Three times and it’s becoming a tradition. We’re delighted to announce the third creative writing competition for the EASST community. Winners will be announced during the EASST2026 conference, 10 September 2026. Deadline 1 July 2026 easst.net/conference/e...

Last week to register!

We're hiring! Looking for a #postdoc (3 years) and #PhD (4 years) in #STS and aquatic restoration! Hired researchers will join University of @oulu.fi, the amazing SAFIRE multidisciplinary research programme, and a growing team of researchers interested in water and environment. Deadline 03.05.26.

To honor Trans Day of Visibility: I had a trans student years ago who asked me to write them a letter of rec for grad school. They didn't tell me if they wanted their birth gender or their real gender used (they said maybe birth but ?) SO I wrote the entire letter without using ANY gender refs.

Really excited to share some news: in May I will become Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at @oulu.fi It feels like a big change after 13 years at @helsinki.fi Although I'll stay connected with @cssmicrobes.bsky.social, I'll miss greatly the day to day and many great colleagues.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Interested in thinking about your relationship with our changing environments, e.g. through algae blooms? Then join our workshop in April that brings together artists, citizens, social & natural sciences! @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @joseacanada.bsky.social More info and registration via link below 👇

❇️Register now for CSSM workshop: How to fall in love with blue-green algae? The workshop is open to anyone interested in thinking about their relationship with our changing environments. There are no specific requirements to participate. Full event info + registration: www.lyyti.in/Workshop_How...

Las trans en España nunca han tenido ningún problema

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

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...

Calling care suicidal empathy when it's at the core of social cooperation for survival is such a clear indication that they have not read care scholarship nor are interested in doing so. Criticism of such a huge body of work without engaging with it once is clearly the good social science we need 👌🏼

everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on

With some really cool panels accepted, we open our call for papers. This does not include just traditional papers to open panels. We also invite flash talks (shorter presentations to initiate conversation) and writeshops (an opportunity to dive in and develop own work during the conference).

We've been working hard to rethink how academia could work in more equal and just ways. One of those ways has been this protocol for collective publishing. Really proud of it and of the discussions that led to it!

For anyone seeing this, deadline was extended until 9th of March, so you still have time to apply! I am myself convening an open panel on microbial niches and a M&D session on methods for research of aquatic environments.

"Los españoles no se iban a enterar de nada", defiende el presidente. Lee la noticia completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/pedr...

I will give a lecture on imaginaries of care in conservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems next April in Oslo and staying around for the whole week. This is part of the Science Studies Colloquium Series at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and culture. First visit to @uio.no, excited!

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇

Oletko jo katsonut Havumetsän lapset -dokumenttielokuvan? Tämä Virpi Suutarin filmi löytyy Yle Areenasta ja on nyt ajankohtainen, koska kaksi dokumentissa seurattua metsäaktivistia, Ida (kuvassa) ja Ville, ovat parhaillaan syytettynä metsänhakkuiden pysäyttämisestä Aalistunturilla.

🔉Call for Papers! This September Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & I will be organising a session on "Queering Environmental Justice" at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference @rgsibg.bsky.social ⏰ Abstract deadline: 18 February 2026 🔗 Conference website: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

El “Make Venezuela Great Again” de Trump significa devolverla al periodo 1908-1935 cuando el dictador Juan Vicente Gómez cedió a cambio de mordidas el control del 98% del petróleo nacional a 3 compañías extranjeras. En 1976 Carlos Andrés Pérez lo nacionalizó en defensa de la soberanía económica👇

We have a conference next year and the call for panels and sessions just opened! Might be the first conference in SSH to focus exclusively on microbes (to my knowledge?) Broad and niche at the same time, fun! Also, our keynotes are the fantastic @charlottebrives.bsky.social and Steve Hinchliffe.

A great opportunity to spend some time with a dynamic and thoughtful team. I loved my time with CSSM as a Visiting Fellow in 2023, which led to long lasting collaborations and friendships. Go for it!

Jose Cañada & Joaquin Valdivielso doi.org/10.1080/2572...

🎉 Our thematic cluster for @tapuya.org is now complete😍 with this editorial: Botero, A., & Pérez-Bustos, T. (2025). The making of methodologies/methodologies of making. When precarity matters. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. doi.org/10.1080/2572...

Ayer, nuestra sede de UNRWA en Jerusalén Este fue atacada por Israel: entraron por la fuerza, cortaron comunicaciones y reemplazaron la bandera de la Naciones Unidas. Otro golpe para millones de palestinos. Que esto no pase desapercibido. Apoya a UNRWA.

Do you love AI? Worry about it? Join our critical discussion of the environmental and social costs of AI in Tiedekulma today at 5pm! tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6... @helsus.bsky.social @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”

EASST Review - the publication of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - is looking for an editorial assistant. Duties are copy-editing and communication with authors. We have two issues every year with about 10 submissions each. Reach out if interested!

Os recuerdo que ahora más que nunca es altamente recomendable para habitar un mejor cielito azul que os suscribáis a bsky.app/profile/aimo... para poder silenciar o filtrar mejor el contenido generado con IAgen. Ahí tenéis todos los filtros personalizables para un mejor TL.

Come and visit us in Helsinki next year! Feel free to drop a message if you have any questions about the centre and the cool people doing work here.

Situación en Twitter: Habían sacado una pestañita en cada perfil con el origen de la cuenta (país) Han tenido que retirar hoy la pestañita pq la gente ha descubierto que mogollón de cuentas pro republicanas, supremacistas etc tienen origen en India y otros países inesperados.

I think BlueSky is finally moving in towards what Twitter was at its peak. Interesting content & debate without forgetting the funny comments that make everything somewhat bearable. All of that without an algorithm to sink you into doomscrolling. Please @bsky.app don't force algorithmic feeds on us!

Balearic environmental activism meets migrant exclusion: A duoethnographic lens exposes how class and language barriers shape ecological knowledge, revealing positionality's power to redefine environmental justice from the margins. 🏝️ At 👉 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118 @tapuya.org

🔸[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 8 Read “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins” 🏝️ by Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso now at 👉 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118

🟡Just Out! New Article “Positionality and intersectionality in environmental debates: duoethnography as a method to know (from) the margins” By Jose A. Cañada & Joaquín Valdivielso 🆓doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2484118

That somehow someone at the UN is able to make and post and AI generated video including a false testimony from a rape and war without anyone realizing how wrong that is until The Guardian approached for comment. just shows how acritically people are adopting AI as a tool. It's devastating.

🆕La viñeta de @pedripol.bsky.social para este jueves va sobre colonialismo. 👇 ✂️Re-partir ctxt.es/es/20251101/...

Hello friends. In the early days of Bsky, it was trans and other LGBTQ+ folk, along with s*xworkers, n s f w art folk, and Alf aficionados that built the platform—early refugees from X. Now @bsky.app made a change that auto blocks such posts. You must manually opt out. bsky.app/profile/bsch...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Un periodista italiano, despedido por preguntar en Bruselas si Israel debía hacerse cargo de la reconstrucción de Gaza www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Mamdani es BlueSkyero desde el principio y la conversación en X sobre su candidatura estaba llena de odio y rechazo. A ver si más figuras relevantes en prensa y política empiezan a entender que la otra red no representa en absoluto un sentir popular o relevante para juzgar desarrollos políticos.

🆕✍️La viñeta de @pedripol.bsky.social para este miércoles trepidante resume bastante bien la declaración, o sea. 'El drama de Amad'or' ctxt.es/es/20251101/...

Se coge la baja para tratarse del dolor de espalda que le provocan ESOS TREMENDOS COJONAZOS DE HORMIGÓN.