Kari Lancaster

UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers

Writing a large grant application takes months. Now they're not even going to read them. It is very hard to maintain morale in these conditions www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

Epistemic preparedness Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically...

@adamjkucharski.bsky.social This may be of interest, offering an alternative perspective on the question of preparedness. What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next pandemic: gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...

Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data - Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, Becky Mansfield, 2025 Vocal opposition to fracking (the practice of fracturing the subsurface to increase oil and gas production), from shale deposits in Pennsylvania to oil fields i...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
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Applications close on Dec 10. Come and join us in Seoul!

Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...

5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rethinking blood test reference ranges could make medicine fairer – and safer Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to needless biopsies and lower chemo doses.

STS in conversation with clinical researchers, to rethink blood reference ranges and how medical practices produce and operationalise racial differences and ideas of “normal” theconversation.com/rethinking-b...

A great opportunity to spend some time with a dynamic and thoughtful team. I loved my time with CSSM as a Visiting Fellow in 2023, which led to long lasting collaborations and friendships. Go for it!

Wetness against the three gods A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #2

Coming up! We are reading and discussing the next installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Wetness against the three gods by @tshafique.bsky.social

Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡

“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media - Emily Dawson, 2025 Science saturates popular culture, but how might we understand the roles played by popular culture in producing scientific knowledge? Based on fieldwork and int...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: '“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media' by Emily Dawson #media #popularculture #television #newspapers #sciencecommunication #knowledgeproduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A lot to unpack here about the thing we call evidence and its making. Not least what we might learn from the disruptive practices of an albatross?

New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happening tomorrow 🤓

New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet… A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #1

Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...

Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦

Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia - Sylvia Cifuentes, 2025 Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...

New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought The ICCT is an independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present.

The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought is an independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present. Sign up for updates! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

A Thousand Wet-Lands Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality

Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...

From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics - Julien Larregue, Séverine Louvel, 2025 Social epigenetics is presented as a promising interdisciplinary avenue between the natural and social sciences to explore the links between neighborhood enviro...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain - Na Fu, 2025 E-retail platforms are fundamentally restructuring global production networks, creating new forms of labor exploitation hidden behind digital interfaces. In Chi...

New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Extending public health framings of drug use to the health impacts of drug production: The case of coca growers in Northeastern Colombia This article critically examines the absence of a public health approach to the well-being of coca leaf producers in Colombia, a group disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. While harm re...

What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?

Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.

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Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.

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#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025 Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...

New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!