Timothy Neale

I mostly want people to start coming back to the office more so I can try and create elaborate high five routines with them

As we prepare to dispatch our beloved/behated manuscripts for review ahead of End-of-Year-Holidays-jamboree, may we all understand that as we ourselves switch on the sweet relief of "out-of-office," so too do all the people we might hope would review that manuscript (*insert Spiderman meme*)

They're still going! Please people, take pity on @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social

CASTAC is great! Think about contributing!

The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity - Shiloh Krupar, Nadine Ehlers, 2024 Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as ...

See also: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Seeing an emerging stream of #dashboard STS and ethnography 🖥️🔢📊

2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.

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...

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/...

SSN Seminar 'Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures' with A Gupta Join this hybrid SSN seminar "Thank you ‘Someone’: Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures in the Southern city"

Come along to this @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on 'Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures' with Anusheree Gupta. Mon Nov 17, 2:00pm AEDT online and in person! #STS #platforms
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

AFTERMATH: AUSSTS MELBOURNE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 2026 The Melbourne Node of AusSTS is holding a 1-day summer symposium for scholars to present and discuss works in progress. We welcome applications that broadly engage with Science and Technology Studies ...

Melbourne-ite STS-ers, the local AusSTS node are doing a wee Summer Symposium on AFTERMATH - Mon 23 February 2026. If you are interested in coming along then please submit an abstract by 25 Nov 2025 ⏰https://forms.gle/9kwgnpDiE2HP61sF7?_imcp=1

What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Amid shifting settings of scientific governance, political contestation, climate destruction, genocide, and widening social and economic inequalities, what can we reach for in our conceptual toolkit to help us chart these waters and take on the urgent questions of our time?"

We have chosen three concept - boundary objects, sociotechnical imaginaries, participation - as a kind of “vibe check” (but could equally have chosen others, e.g., care, biopolitics, etc.) as prompts to begin thinking through where we are conceptually as a field at this time.

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...

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!

Making Do | Stanford University Press Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.

Extremely hypocritical take from me in "Cyborg Anthropology" undergrad class this week (I love going to the movies, as long as everyone else present is pretty much inaudible to me):

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...

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.

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

Reviewer 2 A ballad of peer review gone wrong

Publishing interdisciplinary work in the humanities is wild but so is publishing interdisciplinary work in the sciences... (I am a co-author on this manuscript) substack.com/home/post/p-...

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...

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

Cover of Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being by Ghassan Hage. The cover has a minimalist design, with a warm, light yellow gradient background. The title text and byline appear in a simple but elegant serif font, in center alignment. Pierre Bourdieu's name is in red with the rest of the title in black. The byline is written in dark gray, italicized text.

In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage.bsky.social explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #philosophy #anthropology

SSN seminar: 'Toward Community-Based Heat Adaptation' with Aalok Khandekar Join the SSN for a hybrid seminar "Cooling in a Fractal Grid: Towards Community-Based Heat Adaptation in Hyderabad’s Informal Settlements"

Excited that the STS scholar Aalok Khandekar is coming to Melbourne and, even better, giving a seminar for @deakinssn.bsky.social Come along in person or join online, Thurs 7 August (1530 AEST): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

If you were interest in #AusSTS25, or @aussts.bsky.social in general, the best thing to do is to join our Google group: groups.google.com/g/ausstsgrad

Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!