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Kari Lancaster

@karilancaster.bsky.social
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Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism" by Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social We are very proud to have this 2025 Bernal Lecture published in the journal.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "What Can an STS Journal Do?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... As the editors write: "Keeping this question live and at the forefront of our practice has enabled us to think creatively with the affordances of the journal and its infrastructures..."
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At @easst.bsky.social conference this week? Interested in STS publishing? Come along to the Meet the editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV) session on Wednesday 9 Sept 12:45-13:45. @courtneyaddison.bsky.social and I will be there to answer all your @sthv.bsky.social questions! 🤓
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International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Qualitative evidence of service user experiences and perspectives on long-acting injectable buprenorphine for opioid treatment – a scoping review” by Charles Henderson and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. What do you think of LAI buprenorphine? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In "Mosquito Work," Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun follow entomologists, technicians, community volunteers, and mosquitoes to illuminate the collaborations, improvisations, and political entanglements behind contemporary disease control. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/JusZnQy
Cover of Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health by Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun. Features an image of a white container with 7 mosquitos on it. A metal handle extends from the container. The title and subtitle are in green serif text in the middle of the image and the authors' names are in brown beneath.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nearly 5000 researchers applied for an ERC starting grand in the last round. Just over 400 (less than 9%) were successful. Many people applying are spending up to 12 months working seriously on their application. This is absolutely crazy. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...
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Adrian Farrugia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In our new publication, Helen Keane and I explore the development of ‘critical drug studies’ as a field. We consider what makes the field 'critical', what is included in the category of 'drugs', and what kinds of 'studies' are carried out by critical drug scholars. lnkd.in/gG9c9g6Y
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wonderful to read this report in @castac.bsky.social’s blog, Platypus, by Lachlan Hensey - reflections on the @sthv.bsky.social STS School in Seoul 2026. blog.castac.org/2026/08/disp...
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Dispatch from Seoul: Reflections on the Science, Technology & Human Values Science and Technology Studies School, June 2026 | Platypus
In June, emerging STS scholars gathered in Seoul to workshop draft manuscripts, encountering charismatic objects and a “concrete fish tank”. In this post, Lachlan Hensey reflects on the 2026 ST&HV STS...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "A Feel for Technology: Technocapitalism and the Symbiotic Ethic in Japan" by Grant Jun Otsuki @otsuki3c.bsky.social #affinity #markets/economies #interfaces #Japan #robotics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔔 New paper, from me and Sarah Larney @burnetinstitute.bsky.social in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social Claims to crisis: Rethinking opioid overdose in Canada authors.elsevier.com/c/1na7O3PEro...
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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...
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Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies
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Franziska Zirker @franziskazirker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Remember the daily ritual of checking COVID-19 dashboards? My new article, How the COVID-19 Dashboard Went Viral: Affective Flows and the Mediation of Emergency, now published in @sthv.bsky.social, reconstructs the trajectory of this key emergency medium. doi.org/10.1177/0162...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Disappointed to read that the 4S Mullins Prize will not be awarded this year. It is time to reform the eligibility criteria, which are too restrictive and do not align with graduates careers in so many regions today.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You can read their excellent Open Access article “Psychedelic Nation? (De)Provincializing the Psychedelic Renaissance from Brazil” at Science, Technology, & Human Values: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔔 New paper, from me and Sarah Larney @burnetinstitute.bsky.social in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social Claims to crisis: Rethinking opioid overdose in Canada authors.elsevier.com/c/1na7O3PEro...
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Erika Milam @emilam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
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Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)
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Jose A. Cañada @joseacanada.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This came out a year and half ago as online first in @sthv.bsky.social Really happy to see it now as part of an issue! The article is #openaccess and theorizes the implications of environmental care using seagrass Posidonia in the Balearics as a case study. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Blocks and Overflows of Care: Territorialization and Marine Conservation in the Balearic Sea - Jose A. Cañada, 2026
The article expands upon care theory in Science and Technology Studies by attending to marine spaces and practices for conservation of marine and coastal ecosys...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2027 round is now open. It's usually a very competitive field, often best fit for someone who has done 1 postdoc already. Applications close 11 August. www.deakin.edu.au/research/our...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Decommissioning as Residual Care: Transforming Nuclear Reactors into Waste" by Ange Pottin @angepottin.bsky.social + Ulrike Felt @ulrike-felt.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #nuclear #residues #decommissioning #care #nuclearwaste
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "Eating Dust: Toxic Air and Parasitic Relations of Gold Mining in DR Congo" by Simon Marijsse journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #artisanalmining #gold #Congo #dust #silicosis #geo-anthropology
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Eating Dust: Toxic Air and Parasitic Relations of Gold Mining in DR Congo - Simon Marijsse, 2026
Since the late 2000s, artisanal and small-scale gold miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have incorporated mechanized ball mills in their workflow. W...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
STS postdoc opportunity at Birmingham
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Research Fellow in Science and Technology in Society at University of Birmingham
An academic position as a Research Fellow in Science and Technology in Society is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This coming Monday we kick off our second instalment of the ST&HV STS School, this time in Seoul. 4 days of seminars, workshops, plenaries and field trips, hosted by the Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University and KAIST Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy. So excited!
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Managing the Boundaries of Citizen Science: Reordering Science–Society Relations" by Claudia Göbel, Kevin Altmann, Sascha Dickel,, Michael Kitzing,, and Andreas Wenninger #citizenscience #participation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Managing the Boundaries of Citizen Science: Reordering Science–Society Relations - Claudia Göbel, Kevin Altmann, Sascha Dickel, Michael Kitzing, Andreas Wenninger, 2026
Today, science is expected to open up to publics and be more responsible. At the same time, the legitimacy and autonomy of academic work are increasingly challe...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice" by Jia Hui Lee #undergroundSTS #treasure #hunting #resource #nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice - Jia Hui Lee, 2026
In Morogoro, Tanzania, people regularly embark on treasure hunting expeditions, usually near places or buildings associated with German colonialism. In recounti...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly" by Irina Papazu + Rose Marie Højbjerg Henrichsen #participation #digital #mediation #climatechange #citizensassemblies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly - Irina Papazu, Rose Marie Højbjerg Henrichsen, 2026
As part of the Danish Climate Act of 2019, the government established a Climate Citizens’ Assembly to secure public participation in the formulation of climate ...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "Promises/Manual Labor Paradox: The Accountability Style of On-Site Validation in Microbiology Laboratory Automation" by Joaquín Yrivarren, Alessandra C. Jacomuzzi + Miquel Domènech #accountability #robots #AI #credibility #legitimation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Promises/Manual Labor Paradox: The Accountability Style of On-Site Validation in Microbiology Laboratory Automation - Joaquín Yrivarren, Alessandra C. Jacomuzzi, Miquel Domènech, 2026
This study investigates the role of validation reports in legitimizing laboratory automation through artificial intelligence and robotic systems in clinical mic...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Come along to our next @contemporarycriticalthought.org event! Molly McPhee & Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez lead a discussion of Herd/Atmospherics, to examine how forms of collectivity are materially produced through atmospheric management. May 21 👉 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-at...
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HERD/ Atmospherics
Rethinking Herd/Atmospherics amidst the here and now of our present planetary condition.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910
Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Come along to our next @contemporarycriticalthought.org event! Molly McPhee & Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez lead a discussion of Herd/Atmospherics, to examine how forms of collectivity are materially produced through atmospheric management. May 21 👉 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-at...
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HERD/ Atmospherics
Rethinking Herd/Atmospherics amidst the here and now of our present planetary condition.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ A few thoughts on the recent hantavirus outbreak. I'm not entirely sure all of those commenting had read up on the literature, especially www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... and this outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/hantavirus...
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“Super-Spreaders” and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina | NEJM
From November 2018 through February 2019, person-to-person transmission of Andes virus (ANDV) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome occurred in Chubut Province, Argentina, and resulted in 34 confirmed infe...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare
But the US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As hantavirus outbreak discussion kicks off, it is timely to remember that outbreaks do not simply require us to speed up existing evidence-based approaches, but necessitate new ways of thinking about how more adaptive evidence-making might be done: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Terrarium as Geo-Fetish: On the Vectorialist Re-Commoning of the Earth" by Sungyong Ahn #terrarium #geo-fetish #Badiou #actornetworktheory #vectoralist #cosmopolitics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Terrarium as Geo-Fetish: On the Vectorialist Re-Commoning of the Earth - Sungyong Ahn, 2026
This article examines the transformation of terrarium building from a colonial-era hobbyist practice into a contemporary YouTube-based citizen science movement,...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Developmental new space in South Korea: Militarized developmentalism and the privatization of outer space" by Hae-Seo Kim #outerspace #newspace #developmentalism #militarism #SouthKorea journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Developmental new space in South Korea: Militarized developmentalism and the privatization of outer space - Hae-Seo Kim, 2026
“Developmental New Space” might, at first glance, seem to be an oxymoron since New Space is often conceptualized as being free from centralized government suppo...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today is the 25th birthday of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Sydney. Thank you to Marianne Jauncey and her extraordinary team for continuing to meet people where they are at. Harm reduction in the every day. More of it. youtu.be/EmvXY-o3FNk
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25 years ago, they said we should not open.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK
Cover of How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent by Timothy Neale. The cover features an aerial shot of a large smoke cloud billowing upwards from the forest below. A brown river snakes its way through the trees. The smoke cloud reaches the clouds in the sky. The title appears in a semi-transparent red orange sans-serif font across the cover. The author’s name appears directly below in a semi-transparent yellow.
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "“Go to Another State”: Rust Belts, Microchip Futures, and Innovation's Others in Upstate New York" by Marlise Horvath Schneider and Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer #innovation #policy #microchips #semiconductors journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“Go to Another State”: Rust Belts, Microchip Futures, and Innovation's Others in Upstate New York - Marlise Horvath Schneider, Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, 2026
Innovation is regularly depicted as the answer to regional socioeconomic decline and deindustrialization. Yet, the results of regional innovation strategies are...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Otherwising or Attaching? Play, Care, and Critique in Interdisciplinary Public Engagement" by Catherine M. Montgomery, Santini Basra, Corrienne McCulloch, and Annemarie B. Docherty #DesignSTS #criticalcare #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Otherwising or Attaching? Play, Care, and Critique in Interdisciplinary Public Engagement - Catherine M. Montgomery, Santini Basra, Corrienne McCulloch, Annemarie B. Docherty, 2026
This article builds on the affective turn in Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of public engagement with science to explore the tension between epis...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sub-tropical multispecies entanglements at the annual @sthv.bsky.social Editorial Collective meeting 🦎
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A wonderfully energising two days in Meanjin / Brisbane plotting and planning with the @sthv.bsky.social Editorial Collective ✨
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "More Instrument than Data" by David Ribes and Eric Monteiro #instruments #data #stability #instability #breakdown #coherence #tinkering journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "China Time Machines: The Temporal–Spatial Dynamics of China's Global Digital Platforms and Technocapitalist Expansions" by Yichen Rao Chronotope #fintech #digitalcapital #riskanalysts #platformeconomy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Mapping the Hospital: Epidemiology, Infection, and Antibiotic Governance at the Clínica Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain" by Cristina Moreno Lozano @crinamoreno.bsky.social #infectionmedicine #antimicrobial #governance #hospitals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Tool, Connector, or Data Processor: On the Multiplicity of an Algorithm and Its Worlds" by Ida Schrøder, Helene Friis Ratner, and Laura Kocksch #heterogenousengineering #multiplicity #childwelfare #decisionsupport journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A Tool, Connector, or Data Processor: On the Multiplicity of an Algorithm and Its Worlds - Ida Schrøder, Helene Friis Ratner, Laura Kocksch, 2026
This paper explores the development of an algorithm for child welfare administration in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic study of the development process, we a...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New OnlineFirst article: "Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City" by Canay Özden-Schilling #markets #economies #supplychains #maritime #shipping #congestion #ports #Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City - Canay Özden-Schilling, 2026
Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the management and optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to sc...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures" by Ola Michalec #innovation #infrastructure #energy #maintenance #cybersecurity #expertise journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures - Ola Michalec, 2026
Digitalization of the grid promises a sustainable energy system. However, we do not fully understand how innovative technologies are introduced—and challenged—i...
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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Call for Paper Abstracts and Other Proposals is NOW OPEN: March 3–April 30, 2026 Call for Paper Abstracts, Closed Panels, Making & Doing Sessions, Roundtables, and Meetups: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Accepted Open Panels: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
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