NZ academics... please take a moment to read this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices. 🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961 #Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

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

NEW JOB! Algorithmic Kitchen is hiring a postdoc! The project is seeking a Research Associate with expertise in STS, design, HCI, or critical disability studies to co-create innovative methods and prototypes. Apply by 5 Oct 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

Our next #SSNseminar deals in responses to extreme heat, examining the rift between policy and everyday realities, the gendered nature of heat vulnerability and possibilities and challenges thereto. Join the SSN and Aalok Khandekar, Thursday 7 August www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!

Earlier today I shared Culture Machine's CFP for a collection about shitty university enterprise software, tech vendors, etc. — an editorial project that sounds positively delightful 🤗 I also enjoy thinking about the nepotism and kickbacks behind procurement 💫

We're advertising for a Head of School (Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences) and a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science. Would loooove to have a geographer in either role but especially HoS... ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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

Last year, I had the privilege of delivering the Andrew Webster lecture at the University of York, on the organised irresponsibility of artificial intelligence @satsu-york.bsky.social. The lecture is now online, here vimeo.com/1056586027/a... @stsucl.bsky.social

Closing tomorrow!

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty by Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi & Michelle Murphy in Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/0162...

Yes, the government has managed to squeeze more value out of international students *and* academics while continuing to denigrate and defund any critical scholarship.

We are recruiting for a PhD candidate to join us on the "Embedding Net Zero Carbon Emissions in Northern Australia" ARC Discovery Project + conduct their own Anthropology project (pref. starting late 2025). Full CfA + scholarship details coming soon @karidahlgren.bsky.social @chrismayes.bsky.social

"In the field of Science and Technology Studies, our responsibility is not merely to study what is happening... [but rather work as part of an engaged and situated knowledge practice." Read this from @siobhanfgm.bsky.social in @tapuya.org 👏👏

The editorial collective have been in Naarm Melbourne for our annual planning meeting! Some big things in the works... 🔮🙌✨ Looking forward to sharing them with our STS colleagues soon.

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...

Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...

JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a part-time research fellow to work with me @healthy-societies.bsky.social at @sydneyuni.bsky.social on my research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging, with a specific focus on healthcare worker migration. Applications close 27 April bit.ly/4iAohs3 #Academicsky

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

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

January issue is out now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/sthd/50/1 Featuring an editorial on "Doing STS Now" by Gül et al., research articles on storm warnings, coding beauty and ugliness, synthetic biology, green chemistry, waste tours, and plastics burning. Sounds like #STS to us...