AusSTS

Australian friends take note!

AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka.

Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂‍↕️

How exciting is this!?

Annnnnd we're live! Get your proposals in for #AusSTS2026 in Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington ⛰️🌫️

This year's theme is 'Antipodean Interruptions'. Think antipodean methodologies, ontologies, epistemologies, legacies. Interruptions across scales, sites, subjects.

Some inspo ✨👇

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST).

Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

DEADLINE EXTENSION! Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) has extended the deadline for conference Open Panel submissions until 9th February 2026. The conference is being held in Toronto, 7-10th Oct 2026.

Conference Theme: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures

4sonline.org/call_for_ope...

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...

Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!

Woo! Breaking news from @aussts.bsky.social! See you in November in Te Whanganui-a-Tara! 🥝🥝🥝

Let this be the first thing to go in those pristine 2026 diaries

Stay tuned for the full CPF in the new year

A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!

It was an absolute pleasure to attend the #AusSTS25 conference in Melbourne/Naarm this week with the fab @aussts.bsky.social community!
#signalsandnoises #STS @hss.springernature.com

Thank you for joining us!! 🛰️💞

This sums up how I also feel after the wonderful @aussts.bsky.social conference this week. Thank you to all organisers and presenters 🙌🏼

Presenting in the making & doing session @aussts.bsky.social was a fantastic opportunity to show and discuss the materiality of creative research.

A hand-drawn visual note from a talk titled “Infrastructures of Noise” presented at AusSTS. The illustration is made with red and blue pen, featuring stylised sketches of speakers (including portraits labelled Dang, Fabian, Ranjodh, Kate), computers, loudspeakers, waveforms, and snippets of handwritten quotes and thoughts.

The loveliness just won't stop! Holly O'Neil (UTS) is drawing every session she's attending, and she showed me this this morning!

This is brilliant!!

And on the plenary panel with Chris O'Neill, @karilancaster.bsky.social and @tdneale.bsky.social contemplating noise, signals, and bodies
#STS @4sonline.bsky.social

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

Thanks to @aussts.bsky.social for an immensely stimulating, challenging, convivial, and inspiring conference. I’m leaving #AusSTS2025 with a head full of ideas, re-energised by conversations with colleagues and kin. There is a very special STS community in the antipodes 🫶

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

Thanks @aussts.bsky.social for a great three days at #aussts25 #signalsandnoises 💚 Amazing you’ll be heading to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington next time! (Put me and @tristam.bsky.social down for local donkey work jobs!)

That’s a wrap for my first AusSTS conference @aussts.bsky.social! Talked about COVID conspiracy theories in the Philippines—always fun!—and moving beyond thinking about them as mere ‘unscientific noise’. Naarm has been swell, but this weather is something else.

#AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

And now for a discussion with our whole panel @blueskychris.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @tdneale.bsky.social #AusSTS26 #signalsandnoise

And finally, Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social on abandoning Foucault and considering noise as spectre and hauntology, generating static rather than signification, interrupting seemingly meaningless repetitions #AusSTS26 #signalandnoises

Next up @karilancaster.bsky.social on "the promissory potential and risks of shit" through a story of the trouble of drugs in human wastewater #AusSTS26 #signalsandnoise

First up is Christopher O'Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social speaking on Foucault's essay "message or noise" and how the phenomenon of health and the body can be filtered through information theory #AusSTS25 #signalsandnoises

AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise" Join AusSTS online for the final keynote of 'Signals and Noises 2025' with Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster and Christopher O' Neill.

And here we are at the final session of the day which is our keynote panel on "Bodies of Signals and Noise" with @blueskychris.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social and @karilancaster.bsky.social chaired by @tdneale.bsky.social

You can watch live here👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...