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Get ready for the open call for panels next week! More soon.

The deadline for nominating for 4S Prizes for our Society is extended until December 31st! Get your nominations in for our suite of prizes (Edge, Mullins, STSInfra, Carson, Fleck, Bernal). Self-nominations are more than welcome, they are encouraged: www.4sonline.org/4s_prizes.php

We're hiring!👀👀 The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract) More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager... Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025 Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.

Enjoy the last day at #4sSeattle2025! Please join us today at 4S— 08:30 – 10:20 Threaded Keynote: Bordering Summit (Convention Center) Rooms 327-329 and 10:40 – 12:30 Roundtable for Sandra Harding Summit (Convention Center) Rooms 327-329

I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.

@4sweb.bsky.social The Presidential Plenary and Reception will start in less than 30mins in SUMMIT Convention Center, walk on Pine to 9th. Go to back of the floor level and go up to the 4th floor for plenary. Reception is on 3rd floor. Do not get confused by other convention center called Arch.

License to Spill, spotted at 4S! @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

@4sonline.bsky.social Please join us today at 4S— 08:30 – 10:20 Threaded Keynote: Bordering Summit (Convention Center) Rooms 327-329 and 10:40 – 12:30 Roundtable for Sandra Harding Summit (Convention Center) Rooms 327-329

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Michel Callon. We are adding a note to our August Technoscience newsletter for all members, who will receive this news today. There will also be a post on our website later today.

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.

24h left to register to be included in 4S Seattle 2025 final program! Deadline: Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time) xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem... Items not registered will be removed on Aug 2 & panels will be readjusted to accommodate changes Any Q.s email: web [at] 4sonline [dot] org

48 hours left to register to be included in the final program for the 4S Seattle 2025 conference. Please register before Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time). Register here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem... Any FAQs email: web [at] 4sonline [dot] org

⏰72 hours ⏰left to register to be included in the final program for the 4S Seattle 2025 conference. Please register before Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time). Register here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Check out this year’s Threaded Keynotes on—Art Scenes, Bordering, & Political Water Each panel brings together scholar-practitioners at different career stages to think together about pressing issues in STS tinyurl.com/27dk4whh

Finalising where to stay for 4SSeattle25? Please book accommodation at the Seattle Sheraton via this link book.passkey.com/event/509903.... Why? Read on… 1/3

📣 Last call for visa letters to attend 4S Seattle 2025!  We've returned 74 visa letters within 24 hours of receiving the correct details. 1/3

Announcing the 2025 4S Elections: 🎉 Congratulations 🎉 Grant Otsuki Dana Powell Martin Pérez Comisso Sonja van Wichelen & 6S rep Vivian Giang Thank you for your vital service to our Society! Thank you members for your vote! It was a very close election!

Less than 24h to vote on the 2025 elections for 4S Council. Please vote before Mon July 14, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time). View ✅candidates 📷 here: 4sonline.org/4s_elections... To vote—become a 4S member—here because members receive an email to vote: 4sonline.org/preliminary_...

• Presenters, don't forget to register before August 1, if you still want to appear in the program. You can register here: lnkd.in/eYT7Syv3 • The 2025 program can be found here: lnkd.in/gJ5ZiAE3 • Any changes to the program— please use the following form: lnkd.in/gJwNJahj

Last chance to vote on the 2025 elections for 4S Council. Please vote before Mon July 14, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time). View ✅candidates ✅ here: www.4sonline.org/4s_elections... To vote—become a 4S member—here because members receive an email to vote: www.4sonline.org/preliminary_...

Vote now! Less than one week to go to vote on the 2025 elections for 4S Council. View ✅candidates ✅ here: www.4sonline.org/4s_elections... To vote—become a 4S member—here: www.4sonline.org/preliminary_... Members receive an email to vote. Deadline: July 14, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time)

Vote now! 2025 elections for 4S Council are now live! View the ✅candidates ✅here: www.4sonline.org/4s_elections... To vote—become a 4S member— here: www.4sonline.org/preliminary_... Members receive an email to vote. Please vote before Monday July 14, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time).

• Presenters, don't forget to register before August 1, if you still want to appear in the program. You can register here: lnkd.in/eYT7Syv3 • The 2025 program can be found here: lnkd.in/gJ5ZiAE3 • Any changes to the program— please use the following form: lnkd.in/gJwNJahj

The 🏆4S Mullins Prize winner for 2025🏆 is Anin Luo for “Animal Scientism: Making Biology Experimental in Republican China.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 19(1): 8–36. Read more here: 4sonline.org/2025_anin_lu...

The 🏆4S Edge Prize winner for 2025 🏆is Kim De Wolff for “‘Floating things’ and methodological drift: Accounting for haunted materialities in the North Pacific Ocean.” Social Studies of Science 54(4): 536–556. Read more here: 4sonline.org/2025_kim_de_...

Check out this year's #4sSeattle25 Presidential Plenary which features Candis Callison and Dian Million on generative dis/connections between Indigenous Studies and STS here: www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...

Check out this year's #4sSeattle25 Presidential Plenary which features Candis Callison and Dian Million on generative dis/connections between Indigenous Studies and STS here: www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...

📣The Prelim program is now live in three different formats (Word, PDF and Live)!📣 Please send corrections by July 1, and make sure to register before Aug 1 to be in the final program www.4sonline.org/preliminary_...

📣Infrastructure Prize winners for 2025! —Digital STS For more read the announcement here: 4sonline.org/sts_infrastr...

Carson Prize winner for 2025! Emily Yates-Doerr’s Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm 4sonline.org/2025_emily_y...

Fleck Prize winner for 2025! Lisa Yin Han’s Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Sea Floor 4sonline.org/2025_lisa_yi...

4S is scoping out the level interest in creating a mutual support network for scholars of all stages w/ HSS and SHOT for “Cultivating Community Among International Scholars in Uncertain Times.” Please fill in the following survey (takes <5 mins): forms.gle/FD63QKGjXNJk...

Register today before 23:59 ET to receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025. 🐥 Early-bird extended to May 7. Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first: tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v

Register today before 23:59 ET to receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025. 🐥 Early-bird extended to May 7. Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first: tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v

As a 4S member you can nominate and self-nominate for upcoming 4S Council positions until May 16: 4S: forms.gle/rovFdXdRVKqV... 6S: forms.gle/Nca8jZJkGsRo... More here: 4sonline.org/4s_elections....

Less than 48h to go to register & receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025. 🐥 Early-bird extended to May 7. Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first: tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v

While these offers come at a significant financial loss, 4S made the decision to offer this support. 4S exec & organizing committees & Council, are doing their best to support members, & we urge the 4S community wherever possible to support us through such hard times. 3/3

4S is undertaking many steps to help and support our members during their visit to Seattle for the conference. We have given 100 registration fee waivers this year & we've offered hybridity for those who want to connect online. 2/3

One week to go to register & receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025. Early-bird EXTENDED to May 7. Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first: tinyurl.com/4nt59r4v 1/3

Dr. Adele E. Clarke, a distinguished sociologist and trailblazing figure in women's health and STS, passed away on January 19. As we bid farewell to her, we honour a pioneering scholar, mentor, and activist whose legacy will continue to shape the field. 4sonline.org/news_manager...

From Backchannels: James Merron describes the tensions and contestations over waves, interference and frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum at the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO). 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Are you a linguistic anthropologist (or related scholar/researcher) working on LLMs? Submit an abstract to this open panel for EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam organized by me, @mcastelle.bsky.social, and Siri Lamoureaux!

Lots of presence from socialmicrobes.org at the upcoming EASST and @4sweb.bsky.social conference in Amsterdam in July 2024. Check all of the panels with involvement of CSSM members here: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/cssm...

In our latest #Backchannels post Lissette Lorenz Barkha Kaglliwal and Amanda Domingues take us to "TrevorFest", a weekend of reflection, recollection, and celebration of Trevor Pinch’s work, recounting his unique legacy in the field of STS. 4sonline.org/news_manager...

The #EASST4S2024 Call for Abstracts is open! Submit your proposals to Open Panels, Making & Doing, Workshops, Roundtables, Closed Panels and Meet-Ups till February 12th via: easst4s2024.net/callforabstr... Questions? [email protected]

📍Saturday M&D Workshops at 4S Honolulu 2023 - W13. The Pacific Ocean as relational method and source of knowledge 🌊🏊 - W11. For My Friend, Earth: Rethinking Data and Behaviour in a Plastic World - Part 2🌎 - W10. Vagina Chorus: Embodiment through playful world travelling🪷

Excited to present at @4sweb.bsky.social today! Join us for a discussion on "Plasticity of Data and the Problematics of Containment." 🕒 08:30-10:20 AM 📍 Room: 301A Hope to see you there!

A special " In Conversation" session - Saturday (13:30 -15:20 311) brings together EiJ protectors, activists, organizers and scholars at 4SHonolulu23 for a roundtable interweaving stories of environmental injustice and contamination shared across 9 EPA administrative regions.