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Mahmud Farooque

@farooquema.bsky.social
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Democratic Gaps, Knowledge Gaps, Public Value Failure, Post Normal Science and everything that require an engaged, informed and representatively diverse citizenry for better science, technology, and society.

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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How should science and technology contribute to America’s future? We are looking for people from different communities, backgrounds, occupations, ages, and political perspectives living in West Virginia. Participants will receive a $200 gift card. Please apply & share: www.wvstep.org/a250
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I find Science: A New Golden Age both refreshing and strangely ahistorical. It correctly recognizes that the linear model no longer describes the world. But that insight is precisely why the story cannot jump from 1945 to 2026. open.substack.com/pub/mahmudfaro…
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The latest issue TATuP is now available online: tatup.de/index.php/ta... In it, I have an editorial proposing that we reconnect the fields of Technological Forecasting and Technology Assessment through speculative fiction and public participation: tatup.de/index.php/ta...
Cover of latest issue of TATuP journal on Science fiction and technology assessment
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The next settlement between science and democracy will depend on whether we can build institutions capable of navigating a world where expertise and democratic engagement evolve together. The endless frontier was discovery; the next frontier is participation. cspo.org/the-next-fro...
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Like the weather this week, a cold and concerned opening, but after four days of reconnecting, reflecting, & rekindling, a warm and hopeful ending at AGU annual meeting in New Orleans for Amanda Borth, Mara Karageozian & the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University team.
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
CSPO Science, Policy Seminar Series with John Alic Thursday, March 20, 2025 9:00-10:30am ASU Washington DC Center RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: POLICY SIGNAL VS NOISE www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking...
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The #Climate Conundrum: A #Public #Dialogue on the Role of #Carbon #Dioxide #Removal, Sat, Mar 29, 10:30am - 4:00pm, #SFU #Surrey Campus. Please share with your families, friends, and colleagues in the #Vancouver area! To be selected to participate, please apply at shorturl.at/ILgeu. $200 gift card.
This flyer includes a link to apply to participate in a public forum on the role of carbon dioxide removal at Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus, on Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A tale of two 20-year-old cohorts, 15 years apart www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u... www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/m...
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Just three cases of consequence making President Carter more relevant today than most President of recent memory.
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Vol. 33 No. 3 (2024): Material transitions in architecture and construction: Social implications, appropriation, and outcomes for sustainability www.tatup.de/index.php/ta...
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
A gorgeous fall day to bike in DC’s Rock Creek trail
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
“Hen of the woods” mushrooms harvesting in our front yard
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Who would have thought carbon removal social science would be a huge draw! Packed room in person and zoom!
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Mahmud Farooque @farooquema.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
I was “downgraded” to the “river view” rooms. They didn’t have the “city view” option available at the Royal Sonesta. My Saturday, Sep 28 morning view of the Museum of Science, Boston before the start of the public discussion forum on carbon removal www.mos.org/events/clima...
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