View our fantastic December Special Issue: Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice at link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look: "Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Looking for sociologists & STS scholars (science & technology studies) to join us for 2 yrs of fully funded research at RWTH, one of Europe’s top technical universities. Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 | Start latest Mar 2026 www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje...

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

“The New Reproductive Order” is out today! Edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn, this volume explores the transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century. Groundbreaking and sophisticated, this collection of essays opens new horizons of scholarship.

ICYMI: 'Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses'; Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan and Jenny Slatman research Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join us for our May 20th webinar! stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/w...

We're looking forward to hearing from Aimee Middlemiss next Weds on personhood, pregnancy loss and the politics of death for the third in our series of free, online #deathstudies events. Book here. deathandsociety.org/etn/death-si...

My new book will be out in Spring: It examines ecosyndemics through the lens of Planetary Health:

🚨JOBS Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics? 2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC: PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi... POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

*UPDATE* We've had a great response, especially from early-career researchers. Thank you! BUT we really also want to hear from researchers who are mid-career and professors. Your perspectives on the ups and downs of an academic career will really help us refine our recommendations!

After 20 yrs, @biosocieties.bsky.social founding editor and global thought leader, Prof @rose-nikolas.bsky.social, steps down from his active editorial role. We reflect on this significant transition in the journal's history and pay tribute to him. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...

Must read, open access, couldn't be more timely! "The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe" edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia Inhorn opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

Great news, the programme for our Forum next week is now live! Take a look here 👇 www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/male-... Not registered yet? There's still time, sign up on Eventbrite and we'll see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-male-f...

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