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As we wrap up 2025, take a look at what Platypus has published this year (including our top ten most popular posts), the annual CASTAC prize winners, and more in our year-in-review post by Managing Editor, Kim Fernandes. blog.castac.org/2025/12/2025...

¿Qué ocurre cuando la teoría progresista colapsa frente a la práctica cotidiana? Este post revisita el caso de Boaventura de Sousa Santos y propone un contra-manual feminista sobre acoso, poder y responsabilidad institucional en la academia. blog.castac.org/multilingual... #antropologia

¿Qué ocurre cuando la teoría progresista colapsa frente a la práctica cotidiana? Este post revisita el caso de Boaventura de Sousa Santos y propone un contra-manual feminista sobre acoso, poder y responsabilidad institucional en la academia. blog.castac.org/multilingual... #antropologia

We are still seeking nominations for our next co-chair for the period 2026-2028. Join us to shape the future of #STS and #anthropology! Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

As we wrap up 2025, take a look at what Platypus has published this year (including our top ten most popular posts), the annual CASTAC prize winners, and more in our year-in-review post by Managing Editor, Kim Fernandes. blog.castac.org/2025/12/2025...

What happens when progressive theory collapses under everyday practice? This new post revisits the Boaventura de Sousa Santos case and proposes a feminist counter-manual on harassment, power, and institutional responsibility in academia. Read it here: blog.castac.org/2025/12/what... #STS

How does lung cancer become visible—and what remains unseen? Today on Platypus, an essay film brings together found medical imaging, critical theory, and original footage to reflect on visibility as a differentially mobilized epistemic practice. blog.castac.org/2025/12/the-...

Today on Platypus, Marilou Polymeropoulou maps the global #Chipscene – a vibrant network where artists hack Game Boys, share knowledge, and create a unique participatory culture. It's a perfect case of DIY ethics, distributed creativity, and community building. blog.castac.org/2025/12/from...

What happens when progressive theory collapses under everyday practice? This new post revisits the Boaventura de Sousa Santos case and proposes a feminist counter-manual on harassment, power, and institutional responsibility in academia. Read it here: blog.castac.org/2025/12/what... #STS

We are still seeking nominations for our next co-chair for the period 2026-2028. Join us to shape the future of #STS and #anthropology! Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

A finger scrolls across platform videos of China’s sculpture factories, but behind these clips are dense layers of labor, touch, and material improvisation. Today on the blog, Renee Yu Jin explores how digital feeds reshape what counts as craft and creative agency: blog.castac.org/2025/12/touc...

We are still seeking nominations for our next co-chair for the period 2026-2028. Join us to shape the future of #STS and #anthropology! Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

Today on Platypus, Marilou Polymeropoulou maps the global #Chipscene – a vibrant network where artists hack Game Boys, share knowledge, and create a unique participatory culture. It's a perfect case of DIY ethics, distributed creativity, and community building. blog.castac.org/2025/12/from...

En este post de la serie de RAFeCT, una antropóloga y cinco adolescentes trazan cómo la juventud, los cuerpos y las tecnologías emergentes se intersectan — una invitación a las texturas inventivas y ciborgianas de crecer hoy. blog.castac.org/multilingual... #STS #anthropology

🚨 𝐂𝐅𝐏 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞 Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI 📅 Date: April 29, 2026 📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person) 💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers! 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org

A finger scrolls across platform videos of China’s sculpture factories, but behind these clips are dense layers of labor, touch, and material improvisation. Today on the blog, Renee Yu Jin explores how digital feeds reshape what counts as craft and creative agency: blog.castac.org/2025/12/touc...

Interested in shaping the future of #STS and #anthropology? CASTAC is seeking nominations for our next co-chair for the period 2026-2028. Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

En este post de la serie de RAFeCT, una antropóloga y cinco adolescentes trazan cómo la juventud, los cuerpos y las tecnologías emergentes se intersectan — una invitación a las texturas inventivas y ciborgianas de crecer hoy. blog.castac.org/multilingual... #STS #anthropology

We are happy to invite you to the 2025 #CASTAC Lecture, featuring Syed Shoaib Ali from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). 📅 When? December 10, 2025. 9:30–11:00 AM EST (20:00–21:30 IST) 📍 Where? Online (Zoom) ✏️ How to join? castacinvitedlecture.eventbrite.com

We are happy to invite you to the 2025 #CASTAC Lecture, featuring Syed Shoaib Ali from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). 📅 When? December 10, 2025. 9:30–11:00 AM EST (20:00–21:30 IST) 📍 Where? Online (Zoom) ✏️ How to join? castacinvitedlecture.eventbrite.com

Final day to apply!

🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

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Interested in shaping the future of #STS and #anthropology? CASTAC is seeking nominations for our next co-chair for the period 2026-2028. Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

We are happy to invite you to the 2025 #CASTAC Invited Lecture, featuring Syed Shoaib Ali from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). 📅 When? December 10, 2025. 9:30–11:00 AM EST (20:00–21:30 IST) 📍 Where? Online (Zoom) ✏️ How to join? castacinvitedlecture.eventbrite.com

CASTAC's web server is experiencing an outage due to a known issue. A planned migration will begin tomorrow to resolve the issue. All CASTAC services are affected, including CASTAC emails 📣

🔍 [Editor’s Picks] Our editors recommend the AI Dossier from @geict.bsky.social ! Explore critical, interdisciplinary perspectives on AI’s societal impacts from a leading STS research group. 🔗 More picks at tapuya.org/resources-2/... #AI #STS #Sociotech

The clock is ticking! Platypus, our blog, is hiring new contributing and multimodal editors for 2026. Send your applications by December 5, 2025! More information on the application process here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/platyp...

We are happy to invite you to the 2025 #CASTAC Invited Lecture, featuring Syed Shoaib Ali from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). 📅 When? December 10, 2025. 9:30–11:00 AM EST (20:00–21:30 IST) 📍 Where? Online (Zoom) ✏️ How to join? castacinvitedlecture.eventbrite.com

We’re still accepting applications for Contributing Editors (CEs) and Multimodal Contributing Editors (MCEs) for Platypus, our blog. Check 3 reasons to join our community with Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor⬇️ More info: blog.castac.org/call-for-mce... #Anthropology #STS #CASTAC

Interested in shaping the future of #STS and #anthropology? CASTAC is seeking nominations for our next co-chair (2026-2028)📣 Send your application to [email protected] by January 5, 2026. More information on the process: castac.org/call-for-co-...

What does it mean to do research at the crossroads of adolescence and cyborgs? In RAFeCT’s new series post, an anthropologist and five teenagers trace how youth, bodies, and emerging technologies intersect — an invitation into the cyborgian textures of growing up. blog.castac.org/2025/11/doin...

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...

Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? Today on #Platypus, Sakari Mesimäki takes us through the Finnish startup landscape to explore how new progressive narratives are rehabilitating shareholder value. blog.castac.org/2025/11/reno...

[Español/Tradução para português na descrição] 🔴¡ABIERTA LA INSCRIPCIÓN PARA SUMARSE AL V ELAD COMO ASISTENTE! 🛜Durante los días 3, 4 y 5 de diciembre se estará desarrollando el V Encuentro Latinoamericano de Antropología Digital, cuya temática de este año es “Navegando la cotidianidad”. 🧵1/8🧵

We want to meet you tomorrow!🙌 CASTAC is hosting an informal networking event for current and prospective members. Join us and meet scholars who work at the intersection of STS with anthropology. See you at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting🙂

Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? Today on #Platypus, Sakari Mesimäki takes us through the Finnish startup landscape to explore how new progressive narratives are rehabilitating shareholder value. blog.castac.org/2025/11/reno...

See you tomorrow!

Still hesitant about sending your application to work on our blog? Here are 3 reasons to join Platypus as a contributing editor💡 by Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor kimfernandes.com

Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors! Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 castac.org/castac-award...

Many in China are buying residential apartments not to live in, but to store relatives’ ashes. In this thought-provoking piece, Xinyi Wu explores how “bone ash apartments” intersect with housing policy, real estate, shifting beliefs, and urban life. blog.castac.org/2025/11/spac...

Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors! Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 castac.org/castac-award...

Still hesitant about sending your application to work on our blog? Here are 3 reasons to join Platypus as a contributing editor💡 by Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor kimfernandes.com

2️⃣ [Volume 2] This volume deepens our collective exploration of how science and technology are made, unmade, and remade from Latin America. Across its clusters, Volume 2 expands conversations between ethnography, postcolonial STS, feminist epistemologies, and the politics of knowledge.

This week on Platypus, what can space selfies tell us about orbit and home?🛰️ Read the essay by Denis Sivkov right here: blog.castac.org/2025/11/spac... Also available in Russian: blog.castac.org/multilingual...

We want to meet you!🙌 CASTAC is hosting an informal networking event for current and prospective members. Join us and meet scholars who work at the intersection of STS with anthropology. See you at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting🙂

Are you ready for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting? We sure are! Join us for the CASTAC Business Meeting to review our achievements during 2025 and our plans for 2026. Details below ⬇️

En la cultura andina, las constelaciones se forman observando los espacios entre las estrellas. Martina di Tullio utiliza este ejemplo para contarnos sobre su experiencia haciendo etnografía en Cusi Cusi, un poblado en la Puna de Jujuy, al noroeste de Argentina: blog.castac.org/multilingual...

Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors! Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉https://castac.org/castac-awards/diana-forsythe-prize/