Remaking reproduction: gender, artifice and population futures While in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, has been commonplace since the 1980s, new technologies such as uterus transplants, artificial wombs...

Join the Syd STS Network for a session on publishing in STS with editors from BioSocieties, Science, Technology & Human Values, Catalyst, and Science as Culture

Explore the Deakin University Project Research Fund (DUPRF) for researchers seeking financial support to advance innovative projects and initiatives.

Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...

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...

Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...

Submit to AusSTS 2026: Antipodean Interruptions, 9-11 Nov at Victoria University of Wellington. Deadline: 3 April 2026. All career stages welcome.

Guest post by Timothy Neale

As the devastating fires in Victoria spread earlier this month, people at home could see how they were moving across the state — not just in videos on the news and social media, but on an interactive ...

Join this hybrid SSN seminar "Thank you ‘Someone’: Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures in the Southern city"

The Melbourne Node of AusSTS is holding a 1-day summer symposium for scholars to present and discuss works in progress. We welcome applications that broadly engage with Science and Technology Studies ...

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...

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...

Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.

A ballad of peer review gone wrong