New OnlineFirst article: "Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China" by Jun Zhang, Jack Linzhou Xing + Gonçalo D. Santos #enchantment #technology #platform #mythology #techno-optimism #speculativecapitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics" by Daniel Navon + Kathryne Metcalf #endophenotypes #deepphenotyping #psychiatry #biobanks #raredisease #postgenomics #genetics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "From The Lancet to Duterte: How COVID-19 Scientific Articles Figured in Policy and Public Discourse in the Philippines" by Gideon Lasco #knowledgetranslation #evidence #expertise #COVID-19 #TheLancet #globalhealth #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems" by Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings" by Shelly Tsui, Sebastian Pfotenhauer + Gunter Bombaerts #engagement #citizenship #innovation #smartcity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile" by Hugo Sir #evolutionaryetiologies #ADHD #neurodiversity #biosociality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⏰Deadline is tomorrow!!! ⏰

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am so looking forward to spending time with the next generations of STS scholars in South Korea next summer (I'll be keynote instructor)! It's a great opportunity especially for those who are STS-curious, and may not have strong training in the field. Join us! Applications close on December 10th.

Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: '“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media' by Emily Dawson #media #popularculture #television #newspapers #sciencecommunication #knowledgeproduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers #catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper alert! A new article in @sthv.bsky.social reflects on how EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch program uses computational civic notebooks to intervene in environmental data regimes that otherwise sustain a harmful permission-to-pollute system. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

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...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?" by Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social #constructivist #politicaleconomy #assetization #LangdonWinner #RobertMoses #adtech #generativeAI #techbros journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Friction and Promise in Data Labor" by Minna Ruckenstein + Tuukka Lehtiniemi #datafication #friction #datalabor #prison #human-fueled #automation #aspiration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10. Please circulate widely!

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

New OnlineFirst article: "Hard-Earned Glimpses: Using GPS Tracking in Dementia Care" by Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard + Anders Albrechtslund #GPStracking #dementia #carework #surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "“This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies" by Jennifer Gabrys @planetarypraxis.bsky.social #forests #treeplanting #restoration #climatetechnology #technicity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

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/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Market Devices and the Assetization of Neglected Diseases: A Case Study of Leishmaniasis Drug Development" by Mady Malheiros Barbeitas #neglected #tropicaldiseases #publicprivatepartnerships #leishmaniasis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Looks like an interesting new article in @sthv.bsky.social on "Market devices and the #assetization of #NeglectedDiseases: A case study of #Leishmaniasis drug development" by Mady Malheiros Barbeitas #sts #pharma journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article (OA): "The Architectures of Secrecy: Negotiating Openness and Privacy in Buildings of Science and Technology" by Benjamin Blackwell @benjaminblackwell.bsky.social #architecture #laboratorydesign #scaleup #graphene #academiccapitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

Super proud to share the research Casey lead on how climate change is shifting the co-existence of agriculture and artisanal gold mining in rural Colombia! @sthv.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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....

New OnlineFirst article: "Rethinking Extractivism in a Changing Climate: Complementary Gold and Coffee Livelihoods in the Steep, Tropical Andes" by Casey Gibson and @thatminesgirl.bsky.social Jessica Smith #undergroundSTS #geopolitics #rural #agriculture #mining journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So sad that a dear friend and colleague, Mario Biagioli, died a few days ago, far too young. I find it hard to believe: Mario seemed always so vital, so full of energy and enthusiasm, a true intellectual. A great loss #histstm #histsci #STS