Kari Lancaster

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.

🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961

#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!

Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice - Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, Environmental Data... The 2016 election of Donald Trump heightened the disproportionate risks from toxicants faced by minoritized communities from cuts in the US Environmental Protec...

New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025 Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations Warwick! Wonderful news! 🥳

Glad to see this one out… open access.

Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene

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Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS

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Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994 Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts

When we say we trust a technology, it's never just about the thing. It's also about the people around the thing.

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?" by Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social #constructivist #politicaleconomy #assetization #LangdonWinner #RobertMoses #adtech #generativeAI #techbros journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Friction and Promise in Data Labor" by Minna Ruckenstein + Tuukka Lehtiniemi #datafication #friction #datalabor #prison #human-fueled #automation #aspiration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Soz everyone

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

Huge congratulations to @thaophan.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Max Crawford Medal 🥳!
In addition to her exemplary feminist STS work on race and gender in algorithmic culture, Thao has contributed enormously to growing a vibrant STS community in Aus.
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London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you? ‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...

Re-sharing this piece I wrote yesterday evening for the evening standard, on those 'tree on its way' signs in the square mile, and the problems of nature as superhero: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

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Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10.

Please circulate widely!

10 days until the deadline on the 14th of August!

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...