Kari Lancaster

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

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A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics - Daniel Navon, Kathryne Metcalf, 2025 How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to ...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics" by
Daniel Navon + Kathryne Metcalf #endophenotypes #deepphenotyping #psychiatry #biobanks #raredisease #postgenomics #genetics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China - Jun Zhang, Jack Linzhou Xing, Gonçalo D. Santos, 2025 This article reactivates the concept of myth—which is well-developed in social science literature—to study digital technologies and platform economies. It conce...

New OnlineFirst article: "Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China" by Jun Zhang, Jack Linzhou Xing + Gonçalo D. Santos #enchantment #technology #platform #mythology #techno-optimism #speculativecapitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science - Timothy McLellan, 2025 This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in Ch...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science" by Timothy McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social #agroforestry #environmentalhumanities #fastscience #institutions #naturebasedsolutions #temporalempathy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Obligation to Know and the Right to Know: A Relational Approach to Environmental Justice Communication and Datafication" by Katherine L. Dickinson, Leah Horgan, Stephanie Pease, Carla Nyquist, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation - Riikka Homanen, 2025 Donor conception is an area where increased emphasis on “openness” has produced major changes to legal, medical, and kinship practices. Anonymous gamete donatio...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation" by Riikka Homanen #donoridentity #kinship #sociotechnical #technology #fertility #markets journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Making Queer Kin in the Labor of the Greenhouse" by Xan Sarah Chacko #botanicalhumanities #coloniality #greenhouse #kinship #feministSTS #pedagogy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Senior Research Fellow, Technology and Society Job Description: Full-time, Ongoing position.Parramatta South campus with flexible working arrangements.Salary: $147,138 – $169,011 per annum, plus 17% Super and Leave Loading.Lead impactful interdisc...

#STS job in Sydney, at WSU - Senior Research Fellow, Technology and Society who will contribute to a world-leading inquiry exploring how technologies shape, and are shaped by, social, political and cultural forces. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Submission to open panels—Extended deadline for 4S Toronto 2026!
Call closes Feb 9th 2026. You can submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...

Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

Deadline for EASST abstracts has been extended to 9 March!
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇

Deadline for EASST abstracts has been extended to 9 March!
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇

Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

Lecturer in Criminology job in Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Might be of interest to those out there working in drug policy/critical drug studies too? www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... @issdrugpolicy.bsky.social

📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇

New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’

Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:

The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

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Congratulations Seye! Richly deserved 🥳

Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!

Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia

#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social

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Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.

More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems - Myung-Ae Choi, Buhm Soon Park, 2025 What can social scientists contribute to the development of AI? To date, their efforts have primarily been viewed through the lens of AI's social consequen...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems" by
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "From The Lancet to Duterte: How COVID-19 Scientific Articles Figured in Policy and Public Discourse in the Philippines" by Gideon Lasco #knowledgetranslation #evidence #expertise #COVID-19 #TheLancet #globalhealth #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings" by Shelly Tsui, Sebastian Pfotenhauer + Gunter Bombaerts #engagement #citizenship #innovation #smartcity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile - Hugo Sir, 2025 In this paper, I examine the social, subjective, and scientific implications of the hunter hypothesis, an evolutionary etiology for Attention Deficit Hyperactiv...

New OnlineFirst article: "The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile" by Hugo Sir #evolutionaryetiologies #ADHD #neurodiversity #biosociality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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!