Our section is hosting a pre-conference for the ASA annual meeting—Science, Knowledge, and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures.
Join us on Friday, August 7 in NYC!
The call for papers is now open, with abstract submissions due April 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More information and future updates can be found on the SKAT pre-conference website: asaskat.com/SKATtoday/
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Our section is hosting a pre-conference for the ASA annual meeting—Science, Knowledge, and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures.
Join us on Friday, August 7 in NYC!
The call for papers is now open, with abstract submissions due April 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
DEADLINE EXTENSION! Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) has extended the deadline for conference Open Panel submissions until 9th February 2026. The conference is being held in Toronto, 7-10th Oct 2026.
Conference Theme: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures
4sonline.org/call_for_ope...
Tomorrow's ASA Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section virtual workshop is open to all ASA members! @asaskat.bsky.social
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Upcoming Virtual Panel!
Teaching and Academic Freedom within and beyond SKAT
🗓️ Thursday, January 22, 12-1pm CT
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
🔬 Robert K. Merton Book Award (Deadline: 1/15/2026)
@asaskat.bsky.social invites nominations for the 2026 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2025/2024).
New article! "Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets" led by Anetta Proskurovska
If you want to learn about #tokenization in #finance & #financialmarkets then check it out
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📝 Our Fall 2025 issue of the SKAT Newsletter is out!
See inside for information about SKAT sessions at #ASA2026, a call for award nominations, Q&As with book authors, and more.
asaskat.com/wp-content/u...
📚 New Books Q&A with Diana Graizbord, author of Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2024)
Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa
@dgraizbord.bsky.social
@jorge-ochoa.bsky.social
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
asaskat.com/2025/12/12/s...
this recent interview by my co-author Ulises Mejias gives an up-to-date view of our approach to #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI
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New Books Q&A with Ulises A. Mejias, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Interviewed by Jeba Humayra Prithwi
asaskat.com/2025/12/09/q...
@ulises-mejias.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
***10 days left to apply***
Please share widely!
CALL FOR PAPERS due Dec 1
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling & Sarah Richardson
April 16-17 at Yale
Details: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...
ASA joined w/ 59 scientific orgs to sign a letter urging Congress to fund the National Science Foundation at the highest level in FY 2026 appropriations & accede to Senate report language for sustained funding for the Social, Behavioral, & Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate.
19.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Upcoming Virtual Panel!
Navigating the Academic Job Market for SKAT Scholars
Details ⤵️
🗓️ Friday, November 14, 1-2pm ET
SKAT section members and other ASA members on the job market are invited to join. Panelists will speak about their recent experiences navigating the market, followed by a Q&A.
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
11.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Panelists include Emily Vasquez, assistant professor of science and technology studies at Wesleyan University, Cal Lee Garrett, assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest College, and Mary Shi, postdoctoral fellow in sociology at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
11.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Upcoming Virtual Panel!
Navigating the Academic Job Market for SKAT Scholars
Details ⤵️
🗓️ Friday, November 14, 1-2pm ET
SKAT section members and other ASA members on the job market are invited to join. Panelists will speak about their recent experiences navigating the market, followed by a Q&A.
🔊 Do you have a new publication, announcement, or call that you would like to publicize to the SKAT community?
Please use this Google Form so we can include it in our Fall newsletter: forms.gle/LfdzYC6roSYL...
Very excited to be co-organizing a session with Kerry Ard on "The Sociology of Climate Change" at next year's American Sociological Association meeting in NYC. Proposals are due Feb 25. Session is co-sponsored by the ASA sections for SKAT + Environmental Soc.
Details: www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
Robert K. Merton Book Award Deadline: 1/15/2026 The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2025 or 2024). Single or multi-authored works are eligible, but not edited volumes. The winner will be honored at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York City (August 2026). The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2026. Nominations or requests for more information should be sent to the committee chair, Larry Au (lau1@ccny.cuny.edu). No nominating statement or letter is required (nor will be considered as part of the committee’s review of nominations). Print copies of nominated books must be received by all committee members by February 15, 2026. Please contact the committee chair for mailing addresses. All nominees must be registered members of the ASA and SKAT to be considered for this award.
📖 Consider nominating yourselves or others for the Robert K. Merton Book Award from @asaskat.bsky.social. Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible.
Looking forward to reading this year's nominations!
More info: asaskat.com/call-for-awa...
🔊 Do you have a new publication, announcement, or call that you would like to publicize to the SKAT community?
Please use this Google Form so we can include it in our Fall newsletter: forms.gle/LfdzYC6roSYL...
Check out the latest @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social conversation with @uicpublichealth.bsky.social Professor Claire Decoteau talking about her new @uchicagopress.bsky.social book Emergency. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & below globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2364394/epis...
01.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Next week, @fuzheng.bsky.social and I will workshop our paper on public perception of AI evaluation in China based on a national survey. If you are at NYC - come and say hi!
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***Call for Papers***
Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century
A workshop for early-career researchers organized by Rene Almeling and Sarah Richardson.
April 16-17, 2026
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Details and application form:
www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...
I’m so grateful for the committee who recognized our paper, which was a wonderful collaboration with @cyberlyra.bsky.social marrying insights from two in-depth ethnographic projects to examine how time and money are weaponized for political agendas in govt.
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📝 Our #LongCovid in Brazil paper is out in Sociology of Health & Illness: "Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil"
(w/ Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Amanda Curi, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
New post on my Substack about why the dichotomy between "democracy" and "technocracy" is a false one that is premised on a definition of "democracy" as public input as opposed to expert input. computingandsociety.substack.com/p/democracy-.... Thread below.
19.08.2025 13:50 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much for this enormous honor!!!
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