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#STS

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Gauthier Roussilhe

After silicon and neon, I've looked at the industrial processes to produce ultra-pure gold (≥99.99%) mainly for semiconductors industry. As gold bullions mostly need to be 99.99% to be sold as investement, little to no extra footprint or processes to produce ultra-pure gold for semiconductors. Anyway, gold is already one of the most polluting element to extract and refine. On the bright side I keep learning a lot about industrial ecology.

Poster of gold extraction and refining
#sts#gold#sustainability
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Peter Broks

What happens when someone with a background in science studies and an interest in patient experience has to stay in hospital?

Some passing thoughts on illness as a boundary object following my recent stay in hospital with a broken leg.

(seemed a good way to revive my blog)

#healthCare #hospitals #ScienceStudies #Patients #STS #scicomm #sciencecommunication
literacyofthepresent.wordpress.

Literacy of the Present · Illness as Boundary Object            It’s not the kind of thing that would get past an ethics committee. Proposing to break my leg as part of the methodology is someth…
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Kathy Reid

Excellent piece from @zephoria from Tech Policy Press arguing for "interventionism" - a form of pragmatism that seeks to recognise the uncertainty in socio-technical systems while ascribing importance to legal, policy and social mechanisms that counter-balance techno-solutionist narratives.

#STS

techpolicy.press/we-need-an-in

Tech Policy Press · We Need an Interventionist Mindset | TechPolicy.PressTo stabilize and enhance democratic practices, danah boyd advocates for an interventionist approach to AI regulation.
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Stefan Laser🗜️

Calling for the #EASST Review. Speedy #sts contributions, due 12 May.

"We see the need to raise our voice. Critique in STS remains indispensable amid shifting political landscapes, censorship, rising austerity, and expanding corporate control over infrastructure."

easst.net/easst-review/

@sts
@easst

EASSTEASST ReviewEASST Review Conference Issue, featuring reports from EASST4S-2024, winners of the creative writing competition and reports from other STS events.
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Julien Benedetti

Ce matin double première :
* Intervenir au forum des Archivistes, après 4 participations
* Faire une intervention avec @LeuLeu
Merci à elle pour l'aventure, un joli temps partageé. Et voici un mini-site qu'elle a réalisé pour diffuser notre intervention de ce matin #AAFRennes2025 #Archives #STS #Infrastructure aldonzel.github.io/interventio

Et je profite aussi pour remercier les personnes qui ont pu nous inspirer @jeromedenis @samgoeta @BertrandCaron

aldonzel.github.ioArchives & infrastructures - Intervention forum AAF 2025 - Archives et infrastructures : il faut que tout bouge pour que rien ne change
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D.

I have been looking for someone firmly within the bounds of #STS theory to take on disinformation and the decline of trust in science and it's finally here. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through this article and it is so, so necessary.

The reliance on an inherently trustworthy, omnipresent "science" that "says" things was always at risk of failing, and has never been how science built its trust.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

Illegible Performance: Constructing Scientific Credibility in the “Post-Truth” Era John P. Nelson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-2046 jnelson330@gatech.eduView all authors and affiliations OnlineFirst https://doi.org/10.1177/02704676251324
Abstract The sciences have historically secured social trust and authority through widely comprehensible performances of trustworthiness and of predictive and technological power. However, shifts in the structure and operations of the sciences; in the sociotechnical environment where public knowledge is constructed and contested; in the political goals of the sciences; and in the audiences to whom the sciences aim to speak have collectively left the sciences lacking public credibility concomitant to their public aspirations in areas like climate change and COVID-19 vaccination. As an alternative to pining for a science-dominated past that never was, I investigate the performances by which the sciences have achieved public credibility in the past and by which they might do so in the present and future. I articulate a contemporary set of performances by which the sciences may be able to demonstrate their value to broad sectors of society, emphasizing humility, responsiveness to public values and concerns, openness of interest, and situated rather than general utility. I hope that, by pursuing such performances, scientific institutions could rebuild, and, indeed, merit the broad-based trust to which they aspire.
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Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D.

@benlockwood As someone who started out planning to do forest ecology (and did my first degree mostly in that) and ended up in geography and planning, I really look forward to this article and unpacking it.

There's a lot of stuff in the subfield of Science, Technology, and Society (#STS) about similar contingencies and situatedness that to me has a lot of theoretical overlap things like assembly theory and other context-oriented theory in ecology. I should probably write something about this.

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Ben Waber

Last was "Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography" by Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis. This book does double duty - accounting for the current state of knowledge of the biological effects of testosterone in humans and the heavily biased development of that scientific investigation and its diffusion into the broader public. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/re (4/4) #sts #history #biology

bookwyrm.socialbwaber's review of Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography - BookWyrmSocial Reading and Reviewing
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Christina D-H

"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl

Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

Here's the book:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #OilBeach #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

ijoc.orgChristina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond | Guyton | International Journal of CommunicationChristina Dunbar-Hester, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
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Ingmar Lippert

yeah, going through the corrected chapter pdf

"La#oma’s pre-­and post-­carbon landscape: The ont*-politics of a vanished village", chapter 7 in our co-edited volume _The Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society_

see assemblag.es/@i_ngli/113860193

In my chapter, I engage with the politics of destroying, remembering, being the village #Lakoma in #Lusatia, in Germany, close to #Cottbus. Bringing my #STS analytics to the study of #heritage.

Assemblag.esIngmar Lippert (@i_ngli@assemblag.es)Based on the collaboration with @tip_itu colleagues from 2017 till now, now listed as forthcoming _The Cultural Complexity of Carbon: Green Transformations in Contemporary Society_ Edited By Steffen Dalsgaard, Andy Lautrup, Katinka A. Schyberg, Ingmar Lippert (2025) @sts@a.gup.pe @anthropology@a.gup.pe #carbon #GreenTransformation https://www.routledge.com/The-Cultural-Complexity-of-Carbon-Green-Transformations-in-Contemporary-Society/Dalsgaard-Lautrup-Schyberg-Lippert/p/book/9781032764856
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Michael Nagenborg (he/him)

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. utwente.nl/en/education/study-

Poster for the Open Days on March 20th at the University of Twente. You can see a colorful image of a person with a cybernetic hand. The colours are pink, purple and black. It looks a bit cyber-punk-ish. The text says: Visit us at the Master Open Day! MSc Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society. March 20th, 18:45-19:45, University of Twente
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Tomás Criado

We warmly invite you to the "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions" workshop, organized by CareNet

March 31 - April 1, 2025 in Barcelona @ Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(on site)

Free registration needed

+info: symposium.uoc.edu/131218/progr

Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaWorkshop: "Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions"IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group is pleased to invite you to the Workshop «Contested Futures: Unsettling ageing, ecological, and digital transitions».   What is this workshop about?   We aim to create an interdisciplinary space for exchange and reflection on the role of the future in research on ageing, climate crisis, and digitalization. These three domains are deeply shaped by imaginaries, narratives, and prospective practices in which the futures of modern societies are constantly negotiated and contested.   Across these research fields, we observe a recurring invocation of potential futures – futures that have not yet materialized and remain uncertain, but still, are already shaping the present. These futures often appear in dystopian terms, as threats and risks: ageing, framed as a “demographic bomb” or “grey tsunami” that will overwhelm healthcare and social systems; a world becoming increasingly uninhabitable and unequal due to global warming and extreme weather; and the strangeness of artificial intelligence, as the boundaries between truth and falsehood, knowledge and ignorance, get blurred.   Public policy frames these futures as “challenges”, threats that are also presented as opportunities. They imply an obligation to transform the present in preparation for the future. Anticipating these futures acts as a call to action in the present, shaping life in advance and directing it toward specific horizons. For this reason, these “challenges” are often linked to various transitions –demographic, eco-social and digital– that require the continuous production of new knowledge and innovations.   To mitigate the so-called “demographic bomb”, policies on healthy ageing, ageing biomedicine, and gerontechnology seek to build a future in which people live longer without falling ill, maintain their independence, and defy the effects of ageing. To reconcile the climate crisis with capitalist progress, new technological solutions are emerging: space colonization, geoengineering, urban adaptation, sustainable infrastructures, green energy. Responding to the risk of losing the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, between knowing and not knowing, new initiatives are being developed to promote responsible, ethical and inclusive artificial intelligence.   All of this shows how the future, far from being settled, is an object of contestation. We are concerned with how futures are not only imagined, anticipated, and enacted, but also cancelled, ignored, destroyed, and even colonized.   A space for reflection and practice   In this workshop, we invite scholars working in these three areas to explore questions such as: What futures guide research on ageing, climate change, and digitization? To whom do these futures belong? Who is empowered to imagine, to narrate, and to generate future-oriented practices-and who is not? Which futures prevail? Which are silenced? In what ways are futures being brought into the present and presents brought into the future? By what means, by what practices, by what methods? What are the effects of power that their anticipation generates, and on whom?   We do not wish to approach these questions solely through theoretical reflection or through the empirical analysis of practices and narratives of the future — although both of these remain essential. Rather, we seek to foster an exchange of practices, methods, and techniques that enable us to think, analyse, transform, reimagine, and reconstruct futures. Thus, this is an invitation to explore the potential of participatory methods, speculative design, arts-based methodologies (visual, performative, etc.), and game-based approaches, among others. We want to create a space not only for analysing futures, but also for experimenting with and constructing new ways of imagining and inhabiting futures.
#sts#futures#methdos
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