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14.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last Friday, we held an STS taster session with Year 12 students at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury.
We talked about different topics, such as AI, and what it’s like to be part of STS.
#stsucl #education #WeAreSTS
23.06.2025 17:20 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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).
🚨 Job Alert:
We are currently looking for an Education Administrator to join our Professional Services team and work across our taught and research programmes. This is a full-time, permanent position - all details are available here:
http://bit.ly/447GzLV
18.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Cian O'Donovan
Dr Cian O'Donovan is the Director of the new UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation and a Lecturer at UCL Science and Technology Studies.
🔦 June Spotlight on Dr Cian O'Donovan, Director of the new UCL Centre for Responsible #Innovation and Lecturer at UCL #Science and #Technology Studies @stsucl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
11.06.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today - 11/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Prof @jackstilgoe.bsky.social spoke to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning about self-driving cars. You can listen to the programme here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(Skip to 01:36:00 to listen to the segment!)
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11.06.2025 11:29 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Teeth
When you need to see a GP, you can - though you might have to wait a couple of weeks. But half the people who need an NHS dentist have no realistic chance...
Dr Charlotte Sleigh, STS Associate Professor in Social Studies of Science, took part in More Jam Tomorrow's podcast on Teeth. You can listen to the interview here:
morejamtomorrow.com/...
05.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Read about BSc SPS student and Y1 Student Rep Fatima Ismail's experience of being a student and activist in this interview by Dr Jenny Bulstrode:
ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/2...
Watch the Young Voices of Africa 'Blood Diamond' documentary here: https://bit.ly/3HgJcD7
29.05.2025 12:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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).
📢 Exciting job opportunity available:
We are currently recruiting for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Science and Technology Policy. To find out more about the position and to apply, visit the link below:
http://bit.ly/3SrGqxk
28.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Are you an STS UG finalist or MSc student? Are you worried about what comes next after graduation?
Skip the existential crisis and mark your diary for 27 May for the first ever student-led STS/HPS Alumni Careers Panel, feat. former STS students Timothy Wood and Holly Frostwick.
14.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A big night for SciComm at STS ❤️🔥 Organised entirely by our brilliant students, the evening featured a showcase and panel discussion about diversity in SciComm. And speaking of diversity... let’s just say the room was very female. A reminder of who the emotional labour of SciComm typically falls to 💬
07.05.2025 07:02 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A group of palaeontologists in Scotland have extracted the most complete dinosaur fossil in the country, on the Isle of Skye.
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It dates all the way back to the Middle Jurassic – a period from which dinosaur fossils are notoriously h
How Scotland’s largest dinosaur fossil was extracted - BBC World Service
Some excellent work produced by Mykyta Osadchyi - one of our MSc Science Communication students - for @bbcworldservice:
www.youtube.com/watc...
#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology
02.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Diverse Perspectives in Science Communication
Creating Opportunities and Overcoming Challenges
A reminder to join us for the STS Science Communication Final Showcase on May 6th 2025! We will have a special guest panel from 6-7pm with Subhadra Das, Priya Joi, Alfredo Carpineti, and Lara Joannides.
For more details https://bit.ly/4iWeuwZ
30.04.2025 08:30 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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20.04.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to announce the appointment of our new Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society, Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social, who will join STS from 1st September 2025.
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Join us for the STS Science Communication Final Showcase on May 6th 2025! We will have a special guest panel from 6-7pm with Subhadra Das, Priya Joi, Alfredo Carpineti, and Lara Joannides.
For more details https://bit.ly/4iWeuwZ
07.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visions, values, voices: a survey of artificial intelligence researchers
As excitement and investment in artificial intelligence grow, a number of surveys have sought to understand public views. There have been very few attempts to understand the attitudes of AI researcher...
📈New report out! A collaboration between UCL STS staff and students that seeks to understand the attitudes, values and visions of AI researchers. The report analyses responses from 4,260 AI researchers, making it the largest survey of AI researchers to date. Access here: zenodo.org/records/1508...
26.03.2025 11:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Leviathan and after – a celebration of the history of science, the
A joint UCL STS – Science Museum Conference
We are thrilled to announce a joint UCL STS - Science Museum conference titled: "Leviathan and after". Taking place on 12 May at the Science Museum. For more details and how to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...
24.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 29 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 8
The marvellous bond: Animal glue and isinglass as vital waste in England, 1600–1800 - Simon Werrett, 2025
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, isinglass, made from fish swim bladders, and common glue, made by boiling the hides of cattle or other animals, were put to a great variety of uses, mak...
New article by STS Prof Simon Werrett on early modern glue & natural knowledge, part of a special issue on Vital Waste from the Journal of Material Culture
"The Marvellous Bond: Animal Glue and Isinglass as Vital Waste in England, 1600–1800” available at doi.org/10.1177/1359...
26.02.2025 10:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
JBS Haldane Lecture 2025: Charlotte Bigg
Our JBS Haldane Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Charlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), entitled "Imaging the universe. A scientific, technical
Still time to join us for our JBS Haldane Lecture of 2025 with Charlotte Bigg (CNRS), entitled "Imaging the universe. A scientific, technical and cultural history".
For more information and to book your place, please visit:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...
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25.02.2025 11:36 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce our JBS Haldane Lecture of 2025 with Charlotte Bigg (CNRS), entitled "Imaging the universe. A scientific, technical and cultural history".
For more information and to book your place, please visit:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...
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25.02.2025 11:35 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this amazing zine edited by our MSc student, Hannah Lev. Featuring a collection of illustrations, writing, photographs, and other art forms, Boundary Work explores how, in an increasingly data-saturated cultural landscape, narratives can compel us and make us wonder. boundary-work.com/home
19.02.2025 13:21 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
✉️ Our first newsletter is out!
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07.02.2025 13:16 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to announce our next JBS Haldane Lecture on 24 March 2025 with Charlotte Bigg (CNRS), entitled "Imaging the universe. A scientific, technical and cultural history".
For more information and to book your place, please visit:
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07.02.2025 12:23 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink: is big tech stealing your life?
How is our relationship with big tech changing?
Is big tech stealing your life?
Last week's episode of Rethink on @BBCRadio4 featured STS professor @Jackstilgoe. You can listen to it on
@BBCSounds :www.bbc.co.uk/progra...
03.02.2025 11:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
Untying the quantum string - with Davide De Biasio
“Matter tells space-time how to curve; space-time tells matter how to move”. Watch our brilliant MSc Science Communication graduate, Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social deliver this lecture at the Royal Institution on the promises and problems of string theory.
youtu.be/B-47G6XKFfA
28.01.2025 08:55 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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