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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Fieldtrips you say? We have: 🐦 A twilight tour at Zealandia ecosanctuary 🍻 A microbial encounter of the tastiest kind at Wild Workshop 🌠 And a screening of The Navigators film at Space Place Limited places all round so do sign up ASAP if you want to join one of these

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🔔 Registration is now open for AusSTS 2026! Sign up before Sept 30, or sooner if you want a place on one of our field trips More details here aussts.org/aussts2026

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AusSTS | AusSTS 2026

Submit to AusSTS 2026: Antipodean Interruptions, 9-11 Nov at Victoria University of Wellington. Deadline: 3 April 2026. All career stages welcome.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

One week left to nominate for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize! 🏆 The prize is open to current PhDs and ECRs who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted. Self-nominations encouraged! aussts.org/awards-prizes

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AusSTS | Awards & Prizes

Celebrating excellence in STS scholarship. AusSTS Best Paper Prize for junior scholars and Making & Doing Award for innovative research presentations.

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Rosanna Stevens @wordress.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Love seeing the work Decoloyarns does out in the blue sky 🦅

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📯 Nominations for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize are now open!! 🏆 A prize to celebrate the best scholarship in the region by a junior scholar. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted 💌 Self-nominations strongly encouraged

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A wonderful write up from the AusSTS2024 team reflecting on decolonial practices in conference organising: What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genuinely decolonial event at a settler institution? decoloyarns.org/2025/08/11/h...

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How to (start to) decolonise a science studies conference: reflections on AusSTS 2024

This is the first part of a four-part series that has come from the 2024 and 2025 AusSTS conferences. What would it look like to run a genuinely decolonial event? Is it possible to run a genu…

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Courtney Addison @courtneyaddison.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

One month to go to get in your abstracts for AusSTS 2026! Stay tuned for more info on plenaries, field trips and more

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Melbourne Node of AusSTS is holding a symposium today on AFTERMATH. Beginning with a plenary keynote by Prof. Hannah Landecker (UCLA) on "Not Liquid but Emulsified Modernity." Landecker asks us to attend to "the anthropogenic gelation of the present."

A round lecture room with three rows of seats. The audience are turned towards a speaker at the front of the room on right hand side of the image.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Announcing the launch of the Sydney STS network, bringing together more than 50 science and technology scholars across the city - thanks to @sonjavw.bsky.social Friday March Feb 27, 3-5 pm, at USyd, + reception events.humanitix.com/sydneystsina... @aussts.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social #sts

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Australian friends take note!

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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka. Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂‍↕️

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AusSTS | Australasian Science & Technology Studies Network

AusSTS is a network for STS researchers across Australasia. Join our community for conferences and events. Next conference: Wellington, Nov 9-11, 2026.

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Annnnnd we're live! Get your proposals in for #AusSTS2026 in Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington ⛰️🌫️ This year's theme is 'Antipodean Interruptions'. Think antipodean methodologies, ontologies, epistemologies, legacies. Interruptions across scales, sites, subjects. Some inspo ✨👇

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

DEADLINE EXTENSION! Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) has extended the deadline for conference Open Panel submissions until 9th February 2026. The conference is being held in Toronto, 7-10th Oct 2026. Conference Theme: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures 4sonline.org/call_for_ope...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

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About the Conference

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Woo! Breaking news from @aussts.bsky.social! See you in November in Te Whanganui-a-Tara! 🥝🥝🥝

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Courtney Addison @courtneyaddison.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Let this be the first thing to go in those pristine 2026 diaries

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!

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Marion Duval @marionduval.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to attend the #AusSTS25 conference in Melbourne/Naarm this week with the fab @aussts.bsky.social community! #signalsandnoises #STS @hss.springernature.com

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The loveliness just won't stop! Holly O'Neil (UTS) is drawing every session she's attending, and she showed me this this morning!

A hand-drawn visual note from a talk titled “Infrastructures of Noise” presented at AusSTS. The illustration is made with red and blue pen, featuring stylised sketches of speakers (including portraits labelled Dang, Fabian, Ranjodh, Kate), computers, loudspeakers, waveforms, and snippets of handwritten quotes and thoughts.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

And on the plenary panel with Chris O'Neill, @karilancaster.bsky.social and @tdneale.bsky.social contemplating noise, signals, and bodies #STS @4sonline.bsky.social

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting.... @tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Thanks to @aussts.bsky.social for an immensely stimulating, challenging, convivial, and inspiring conference. I’m leaving #AusSTS2025 with a head full of ideas, re-energised by conversations with colleagues and kin. There is a very special STS community in the antipodes 🫶

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thanks @aussts.bsky.social for a great three days at #aussts25 #signalsandnoises 💚 Amazing you’ll be heading to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington next time! (Put me and @tristam.bsky.social down for local donkey work jobs!)

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Vincen Gregory Yu @vincengyu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else. #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Attending #AusSTS25 has left me intellectually and emotionally full—it’s one of those rare feelings in academic life where you find your people, where every conversation leaves you with more than it takes.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next, Lauren Kelly, a researcher with RMIT and also a union organizer, asks: "Does noise help or hinder the worker struggle against algorithmic management?" #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Now it's V. Chitra and Adam Sargent (who contributed but isn't here) from the School of Arch and Anth at ANU, on "Audio fields and signal vision." #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Up next, a panel on "attention," starting with @clockworkpenguin1.bsky.social from @admscentre.org.au, with "Websites that go bump in the night: AI slop, dead internet theory, and exploring digital ruins" 👻 #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next, James Parker from Melbourne Law School with "What did wake words do?" Wake words = words that activate devices like an Echo, e.g. "Hey Alexa..." #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next, "Noise and Futures" by Zane Pinyon, from Monash University, looking at the subfield of "futures anthropology." #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Up next: Lorenn Ruster from ANU school of cybernetics: "Building an intuition for doing responsible AI: through the lens of signals and noises." #AusSTS25

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Elizabeth Stephens @elizabethstephens.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Thanks to the @aussts.bsky.social team for the invitation and opportunity to share my work on the strange history of public incubator shows!

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Really enjoyed this talk, and came away asking: How might this exchange of display for medical care fit with the medical crowd-funding of today? #AusSTS25

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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Day 2 of #AusSTS25 is underway! If you can’t be with us at Deakin Downtown, you can listen along to @elizabethstephens.bsky.social’s fascinating keynote now on YouTube (link below)

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Jo Bailey @jobailey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

TIL: incubators for babies were first a festival sideshow?! Thanks Elisabeth Stephens, fascinating stuff! @aussts.bsky.social #aussts25 #signalsandnoises muse.jhu.edu/article/940463

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Project MUSE - "Artificial Mothers" on Display: How Public Exhibits Shaped the Development of Incubators

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We're at Deakin Downtown for day 2 of #AusSTS25 and it's a full house for our keynote on "Noisy Experiments: the strange history of incubator baby shows" from Elizabeth Stephens #signalsandnoises

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...

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AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"

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Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Was a privilege to be a small part of this conversation opening #AusSTS this year. Looking forward to two more days of amazing papers and workshops.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And now the absolutely iconic JODI with the final performance of the day, interviewing the figure of Nam June Paik about his infamous 1998 Bill Clinton pants drop moment and his legacy on their work #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

weather modelling remodelling the weather; bill murray put on blast by a gramophone; tiktok demanding your baby has more tummy time; all of Shrek in one gif - and that's just the morning keynote session! #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises 📶

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