Swedish nuclear waste management as an inert controversy: using critical constructivism to understand cold technological conflict

Science As Culture tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ok, I created a #reddit for science & technology studies people ( #STS ) as an attempt to create somewhere else to engage with others about STS.

If you're interested then sign up!

Please spread the word too!

reddit.com/r/SciAndTechSt…

Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, influential philosopher and historian of science, dies at 87
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.

news.mit.edu/2023/professor…

New Article by Ane Møller Gabrielsen on 'Gendering #data #care : curators, care, and computers in data-centric #biology ' where the author explores the gendered dimension of data #curation #work tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #biocuration #gender #lifesciences #feminisation #STSTwitter

📢The #EASST4S2024 Call for Open Panels is open! Submit your proposal until October 23rd via the link below.

This joint #conferenceof EASST and @4sWebis hosted by Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🗓️16-19 July

Questions? ✉️[email protected]
easst4s2024.net/callforopenpan…

What’s the best STS student seminar reading on Big Tech (ie the IT corporations not large lumps of machinery)?

Every year I change the reading and every year it’s not quite right or doesn’t work

New Article! See '‘Shade #trees for the next generation’: constructing the promissory #publics of prospective cohort studies' by Sibille Merz, Philipp Jaehn, Christine Holmberg of #AdvanceGender Study Group on #epidemiological #cohortstudies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #STSTwitter

And one final announcement, Tess Doezema will join our book and media editorial team (Mascha Gugganig) at @SciasCulture! Welcome, and we look forward to working with you!

And finally, Ingrid Metzler explores 'Bioconstitutional visions in the debate on non-invasive #prenatal #testing in #Germany ' which reveal competing #visions of #human #life in their underlying #liberal and #societal #bioconstitutionalism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #STSTwitter

Next we have 'Between animated #cells and animated cels: symbiotic turn and #animation in #multispecies #life ' where Mateja Kovacic analyses how animations engage with the ontological turn and move away from anthropo & #West - #centrism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #STSTwitter #ontology

New articles! After a summer break, here are the newest publications: First, a #bookreview of Scale #theory : a nondisciplinary inquiry by Joshua DiCaglio by Shaphour (Sasha) Akhavi who writes about #scale , #sociality & #science U of MN Press tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #STSTwitter #review

Thrilled to see our Science As Culture research paper on #platformization in the built environment included in this week's The Syllabus Technology reading list. 🙏

With great joy Vasilis Galis & I can share the publication of the Special Issue on Border Control Technologies in Science As Culture. Please take a look at the links to all articles by Silvan Pollozek, Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Laura Lambert, Bruno Oliveira Martins Fredy Mora Gámez, Vasiliki Makrygianni in the comments!

So good to see this project finally coming out together Science As Culture. Great editorial work by NinaAmelung and Vasilis Galis, that in my case was crucial to have the article coming out as it did. Congratulations to the editors and all the authors. Check the thread below!

Excited to share our new Science As Culture article on how #platformization & #datafication processes transform #architecture and construction work by reconstructing the techno-economic and political mechanisms behind that. #AEC #STSTwitter
EXC_IntCDC Uni Stuttgart EASST The Society for Social Studies of Science

In 'Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of building information modeling' Yana Boeva, K. Braun & C. Kropp discuss #assetization , platformization & #datafication in #architecture , #engineering and #construction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #STSTwitter

Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger

Science As Culture #migration #humanitarian tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New Article!'Vive La Résistance? Standard fire testing, #regulation , and the #performance of #safety ' by Graham Spinardi, Angus Law & Luke Bisby, explores #fire #testing as #boundary #object facilitating regulation amongst various practitioners tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10… #STSTwitter

For social studies of finance, STS, economic sociology twitter: is anyone doing great work on the history / sociology / anthropology of *technical analysis* (chart reading!) right now?

It's central to Alex Preda's great 'Framing Finance,' but still seems pretty under-studied...

Trending in #PhilosophyOfScience :
ooir.org/index.php?fiel…

1) Patient’s body & autonomy of medical decisions

2) Hospital Leagues of Friends in England, 1948 (Soc Hist Med)

3) Scientism & the scientific meta-method

4) Responsible research in EU border management (@SciAsCulture)