Really enjoyed @digitaldang.bsky.social’s talk on loudspeakers in the Vietnamese context. The especially evocative ‘fish sauce and exhaust’ phrase encapsulating the urban streetscape was a deliciously poetic highlight 💚 📢 #signalsandnoises #AusSTS2025

weather modelling remodelling the weather; bill murray put on blast by a gramophone; tiktok demanding your baby has more tummy time; all of Shrek in one gif - and that's just the morning keynote session! #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises 📶

And we're off @ranjodhdhaliwal.com gets right into the material reality of signals and noise, talking about computation and heat- jump onto the livestream www.youtube.com/live/ZGBAJWT...

The new #Catalyst issues has a special section on Knowing Borders: Materialidades, Ecologías, Estéticas. It was an honour to work with a beautifully tense photograph by Nirvana Paz, featuring a mural in a home shelter for Migrants in Mexico, for the cover catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

Yes, you absolutely have it in you to whip up a fab abstract for #AusSTS2025 on this Friday afternoon- deadline 11:59 tonight. It's going to be really fun.

Submissions close TODAY, Friday. Reminder: you don't have know a thing about media theory to find your place in this conference. Zero obligation to reflect on AI! See our website for some ideas of possibilities aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

At PLAAS this week: - The call for papers closes today for our October international conference on Land, Life and Society. - Masterclass on comparative land law in Africa. - Public dialogue with SA's Rural Development and Land Reform Minister - Calls for applications. Read more: shorturl.at/4EtH0

Yep, glowing walls and defunct devices will be looking on at #AusSTS2025. Day 1 is at the National Communication Museum, and we're going to use the space & stuff to think with. Infrastructures, enfolded time & space, translation, listening, silencing, senses. Get in it aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

3 weeks left to submit to #AusSTS2025 #signalsandnoises. We're cooking up an amazing collaboration with the National Communication museum with the support of @admscentre.org.au for day 1. Stay tuned 👀 aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Did I mention the superb photo essays? Who wouldn't want this in their Saturday ritual? NB: A note to folks who are suspicious of Whatsapp delivery -it's all above board. Whatsapp will likely warn you that the pdf may contain harmful things. Don't stress. It's all good. or rather, very very good.

2.) Strongly recommend @thecontinent.org - a smart, thoughtful & aesthetically extremely fine newspaper delivered in the delightful format of a pdf via Whatsapp. African & global news. Stories, a (humbling) quiz. Diverse coverage, sincere retractions, sharp jokes www.thecontinent.org

Two things to spruik on this weird-weather Sunday. First, 'Contested Ecologie's, an edited volume by Lesley Green (2013). #STSers should know that certain publication/ library systems bury it. It's open access, (this link seems broken but msg me for HSRC pdf) hsrcpress.ac.za/product/cont...

It's been really lovely to join the team at Catalyst: Feminism Theory Technoscience journal as an Associate Editor in Production and Design. What a lovely crew! We have a call out for papers and Cover art for our 10Y anniversary issue (on pedagogical reflections) catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

Jane Calvert is asking some home questions - do STS scholars risk getting too close to their fields ('the domestication of critique') and thus excluding more radical voices (such as those from civil society) by our presence and proximity? www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G... #SSNbooktalk

If you're thinking of coming along to #AusSTS2025 but you're not to sure what #STS is really about, I highly recommend jumping on to this stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G... where Jane Calvert is talking about 'a place for sts'. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

It does sure look like Trump is trying to make an example out of South Africa www.vox.com/politics/399.... I hope that we keep seeing what Rebecca Davis reported last week.. 1/2

The CFP is live, STS'ers. Deadline 14 March. Our website has a bunch of ideas for how to riff off this theme, and we're really keen to see lots of Making and Doing- mini installations, posters, sounds bytes and playful provocations. aussts.org/aussts-2025-... #AusSTS2025 #signalsandnoises

Very amped that the call for AusSTS2025 is out - please submit your proposals, please prepare for a lot of sound puns 🤳

Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...