New report published in Engineering Studies from the INES roundtable at 4S Seattle

A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2025)

A review of Jane Calvert’s A Place for Science and Technology Studies by Caitlin D. Wylie is published in the latest issue of Engineering Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sharing Histories at the Intersection of Computer Science and Anthropology This paper presents a critical reflection on interdisciplinary collaborations that seek to guide technical application by applying explanatory theory. It proposes that quotidian aspects of discipli...

Can Environmental Engineering Save a World of Many Worlds? Anthropocene Curriculum for Engineers by Indrawan Prabaharyaka, Anindrya Nastiti & Gusmiati is published in the new issue of Engineering Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Assembling a New Renewables Imaginary in Sāmoa by Hugo Temby, Faafetai Kolose & Annie Tuisuga – included in the latest issue of Enginering Stuides found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sharing Histories at the Intersection of Computer Science and Anthropology by Kendall House, John Ziker, Jerry Fails, Michael Wendell Jessi Boyer was recently published in the latest issue of Engineering Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Breaking Boundaries through Collaboration: A Human-Centered Framework for Fair AI Design Artificial intelligence (AI) design traditionally prioritizes full automation and broadest data coverage yet often overlooks the contextual realities of pre-existing biases in datasets and human ag...

Breaking Boundaries through Collaboration: A Human-Centered Framework for Fair AI Design by Shaozeng Zhang, Ethan Copple, Ana Carolina de Assís Nunes, Ali Behnoudfar & Fuxin Li was recently published in the latest Issue of Engineering Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the latest issue of Engineering Studies, Elizabeth Rodwell's article: Someone Behind This Technology: Conversation Designers in the Artificial Intelligence Loop can be found here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Engineering Studies Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration with Engineers. Guest Editors: Shaozeng Zhang and Kristina Lyons. Volume 17, Issue 3 of Engineering Studies

We are happy to share Issue 17.3 of Engineering Studies is available online! It is a special issue edited by Shaozeng Zhang and Kristina Lyons on Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration with Engineers that will resonate with many of us in our institutional locations. www.tandfonline.com/toc/test20/c...

The International Network of Engineering Studies (INES) has joined Bluesky! We are an interdisciplinary group of scholars curious about the relationships between technical & nontechnical dimensions of engineering practice, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place.

Assembling a New Renewables Imaginary in Sāmoa To promote climate justice, we need to do things – including renewable energy projects – differently. Scholars and activists from Moana (the Pacific) have long called for attention to Indigenous on...

Recent publication by Hugo Temby, Faafetai Kolose & Annie Tuisuga >>> Full article: Assembling a New Renewables Imaginary in Sāmoa www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Several archival papers have been printed and annotated, sitting atop a desk. A green folder is visible with a label saying "ethics code trajectory study."

Five years ago, my newest @engrstudies.bsky.social paper was chapter 2 of my #Anthropology dissertation.

I am trying to keep the space alive for the intersection of disciplinary knowlege X a topic that lots of interdisciplinary and #STS scholars have already 👣 traveled through.

An Engineered World An Engineered World examines the dramatic and global expansion of modern professional engineering between roughly 1870 and 1950. Over these decades, the numb...

just out from @mitpress.bsky.social a new addition to the Engineering Studies series. lots for @engrstudies.bsky.social & especially @thatminesgirl.bsky.social

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Photographer takes on the machines in AI competition – and wins Miles Astray subverts trend of artificial pictures muscling in on human photography, but is disqualified

A human photographer won AI generated image competition. This is a fascinating story.

"...whether this is a 'dog bites man' story or a 'man bites dog' one"

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Call for sessions National Open Science Festival opened | Open Science Festival Are you working on Open Science and eager to brainstorm new ideas with colleagues from across the country, inspire others with a successful project, gather input for a policy plan, or engage in an ope...

Have an Open Science project or idea you want to share w/ the Dutch Open Science community? Then propose a session for the National Open Science Festival!

www.opensciencefestival.nl/en/news/call...

Timely study: #AI regulation in the European Union: examining non-state actor preferences doi.org/10.1017/bap....

Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment The decision follows years of controversy and the departure of one of the program’s key researchers.

Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere, following repeated delays, years of controversy, and the departure of one of the program’s key figures.

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’ AI-generated porn, fuelled by misogyny, is flooding the internet, with Taylor Swift the latest high-profile casualty. Victims say social media platforms are failing to take it down – will they now sta...

Worth read on digital technology and misogyny.

Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: « it’s the facilitated spread of this particular form of virulent misogyny that should worry us, and how normalised and accepted it is »

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Lithium and Environmental Justice in Imperial Valley Webinar Imperial Valley is emerging as a global hotspot for lithium, which can potentially benefit the region. But what will this mean to the health, livelihoods, ai...

Check out our webinar last week on the environmental justice dimensions of lithium and geothermal development in Lithium Valley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO9...

Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide

A security leak has revealed state-led hacking activities. Somewhat ironic, but alarming.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US returns to lunar surface for first time in over 50 years: ‘Welcome to the moon’ Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft Odysseus lands after a 73-minute descent, touching down near moon’s south pole

So, after 50 years, the Moon race has returned.

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

A very interesting discussion on AI, focusing on how AI hype has distracted us from real-world problems such as labor and inequity, from the podcast 'Tech Won't Save Us'
@techwontsave.us

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/ai-h...

"Our conclusion from studying this rainwater harvesting system is that there is merit in expanding and complementing prevailing notions of engineering as optimizing forms of control, with theorizations of engineering as forms of tinkering care."

"Acknowledging this hinges on accepting that infrastructures are more fragile, emergent, and contingent than is normally allowed for in engineering textbooks."

"Located at a school in the rural outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, the performance of the system depends on ongoing forms of sociotechnical tinkering: it works well because of the continuous fine-tuning, adaptations, negotiations, and adjustments that people engage in."

"In this article, we show how a rainwater harvesting system is made to work."

"Latest publication!

Stefano Archidiacono, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum, Irene Leonardelli, Carolina Dominguez Guzman, Tavengwa Chitata & Margreet Zwarteveen:

"Engineering as Tinkering Care: A Rainwater Harvesting Infrastructure in Cochabamba, Bolivia"

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"I discuss the usage of the PSVT:R in spatial training efforts targeting historically excluded groups, and how understanding the politics of the PSVT:R should inform future efforts."

"I examine the validation and popularization of the PSVT:R, discuss how the instrument may not actually measure mental rotation, and explain how the construct of ‘gestalt processing’ was created in an effort to raise the status of spatial instruments which favored men."

"The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) is commonly used in engineering education to measure spatial ability in efforts to predict academic or vocational success, or as a placement test. However, the politics of the instrument are rarely discussed."

Latest publication!
Kristin A. Bartlett, "The Politics of the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test of Rotations (PSVT:R) and its Use in Engineering Education"

#gender #bias #fairness #assessment

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