Sub-tropical multispecies entanglements at the annual @sthv.bsky.social Editorial Collective meeting 🦎

A wonderfully energising two days in Meanjin / Brisbane plotting and planning with the @sthv.bsky.social Editorial Collective ✨

New OnlineFirst article: "More Instrument than Data" by David Ribes and Eric Monteiro #instruments #data #stability #instability #breakdown #coherence #tinkering
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "China Time Machines: The Temporal–Spatial Dynamics of China's Global Digital Platforms and Technocapitalist Expansions" by Yichen Rao Chronotope
#fintech #digitalcapital #riskanalysts #platformeconomy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Mapping the Hospital: Epidemiology, Infection, and Antibiotic Governance at the Clínica Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain" by Cristina Moreno Lozano @crinamoreno.bsky.social #infectionmedicine #antimicrobial #governance #hospitals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Tool, Connector, or Data Processor: On the Multiplicity of an Algorithm and Its Worlds - Ida Schrøder, Helene Friis Ratner, Laura Kocksch, 2026 This paper explores the development of an algorithm for child welfare administration in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic study of the development process, we a...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Tool, Connector, or Data Processor: On the Multiplicity of an Algorithm and Its Worlds" by Ida Schrøder, Helene Friis Ratner, and Laura Kocksch #heterogenousengineering #multiplicity #childwelfare #decisionsupport journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City - Canay Özden-Schilling, 2026 Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the management and optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to sc...

New OnlineFirst article: "Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City" by Canay Özden-Schilling #markets #economies #supplychains #maritime #shipping #congestion #ports #Turkey
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Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures - Ola Michalec, 2026 Digitalization of the grid promises a sustainable energy system. However, we do not fully understand how innovative technologies are introduced—and challenged—i...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures" by Ola Michalec #innovation #infrastructure #energy #maintenance #cybersecurity #expertise journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come along!

Call for Paper Abstracts and Other Proposals is NOW OPEN: March 3–April 30, 2026

Call for Paper Abstracts, Closed Panels, Making & Doing Sessions, Roundtables, and Meetups: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...

Accepted Open Panels: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Herd/The Masses Rethinking Herd/The Masses amidst the here and now of our planetary condition.

The Herd gathers once again! Join us in London on March 18, as we spin off in new directions, to rethink Herd/The Masses. Sign up to @contemporarycriticalthought.org for updates. Details online: www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-th...

AusSTS | Awards & Prizes Celebrating excellence in STS scholarship. AusSTS Best Paper Prize for junior scholars and Making & Doing Award for innovative research presentations.

Self-nominations for awards are strongly encouraged! For more information on eligibility and assessment visit: aussts.org/awards-prizes

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Don't forget to join us this Friday at Sydney Uni for the inaugural event of SydSTS! #STS

Worth making the comparison to Australian academic salaries too, where starting level lecturer/PDRA salaries often outpace Reader salaries advertised at top UK institutions. Also lots of (other) issues there. But historically strong unions make a difference, perhaps?

All good things come to an end It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Research Waste, Redundancy and the Rise of the Machines: The Questionable Future of Systematic Reviews Click on the article title to read more.

🆕Open Access - Research Waste, Redundancy and the Rise of the Machines: The Questionable Future of Systematic Reviews

Sarah Larney

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Sydney STS folks 👋

Join us for the inaugural event of the Sydney STS Network (Friday 27 Feb) where a panel will respond to the prompt: Why (Australian) STS now? #STS

Sydney STS Network The Sydney Science and Technology (STS) Network brings together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in how science, technology, and society shape one another.

And check out the new Sydney STS Network website: sydneysts.framer.website #STS

We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China - Angela Ke Li, 2026 Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China" by Angela Ke Li #technopolitics #migrantlabor #algorithmicmanagement #designlogic #fooddelivery journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In London? I’m organising this series with Marsha Rosengarten and Nele Jensen as part of evolving happenings of @contemporarycriticalthought.org. Join us as we unravel the concept of the Herd, to experiment with new ways of thinking health amidst the here-and-now of our present planetary condition.

Funding Schemes - Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness The Foundation currently offers 4 different types of awards, across fellowships, conference travel, research development and symposia. Please note that the Foundation no longer funds PhD studentships.

UK based sociologist of health? @fshi.bsky.social funding round for grant development, workshops, postgrad conference travel and post docs now open - closes 27th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

New OnlineFirst article: "Post-Socialist Biotech: Labor, Value, and Risk in China's Transitional Economy" by Taomo Zhou + Hallam Stevens #risk #labour #value #biotech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unruly Aquifers: Groundwater, Karst Landscapes, and a Post-Yugoslav Border Site - Dženeta Hodžić, 2026 This paper deploys the concept of unruliness to examine ethnographically how groundwater in karst landscapes resists being rendered knowable and governable. Foc...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Unruly Aquifers: Groundwater, Karst Landscapes, and a Post-Yugoslav Border Site" by Dženeta Hodžić #unruliness #groundwater #karst #hydrogeology #transboundary journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

In London? I’m organising this series with Marsha Rosengarten and Nele Jensen as part of evolving happenings of @contemporarycriticalthought.org. Join us as we unravel the concept of the Herd, to experiment with new ways of thinking health amidst the here-and-now of our present planetary condition.

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...

A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics - Daniel Navon, Kathryne Metcalf, 2025 How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to ...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics" by
Daniel Navon + Kathryne Metcalf #endophenotypes #deepphenotyping #psychiatry #biobanks #raredisease #postgenomics #genetics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...