TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Under the banner "The winding road to better science", we are joining forces with our metaresearch centre and are offering ourselves as hosts for potential MSCA postdoctoral fellows. If you are interested in developing a project on or across the boundaries of #metascience and #STS, reach out! 1/

For more details on the programs: University of Padova PhD (Social Sciences / STS): Deadline: 20 May 2026. Contact: [email protected] Website: www.unipd.it/en/node/91954 University of Vienna PhD (STS): Contact: [email protected] Website: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... #sts

🚨 CfP: SI on "Boundaries, boundary concepts, and datafication" in Digital Culture & Society 🚨 ℹ️ Together with Yana Boeva (@dropsmops.bsky.social) and Sarah R. Davies, we invite proposals to our SI. See here for more details: www.sowi.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/... #boundaryconcepts #STS

What's the cost to research – to an entire discipline – of "AI" living rent-free in our heads? @dawnnafus brilliantly lays out the loss to #sts from so many being focused on AI-hype: 24% of papers at #4s were on AI. https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606

This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you can join online: www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...

FLiNG report is live! What does financial well-being even mean today? We look at the landscape of finfluencers, online communities, hustle economy, new forms of credit and lending like BNPL, and gambling and high risk investing to try to make sense of it. digitalculturesandeconomies.com/fling.html

Dear all at #STS sky! Last week we published the Winter 2026 issue of EASST Review, which comes accompanied by an EASST website renewal. You can find the entire issue here: easst.net/easst-review...

📄 New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! (Open access) @susigeiger.bsky.social examines one ideological space that has recently received a great deal of emphasis from tech oligarchs as well as from conservative religious quarters: pronatalism. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳

Call for Paper Abstracts and Other Proposals is NOW OPEN: March 3–April 30, 2026 Call for Paper Abstracts, Closed Panels, Making & Doing Sessions, Roundtables, and Meetups: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Accepted Open Panels: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Tomorrow: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 3: Techno-Politics of Interoperability with Nina Amelung, Can E Mutlu, Annalisa Pelizza, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup. Mar 4 uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304 #STS #DataGovernance

Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech. In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.

CfP: Digital Foodscapes: Ernährung, Technik und Gesellschaft im Wandel Panel 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 👉Deadline 31.03.2026 Alle Infos gibt's hier: kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

A real pleasure to join Addie, Philip & my co-editor @taschn.bsky.social on the JCE podcast to talk about our recent special issue on Digital Eating. Listen along to learn what digital eating is, where digital marketplaces and athletic eaters fit into it & why I'm currently living off lentil curry!

Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...

4 days left to submit! Call closes Feb. 9, 2026. You can submit (either hybrid or in-person) here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...

📢 #CFP: Futuring Digital Foodscapes Join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss how digital tech shapes food futures, values, and inequalities. Panel 177 co-organised with @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß & Katharina Graf #STS DL: 9 March nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Sektionsveranstaltung mitorganisiert von Simon Egbert, Stefanie Raible und @juliaschubert.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen rund um die Herstellung von Zukunftswissen. Insbesondere, aber nicht nur, aus Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. #sts

📱🍏 How are researchers studying food’s digital turn? My new chapter in ‘The Handbook of Digital & Computational Research Methods’ (ed. @Anders Koed Madsen & @akmunk.bsky.social) charts inventive methods for exploring food’s datafication, algorithmisation & platformisation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4su87xnz

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Funded doctoral positions at the University of Vienna, deadline March 2nd 2026 40 funded #doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities ( #SSH ). This thematically open call allows you to apply with your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.

We invite proposals to our "futuring digital foodscapes" panel at the EASST2026 "More than now: exploring resilient futures" conference in Krakow (8-11 September). ➡️Panel 17: futuring digital foodscapes easst.net/conference/e... The cfp is open until 28-02-2026 here: easst.net/conference/e... #food

I suppose they mean reparative STS, not just paranoid STS. Should be interesting - and in Canada, so perhaps still safe #STS @4sonline.bsky.social

📣Hiring📣 Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society. Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb#interdisciplinary#sustainability#innovation#society#AcademicJobs #STS

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

‼️ 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

NEW PUBLICATION: Digital Eating special issue co-edited with @jeremybrice.bsky.social and Karin Eli in @jcultecon.bsky.social The special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life,

This is what Cultural Economy in the kitchen, a new podcast series cooked up (sorry) by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social looks like. Episode 1 features @tgpb.bsky.social & @allartmarkets.bsky.social waxing nostalgic before getting into Economic Emergencies with Simone Polillo

The Call for applications for the EASST Fund is now open until 31 December 2025. Find all the details and how to apply on the website. easst.net/fund/

What a joy to launch @echodtu.bsky.social 🚀 this Monday! #STS #controversymapping #digital #methods

🍁 Beautiful autumn atmosphere at #DTU this morning #Autumn #Photography #Nature #Morninglight

How do digital platforms like Deliveroo and Uber Eats protect consumers from unsafe food? And how do they reconcile ethical imperatives to care for food safety with their commercial drive to promote consumer choice? Find out in my new OA Journal of Cultural Economy article: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

This article is part of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Digital Eating, which I’m co-editing with @taschn.bsky.social and Karin Eli. Stay tuned for more information on this very exciting collection!

Online seminar series "Digital Foodscapes" hosted in collaboration between @taschn.bsky.social, @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß, Katharina Graf, myself #HPGVienna and @ox.ac.uk Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity www.oxfordobesity.org/upcoming-sem...

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 rain showers couldn’t convince me so far. But when unlocking my bike today, I had to admit: Autumn is around the corner 🍂🍁🍃🪶 Enjoy the colour! #autumn #leaves #nature

Thank you for three 🌟 conference days in Zurich @sts-ch.bsky.social and especially to all organisers across @ethz.ch @zhdk.bsky.social and University of Zurich! #STS

Just arrived in Zurich for the #STSCH2025 conference Very much looking forward to reconnecting with my great colleagues in science and technology studies in Switzerland, as well as meeting new ones! And STS DK is well represented, too, with 2 keynotes: @britwinthereik.bsky.social & Hannah Rogers

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

When the outsiders became the experts: AIDS activists transformed the field of biomedicine, and paved the way for additional research on illness-related social movements. embryo.asu.edu/pages/constr... #hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts #hps #biology #AIDS #encyclopedia

Sometimes you walk down a dimly-lit alley in an unfamiliar place and realise it is a dead end street. Only to turn around, look up and meet the Queen of the Night 🤩 Very lucky to have seen this rare spectacle as the #pitaya #flower blossoms for one night only! #dragonfruit #summer #bloomscrolling 🌱

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

⚡️My #STS colleague Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is co-editing a special issue on Co-creating low-carbon transitions in the journal @sciasculture.bsky.social⚡️ More information and #CfP ⬇️

Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the @univie.ac.at is now recruiting for a full professor in Science and Technology Studies! 📅 Deadline for Application 17 September 2025. Please share widely with your colleagues and those who may be interested! #STS Apply now: ⤵️

Snapped this photo in the Danish evening sun last Thursday for this #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerFeed #Flowers #Rose #Copenhagen 🌱

⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️ #STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology #AcademicSky

🚨 Call for Papers: Tech Oligarchy Forum 🚨 Science as Culture invites contributions on how digital elites shape science, tech, and society—from AI monopolies to platform power 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #TechOligarchy #ScienceAsCulture #STS