Jérôme Denis

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(best STS paper in the universe, if you know you know)

I just re-read Leigh Star's paper 'on being allergic to onions' for the 1000th time, before discussing it with my students tomorrow morning.
And I cried again during the last section. Not metaphorically.

Such a poweful/fragile text.

An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy.

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Dans le quartier populaire du Mirail, à Toulouse, un vaste plan d’aménagement prévoit la destruction de plus de 1 500 logements sociaux.

Un désastre social et écologique dénoncé par les habitants et des collectifs.

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/2Jn

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations

Brett Mommersteeg

— Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Intéressant de rappeler que l’an dernier, Yaël Braun-Privet avait initialement refusé une minute de silence en la mémoire d’Aboubakar Cissé, poignardé à 57 reprises alors qu’il priait dans une mosquée, au motif que l’hémicycle n’honorait plus « les cas individuels ».

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In defense of trans quality of life — Jessica Kant Today trans people exist in an atmosphere where it has become normal for strangers to demand of us that we extemporaneously provide inarguable, indisputable proof that without very safe medical care w...

Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.

Une pensée pour Frédéric Martin Aramburú, tué il y a 4 ans après une altercation avec des militants d'extrême droite, et pour lequel le ministre de l'Intérieur d'alors, Gérald Darmanin, n'avait pas eu une parole.

sigh

L'emprise des grandes fortunes françaises Il n’existe aucun sujet de politique économique et sociale où l’on puisse observer un écart aussi béant entre le soutien populaire et la représentation nationale.

Pour comprendre la discussion budgétaire qui se clôt il faut objectiver, avec lucidité et sérénité, une réalité désormais structurante : l’emprise inédite des milliardaires sur la vie démocratique de la nation.

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This is history (and geography).
What a show.

We get the chance to discuss our book “The care of things” (@politybooks.bsky.social) , but also the collection we edited with the one and only @fdrubio1977.bsky.social: “Fragilities” (@mitpress.bsky.social)

Cultures of Energy: 248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille) Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welcome and to the podcast to dis...

A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out.
Coincidence? I think not.

(Thank you both!)

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I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community

Somebody posted the full Bad Bunny super bowl performance on Reddit. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet.

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Fauxtomation the only thing you can actually count on

Does your research look beyond "AI disruption" to examine actual practices?

Along with @dipanjan-saha.bsky.social, we invite you to propose an abstract for our panel at the #EASST2026 conference in Kraków, 8–11 September.

Submit by 9 March here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

#STS #EMCA #AI

Yes! Bravo !

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Cultures of Energy: 247 - Feeding the Future (feat. Nicole Negowetti) We kick things off this week with a short but heartfelt celebration of the tenth anniversary of the podcast. Several friends—Geoff Bowker, Heather Davis, Imre Szeman, John Grzinich, Karen Pinkus and T...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! 10th anniversary celebration plus @cymene.bsky.social speaks with Nicole Negowetti about the need to reform the global food system & the role of regenerative agriculture in making that happen. @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4af89w96

Quelle honte, @banquepopulaire.bsky.social.
Ces pratiques commerciales sont inadmissibles.
Imposer automatiquement un passage au débit différé, qu’il faut expressément refuser, ça ne serait pas un peu de la vente forcée, @dgccrf.bsky.social ?

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

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After a white town rejected a data center, developers eyed a Black… Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

“If a mostly white community can push back on this project and get it stopped, it’s unacceptable that the next move is to fly under the radar in a rural Black community with even less transparency,” Black added.

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Un bien bel écho au livre 'Fragilities' que j'ai eu le plaisir de coordonner avec the one and only @fdrubio1977.bsky.social et David Pontille 👏

Impossible d'exagérer la gravité de ce qui se passe aux US. Les médias français, même les plus avertis, n'arrivent pas à communiquer la situation réelle. C'est VRAIMENT le fascisme, avec sa propre Gestapo.

Ne pensez pas que ça ne pourrait pas arriver en France. Pensez plutôt à Vichy.

Pourquoi reconstruisons-nous les monuments « à l’identique » ? Depuis les années 1990 ont émergé de nouvelles pratiques de (re)construction, en dehors du champ d’action du service des Monuments historiques.

Pourquoi reconstruisons-nous les monuments « à l’identique » ?
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Pedro Pascal smiling while driving a car

Like most of the people here, I frown each time I wish a happy new year for my friends and colleagues. I am increasingly frightened and depressed.

BUT, I received a long and pretty moving email from Mierle Laderman Ukeles yesterday.
And I've kept smiling like an idiot since then.