Society for Social Studies of Science

Submission to open panels—Extended deadline for 4S Toronto 2026!
Call closes Feb 9th 2026. You can submit here: www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...

We're also now on Instagram: 4Son.line

We're also now on Instagram: 4Son.line

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Get ready for the open call for panels next week! More soon.

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The deadline for nominating for 4S Prizes for our Society is extended until December 31st! Get your nominations in for our suite of prizes (Edge, Mullins, STSInfra, Carson, Fleck, Bernal). Self-nominations are more than welcome, they are encouraged: www.4sonline.org/4s_prizes.php

We're hiring!👀👀

The Society for Social Studies of Science is hiring a Website Coordinator (10h per week / 1 year contract)

More here: 4sonline.org/news_manager...

Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Interviewing: Nov 18–20, 2025
Appoint: from Dec 1, 2025 onwards.

#4sSeattle2025

Enjoy the last day at #4sSeattle2025!

Please join us today at 4S—

08:30 – 10:20 Threaded Keynote: Bordering
Summit (Convention Center)
Rooms 327-329

and

10:40 – 12:30 Roundtable for Sandra Harding
Summit (Convention Center)
Rooms 327-329

I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.

@4sweb.bsky.social

The Presidential Plenary and Reception will start in less than 30mins in SUMMIT Convention Center, walk on Pine to 9th. Go to back of the floor level and go up to the 4th floor for plenary. Reception is on 3rd floor.

Do not get confused by other convention center called Arch.

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License to Spill, spotted at 4S! @4sweb.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

@4sonline.bsky.social

Please join us today at 4S—

08:30 – 10:20
Threaded Keynote: Bordering
Summit (Convention Center)
Rooms 327-329

and

10:40 – 12:30
Roundtable for Sandra Harding
Summit (Convention Center)
Rooms 327-329

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Michel Callon.

We are adding a note to our August Technoscience newsletter for all members, who will receive this news today. There will also be a post on our website later today.

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Finalise where to stay for 4SSeattle25.
Book accommodation at the Seattle Sheraton via this link
Deadline: Aug 8.

book.passkey.com/event/509903....

Why? Read on… 4/4

24h left to register to be included in 4S Seattle 2025 final program!

Deadline: Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time)
xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Items not registered will be removed on Aug 2 & panels will be readjusted to accommodate changes

Any Q.s email: web [at] 4sonline [dot] org

48 hours left to register to be included in the final program for the 4S Seattle 2025 conference.

Please register before Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time).

Register here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Any FAQs email: web [at] 4sonline [dot] org

Photographic portrait of Diana Ruíz, a Latina young woman facing the camera with long dark curly hair, wearing large red framed glasses and lipstick, and wearing a leathery tanned jacket and blue blouse. She stares at camera pictured in front of a red rose bush in a garden. Photographic portrait of Lupe Flores, a Latino man faces direct to the camera while grinning. He wears a black and grey shirt, short cropped hair and a metal rose on his lapel. He is in front of a beige wall and a wooden framed room with a dark scalloped chair. Photographic portrait of Dr. Darren Byler, a white man faces direct to the camera with a smile. He has cropped light brown hair and a beard, and wears a grey shirt and grey cardigan. He is depicted behind an digital-abstract panel of earthy tones.

Bordering Keynote
Tracing struggles & solidarities across bordering mechanisms that use systems of attention & surveillance to violently separate, confine, & debilitate—
Diana Flores Ruíz
Lupe Alberto Flores
Darren Byler
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Photographic portrait of Dr. Andrea Ballestero, a senior LatinX / Latina woman facing the camera with short brown and grey bobbed hair and thick black rimmed glasses. She smiles direct at camera with red lipstick and a red and pink patterned shirt, cropped at the shoulders.

Photographic portrait of Dr. Nikiwe Solomon, a black woman facing the camera with her striking hair scooped to her left, smiling at camera wearing a blue-black top with a small silver bar at the fastening and large silver hooped earrings. She is pictured in front of a book shelf and looks direct at camera. Photographic portrait of Dr. Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, a Thai man facing the camera, with his hands in his trouser pockets, leaning against a desk with a laptop and a book shelf behind. He wears small wire framed glasses and a black shirt and trousers.

Political Water Keynote
Shifting knowledges of water above and below ground within existing forms of ecological governance, extraction, &
scientific observation—
Nikiwe Solomon
Jakkrit Sanghamanee
Andrea Ballestero
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⏰72 hours ⏰left to register to be included in the final program for the 4S Seattle 2025 conference.

Please register before Friday August 1, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time).

Register here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...

Photographic portrait of Chari Glogovac-Smith, a Black woman facing the camera with her black and grey hair scooped back under a red hat, wearing a black shirt, cropped at the shoulders, smiles while looking direct at the camera in an interior space. Photographic portrait of Dr Tania Pérez-Bustos, a LatinX [or Latina?] woman facing the camera with short brown bobbed hair and round glasses, wears a white top and a denim jacket, smiles while looking direct at the camera. Tania is pictured outside with green trees in the background.

Photographic portrait of Althea Rao, a young Asian woman facing the camera with her medium-long hair wearing two long beaded necklaces, wireframed glasses, and a rust coloured dress. Althea is pictured with her arms clasped together in front of her body, and is stood in front of a large tree in a grassy green park. Photographic portrait of Sadaf Sadri, a young [?] women facing the camera with her arms crossed out in front sitting on a chair in front of a iron gate. Her face is in shadow and she wears a purple hoodie and trousers. Sadaf looks direct at the camera.

Check out this year’s Threaded Keynotes on—Art Scenes, Bordering, & Political Water
Each panel brings together scholar-practitioners at different career stages to think together about pressing issues in STS
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Booking via our link will make a big difference for 4S finances if as many attendees as possible book their accommodation to stay with us at the official conference hotel. 3/3

Our contract has significant financial penalties if we don’t reach certain target room bookings, and we are still about fifty short. 2/3

Welcome to Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Book your hotel room for the event at special rates, available here on an exclusive basis.

Finalising where to stay for 4SSeattle25? Please book accommodation at the Seattle Sheraton via this link book.passkey.com/event/509903.... Why? Read on… 1/3

We also can write bespoke letters of support if needed for other purposes such as funding, whether for online or in-person attendance ahead of the event if needed. Note that Certificates of Attendance will be sent after the conference, on September 9. 3/3

We are continuing to support travellers coming into the US with visa letters and letters of support. We're now about to enter the peak season of the conference so our turn-around times will slow down, and may take up to a week. 2/3

📣 Last call for visa letters to attend 4S Seattle 2025! 

We've returned 74 visa letters within 24 hours of receiving the correct details.

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Announcing the 2025 4S Elections:

🎉 Congratulations 🎉
Grant Otsuki
Dana Powell
Martin Pérez Comisso
Sonja van Wichelen
&
6S rep Vivian Giang

Thank you for your vital service to our Society!
Thank you members for your vote! It was a very close election!

Less than 24h to vote on the 2025 elections for 4S Council.

Please vote before Mon July 14, at 11:59 PM (Pacific time).

View ✅candidates 📷 here: 4sonline.org/4s_elections...

To vote—become a 4S member—here because members receive an email to vote: 4sonline.org/preliminary_...