New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error:
“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”
CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.
The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)
I think it makes sense to call today the "official" start date of one of my two research leave projects around the notion of "Living and Working in Space", and I'm hoping to document it at least partly in the form of threads on here...so, here goes, follow this for more (imminent) detail!
Thank you #PublicBooks & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of #OilBeach!! So honored 😊
"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"
“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”
Did someone on here say they were thinking or reading about a connection btwn the "user turn" in STS and neoliberalism, or did I hallucinate that? @sts#STS
Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!
Can anyone recommend a good, accessible (to students) reading on tech hype cycles? Not, ideally, a specific case, but a more general treatment of the phenomenon
Holy sh*t, people are buying billboard space to "advertise" how #LongCovid is affecting them. Update the culture jamming & people's plague management handbooks I guess. #STS#Commodon#MedAnthro
I'm putting together a reading list for a course on (un)sustainable AI. The goal is to keep it varied and not too theoretical. What are your suggestions? #sustainability#ai#aiethics#academia#sts
Might any of the #urbanstudies#envhum#anthropology#sts colleagues here know of any interesting critique or analysis of "nature-based solutions" and their growing prevalence in contemporary urban arenas worth reading? Thanks in advance!
Looking forward to reading Dominic Boyer’s new book No More Fossils @UMinnPress. Somehow appropriate to have a Formica tabletop as the background for this snapshot
📦 🚢 Wow, Supply Studies curated by @dochock has some neat stuff coming up in the spring!
"a speaker series bringing together scholars & organizers to discuss logistical justice & examine the possibilities of reconciliation in an era of #SupplyChain#capitalism"
Featuring not only me & @athena (a very special event for all you Union.Place fanpeople out there), but also @tamigraph, @bierjess & @miriamkp! Free to register & attend
Thanks to Ramin Skibba for this great summary for WIRED looking at how LEO #satellites are impacting #Hubble Space Telescope #science and the prospects for the facility's remaining lifetime.
It contains a typically spicy take from yours truly about #space / #STS / #EnvHist. 🌶
We’re delighted to present the new stsing board to you!
👏 Please give a round of virtual applause to Anja Klein @AnjaKlein Matthias Kloft, Markus Hoffmann Michaela Buesse, Ignacio Farías @ignaciofarias, Jörg Niewöhner, and Lisa Wiedemann. 👏
Find out more about them and their ideas for the future of stsing in their election statements via https://stsing.org/election-2023
Are there any #scienceAndTechnologyStudies people here? I'm looking for the history of the terms "doing science"/doing culture etc. I know it's Latour (did he ever use the term himself?), constructivism, doinggender, performativity, etc, but I can't find a source that elaborates on the development of this term. Does anyone have pointers where to look? I spent most of my work day looking through sociology and sts books and papers...
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Oh, man, it's happening. There was an #STS@sts article (or book?) that I really thought was Maria Kaika but very apparently isn't about three phases of modernist water management—something like ascendant, triumphant, and chastened, or some such.
I went to look it up tonight in the old references and I cannot find it.
This is a fantastic primer of a larger body of research from @tamaranopper and Eve Zelickson for @datasociety, focusing on the yoking together of employee #health, data, labour rights, surveillance and control under the logic of #WellnessCapitalism.