How do crime analysts navigate the tensions between data from police reporting and the request to produce data analysis for governance purposes? How does it affect knowledge production in police work? 👀Read by M. Leese: https://doi.org/qjzw #Standardization #Desrosières

What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given? 👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: https://doi.org/qjxb#STS

How may following the embodied and tactile worlding of the #durian fruit add generative possibilities to well-rehearsed critiques of #AreaStudies? 👀"Manifesto of the Durian" by @FadjarThufail: https://doi.org/qjwq#durian#AreaStudies?#SoutheastAsia #EntangledAreas #Multispecies #Topology

#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders 👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: https://doi.org/qjv4#Areas#multispecies

By following #malaria across Greater Mekong #borderlands—& its links to Africa through parasites, research networks + postcolonial histories—this article rethinks what #regions are & why they matter for #GlobalMalariaControl 👀Read by @imagethnography: https://doi.org/qjvz

How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area? 👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: https://doi.org/qjnw#RacialBelonging#PopularTerritories#area?#Indonesian#UrbanYouth:#Blackness #Circulation

Taking the example of peripheral urban gardens in Manila @ksaguin reconceptualizes #Area within #Urbanism + #SoutheastAsia, shifting from static spatial formulations toward its generative capacities for multiplicity & heterogeneity 👀https://doi.org/qh2x#Area#Urbanism#SoutheastAsia,#UrbanEntangledAreas

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: https://doi.org/qh2v#SoutheastAsia#area#EconomicGeology#GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: https://doi.org/qh2v#SoutheastAsia#area#EconomicGeology#GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

How can rising fine-dust pollution in #Zomia signal how this historically autonomous highland region of #SoutheastAsia is being transformed by new forms of #EnvironmentalExploitation? 👀Read by @jonanthro: https://doi.org/qh2t#Zomia#SoutheastAsia#EnvironmentalExploitation?#Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas

How do #Indonesia’s #tsunami-warning systems mediate social + environmental life, shaping and interconnecting imagined spaces and the meanings different groups attach to them? 👀 Read Irina Rafliana's engagement: https://doi.org/qhwf#Indonesia’s#tsunami-warning#EntangledAreas #SoutheastAsia

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh#buoyancy#FloatingCities#SoutheastAsia’s#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh#buoyancy#FloatingCities#SoutheastAsia’s#CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia 👀 https://doi.org/qhcm#collaborative

How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to? 👀@[email protected] + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": https://doi.org/qg64#entanglement#areas#SoutheastAsia#Anthropocene?

📢Issue 11.2 out now! 12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection ++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting 👀https://bit.ly/49RT8PW

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

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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