Grant Jun Otsuki

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

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These weren't actually produced by Nintendo. I'm fluent in Japanese, and the text says that the Game Boys were custom made by the magazine. (The last two lines say that Nintendo's warranty is voided.)

*** It turns out Google Groups is more terrible than I remember.
You can join the newly de-Google group here: groups.io/g/anth-in-to...

Screenshot of ESTS webpages and all the content listed as PDF and HTML content.

📢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

This agenda-setting workshop will bring together HCI researchers and designers with colleagues from sociology, media and communications to generate an interdisciplinary research agenda for digital communication beyond human-centric replication.

Digital communication ecologies moving beyond human-centric replication EuroHaptics 2024 Workshop

I'm part of a workshop at ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama. Please join!

Submissions due by the end of March.
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Digital communication ecologies moving beyond human-centric replication

*** It turns out Google Groups is more terrible than I remember.
You can join the newly de-Google group here: groups.io/g/anth-in-to...

Japan anthropologists and STSers: I've started an informal mailing list to share information about things happening in Tokyo, and to keep in touch. Please feel free to share the link to anyone who might be interested.

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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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Marsden Fund refocused for science with a purpose Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and c...

In today’s devastating news for social science and humanities researchers, the NZ govt has updated the Marsden Find and disbanded these panels to focus on core science www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

Yup. Former colleagues are in shock/livid.

Shuntaro Tanikawa, giant of Japanese poetry, dies aged 92 The poet also wrote the lyrics for the Astro Boy theme song and translated Peanuts into Japanese

His last work was to reduce the word count when writing poetry.

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I hadn’t but it looks pretty great. Will take a deeper dive tomorrow. pweilstudio.com/project/the-...

What did I learn? ChatGPT is better than Turing at arithmetic. But Turing is better at chess.

More..

I happened to be reading Alan Turing's paper on the #turingtest, and tried asking his sample questions to ChatGPT. Here are his examples, followed by ChatGPT's responses.

Anyone know if the SCA or Cultural Anthropology have an RSS feed? Can’t find one on their site..

In honor of Anthrodendum, I've put together a short post on how to keep track of what anthro blogs are out there using RSS and a newsreader.

Download a newsreader and the linked OPML file to be instantly subscribed to 90+ anth blogs.

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An excellent post by @lorenagibson.bsky.social on how she teaches her first-year anthropology post: "how to anthropology" and "how to university." anthropod.net/2023/12/20/t...

The video of the keynote from this past 4S is now on YouTube. "Aloha `Āina for Our Future" by Prof. Kamanamaikalani Beamer of the University of Hawai`i.
youtu.be/HweQRiVK7VQ?... #4SHonolulu

Obscene profits for “open access” publishing. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

There’s OJS for open access journals, and it had a counterpart for conferences called OCS that looks like it’s been retired. There’s a need for something open source in its place.

#4shonolulu has ended, and I’m sitting down in Toronto for my first unrushed breakfast in a week. It had its hiccups, but it was amazing to see people and ideas come together. It really felt like connections were being built. Thanks all for your understanding, and for supporting us and each other.

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

🚨 It is time to announce (*drumroll*) that we are holding an STS School next year, June 2024 in Singapore. 4 packed days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. See sthvschool.org for details and the call for applications! 🚨

STARTING IN FIVE MINUTES. 13:30 Honolulu time.

For people curious about what's going on at 4S 2023, join workshop W6 on Zoom for free: bit.ly/4S-W6

W6. Imagining AI through Indigenous Knowledge Systems

#4sHonolulu

Our YouTube livestream has bugged out but we’ll have a recording later. #4sHonolulu

The Student Section of 4S (6S) would like to invite early career scholars for an informal meet and mingle on 7th November at 8:30pm, The Social, Honolulu. Register to join! #4SHonolulu23

Hello world! We're finally here, and excited to start (checks notes) skeeting? 🤔 about social studies of science, technology and medicine. Our annual conference starts next week, so follow us for updates from 4SHonolulu, Nov 8-12.

#sts #histsci #philsci #philtech #philsky #medanthro #bioethics