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
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
Time for an #Introduction We are a large research group, working and teaching at the IT University of Copenhagen. We are interdisciplinary, and work to examine digital technologies critically. Read about us and our work on https://tip.itu.dk/ - plan to use this account much as we did the bird site - to share academic events, publications, conferences, PhD graduations, and general academic life in #STS#anthropology#HCI and #CSCW
OIL BEACH is officially out today!! New 📙 by me about the recent history, present, & future of Los Angeles, global capitalism, wildlife conservation, & energy. Gonna thank a few folks in this 🧵, first up is @UChicagoPress & my simply wonderful editor there @josephcalamia
Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.
Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound#SoundStudies#SoundArt
I am a historian of nuclear science & technology at Hiroshima Peace Inst & Grad School of Peace Studies. My book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha (Yale 2022) surveys harm from #nuclear production, weapon testing, & reactor accidents across the globe, & medical models that obscure harm from fallout particles.
Collecting oral histories in 20+ countries , I examine how communities, families and interior psychology suffer via exposures.
I track nuclear #colonialism (selecting the irradiated) arguing the #ColdWar was a limited nuclear war against these populations.
I also explore our relationship to our HL nuclear waste, asserting it is how our descendants will know us. Our choices now reveal our lack of consideration of the 1000s of generations of living beings for whom this waste is already a part of their world.
Previous life: l was a chef & worked w/ #organic food
I'm teaching a course called "Scientific Thinking" that's more or less Philosophy of Science meets Science Studies for students w/ no prior exposure to either field. ISO a good movie to show my students- could be a documentary, doesn't have to be- if it's not about science generally it should lend itself to social sci/humanities-inflected discussions exploring, e.g., history; epistemology; social/ cultural/ political dimensions of science etc.
More and more jurisdictions have policies saying that people who receive negative decisions made by or with the aid of algorithms should have a right to "appropriate grievance redressal mechanism" but the details are left unspecified. @naveena has just completed a study of (currently algorithm-free) application and contestation processes in the context of housing/land benefits in the US and India. Goal is to inform future tech design.
Pre-job-ad announcement: soon advertising 2 x 3-year research posts to work with me & Ethical Data Initiative at the Technical University of Munich (really fun & supportive environment!). Closing date for applications 1st April, start in September. Pls spread the word! Details coming v soon #philsci#sts#hps#DataScience#dataethics
"Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing:" Our reflection on European #STS conferencing via #train is published in the EASST review. This is an intervention to think about less energy-intensive #mobility forms for conferences. #transition#flyingless
I’m a satisfied reader of Dominic Boyer’s new book “No More Fossils.” What a splendid excercise in energy thinking. Today, Dominic and Cymene published an episode of my favourite academic podcast discussing this very book w/ Cara Daggett. Cultures of Energy ftw.
#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion
not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)
looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...
there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too
4S scholars: @cyberlyra and I are organizing an open panel for 4S/EASST on "The Implications of Institutional Breakdown for Science and Technology" if that's your jam: https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14442 (Also, there are soooo many related awesome panels!!)
Studying breakdowns in sci/tech institutions during #covid19 ? or how about systematic undermining of scientific institutions as democracies veer to extremes? We want to know what you're finding!
@zephoria and I are excited to host a wider conversation about institutional breakdown, organizational failure, crisis and collapse and implications for Science & Technology.
#sts#orgs & #scitech scholars warmly welcome! Check out P358 on this page of awesome panels:
On May 7 at 4:30 PM EDT, Jon Leydens will deliver the Bovay Lecture in the History & Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University. His research concerns how engineering education can contribute to social justice, sociotechnical thinking, and humanitarian engineering.
I'm seeing a thing on my feed about the GOP now turning against polio vaccines, and look, please at some point start listening to #STS folks when we say that scientific facts not only require work in order to be made, but require work in order to keep extant.
The point of this isn't to undermine science, it's to save it. At some point after you've watched enough "indisputable facts" get pulled into dispute, maybe stop writing us off as the problem?