In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.

Extremely hypocritical take from me in "Cyborg Anthropology" undergrad class this week (I love going to the movies, as long as everyone else present is pretty much inaudible to me):

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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

Publishing interdisciplinary work in the humanities is wild but so is publishing interdisciplinary work in the sciences... (I am a co-author on this manuscript) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage.bsky.social explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #philosophy #anthropology

Excited that the STS scholar Aalok Khandekar is coming to Melbourne and, even better, giving a seminar for @deakinssn.bsky.social Come along in person or join online, Thurs 7 August (1530 AEST): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

If you were interest in #AusSTS25, or @aussts.bsky.social in general, the best thing to do is to join our Google group: groups.google.com/g/ausstsgrad

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

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!

It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises

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 👇

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

Our editors @karilancaster.bsky.social @tdneale.bsky.social and @matthewkearnes.bsky.social will be there, and we are co-hosting a workshop on publishing in STS with Catalyst. If you cannot make the workshop feel free to find us for a chat about future submissions 📝

It's #AusSTS25 this week in Naarm Melbourne! We are very proud to be able to sponsor @aussts.bsky.social once again - it's a great event + is growing each year

Exciting news: @univie.ac.at created new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! We’ve just opened our first call for applications — for both senior and junior fellows. If you’re working on something bold, interdisciplinary, and timely, take a look: vicas.univie.ac.at

In Bath? Join us for a special public lecture by Professor Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Planetary Health beyond Spaceship Earth. Thursday 31 July 5:30pm, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social. To register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planetary-...

New OnlineFirst article: "Constitutional Infrastructures: The Politics of Urban Sovereignty in the “Race to 5G”" by Nicole W. Bassoff #constitutionalism #fifth-generation #wireless #cities #politics #power #5G #law journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty" by María Fernanda Yanchapaxi and M. Murphy #datasovereignty #colonialdata #environmentaljustice #datajustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

Teaching "Cyborg Anthropology" next trimester again this year at Deakin, w/ @nickseaver.website's Computing Taste as our centrepiece. It's a final year capstone (or hurdle) unit about technoscience and "the new beings that human beings are always becoming."

Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba.

Heading to the AsSIST-UK Biennial Conference in Edinburgh, to contribute to the Meet the Editors session. Editors from different STS journals will be discussing the question posed in our @sthv.bsky.social editorial, “What is an STS contribution now?” Read along: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A timely reminder that our annual call for Special Issues closes in a few short weeks on 21 June: forms.gle/Sesvmw3aYVz9... 🚨📢🚨📢

What if we’ve been thinking about wildfire smoke the wrong way? This week on Platypus, Arielle Milkman discusses the politics of the Clean Air Act, public health, and wildfire smoke in the United States. Read the post here: blog.castac.org/2025/05/what...

And now the full listing... we are recruiting for a PhD scholarship to conduct ethnographic research on net zero in nth Australia, based at Deakin + working with me, @karidahlgren.bsky.social + @chrismayes.bsky.social. Apps close 20 Sept. Spread the word + details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

Great seminar from Andy! If you missed it, you can watch it here:

"This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society" -- "The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory" -- Edited by Federico Neiburg and Jane I. Guyer haubooks.org/the-real-eco...

Reminder about next week's seminar (Tues 27th @ Deakin Downtown + online) with anthropologist Andy Lakoff (USC) on "Planning for the Wrong Pandemic." RSVP and info here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

We are recruiting for a PhD candidate to join us on the "Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia" ARC Discovery Project + conduct their own Anthropology project (pref. starting late 2025). Full CfA + scholarship details coming soon @karidahlgren.bsky.social @chrismayes.bsky.social

A colleague asked me the other day what I was thinking about. I couldn't tell them the truth. I was thinking about a sign I saw that said "dine in and takeaway only." I saw it 2 years ago and it haunts me still.

Our new OA paper "Emergent sovereignties: Pragmatism, experiment, and affect within collaborative Indigenous wildfire management in southeast Australia" is out now in EPE. Led by Lachlan Beggs, Oliver Costello, Andrea Rawluk, Jack Pascoe + Teagan Shields journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Voted as an Australian citizen for the first time today. There is a tradition here called a "democracy sausage" which is the 🌭 you get after voting. However, the booth that I went to had sold out because a food blog said it had "the best" sausages. This is an extremely Melbourne story.

Delighted to be putting on an SSN seminar with Andy Lakoff on Tuesday 27 May on his new book "Planning for the wrong pandemic". Join online or in the flesh! Thanks to @tdneale.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

Book update: "How to Control Fire" has been accepted for publication and should be out (northern) summer 2026 or so! Very excited to be working with @dukepress.bsky.social on this project 🔥 (image: Sarah Ebsworth, 2019)

We are now accepting nominations for the Diana Forsythe Prize, due no later than June 1, 2025 (early nominations are appreciated). Read more about this award at: castac.org/castac-award...

The editorial collective have been in Naarm Melbourne for our annual planning meeting! Some big things in the works... 🔮🙌✨ Looking forward to sharing them with our STS colleagues soon.

Send us your big ideas STS-niks!

ITS in-person Talk @ #YorkU (Kaneff 519): Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW, Australia) on "Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries" #sts #compute #Earth #Toronto || More info: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

Attention Naarm-based STS scholars! Don't miss this upcoming workshop on "emergency climates" led by @tdneale.bsky.social. CFP closes in 1 week

Job ad: Lecturer of Anthropology (ongoing) at University of Waikato Te Wānanga o Ngā Kete elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Terrific event coming up on “Emergency Climates”!

Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...

We have a new Digital Cultures major in the Bachelor of Arts at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social bringing together courses from Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy and other disciplines. I'm the inaugural Coordinator + you can find out more about the major here: www.deakin.edu.au/articles/car...

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