Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control? Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq#KnowingMicrobes#epistemic#sake#brewery#Japan:#makingspaceforMicrobes

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society 👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn#microbes#microbiome#mind:#scienceinculture #scicomm

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment @RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm#lymedisease #ticks #chronicillness

How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats? @anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp

Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr#cholera’s#pathogenicity#Haiti:#Fanon #Wynter

Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots 👀Read by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies? 👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj#STS#microbes#ecologies?#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies? 👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj#STS#microbes#ecologies?#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking: Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation? https://doi.org/pzvh

📢Issue 11.1 out now! 7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes +1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations 👀https://bit.ly/4m31ese

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr#interventions#datafication#mobility?#Manifesto#alterity#datafication:#borders #ProcessCitizens

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr#interventions#datafication#mobility?#Manifesto#alterity#datafication:#borders #ProcessCitizens

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood 👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky... & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp

Farmers’ #embodied #knowledge in #AlternativeAgriculture resists the bureaucratic technological & economic #expertise even when it seeks to enable the farmers’ #agency Dimas Dwi Laksmana on the knowledge politics of agricultural #development in Indonesia: https://doi.org/pcgq

While both human centric + automated approaches to #AirportSecurity center the detection of 'harmful intentions', they follow different #epistemologies + #politics 👀Kühne & Paul on the #automatization of airport secruity: https://doi.org/pcgn

Narratives of #sustainability often leave larger logics of profit & ecological degradation unchallenged 👀C. A. Salling & J. Maguire on the #politics of #excess in re-using the excess #energy of Facebook datacenters for a Danish non-profit heating system: https://doi.org/pcgf

Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US 👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd

Developments in #AirPollution #governance in Canada culminated in treating the #atmosphere as a sink, invisibilizing chemical harm + deferring interventions 👀@sophia_jaworski on #petrochemical - derived gas emissions in Toronto 1950s-1970s: https://doi.org/pcgc

With deep sadness we pay respects to the passing of Professor Sandra Harding Her work in feminism philosophy & STS has been pivotal to shaping STS over several decades 👀Harding's response to Sharon Traweek featured in our Editorial Collective’s 1st Vol: https://doi.org/hbw6

📢Issue 10.3 out now! 8 articles on environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, and surveillance The editorial, includes thanks to reviewers and a call for new editorship: doi.org/pcf8

The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for @estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Expression of Interest: Next editorial team for our diamond open access journal— Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) More on the call here: www.4sonline.org/engaging_sci... And for enquiries contact our Editor-in-Chief: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Expression of Interest: The search begins for the next Editorial Team for— diamond open access journal: Engaging Science, Technology, & Society (ESTS) Read more here: 4sonline.org/news_manager... For more info email the Editor-in-Chief via the email here: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

What shape does #standardization take in #medicine when #uncertainty prevails? Read Benoît Pouget on the role of the French military health service in the standardization of the management of #flu epidemics in the inter-war period: https://doi.org/n2n6n

Norms of #vaccination as a main focus of #postcolonial health care are shaped by the synchronization of a wide range of entities Read Noémi Tousignant's article on the politics of routine childhood vaccination schedule in West Africa: https://doi.org/n2nv

Colonial #infrastructures still shape #MedicalTechnologies even as processes of global #standardization invisibilize them @arohelmet about the yellow fever vaccine in French colonial Africa and global health: https://doi.org/nvz9#infrastructures#MedicalTechnologies#standardization#twitterstorians #colonialism #histbiology

What does the uneven neglect of #typhoid in global health owe to #colonial bacteriology & global north #biosecurity? Learn fm @Kirchhelle & @CKirchhelle about #Bacteriophages, #PhagesTyping and Northern #Taxonomies of power in #Microbiology: https://doi.org/nvz8

The making of the #MolecularGaze can be traced to overlooked #experimental lab practices of #MicrobialCultures connecting #ColonialMedicine to postwar life science Read Charles A. Kollmer on the circulation and study of blood parasites: https://doi.org/nvz7

Scientific + public #controversies around randomized controlled trials shed light on their contigent role as the 'gold standard' of #GlobalHealth interventions @SJVanders on the #WormWars & contested ways of measuring the impact of deworming programmes: https://doi.org/nvz6

How did (post-)colonial lab + public health #infrastructures create #microbial #standards? What configurations of (non-)humans did they support & how are they contested? Read @arohelmet & @Kirchhelle's Intro to their thematic collection: https://doi.org/nvz5#infrastructures#microbial#standards?#histbiology

How did (post-)colonial lab + public health #infrastructures create #microbial #standards? What configurations of (non-)humans did they support & how are they contested? Read @arohelmet & @Kirchhelle's Intro to their thematic collection: https://doi.org/nvz5#infrastructures#microbial#standards?#histbiology

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require? Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require? Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

How is #STS a form of #CriticalPedagogy? What reflexive, creative + political work does it require? Learn fm a #collective of scholars & students about such questions that they developed in their #workshop: https://doi.org/nvzq Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

How can narratives of offical statistics — presented as objective + neutral — be challenged through #CriticalData #pedagogy? @maka_suarez @trading_affects & Flores on teaching violent death statistics in Ecuador: https://doi.org/nvz4 Associated data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

How can narratives of offical statistics — presented as objective + neutral — be challenged through #CriticalData #pedagogy? @maka_suarez @trading_affects & Flores on teaching violent death statistics in Ecuador: https://doi.org/nvz4 Associated data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

How may #BigData's dream of timelessness be countered through #CriticalPedagogy? @wrongrrl on #pedagogy of #SituatedData in #community archives — the #BiologicalComputerLab + #CommunityDataClinic at @UofIllinois: https://doi.org/nvz3 Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

What contributions to #pedagogy, particularly in #technical universities, can #feminist #STSLabs make? Read fm @kaisirlin @xmacex @simyk4ur @WEH_Oxford @bdi_oxford about their work at @ethosITU: https://doi.org/nvzw Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...#pedagogy,#technical#feminist#STSLabs#LifeAtITU

How may vulnerability encourage #TransnationalSolidarities in learning spaces through merging the personal + political? Read @BhadraMonamie’s proposal for (self-)critical #pedagogy in teaching #STS in #Singapore: https://doi.org/nvzt Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

#theater as #STSPedagogy can help disrupt #hierarchies & the model of #teaching as information transmission @caushana M. Berman @gluzmania & @sa_klein's #FeministTheoryTheater as critical embodied pedagogy of reading: https://doi.org/nvzs Workbook: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

#theater as #STSPedagogy can help disrupt #hierarchies & the model of #teaching as information transmission @caushana M. Berman @gluzmania & @sa_klein's #FeministTheoryTheater as critical embodied pedagogy of reading: https://doi.org/nvzs Workbook: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

#STSpedagogies are crafted in #CollaborativeFormations of learning & research that challenge power & cut across disciplines, sites & locations Read the intro of the thematic collection by E. York & @Honoluluskye: https://doi.org/nvzp Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

#STSpedagogies are crafted in #CollaborativeFormations of learning & research that challenge power & cut across disciplines, sites & locations Read the intro of the thematic collection by E. York & @Honoluluskye: https://doi.org/nvzp Associated Data: n2t.net/ark:/81416/p...

In this #Engagements, S. Chao & K. Hetherington draw fm their #ethnographies to tell stories of #monocrop industries’ entanglements w/ #technoscience, global supply chains & changing forms of violent #land #governance: https://doi.org/nvzm#Engagements,#ethnographies#monocrop#technoscience,#land#governance:#agribiopolitics #4SCarsonPrize2022

In this #Engagements, S. Chao & K. Hetherington draw fm their #ethnographies to tell stories of #monocrop industries’ entanglements w/ #technoscience, global supply chains & changing forms of violent #land #governance: doi.org/nvzm #agribiopolitics #4SCarsonPrize2022

Far fm mitigating #injustice, ‘renewable energies’ entrench #extractivism affecting marginalized communities Powell et al. on #bioenergy dev in rural North Carolina + forms of Indigenous & African American #activism: doi.org/nvzn #CollabResearch #Greenwashing #EJ