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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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Welcome to Tapuya!📖 This is a peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, published by Taylor&Francis, and affiliated to ESOCITE and 4S. By publishing STS research about and from LatAm & other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current scholarship.

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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 02/10/2026
📚New in [LAT-STS]! “Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science” by Saul Justin Newman exposes fraud in longevity science—fake centenarians, debunked “Blue Zones”, and dubious research. 🔵 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS #AgingScience #ScienceFraud @mitpress.bsky.social
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 30/09/2026
🟡Just Out New Article “STS needs deeper frames of participation: historicizing public dialogues with technoscience from Latin America”🗪 By Julian “Iñaki” Goñi @inakigoni.bsky.social 🗫Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2679331 #PublicParticipation #STS #LatinAmerica #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 28/09/2026
📢[Calls & Applications] Les invitamos al Diplomado “Racismo y Xenofobia vistos desde México” en su 17ª promoción. Programa en línea con nuevos temas como: racismo ambiental, genómica, salud y antirracismo. 📅 Inscripciones hasta el 30/sept/26. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #Racismo
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 25/09/2026
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 9 Reinecke's “Digital Culture Shock” exposes Silicon Valley's WEIRD biases, but @jaguridi.bsky.social argues LatAm friction demands more: tech sovereignty, cognitive justice, & decolonial creativity beyond adaptive interfaces.🎮 👉 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 23/09/2026
🟨Just out! New Review Article “Speaking for nature? Irreduction and demo-genesis in Bruno Latour”.👣 By João Vasco Coelho 🗣️ Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2700799 #BrunoLatour #Irreduction #DemoGenesis #Gaia #Anthropocene #DistributedAgency #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 21/09/2026
🎙️[Editor’s Picks] In this chapter @phieveigl.bsky.social discusses her co-ed vol. “Methods in the Philosophy of Science” (2025), challenging boundaries between scientific & lay knowledge, asking who counts as an expert & what constitutes a reliable source. 🦉 tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 18/09/2026
✆➤ [Calls & Applications] Position in the History of Computing, Data Science, or Artificial Intelligence, @upenn.edu. PhD required; historical/ethnographic methods. ✦ Review begins Oct 5, 2026. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #AcademicJobs #HistoryOfComputing
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/09/2026
⚖️Part of “Negotiating and Objectifying Scientific Knowledge to Establish Standards and Measures in Latin America” Cluster #RegulatoryScience #InternationalScientificCooperation #Conservation #MagellanicPenguin #ZoosAndAquariums #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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“Tero science”: producing evidence in the south for developing regulations in the north
This article introduces the “tero science” hypothesis to analyze the dynamics of knowledge production between the Global South and the Global North. The tero, a small South American bird, sings awa...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/09/2026
🟨Just out! New Review Article ““Tero science”: producing evidence in the south for developing regulations in the north”. ⚙️ By Ezequiel Sosiuk 🐧Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2699470
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/09/2026
⭐New in [LAT-STS Library] We just added “Dare to Invent the Future” by Clapperton Mavhunga: a manifesto for problem-solving knowledge from African realities. Suggested reading for rethinking science and technology in the Global South. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat... #GlobalSouth #STS #Decolonial
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 11/09/2026
📌 [NEWS] Conferencia "Ciencia de la Liberación: estadística, tierra y revolución en Rusia, Estados Unidos y México", a cargo de Tiago Saraiva (Drexel U), donde explorará el papel de la estadística en la transformación agraria del siglo XX. 📅 24/09, 11h. En CEIICH-UNAM y YouTube. 🔗 tapuya.org/news/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 09/09/2026
⿻ Part of the "Tracing the Past, Mapping the Present: Digital Methods in Latin American Cultures" cluster. #Datafication #HumanRights #Violence #DigitalMethods #Technology
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 09/09/2026
🟡Just Out! New Article “Datafication infrastructures. Reference approaches and methodological discussions for studying digital records of serious human rights violations”🛡️ By Víctor Hugo Ábrego 🤜 Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 07/09/2026
💨 [Editor’s Picks] Esta semana les recomendamos la conferencia que la Dra. Andra Chastain ofreció en el Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM. La sesión explora dimensiones históricas y culturales de la contaminación del aire en contextos urbanos. 🚗 tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Public participation and democratization: effects on the production and consumption of science and technology by Noela Invernizzi 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Straight outta the tropics: pathological features of techno-scientific promises in neglected tropical disease research by Hugo Ferpozzi 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Researching public policy in the making: the Ecuadorian Law of Entrepreneurship and Innovation by María Belén Albornoz & Isarelis Pérez Ones 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Southern theories in Northern circulation: analyzing the translation of Latin American dependency theories into German by Clara Ruvituso 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Not inconceivable: knowledge-production, the arts, and the pre-history of a Puerto Rican artist, 1934–1882 by Chon A. Noriega 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Appropriations, conflicts and subversions: the social construction of the Brazilian Forest Code by Raoni Rajão, Ely Bergo de Carvalho & Frank Merry 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
[Article] Double-edged knife: practices and perceptions of technology and digital security among Mexican journalists in violent contexts by Rubén Arnoldo González & Frida V. Rodelo 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
Vol 3 also marked the beginning of a new space for opinion and timely interventions, recognizing that sometimes academic publishing needs to make room for what cannot wait. 🌎 Explore V3 and revisit the conversations that continue to shape STS www.tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/3/1 #AcademicPublishing
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 04/09/2026
3️⃣ [Volume 3] Original Articles What happens when the urgent demands our attention? From the politics of knowledge and infrastructure to gender, informality, and innovation at the margins, the volume brings together diverse perspectives from and about Latin America. #Tapuya #STS #LatinAmericanSTS
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 02/09/2026
⿻ Part of the “Tracing the Past, Mapping the Present: Digital Methods in Latin American Cultures" cluster #AudiovisualArchive #ColombianTelevision #DigitalMethods #YouTube #LLM
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 02/09/2026
🟡Just Out! New Article “Web platforms as repositories of audiovisual memory: the opportunities and pitfalls for accessing televisual heritage in Colombia”📂 By Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed & Carlos Gutiérrez-González 🗃️ at: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 31/08/2026
🚀New in[LAT-STS Library]! Check out the new edition of Jules Verne’s "From the Earth to the Moon" ( @mitpress.bsky.social), the classic reimagined with essays on spaceflight, ethics, and the human-technoscience relationship. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS #SpaceStudies #ScienceFiction
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 26/08/2026
🟨Just out! New Review Article “The “Havana Syndrome”: atmospheres of anxiety and neurological states👁️ By Denielle Elliott & @alexandrinebf.bsky.social ✚Also available in Spanish as supplemental material. Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2672234 #BrainInjuries #Havana #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 24/08/2026
🛤[Editor’s Picks] El Seminario Permanente de Corporalidades presenta un conversatorio con Samuel Rivera Andrade, donde analiza el tren "La Bestia" y la migración desde la corporalidad y la necropolítica. ▶️Encuentra el video en tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/ #Migración #Etnografía
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 21/08/2026
📢 [NEWS] “Saberes”, la revista de Historiadores de las Ciencias y las Humanidades A.C., ingresa al Sistema Nacional de Publicaciones, reconocimiento otorgado por parte de la SECIHTI. Acceso abierto y arbitraje doble ciego. ¡Celebramos su misión! 🔗 tapuya.org/news/ #HistoriaDeLasCiencias
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 19/08/2026
🟡Just Out New Thematic Cluster Article “What “counts” as reliable data? Nahua science and the tlapohualiztli (reading) of earth and sky” By Kelly S. McDonough 🐍 Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2651573 #IndigenousScience #Nahuas #Omens #Comets #Animals #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 17/08/2026
📊 Novo na [LAT-STS Library]! Números em ação examina como números produzem autoridade, afetos e políticas no Brasil. Coletânea que revela a vida social da quantificação. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #Quantificação #CiênciasSociais #OpenAccess
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Article] Proximal design in South African informal settlements: users as designers and the construction of the built environment and its fire risks by Graham Spinardi, S.J. Cooper-Knock & David Rush 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Article] Microsoft’s drug dealer: digital disruption and a corporate conversion of informal improvisation by Jason Bartholomew Scott 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Article] Goffman and the Mafia: shaping YouTube's technological affordances in the war on drugs by Alin Ake-Kob 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Article] Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado: landmines and rebel expertise in Colombian warfare by Diana Pardo Pedraza 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Article] Contesting informality through innovation “from below”: epistemic and political challenges in a waste pickers cooperative from Buenos Aires (Argentina) by Sebastián Carenzo 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
[Introduction] The gray zones of innovation: the illegal and the informal in marginal worlds by Óscar Moreno-Martínez & Javier Guerrero-Castro 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
and what they can teach us about innovation itself. [3/3] 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572... #STS #Innovation #LatinAmerica #Informality #Technology #GlobalSouth #ScienceAndTechnology #Tapuya3 #OpenAccess
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The gray zones of innovation: the illegal and the informal in marginal worlds
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2020)
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
and informality, from Brazilian favelas and Argentine waste-picking cooperatives to Colombian warfare and South African informal settlements. By looking beyond security and economic frameworks, these contributions ask how creativity, knowledge, and technology emerge at the margins, [2/3]
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The gray zones of innovation: the illegal and the informal in marginal worlds
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2020)
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 14/08/2026
⚙️[Volume 3] The Gray Zones of Innovation. The Illegal and the Informal in the Marginal Worlds 👥Edited by Óscar Moreno-Martínez & Javier Guerrero-Castro Where does innovation happen? Not only in laboratories, firms, or universities. This cluster explores innovation in the gray zones of [1/3]
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 12/08/2026
🟨Just out! New Book Review “Ontology hides: epistemology, philosophy, and assemblages in a more-than-human world” φ By @fvergara-silva.bsky.social & Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez 📜Find it at: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2592389 @routledgebooks.bsky.social #BookReview #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 10/08/2026
🪢[Editor’s Picks] Our editors recommend “Knot Tricks: What Mathematical Knot Theory Can Reveal about the Structure of Khipu Knot Encoding”, a paper by Mackinley FitzPatrick that analyzes the structure of Khipus with mathematical knot theory in mind. 🔗More 👉 tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 07/08/2026
📢[CfP]| Social Ecology of Tropical Diseases Guest editors from #ActaTropica seek interdisciplinary work on zoonotic/vector-borne diseases. Anthropology, STS, and social sciences encouraged. 📅Deadline: Dec 31, 2026 🔗info: tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #CFP #TropicalDiseases #ScienceDirect
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 05/08/2026
⚖️Part of “Negotiating and Objectifying Scientific Knowledge to Establish Standards and Measures in Latin America” Cluster
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 05/08/2026
🟡Just Out New Thematic Cluster Article “Standardizing underreporting: scale-making in Brazil’s syphilis epidemic” 🦠 By Eduardo Zanella ☣ Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2668208 #Syphilis #Underreporting #EpidemiologicalSurveillance #ScaleMaking #Brazil #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 03/08/2026
📚New in [LAT-STS Library]! “Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice” is an open access volume linking research to climate justice, health inequality, and racial justice. 🔗Visit and find more at tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #Bioarchaeology #SocialJustice #OpenAccess
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 30/07/2026
🚨📢[Calls & Applications] Last chance to submit! Lead @tapuya.org , the award-winning STS journal amplifying Global South voices. 🌎📚 🔗tapuya.org/2026/05/15/call-for-nominations-2026-tapuyas-editor-in-chief/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 28/07/2026
🧐[Editor’s Picks] This week, our editors recommend reading Isis Barra Costa's blog entry featured in @columbiaup.bsky.social blog, where she challenges us to reconsider the boundaries of knowledge. 🪘More at tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 24/07/2026
♀️[NEWS] Patricia Peña ( @uchile.bsky.social ), nos presenta a SofIA (o Sof+IA), un chatbot que ayuda a orientar reportes de violencia de género digital en Chile. 🤖 🔗 Conoce más detalles en tapuya.org/news/ #SofIAchatbot #ESOCITE2026 #IAFeminista
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 22/07/2026
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[Calls & Applications] Extended Deadline! 🚨 Lead @tapuya.org, the award-winning STS journal amplifying Global South voices. New deadline: July 30. Shape the future... nominate yourself today! 🌎📚…
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