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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Sharing some thinking about sociotechnical change, maintenance, and innovation that I’ve been doing with some lovely colleagues lately. @aballes2.bsky.social estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

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View of Retooling: A Model of Sociotechnical Change for Turbulent Times | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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Amy The Fabulous @amythefabulous.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In case you missed it!

Still image of Bad Bunny Super Bowl showing the electrical poles symbolizing the long-term power outage and lack of infrastructure support in Puerto Rico

Still image of Bad Bunny Super Bowl showing the artist in front of electrical poles symbolizing the long-term power outage and lack of infrastructure support in Puerto Rico

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

What is the place of facts in the 21st century? How do facts shape the future of collective life? Is a new genre of facts emerging? Join us on Thursday September 4th, 2025 at 9am PT for “The Future of Facts in Latin America” publications virtual launch.

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Today's post is about sharing ethnographic data in forms other than articles or books: an open online repository called the Sugar Library shares artefacts from @katieulrich.bsky.social's fieldwork on sugarcane-based bioproducts in Brazil. Read the post over here: blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-...

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The Sugar Library | Platypus

The making of the online sugar library has unfolded amid growing discussions around Open Science, increasing concerns about AI training on stolen materials accessed online, and in the context of anthr...

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories. There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;) Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is an incredible opportunity for academic book authors who are in the stage of trying to get from "idea" to "proposal"! And the application looks very straightforward--I encourage everyone who thinks they might be eligible to check it out!

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social

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CASTAC @castac.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 Attention grad students! The 2025 David Hakken Graduate Student Prize is now open! Submit your unpublished paper (7,000-8,000 words) on anthropology & STS by June 1, 2025. Check the guidelines and learn more here: castac.org/castac-award... #Anthropology #CASTAC #GradLife

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David Hakken Graduate Student Paper Prize | CASTAC

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Reminder: If you're in/around anthropology and want a warm, global Discord server for cowriting and coworking, please reach out! Started by the incredible Dada Docot a few years ago, it's a great space where we pomodoro thru writing (and emails + course prep), but other writing activities welcome!

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America? This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature. 🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655 @tapuya.org

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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4S 2025 Retooling CFP (public)

4S 2025 Open Panel CFP Retooling: Change and Continuity in Turbulent Worlds Katie Ulrich, Harvard University Christy Spackman, Arizona State University Andrea Ballestero, University of Southern Cali...

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/12/2024

📌New Thematic Cluster just out! "The Future of Facts in Latin America," edited by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington and Eden Medina is up and ready to be read. 🗺 👁Read it now at tapuya.org/our-journal-2/volume-7-2024/ #FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/12/2024

Cluster Book Review “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise”🧫🔍 By Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford (@melfordlem.bsky.social) & Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social) Read 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2357391 #BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 10/12/2024

Two year humanities postdoc at Tufts on “University Ecologies”: apply.interfolio.com/160426?fbcli...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago). ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 @UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies #EnvHum Submissions in English, Spanish and Portuguese More info here: blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...

Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies
Jens Andermann , Victoria Saramago , Gabriel Giorgi | 26.09.2024

We are looking for book proposals in English, Spanish and Portuguese for an exciting new series on environmental humanities in the Iberian South Atlantic. We welcome submissions spanning the field in its geographical and historical breadth, from the pre-Columbian and colonial period to the present, including approaches from Amerindian and Afrodescendent perspectives.

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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

LIMN issue on obsolescence just dropped: limn.press

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Hannah Quinn, PhD @hanelizqui.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join the SCA team for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ our friends at Visual Anth, APLA, and American Ethnologist, The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.

Headed to #AAA2024Tampa? Join us for a joint reception on Thurs, Nov 21st at 5pm w/ @culanth, @SocietyVisAnth, @PoliticalLegal, & @AmEthno!
The reception venue (Marcolina’s @ 1517 E 7th Av) is ~15 min away from the conference venue via Tampa's free streetcar! See you all there.

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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Substitution

Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello anthros attending the AAAs in Tampa. @castac.bsky.social is hosting a casual social hour on Wed 11/20, 5-7p, at LightHaus Beer Garden. Come say hi and meet fellow scholars of science, technology, and computing!

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein. Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures. culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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Decarbonation as Substitution?

(Avec traduction française) COP28, which closed on December 13, 2023, was presented as signaling “‘the beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel e...

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Lots of bad going around BUT ALSO a few of us are hosting a book party at the #AAA2024Tampa at earth & bone studio. Friday from 8–late. We'll have food, drinks, music, and catharsis. Good vibes only. Come hang! 📚🥂💃🎉

Poster with six rectangles on top of a bone-colored background. Text on the bottom reads in black: "DRINKS / FOOD / BOOKS / MUSIC / VIBES." Give of the rectangles are book covers, with titles, "Futures after Progress," "Excited Delirium," "Petro-state Masquerade," "Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia," and "A Burdensome Experiment." The sixth rectangle reads: "Join us for a book party. Friday, November 22, eight til late. Earth & Bone. 108 N 11th St."

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Hello AAA attendees! In an hour (10:15), I’ll be presenting on work related to this article at the Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices panel—come join us. Room 802 B. My paper title: Generic Plants, Placeless Places, and Plantation Logics within Green Capitalism.

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The Ethnography Studio @ethnographystudio.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Join the Ethnography Studio for a casual coffee hour at the AAAs! All are welcome. Friday Nov 17 3:30-4:30; we'll be gathering at the tables/chairs outside TMCC-713 / South Cafe.

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

My article “The Substitute and the Excuse” is out in Cultural Anthropology! I analyze the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, biofuels industry growth, and economic growth amid the crop’s history of colonial expansion and environmental destruction. #sts journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

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The Substitute and the Excuse | Cultural Anthropology

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Anthros studying science and tech—come connect with us! This meeting is open to everyone, even if you’ve never even heard of CASTAC before now. It’s a great community and for students/early scholars, this meeting is a fantastic way to find potential collabs/ways to get involved.

Poster for the CASTAC business meeting at the 2023 AAA meeting. November 18, 12:15-1:45, location TMCC-714A

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Carly Schuster @carlyschuster.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Great paper by @katieulrich.bsky.social at #4S on two forms of abstracting Ex- extraction and excuses in Brazilian sugarcane research and ‘sustainable’ biofuels. What are the ethical possibilities of excuses? Such exciting STS!

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Come say hi to us in Toronto!

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2023 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper! To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be no more than two years past the completion of their Master’s or Ph.D. degree. Deadline is September 15, 2023

Eric Wolf Paper Prize CFP

The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2023 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. The competition offers a great opportunity as it involves paid registration fees for the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, a feature presentation of the paper at this meeting, and publication in the Journal of Political Ecology!

We seek papers based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to political ecology. Clear links to some specific set of political ecology ideas and literature is important. To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be no more than two years past the completion of their Master’s or Ph.D. degree. This includes scholars who have not yet received the Ph.D. and Master’s students. Multiple authored papers are considered as long as the first author meets the above criteria. Be mindful the prize is meant exclusively to support students and newly minted grads. Also, we cannot accept

The deadline for submission is September 15, 2023.

The preferred format for papers is electronic, i.e. Word or PDF. Please contact us, if you need to submit in some other format. Please anonymize your submission and use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of Political Ecology webpage: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/about/submissions

As the winning paper will be published in the Journal of Political Ecology, the prize reviewers may request revisions before the item is published.

Electronic submissions and further queries should be sent to Dr. Elisabeth Moolenaar (emoolenaar@regis.edu)

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Have you seen the July 2023 of Environmental Humanities yet? It’s packed full of great scholarship and completely free to read! read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-h…

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

I’ve been working on this map showing some of the unexpected social transformations that happen when sugarcane is transformed into biofuels. bit.ly/clicksugarcane

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