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/...

"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner) #STS #EASST easst.net/easst-review...

New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu #sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

For all those people out there thinking about writing ...

I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing #tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️ 🔽🔽🔽 sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM

"If Data Is Accounted For, the #USA Has a Trade Surplus with #Canada" New opinion from me for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) #assetization #data #trade #tariff #tradewar #Trump #bigtech www.cigionline.org/articles/if-...

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

ITS in-person Talk @ #YorkU (Kaneff 519): Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW, Australia) on "Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries" #sts #compute #Earth #Toronto || More info: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come join us for in-person film showing! "Becoming the Butterfly" - a film screening & roundtable on brain injuries. 10th April @ 6.30-8.30pm (details below)

Next week! @keanbirch.bsky.social is giving lecture on "Rise of the Tech Oligarchy" as part of the inaugural Richard A. Jarrell Fund Science, Technology & Society talks When: Tues, 25 March @ 3-4.30pm Where: Osgoode Hall IKB 1006, YorkU Keele Registration: natssts.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/vie...

Go see how many of your publications have been used to train #Meta's #artificialintelligence systems!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10. Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

We’re celebrating "Maraña" by Lina Pinto-García (MA ’14, PhD ’20, STS, #YorkU) with an engaging discussion! 📢 Chair: Denielle Elliott 🎙 Speakers: Aryn Martin, Drew Belsky & Luis Van Isschot 📅 Mar 4 | ⏰ 10 AM | 📍 York U | 💻 Hybrid 🔗 Register: rb.gy/qryzik

Just out! My new paper w/ @damolaadediji.bsky.social on #bigtech #personaldata and #competitionpolicy in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social || "Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

#CfP Call for Papers: Exploring Solutions to the Challenges of Our Time: A Positive Turn in Economic #Sociology? Mid-Term Conference of the European Sociological Association #ESA Research Network “Economic Sociology”. 📌 Apply by 1 May 2025. ➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

No more political activism, just boot licking.

@technis4.bsky.social webinar (Tue. 25th of Feb), Conor Douglas, York University, Toronto: "How social pharmaceutical innovations are addressing problems of availability, accessibility and affordability of drugs for rare diseases". To join please visit technisnet.org/seminars/

@zevedi.bsky.social @cais-research.bsky.social @hiigberlin.bsky.social @udkberlin.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @fokuspublic.bsky.social

New research from Institute for Technoscience & Society Director Kean Birch on implications of #bigtech and their control over our #personaldata on competition policy

New paper by ITS member Elisha Lim and colleagues, "Abolish privacy" || firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #privacy #datagovernance

We have the wonderful Fabian Muniesa (@provokedeconomy.bsky.social) talking about his new book "Paranoid Finance" on Monday 10th Feb @ 11am EST It's virtual, so everyone welcome! More details here: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

We have the wonderful Fabian Muniesa (@provokedeconomy.bsky.social) talking about his new book "Paranoid Finance" on Monday 10th Feb @ 11am EST It's virtual, so everyone welcome! More details here: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

New opinion from me in @theglobeandmail.com about #DeepSeek "Artificial intelligence had its day of wrath. And it was good" (not my headline but I like it) #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #OpenAI #AIbubble #STS #oped #CanPoli #scipol || www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

📢 Join us for the York U launch of "Maraña: War & Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" by Lina Pinto-García! Lina earned her MA & PhD in STS at York U. Maraña is the final outcome of her PhD research. 📅 Mar 4 | ⏰ 10 AM 📍 York U | 💻 Hybrid 🔗 Register: rb.gy/qryzik

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Call for papers: @4sweb.bsky.social 4S Open Panel on "Assetization through time and space" organized by myself, Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susi Geiger, & Jacob Hellman #STS #sociology #anthropology #politicaleconomy #assetization www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

Guilherme Cavalcante Silva has just published a paper on "Articulating #AI futures for #Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism" in Critical Policy Studies || www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just out from Yan Shvartzshnaider in @theconversation.com || "Cyberattack affecting school boards spotlights the need for better EdTech regulation in Ontario and beyond" theconversation.com/cyberattack-...

Tech billionaires are throwing their support behind President-elect Donald Trump. On "The Daily," our reporter explains the growing MAGA-fication of Silicon Valley.

We're recruiting Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance, York University, Canada. Deadline 20 Dec 2024. More about role contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl #AIethics #AIgovernance #STS #techlaw www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

Our Annual Research Workshop is about to start in 10 mins. Programme details are here: www.yorku.ca/research/its... If you're interested, then you can log into zoom yorku.zoom.us/j/9819234115...

Interested in technoscientific injustices or in the ways #technoscience is transforming social structures. I look forward to the workshop below! 2 days of presentation on super interesting topics.

The Syllabus has an interesting new page on The Post-neoliberal Moment with a range of curated syllabi on (to simplify) the relationship between #bigtech #platforms & #neoliberalism Well worth a browse www.the-syllabus.com/ts-spotlight...

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I've got a new paper out co-authored w/ Alia Miroshnichenko: "Constructing #digitalassets through #blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens" (open access) #NFT #sts #sociology Out in Social Studies of Science | journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We're holding our 1st Institute Research Workshop next week, showcasing our research on critical studies of #science, #technology & #innovation 5th & 6th December at 10am EST and via Zoom More details on our website: www.yorku.ca/research/its/ #STS #technoscience #sociology #anthropology

We're holding our 1st Institute Research Workshop next week, showcasing our research on critical studies of #science, #technology & #innovation 5th & 6th December at 10am EST and via Zoom More details on our website: www.yorku.ca/research/its/ #STS #technoscience #sociology #anthropology

Job alert ‼️ We are looking to hire two post-doctoral researchers researching values and valuation in the energy transition - based in the #STS research group Human-centred Innovation at the Technical University of Denmark. #sociology #anthropology #STS Please boost 🔁

New Job! Postdoctoral Visitor in AI & Governance at York University (Toronto, Canada). Deadline 20 December 2024. More details about the role are contained in the job ad: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Working with myself, @tdagne.bsky.social & Rob Gehl #AIethics #AIgovernance #STS #techlaw

Are you interested in the linkages between techno-securitisation, today's active colonial relations, and the military-industrial-security complex? We are welcoming submissions for the special issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation. Deadline: April 2025 Full CfP: bit.ly/3CBS9EI

Musk appears to want to ‘address trouble’ by making futures that clear away the present and the past. He is doing this through the significant financial advantages gained from the very system that is part of the ‘horrors of the Anthropocene,' making use of labor practices and tax arrangements [1/3]

The York #STS Grad Student conference is tomorrow! Come hear all the great research going on at York in social studies of #science, #technology & #innovation. You can register for virtual participation.