us in person at Deakin Downtown or watch online ✅

Distinguished Professor Catherine Bennett will reflect on the Independent Inquiry into the Australian Government COVID-19 Response. Limited in-person places available, register to join us at Deakin Downtown on April 17th!

“Noise can be the buzz in the radio, or data that brings AI to a glitching halt. Instead of seeing noise as something to block out, this exhibition reframes noise as a signal in itself.” An exhibition curated w/ myself, Joel Stern & Emily Siddons for the NCM Melbourne! ➡️ ncm.org.au/exhibitions/...

Today is the last day to send in an abstract for the #AusSTS conference in July! The theme is 'Signals and Noises' but we are keen for quiet abstracts too 🤫 Whatever your research topic, if it engages with the social studies of science and technology, we want to receive it!

Looking forward to being back home in July and honoured to be part of this keynote panel at @aussts.bsky.social. AusSTS has grown into such a vibrant scholarly community. Can’t wait!

Anne Pollock going live with the SSN in 35 mins - at 15:30. You can jump on here directly! @profemmakowal.bsky.social is chairing and we are delighted to have Laura Foster joining via Zoom. youtube.com/live/TFyeaaj...

Join us on YouTube to hear from Jane Calvert on #STS!

It was a pleasure to read and review Warwick Anderson's marvellous book Spectacles of Waste. Access my review here for a whiff of what to expect. www.academia.edu/127370770/Ha...

Amazing opportunity to lead a Diamond OA STS journal!

For the first SSN seminar for 2025, Professor Jane Calvert will talk about her remarkable new book that reflects on the value and the limits of interdisciplinary collaboration & the 'place' of science and technology studies (STS). Join us online on Feb 18th!

CFP LIVE: #AusSTS2025 #SignalsandNoises hosted by Deakin Science and Society Network in collab with the brand-new National Communication Museum! No matter what your research site is, submit an abstract to think together about whether and how to tell 'signal' from 'noise'. Read the CFP & be inspired!

Thanks so much to @thaophan.bsky.social for putting together our AusSTS & friends starter pack - go.bsky.app/DR3Tptg

The SSN is so excited to be co-sponsoring this - keep your calendars cleared (and plan a some Melb meet ups?) as we also have an interdisciplinary symposium that week 👀

We're super proud to have supported Ben Pederick, Martin Potter and their team whose SSN project "The Adaptation Game - building climate resilience in Merri-bek" won the Local Government Award Category in last week's #ResilientAustralia awards. www.linkedin.com/in/ben-peder...

📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡ 9 - 11 July, 2025 Melbourne/Naarm Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social Ful CFP coming soon!

Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...

My 'review' (more accurately, launch) of @profemmakowal.bsky.social's Haunting Biology has appeared in TAJA but not open access, alas. Interesting contributions also from David Trigger and @lynetterussell.bsky.social, as well as a response from Emma #STS #anthro @dukepress.bsky.social

Recordings from the grad. studies symposium "Messing with Methods" Heather Horst, Michael Edwards, Carly Schuster, Randi Irwin, Ute Eickelkamp, Daniel Tranter-Santoso Catherine Smith, Denis Bryne, Sophie Chao & yours truly. @wombatscholar.bsky.social @profemmakowal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/wr54u3c

Mit Texten von: Joanna Radin, @profemmakowal.bsky.social, Alexander Friedrich, Stefan Höhne, Julia Velkova, Thomas Lemke, @hiokinai.bsky.social, Elizabeth Shove, Gordon Walker, Sam Brown, Nigel Clark, Nicole Starosielski, Elena Beregow

Wow, massive influx this past week of people who’ve helped me and their fellow researchers for years over on twitter. Hello! 🫂 It seems Melon Husk has failed to separate researchers from one of their abiding joys: gentle critique of government funding bodies.

Today, Courtney Addison + I got to do one of the @sthv.bsky.social "publishing in STS" workshops with postgrads and postdocs. Always such a pleasure to share something of how journal publishing looks from "our side" + talk thru its eccentricities (e.g., decision letters) #AusSTS

Off to Canberra / Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri Country for #AusSTS2024 So exciting to see this group of scholars hosting!