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‼️ Our final issue of 2025 is out! Volume 34, Number 4 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on interdisciplinarity, expertise, science governance, and science and technology publics. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current

📢 Hello #STSers! The @4sweb.bsky.social Backchannels blog is seeking new Assistant Editors (Global South). Find out more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager... Send your expression of interest by December 15. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more info!

New Book Review just out! In our latest piece, "How to blow up a techno-market fix," Jorrit Smit and Guus Dix review Les Levidow's "Beyond Climate Fixes" and show how counter-publics can destabilize techno-market fixes 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

❗ Another great piece on interdisciplinary is out! 👉 In our latest piece, drawing from their own experience on AI Ethics, the authors invite readers to think about disciplinary differences as opportunities, not barriers in interdisciplinary collaborations 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📜 NEW PAPER JUST OUT! 👉 Rachel Fishberg and @kristofferkropp.bsky.social provide a critical outlook on the push for interdisciplinarity in EU framework programs such as Horizon 2020. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📜 New article just out📜 In "How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme," the authors analyze the use of co-creation frameworks in European Union-funded projects doi.org/10.1080/0950...

New Book Review released! In our latest review essay "Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS," Christine Hine reviews the book "A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration," by Jane Calvert www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In our latest piece "Grounding circularity in Fryslân," @ahendriks.bsky.social, Gert Goeminne, and Erik Paredis investigate how the notion of circular economy gains meaning and what shifts it enables in future imaginaries. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Final days before the submission deadline for our upcoming special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions," co-edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Gisle Solbu. More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

‼️ NEW ARTICLE ALERT 📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Volume 34, Number 3 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on expertise, scientific practice, the scientific community, and biotechnology. Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025 Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026 #STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp @sciasculture.bsky.social

‼️ NEW ARTICLE ‼️ 📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

How far can community-based biology movements go within financialised biotech? These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism." doi.org/10.1080/0950...

NEW ARTICLE! Our latest piece "Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems" addresses the collective dimension of relevance in research communities on social-environmental problems. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025. More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

A reminder that the deadline for the Special Forum on "Tech Oligarchy" is fast approaching (end of July 2025). Make sure to contact the editor @keanbirch.bsky.social with abstract proposals and queries for suitability!!!

📄 NEW PAPER ALERT! In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📄 NEW ARTICLE 📄 In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📕 In our latest book review essay, Mark Brown (CSUS) brings STS and political science together for a much-needed dialogue on the notions of representation, democracy, and expertise. Make sure to check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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

Just a reminder that the deadline is right around the corner for submissions to our special issue "Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation." Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!

📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out! 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent new paper by Avey Nelson and @kathleenor.bsky.social. It offers a counterpoint to narratives around de-extinction projects, which perpetuate neocolonial practices by controlling land, resources, and marginalising local communities. Thanks for the amazing contribution to SaC

‼️In our latest piece, David Hess compares two different types of expertise on outcome decisions in opposition movements to landfills in the USA, asking what type of expertise is important in shaping outcomes. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315

Thanks for the reminder @paulnaish.bsky.social: our first issue of 2025 is out. Make sure to check the great array of contributions from different fields and locations to this critical topic. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...

Our special issue invites STS scholars to critically address tech oligarchy and a world where few billionaries drawn from the digital tech sector and venture capital world have an outsized influence on innovation, determining the technoscientific direction of our societies. Deadline: July 2025

New article out on Science as Culture! In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Out now! Based on empirical insights from two community science labs in the US, Dan Santos (ANU) investigates what sorts of biotechnological knowledge and innovation, along with norms and cultures around democratization, are developed in community science labs

‼️New paper alert‼️ The latest article (first in 2025) discusses lessons from the pilot year of the DE-SILO initiative, a project designed to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming in academic science fields across the United States. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4br52av6

Have you read a recently published book or watched a new movie/documentary/TV show that could offer insights to STS scholars? Science as Culture invites you to submit a book or media review during 2025. For book/cultural media suggestions and more information: tiny.cc/t1a4001

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Interested in participatory knowledge co-production, community-based research and citizen science? Some readings from our latest special issue that are worth checking out 🧵👇 #STSbluesky #STS

Toxicity as process: tracing a new epigenetic regime of im/perceptibility in environmental toxicology @sciasculture.bsky.social #epigenetics #epistemologies #STS www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An anticipatory regime of multiplanetary life: on SpaceX, Martian colonisation and terrestrial ruin @sciasculture.bsky.social #Mars #SpaceX #Anthropocene www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Musk appears to want to ‘address trouble’ by making futures that clear away the present and the past. He is doing this through the significant financial advantages gained from the very system that is part of the ‘horrors of the Anthropocene,' making use of labor practices and tax arrangements [1/3]

Amazing news! Congratulations to the authors for the amazing article "Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling"

Are you interested in the linkages between techno-securitisation, today's active colonial relations, and the military-industrial-security complex? We are welcoming submissions for the special issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation. Deadline: April 2025 Full CfP: bit.ly/3CBS9EI

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