Aysel Sultan

This Place Saves Lives: An award for a serious game that looks closer Two TUM students develop a game about marginalized realities in supervised drug consumption rooms during a project week – awarded at GamesFestival25.

A little recognition goes a long way to show the educational power of a serious game! 👇
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

Back from “Teaching STS in STEM fields” workshop at @tuwien.at - intense two days working with students and lecturers around key concerns & ways forward in bringing STS to technical spaces. Time & again, critical pedagogies & institutionalizing exchange spaces are at the center of students’ needs!

A clarion call to the addiction science community: it’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Encompassing All Addictive Disorders (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Our “Clarion Call” has been re-published for the fourth time. This one is in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse signaling the urgency of repercussions of the attacks on science in the US… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Editorial: Where does digital health leave people who use drugs? Digital health is a term that has become increasingly important in public health, biomedicine and social studies of health and illness. WHO’s “Global Strategy on Digital Health” for 2020–2025 (WHO, 20...

NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇
www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...

Link: link.springer.com/collections/...

@philosophynow.bsky.social

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...

I have the honor of being a visiting fellow this month at "The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy" at the gorgeous campus of @au.dk. Wonderfully collegial and inspiring atmosphere to be working from, and the walks around this campus are definitely helping thinking minds!

Harm Reduction Journal The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, community-focused journal for research on reducing risks and harms associated with drug use, gambling, online ...

In other news, I'm pleased to have joined #HarmReductionJournal as #AssociateEditor. This role allows me to contribute to visibility of digital interventions, treatment & recovery research. HRJ is a high-impact journal connecting policy, practice, research & amplifying advocacy. shorturl.at/p5mhu

The text reads, "Subject-Positioning, 'In a crowded digital sphere, success lies less in asserting truth than in building identity,' by Ben Glasson, Landhaus Fellow"

The text reads, "Today’s fragmented communication environment is marked by low institutional trust and identity-based beliefs. In environmental politics, communication has shifted from making claims to shaping how audiences interpret contested terms. As people accept that corporations can be both ethical and self-interested, companies use storytelling and confession to simulate trust and bind themselves to stakeholders. In a crowded digital sphere, success lies less in asserting truth than in building identity. Greenwashing nowadays involves crafting corporate personae that appear inherently green—the focus is less on deception, more on embedding sustainability in a company’s perceived identity."

Here comes a new #CriticalConcept, "Subject-Positioning", by Landhaus Fellow Ben Glasson.

Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.

It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫
doi.org/10.31219/osf...

I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press!
osf.io/preprints/os...

Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.

Abstracts are due September 20!

🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

YouTube video by ComputerSpielAkademie GamesPreis25 Preisverleihung am 01.06.2025 in München

Congratulations to Ani & Ray whose game design about drug consumption rooms has won the Unseen prize 🏆
I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape!
🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo

Call for Special Issue on Food Habits The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming f...

DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.

www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too.

The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇

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Come work with us at DHSP!

Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊

www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

📣 Folks, I’m looking to offer co-supervision of PhD dissertations. If you are working (or know someone who is) across the biomedicine and health spectrum with special focus on critical public health, drug policy or digital health interventions, feel free to get in touch!

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The list goes on. It can’t be stressed enough how important it is to ensure the visibility of this work and continue the service of giving platform to high quality and diverse knowledge of drug use and drug policy.

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to redeveloping intervention and treatment, to addressing drug education, reinventing harm reduction through innovations like drug checking, and pushing for fairer, accessible and non-judgmental health and social services for society’s most marginalized groups, to so much more.

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The field of drug studies mark enourmous accomplishments over the last several decades from calling out the destructive consequences of the “war on drugs”, through advising and working with local governments and international bodies like UNODC and EU Drugs Agency

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Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you're at the #STSHub2025 in #Berlin come join our panel Nr. 22 on Friday at 9:00! I look forward to speculating about how diffractive methodologies can help understand digital harm reduction on social media.

Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

“Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now.”

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📣 Looking forward to speaking about feminist harm reduction next week at @durham-university.bsky.social Health & Social Theory Seminars.

🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany.

February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
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Please DM for the link.

Azerbaijan: Between the Soviet Legacy and International Drug Control - TalkingDrugs Azerbaijan drug control sits between a Soviet past and present commitments to international communities, forcing future policy options.

Oh, and this little blog went online in December - forgot to post! ✍️ Thanks for the invitation to put science communication into practice 📝 #TalkingDrugs @releasedrugs.bsky.social
www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...

As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community

Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG

Let there be light even on very frosty days. Happy 2025! 🥂