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Rob Smith @rdjs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So happy this is finally out. The first paper in our attempt to begin to think about spaces for responsible innovation beyond the tired tropes of ELSI panels etc. #sts #rri #soba
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The Soba Restaurant and the Oyster Bar: Peripheral Spaces for Responsible Research and Innovation
As STS researchers working closely with scientists and engineers, we have been invited into, created, reluctantly entered, and stumbled upon many kinds of spaces, some of which might be considered ...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Making Do | Stanford University Press
Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers #catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In this article Callon confronts the question (vital then, imperative now) of whether governments should devote funding to basic research? "Science is a public good," Callon argues, "not because of its intrinsic properties but because it is a source of diversity and flexibility."
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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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lizbarrett.bsky.social @lizbarrett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very pleased to announce the release of this paper exploring cannabis cultivation in Canberra. Thinking with cannabis as plant and attending to practices, relationships and materialities of care and cultivation will yield better and more relevant policy🌿 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Regulating the Plant Versus Regulating the Drug: Learning From Backyard Cannabis Cultivation in the Australian Capital Territory - Liz Barrett, Matthew Kearnes, Laura McLauchlan, Kari Lancaster, Richa...
The cultivation of cannabis has been shaped by underpinning social, political, and economic dynamics over thousands of years. Recently, a new wave of regulatory...
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out! 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts
Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific prom...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...
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Shanil Samarakoon @shanilsam.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
. @paulmunro.bsky.social outlines our research on off-grid (final 8 mins) #solar repair and e-waste in #Vanuatu, #Zambia and #Malawi. He discusses the dynamics of the off-grid sector that complicate repair, the challenges communities face on the ground, and the solutions (upstream & downstream).
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Flow Batteries, windships, and a new approach to off-grid solar - ABC listen
They're cheaper and safer than their lithium counterparts, they're easier to scale-up, and they can hold power for much longer than conventional batteries, so why aren't flow batteries better known? T...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Invisible Participation: Patients with Oncological and Rare Diseases in Russia" by Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, and Klasien Horstman #patient #participation #Russia #cancer #rarediseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Invisible Participation: Patients with Oncological and Rare Diseases in Russia - Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, Klasien Horstman, 2025
Scholars have paid much attention to patients’ participation in healthcare, such as engagement in activities developed by healthcare providers and involvement i...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every 2 years, we like to publicly thank all those fantastic scholars who help keep the wheels of peer review and journal publishing running by heeding the call and (unpaid!) reviewing new manuscripts for us. Read "On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy" by Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley and Ruth Little #Brexit #landmanagement #participation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy - Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley, Ruth Little, 2025
Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics" by Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, + Phil Edwards #infrastructures #lighting #publics #expertise #ignorance journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics - Judith Green, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, Phil Edwards, 2025
This article explores the multiplicity of publics that are enacted in relation to infrastructures. We take the case of street lighting infrastructure in the UK ...
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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡ 9 - 11 July, 2025 Melbourne/Naarm Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social Ful CFP coming soon!
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James Palmer @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics! Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session: "Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration" 🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️
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CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL
Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Sociotechnical Life of a Shapeshifting Technology: The Bike Lift Trampe in Trondheim" by Ivana Suboticki, Lina Hopaneng Ingeborgrud + Knut H. Sørensen #shapeshifting #technology #bicycle #infrastructure #domestication journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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