It was a busy but incredibly fruitful and inspirational few days in London. An absolute delight to be involved.

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board: - Kimberly Chong (UCL) - Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS) - Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex) - Joy Y. Zhang (Kent) Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

Huge thanks to Shaofeng Hu (UNESCO) & @francoisefrancois.bsky.social for inspiring keynotes, and to our brilliant speakers & discussants for their transdisciplinary insights 🙏 @itswiggins.bsky.social @annettemarkham.bsky.social @annetteboaz.bsky.social @davidludwig.bsky.social @gsej.bsky.social

Absolutely intellectually spoiled these past 2 days! At ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement’ in London, leading thinkers in science, diplomacy & public engagement from 4 continents came together to explore how the ODESSI framework (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) can guide global dialogues on science 🌍✨

📢 Current Sociology Monographs' new CFP: Rethinking Socio-Ecological Sociology: New Horizons in the Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Climate Emergency & Socio-Ecological Practices. @isa-sociology.org @rc48-isa.bsky.social Abstracts+ short bio by 15 Oct 2025. Full call: tinyurl.com/v2efwt9h

We're excited for the relaunch of ISA's "Presidential Corner"! Explore the newly reactivated Corner on our website. Read the latest letter from ISA President @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social (2023-2027) to the members, find recent addresses, articles, interviews and podcasts.

Is the Global South a hotbed for scandalous ‘firsts’? 🌍 My open-access Journal of Responsible Innovation article explores cases in #India, #China & #Mexico to show how epistemic injustice shapes #RRI—and why ethical governance must enable epistemic socialisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book now for the Webinar on 30 Sept to find out more about the Travel grants up to £5000 to support UK-US exchanges for researchers & industry working on #CriticalMinerals & materials. Apply by 15 Oct. Don't miss out book your place #UKUSCollaboration #ResearchFunding

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Why I caution against framing cutting-edge science as ‘controversial’.

Really pleased to see the @britsciassoc.bsky.social report on public engagement in engineering biology out- five vital messages to enable better research, policy and future scale-up.

We’re pleased to host the Care-full Synthesis programme, led by @joyzhang.bsky.social, as part of the new Wellcome-funded Synthetic Human Genome Project. The programme collaborates globally with research & civil society partners. Postdoc recruitment opening soon. research.kent.ac.uk/global-scien...

Great to see this timely report published. cms.wellcome.org/sites/defaul...

Delighted to be part of the panel on current ISA’s involvement with the United Nations at #ISAforum25 alongside Allison Loconto and Lucie Vidovićová, chaired by Jan Fritz. There’s always something fascinating to learn from fellow ISA colleagues!

RIP Steven Rose. His book “The Chemistry of Life” helped this A-level student 50 year ago (I told him this in a tapas bar in Madrid in the 90s; he said he didn’t think much of the book). His book Lifelines is excellent.

As series editor, I’m thrilled that the first ISA session on the SSIS books went so well! We explored how Key Texts for Japanese Sociology contributes to rethinking global sociology. #isaforum25 @isa-sociology.org

Exciting news: @univie.ac.at created new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! We’ve just opened our first call for applications — for both senior and junior fellows. If you’re working on something bold, interdisciplinary, and timely, take a look: vicas.univie.ac.at

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Rabat! I’ll be wearing my editor’s hat—see you at our various publication sessions next week and the UN one next Thursday!

Thank you @peaseroland.bsky.social for inviting Jason and me to discuss the Synthetic Human Genome and the associated Care-full Synthesis project. It’s always a great pleasure to share our research progress with the Science in Action audience. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... (starting 17:00)

As we gear up to welcome 830 colleagues from 65 countries to UCL for #Metascience2025, we’re delighted to publish RoRI’s impact report, outlining our projects & progress over the past 2.5 yrs. researchonresearch.org/roris-impact... Huge thanks to all our partners & team @rorinstitute.bsky.social

Had a good debate with David King last night on Times Radio (1:38:00–1:52:00). We must recognise the diverse, complex needs of different communities and not see them as submissive or powerless. Everyone has insight and agency to inform and shape science. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Also on the programme to discuss the ethical and social aspects, social scientist @joyzhang.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/joyz...

The other big item also goes back a long way for me, the £10M project just announced by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to explore the possibility of synthesising the entire human genome in the lab. Jason Chin showed me the basic approach 6 years ago, and joins us again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

On this day in 2000, the human genome draft was published. On this day in 2025, the synthetic genome project begins. Honoured to lead Care-full Synthesis—exploring SynHG's socio-ethical dimensions worldwide. The future is ours to shape, with care. wellcome.org/news/new-pro...

'Speculative Machines and Us' symposium at Lancaster University on Thursday 17th July 🤖 Organised by @carolynpedwell.bsky.social, one of GSEJ’s key founding members—so you just know it’s going to be brilliant! Please register here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

Excited to announce that the FULL PROGRAMME for the British Academy-funded 'Speculative Machines and Us' symposium at Lancaster University on Thursday 17th July is now available 🤖 ✨ 🧐 . Registration still open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

New! Sociology In Podcast - Episode 10🎙️ Sociology in India with Maitrayee Chaudhuri. @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jseE...

My article on the CRISPR Summits published online today and temporarily open access (Read for FREE now) www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

We’re incredibly excited to be working with all the creators and their teams to explore the socio-ethical dimensions of this exciting frontier in plant technologies. ‘Futuring Biological Commons’ is all about sparking fresh ways to question, connect, and co-create as bold new innovations take root.

The event features lightning talks from Tara Mahfoud (@essexuni.bsky.social) Clarissa Reche (State University of Campinas, Brazil), Marta Bertolaso (University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome), Jill Shepherd (@kent.ac.uk), with comments from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social

We're thrilled to co-host with the @britsoci.bsky.social STS Study Group this exciting online panel discussion on how #STS can advance #EpistemicJustice. 🕑 Mon 23 Jun 14:00-15:30 London Time All are welcome! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sts-for-ep...

✨Very excited to share details of our British Academy-funded one-day symposium at Lancaster University in July: SPECULATIVE MACHINES AND US: HISTORIES AND FUTURES OF AI. ✨💥Featuring @ohalpern.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social @aleenachia.bsky.social and more💥 tinyurl.com/bde6x7ub Please share widely!

We’re expanding! We’re excited to announce two new #postdoc positions focused on the socio-ethical and policy dimensions of #EngineeringBiology -with three more coming next month. Please help us spread the word! #jobs #STS #syntheticbiology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR502/r...

We also created an online tool for the structured assessment of the public value of data use: pluto.univie.ac.at @nikolausf.substack.com #AlgoSoc2025

Our "Guide to communicating microbiomes in the media", created in collaboration @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social aims to help navigate the complexities of communicating microbiome research. Click the link in our bio to read and download the guide.

We’re expanding! We’re excited to announce two new #postdoc positions focused on the socio-ethical and policy dimensions of #EngineeringBiology -with three more coming next month. Please help us spread the word! #jobs #STS #syntheticbiology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR502/r...

Let me take this low-news days to say that colleagues and I are now soliciting abstracts for a special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness: 'Urban Experiences of Health and Illness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Wellbeing in the City.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

“Denis Rebrikov, MD, the Russian scientist who stated publicly in 2019 that he wanted to use CRISPR to help deaf couples edit embryos to become hearing-enabled ..now says he is no longer pursuing HHGE for deafness because “deaf couples don’t want hearing children.” www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...

A new report I worked on for NAS on AI and biosecurity is out today - we looked at risks posed by SOTA AI and opportunities to use AI to improve biosecurity. It builds on a report we wrote back in 2018, which feels like a million years ago in AIxBio! nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28868

Very pleased to join the editorial board of @criticalpolicy.bsky.social this year, even though it meant giving up my role in another favorite journal.

Science diplomacy is needed more now than at any time in history, given the scale of challenges the world faces. Research is often described as a form of ‘soft power’ diplomacy… The first step towards protecting science diplomacy must be to protect science itself. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

The Topical Collection "Legacies of Asilomar" I co-edited with Luis Campos for the Journal of the History of Biology, is online! It includes essays by Matthew Cobb, Doogab Yi, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, and me (with S. de Chadarevian), all available in Open Access! link.springer.com/collections/...

Hub theme leader meets with UK's top Government scientist. (Shared with kind permission from University of York.) www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

This Monday in Johannesburg

When we published our science diplomacy report a few weeks back we didn’t expect the industry case study to be quite so (worryingly) timely. (Full report link in next reply)

Registration for #Metascience2025 is now open! Join us in London from 30 June to 2 July for the largest gathering yet of the global metascience community metascience.info/registration/ @rorinstitute.bsky.social @cos.io

We will be presenting the importance of Responsible Handover of AI in scientific research as part of the Science Council's Lunch & Learn series on the 13 March 12-1pm as part of #BritishScienceWeek 2025! Book in for the free zoo link: buytickets.at/sciencecouncil

This is the first coverage I've come across that illuminates what went on rather than dealing in outrage vs justice www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Europe as “a haven” for US researcher - The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House #AcademicSky 🧪 sciencebusiness.net/internationa...