Tanja Schneider

And here is the link to the forum article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)

#STS #TechOligarchy #VentureCapital

Part of @sciasculture.bsky.social’s Forum on Tech Oligarchy.

#STS #TechOligarchy #VentureCapital

Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech.

In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.

CfP: Digital Foodscapes: Ernährung, Technik und Gesellschaft im Wandel
Panel 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
👉Deadline 31.03.2026
Alle Infos gibt's hier:
kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

A real pleasure to join Addie, Philip & my co-editor @taschn.bsky.social on the JCE podcast to talk about our recent special issue on Digital Eating. Listen along to learn what digital eating is, where digital marketplaces and athletic eaters fit into it & why I'm currently living off lentil curry!

Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...

4 days left to submit! Call closes Feb. 9, 2026. You can submit (either hybrid or in-person) here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...

P177: futuring digital foodscapes Digital foodscapes are key sites where future social values, inequalities and alternative possibilities for living well are negotiated and enacted. This panel

📢 #CFP: Futuring Digital Foodscapes

Join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss how digital tech shapes food futures, values, and inequalities.

Panel 177 co-organised with @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß & Katharina Graf

#STS

DL: 9 March

nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Sektionsveranstaltung mitorganisiert von Simon Egbert, Stefanie Raible und @juliaschubert.bsky.social.
Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen rund um die Herstellung von Zukunftswissen. Insbesondere, aber nicht nur, aus Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung.
#sts

The Digital Turn in Food Studies

📱🍏 How are researchers studying food’s digital turn?

My new chapter in ‘The Handbook of Digital & Computational Research Methods’ (ed. @Anders Koed Madsen & @akmunk.bsky.social) charts inventive methods for exploring food’s datafication, algorithmisation & platformisation.

🔗 tinyurl.com/4su87xnz

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

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Funded doctoral positions at the University of Vienna, deadline March 2nd 2026

40 funded #doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities ( #SSH ).

This thematically open call allows you to apply with your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.

Programme Programme

We invite proposals to our "futuring digital foodscapes" panel at the EASST2026 "More than now: exploring resilient futures" conference in Krakow (8-11 September).
➡️Panel 17: futuring digital foodscapes
easst.net/conference/e...
The cfp is open until 28-02-2026 here:
easst.net/conference/e...
#food

I suppose they mean reparative STS, not just paranoid STS. Should be interesting - and in Canada, so perhaps still safe
#STS @4sonline.bsky.social

📣Hiring📣

Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society

Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society.

Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb

#AcademicJobs #STS

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...

‼️ Our final issue of 2025 is out! Volume 34, Number 4 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on interdisciplinarity, expertise, science governance, and science and technology publics.

🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current

That‘s great to hear 😊

Digital eating This special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life, focusing on the reconfiguration of expertise, ...

focusing on the reconfiguration of expertise, choice, and care.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#STS #eating #digital

NEW PUBLICATION:

Digital Eating special issue co-edited with @jeremybrice.bsky.social and Karin Eli in @jcultecon.bsky.social

The special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life,

This is what Cultural Economy in the kitchen, a new podcast series cooked up (sorry) by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social looks like. Episode 1 features @tgpb.bsky.social & @allartmarkets.bsky.social waxing nostalgic before getting into Economic Emergencies with Simone Polillo

EASST Fund - Call for applications OPEN! EASST Fund aims to promote national and cross-national community building within EASST, advance new questions, topics and perspectives in science and technology studies, as well as enable collaboratio...

The Call for applications for the EASST Fund is now open until 31 December 2025. Find all the details and how to apply on the website.
easst.net/fund/

What a joy to launch @echodtu.bsky.social 🚀 this Monday!

#STS #controversymapping #digital #methods

Tagging another co- author @akmunk.bsky.social 😊

Red vine leaves turned red on a wall/building in autumn

🍁 Beautiful autumn atmosphere at #DTU this morning

#Autumn
#Photography
#Nature
#Morninglight

Careful choice and choiceful care: digital marketplace platforms, food safety and the redistribution of care Eating is becoming platformised as consumers increasingly choose food using digital marketplaces. Platformisation promises expanded consumer choice, but online food safety scandals have raised ques...

How do digital platforms like Deliveroo and Uber Eats protect consumers from unsafe food? And how do they reconcile ethical imperatives to care for food safety with their commercial drive to promote consumer choice? Find out in my new OA Journal of Cultural Economy article: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

This article is part of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Digital Eating, which I’m co-editing with @taschn.bsky.social and Karin Eli. Stay tuned for more information on this very exciting collection!

Bi-weekly, Thursdays, 12.00 UK time / 13.00 CET On Zoom, all welcome Meeting ID: 651 1959 8776 Passcode: 105639 ​​ 16th October Henri Hyvönen University of Eastern Finland ‘Hopefulness, cautiousness, fear and victimhood: Male creators navigating follower feedback in food-related social media’ 30th October Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Stanley Ulijaszek Oregon State University, Portland, and University of Oxford ‘Digital gastro-solidarity and mukbang’ 13th November Susanne Jaspars and C. Sathyamala SOAS, University of London, and Institute for Human Development, New Delhi ‘Digitalising food assistance: political, economic and food security effects across the Global North-South divide’ 27th November Christian Krupitzer University of Hohenheim ‘Digital food twins – Concept, use cases, potential’ No seminars on October 23rd, November 6th, November 20th, December 4th

Online seminar series "Digital Foodscapes" hosted in collaboration between @taschn.bsky.social, @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß, Katharina Graf, myself #HPGVienna and @ox.ac.uk Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity www.oxfordobesity.org/upcoming-sem...

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/...