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The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
Piles of soil at the interface of a road and a water body. Photograph by the authors.
In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia
π https://doi.org/qhcm
Photograph of winding tree branches. By Lance Grandahl, available under a Free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/4813Jqo.
How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to?
π@cbruunjensen@bsky.social + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": https://doi.org/qg64
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π’Issue 11.2 out now!
12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection
++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting
πhttps://bit.ly/49RT8PW
Photograph of Sake being poured into decorative wedding cups. By Frederick Shaw under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3IvgQFT
Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control?
Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq
#makingspaceforMicrobes
A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors): (i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023 (ii) Dave Cutler, 2015 (iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020 (iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017 (v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.
Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society
πWhiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn
#scienceinculture #scicomm
Photograph of an orange tent and a green tent are set up on the hillside, with four mountains behind them. Photo by the author.
Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment
@RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm
#ticks #chronicillness
Close-up photograph of a mosquito on a leaf. By Erik Karits under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4lraLJ8
How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats?
@anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp
Photograph of a bottle of murky water sitting on top of a checkered table. By FotografΓa de Alimentos under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3ItoQas
Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame
Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #choleraβs #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr
#Fanon #Wynter
Photograph of a gloved hand holding a yellow closed petri dish containing cultures of bacteria. By UK Department for International Development, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/46EYdJA
Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots
πRead by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs
Photograph of bubbles and small grains of sand in a turquoise blue liquid. By Mariola Grobelska under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/44ISujB.
How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?
π Read CaΓ±ada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj
#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge
Photograph of bubbles and small grains of sand in a turquoise blue liquid. By Mariola Grobelska under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/44ISujB.
How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?
π Read CaΓ±ada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj
#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge
The photograph shows six butterfly chrysalis hanging next to each other on a wooden plank. Image by Labbradolci under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3GpUHbk.
The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking:
Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation?
https://doi.org/pzvh
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π’Issue 11.1 out now!
7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes
+1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations
πhttps://bit.ly/4m31ese
It's that season once again π βοΈ βοΈ π± so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal π¬ β° The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...
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Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
π#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
π#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?
Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?
Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?
Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of a red brick wall. By Seyi Ariyo under a free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/41LEkMS.
The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood
πBricolageyumyum.bsky... & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp
Close-up photograph of rice plants in the water. By Utsman Media under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4iI8CH8.
Farmersβ #embodied #knowledge in #AlternativeAgriculture resists the bureaucratic technological & economic #expertise even when it seeks to enable the farmersβ #agency
Dimas Dwi Laksmana on the knowledge politics of agricultural #development in Indonesia: https://doi.org/pcgq
Photograph of a person stranding on a moving walkway in an airport beside a brown leather handbag. The word "stand" is written in yellow at their feet. By White Field Photo, under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3XNjLyr.
While both human centric + automated approaches to #AirportSecurity center the detection of 'harmful intentions', they follow different #epistemologies + #politics
πKuΜhne & Paul on the #automatization of airport secruity: https://doi.org/pcgn
Artwork of colorful abstract patterns that remind of electric circuits. By FlyD under a Free Unsplash license: bit.ly/3XJ36Mu.
Narratives of #sustainability often leave larger logics of profit & ecological degradation unchallenged
πC. A. Salling & J. Maguire on the #politics of #excess in re-using the excess #energy of Facebook datacenters for a Danish non-profit heating system: https://doi.org/pcgf
Close-up photograph of a piece of raw uranium on an orange background. From the New Mexico Mining Museum. By Marcin Wichary, under a free flickr license: https://bit.ly/3R1e6RB.
Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US
πT. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd
Photograph of industry chimneys emitting smoke. By Octavian CatanΔ under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/41LJcSe.
Developments in #AirPollution #governance in Canada culminated in treating the #atmosphere as a sink, invisibilizing chemical harm + deferring interventions
π@sophia_jaworski on #petrochemical - derived gas emissions in Toronto 1950s-1970s: https://doi.org/pcgc
Drawing of the portrait of Prof. Sandra Harding. Original creation by Mina Kara, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://bit.ly/3RitWra.
With deep sadness we pay respects to the passing of Professor Sandra Harding
Her work in feminism philosophy & STS has been pivotal to shaping STS over several decades
πHarding's response to Sharon Traweek featured in our Editorial Collectiveβs 1st Vol: https://doi.org/hbw6
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π’Issue 10.3 out now!
8 articles on environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, and surveillance
The editorial, includes thanks to reviewers and a call for new editorship: doi.org/pcf8
The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for
@estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS
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