Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.org

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Nice 5-year STS/anthropology post at the ANU working with excellent people on an important project. The institution's had problems but seems to be overcoming them. I like Canberra as a city, too #STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Applications due December 10!

Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...

Looking forward to my time at CRASSH -- eager to exchange ideas and to meet new colleagues!

Check out this exciting event (in-person & online) celebrating the work of Professor Catherine Waldby. Hope to see some of you there! #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS www.sthvschool.org

so cool ...

3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

So pleased to see this out in the world!

We warmly welcome proposals for the Biolegalities Series! And delighted to introduce our advisory board: Amade M’charek, Irus Braverman, Margaret Davies, @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social, Thomas Lemke, Brad Sherman, Britta van Beers, Miguel Vatter, and Catherine Mills. link.springer.com/series/15629 #STS

#AusSTS25 was a blast. Such cool plenaries from @elizabethstephens.bsky.social‬, Jaya Keaney, @blueskychris.bsky.social‬, @wombatscholar.bsky.social and ‬@karilancaster.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the organizers for such a great ride!

Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️ #STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology #AcademicSky

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Such a tremendous loss for STS and legal anthropology! Will miss his sharp analysis, humour, and graceful disposition...

And also his 'masterclass' for early-career researchers, May 29

Looking forward to hosting this talk by Andy Lakoff here at Sydney, May 28. #STS #histstm #preparedness

So much looking forward to this talk by Courtney Addison at UNSW next week! www.events.unsw.edu.au/event/defere...

Can’t wait to read "Land of Famished Beings" by colleague and friend @sophiechao2024.bsky.social! Available from @dukepress.bsky.social in August. #STS #cultanthro

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

And CFP open for AusSTS 2025!! Do consider submitting #STS #HPS !!

Can't wait to go to Ruha Benjamin's talk tomorrow in Sydney!!

Post-doc in planetary health humanities, to work with Andy Lakoff and colleagues at USC on their timely project on 'The city on life support: Los Angeles as a laboratory for planetary health'. Important topic... #STS #envhum #medanthro

Too late to offer a paper but soon registration for HoMSEA in Yogyakarta will open. An interesting article in the NYT on Yogya in the past day or so. While it's not as magical as in 1978, when I first visited, still worth experiencing. Not to forget Solo, only a few hours away, and much quieter....

A revealing report from Rachel Yang on our Sydney meeting last year on the social sciences of epidemic intelligence and disease modelling, when we discussed 'epistemic preparedness' - much to ponder. Organised with @sonjavw.bsky.social & @karilancaster.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social #STS #histstm

Rare #jobfairy alert - lecturer (permanent position, c. assist prof) in Medicine, Health and Society, pref. Global south expertise. #histSTM #STS - deadline 2 March 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Check out this continuing Lecturer opportunity in HPS at USyd (and come hang out with the Sydney STS folks!) Focus: History of science or medicine in Asia/Pacific #histstm #histsci #STS

For the Sydney peeps, do join me in celebrating the launch of Jaya Keaney's book tonight at The Glebe Hotel!

A dream postdoc opportunity with amazing colleagues at Brown (Anthropology of Environment and Health) apply.interfolio.com/159067

Black(sky) to the future!

The text of my Bernal Prize lecture has now appeared in @sthv.bsky.social open access. A brief account of intellectual development and postcolonial science studies. Pleased to appear in a special issue dedicated to my dear friend Adele Clarke #STS #histstm #histsci

Our breaking new is that our November issue is out now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/sthd/49/6 Feat. contributions on "Situating Adele Clarke" by Murphy, Haraway, Oudshoorn + van Wichelen; an editorial on "centripetal and centrifugal forces" in STS; Bernal lectures; research articles + much more

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

Reposting this 2-year postdoc announcement, with clarification that visa sponsorship may be available if needed - so not limited to Australians and Kiwis. Looking for medical anthropologists, STSers, or the like, to work with me and @sonjavw.bsky.social #anthro #STS #histSTM

Come work with me and @wombatscholar.bsky.social at USYD! We have a 2-year postdoc for an early career anthropologist or STS scholar to conduct research on the social, political, and epistemic aspects of medical research and public health. See bit.ly/3XVvhsd. Applications close October 22.

We remember literary scholar Fredric Jameson and his important legacy: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/f...

It's here! So excited to launch Season 3 with Lorraine Daston and Peter Harrison discussing the (sometimes) fraught relationship between scientists and historians. Listening to two such esteemed scholars discuss a topic close to their hearts is a real treat. #hps #sts #histSTM #philsci 🧪

For the Sydney peeps, Marcia Inhorn is visiting us too! Join us on Monday March 18 @ noon AED. Register here: events.humanitix.com/motherhood-o...

Best shit book out there!! Written by my dear mentor and friend @wombatscholar.bsky.social. Available now! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Masha Gessen on Alexey Navalny

march 4, 7pm ET, @ruha9.bsky.social at NYPL on how to push “beyond the constraints of what we think is possible to reimagine a world we want to live in.” / free, in person and streaming online

Heritable genome editing is a social justice issue. That’s why we endorse Social Justice and Human Rights Principles for Global Deliberations on Heritable Genome Editing.  www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-con...

The SSN is hosting Marcia Inhorn in a few weeks for a talk on "Motherhood on Ice." 25 March @ 3pm AEDT in person and online. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

Last day to submit your abstract for the EASST-4S meeting! Consider joining Ann Kelly and me in the open panel (P396) “Probing Openness in Biomedical Platforms: Global Health meets Open Science”. And so psyched to announce @alondra.bsky.social will act as discussant! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Join Ann Kelly and me in Amsterdam for the EASST-4S 2024 and submit an abstract on openness in biomedical platforms before February 12! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...