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Aysel Sultan

@drayselsultan.bsky.social
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STS, drug policy, harm reduction, digital health interventions | Lecturer @Technical University of Munich | Editor of @dhspolicy.bsky.social | Associate Editor @Harm Reduction Journal

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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
📣New chapter in this brilliant CUP volume with best editorial duo @simonflacks.bsky.social & Kate Seear! The volume explores court cases on judging drugs from across the world. My chapter is on the case of #ShinyFlakes! Check out it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Book launch tba! 🐝 #STS
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Revisiting the Entrepreneurial ‘Dealer’ (Chapter 10) - Judging Drugs
Judging Drugs - May 2026
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A little recognition goes a long way to show the educational power of a serious game! 👇 www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
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This Place Saves Lives: An award for a serious game that looks closer
Two TUM students develop a game about marginalized realities in supervised drug consumption rooms during a project week – awarded at GamesFestival25.
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Back from “Teaching STS in STEM fields” workshop at @tuwien.at - intense two days working with students and lecturers around key concerns & ways forward in bringing STS to technical spaces. Time & again, critical pedagogies & institutionalizing exchange spaces are at the center of students’ needs!
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our “Clarion Call” has been re-published for the fourth time. This one is in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse signaling the urgency of repercussions of the attacks on science in the US… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A clarion call to the addiction science community: it’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration
Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Encompassing All Addictive Disorders (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Drugs Habits and Social Policy @dhspolicy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇 www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...
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Editorial: Where does digital health leave people who use drugs?
Digital health is a term that has become increasingly important in public health, biomedicine and social studies of health and illness. WHO’s “Global Strategy on Digital Health” for 2020–2025 (WHO, 20...
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Richard Williams @williams-r-b.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM) Deadline: 10 April 2026 Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default... Link: link.springer.com/collections/... @philosophynow.bsky.social
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994
Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I have the honor of being a visiting fellow this month at "The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy" at the gorgeous campus of @au.dk. Wonderfully collegial and inspiring atmosphere to be working from, and the walks around this campus are definitely helping thinking minds!
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In other news, I'm pleased to have joined #HarmReductionJournal as #AssociateEditor. This role allows me to contribute to visibility of digital interventions, treatment & recovery research. HRJ is a high-impact journal connecting policy, practice, research & amplifying advocacy. shorturl.at/p5mhu
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Harm Reduction Journal
The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, community-focused journal for research on reducing risks and harms associated with drug use, gambling, online ...
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Here comes a new #CriticalConcept, "Subject-Positioning", by Landhaus Fellow Ben Glasson. Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.
The text reads, "Subject-Positioning, 'In a crowded digital sphere, success lies less in asserting truth than in building identity,' by Ben Glasson, Landhaus Fellow" The text reads, "Today’s fragmented communication environment is marked by low institutional trust and identity-based beliefs. In environmental politics, communication has shifted from making claims to shaping how audiences interpret contested terms. As people accept that corporations can be both ethical and self-interested, companies use storytelling and confession to simulate trust and bind themselves to stakeholders. In a crowded digital sphere, success lies less in asserting truth than in building identity. Greenwashing nowadays involves crafting corporate personae that appear inherently green—the focus is less on deception, more on embedding sustainability in a company’s perceived identity."
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press! osf.io/preprints/os...
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Drugs Habits and Social Policy @dhspolicy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨 Call for papers 🚨 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden. Abstracts are due September 20! 🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
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Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction
This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Congratulations to Ani & Ray whose game design about drug consumption rooms has won the Unseen prize 🏆 I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape! 🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo
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GamesPreis25 Preisverleihung am 01.06.2025 in München
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Drugs Habits and Social Policy @dhspolicy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
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Call for Special Issue on Food Habits
The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming f...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too. The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇 akjournals.com/view/journal...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Come work with us at DHSP! Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
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Call for applications - Managing Editor
Call for applications for a managing editorDrugs, Habits and Social Policy (DHSP) journal is looking to appoint a new managing editor. DHSP is among the key publications in the field of drug policy an...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
📣 Folks, I’m looking to offer co-supervision of PhD dissertations. If you are working (or know someone who is) across the biomedicine and health spectrum with special focus on critical public health, drug policy or digital health interventions, feel free to get in touch!
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you're at the #STSHub2025 in #Berlin come join our panel Nr. 22 on Friday at 9:00! I look forward to speculating about how diffractive methodologies can help understand digital harm reduction on social media. Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html
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STS-Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical ➜ Panels
The STS Hub 2025 'Diffracting the Critical' explores contemporary formations of critique in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Emphasizing feminist approaches, postcolonial studies, and more-than-h...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now.” lithub.com/judith-butle...
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📣 Looking forward to speaking about feminist harm reduction next week at @durham-university.bsky.social Health & Social Theory Seminars. 🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany. February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET) 🔗 Please DM for the link.
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Oh, and this little blog went online in December - forgot to post! ✍️ Thanks for the invitation to put science communication into practice 📝 #TalkingDrugs @releasedrugs.bsky.social www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...
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Azerbaijan: Between the Soviet Legacy and International Drug Control - TalkingDrugs
Azerbaijan drug control sits between a Soviet past and present commitments to international communities, forcing future policy options.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/01/2025
Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG
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As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Let there be light even on very frosty days. Happy 2025! 🥂
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
What does it mean to approach harm reduction design as a pedagogical endeavor? Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
As editors of @dhspolicy.bsky.social, it's our joy to continue this service for the academic, policy and practitioner communities! 💫 Read the full post here ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/drugs-...
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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Join us! CfA: 25 January 2025 Joint DSC-IAS #Fellowship on #EmpiricalEthics & #DataScience Methods. We explicitly welcome joint applications from small teams of researchers that blend expertise in #ethics, #philosophy, #anthropology, or #STS, with #datascience approaches. ias.uva.nl/content/news...
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Joint DSC/IAS Fellowship Call on Empirical Ethics and Data Science Methods - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
The UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) are joining forces for the fourth time by opening up a joint fellowship opportunity. We welcome applications for our DSC/IAS Jo...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As editors of @dhspolicy.bsky.social we take a slow approach to editorials & usually publish only one a year. This year we collaborated with @melissamialon.bsky.social to draw attention to AOD industry lobbying through #AI & algorithmic moderation. 👀 Take a look www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
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James Nicholls @jamesnicholls.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
With the caveat that someone might have done this already ... I've created a Drug Policy starter pack. I'm sure it's missing lots of people, so do shout if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/BhiCbGn
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🚨 New paper on #socialmedia & digital harm reduction now published in Harm Reduction Journal. We highlight direct impact of automated moderation on safe*r* drug use knowledge dissemination & 🔔 call for transdisciplinary collaborations harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
🚨 New issue of “Science & Technology Studies” journal is out and with it also my essay on Amit Prasad’s postcolonial #STS Take a look! Open Access here ⬇️ sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
First publication of the year asks how “international” are international drug policies and what is the role of local historical and cultural developments in informing policy reforms and decolonizing global drug policy. I explore the case of #Azerbaijan. #OpenAccess jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
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Aysel Sultan @drayselsultan.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
We're organizing an exciting combined format panel together at the next EASST/4S joint conference #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam! Check out the full panel for submitting a contribution: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
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