What's the cost to research – to an entire discipline – of "AI" living rent-free in our heads?
@dawnnafus brilliantly lays out the loss to #STS from so many being focused on AI-hype: 24% of papers at #4S were on AI.
https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606
This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you can join online: www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...
FLiNG report is live! What does financial well-being even mean today? We look at the landscape of finfluencers, online communities, hustle economy, new forms of credit and lending like BNPL, and gambling and high risk investing to try to make sense of it. digitalculturesandeconomies.com/fling.html
Dear all at #STS sky! Last week we published the Winter 2026 issue of EASST Review, which comes accompanied by an EASST website renewal. You can find the entire issue here: easst.net/easst-review...
📄 New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! (Open access)
@susigeiger.bsky.social examines one ideological space that has recently received a great deal of emphasis from tech oligarchs as well as from conservative religious quarters: pronatalism.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳
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...
Tomorrow: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 3: Techno-Politics of Interoperability with Nina Amelung, Can E Mutlu, Annalisa Pelizza, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup. Mar 4 uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304
#STS #DataGovernance
And here is the link to the forum article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)
#STS #TechOligarchy #VentureCapital
Part of @sciasculture.bsky.social’s Forum on Tech Oligarchy.
#STS #TechOligarchy #VentureCapital
Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech.
In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.
CfP: Digital Foodscapes: Ernährung, Technik und Gesellschaft im Wandel
Panel 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
👉Deadline 31.03.2026
Alle Infos gibt's hier:
kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...
A real pleasure to join Addie, Philip & my co-editor @taschn.bsky.social on the JCE podcast to talk about our recent special issue on Digital Eating. Listen along to learn what digital eating is, where digital marketplaces and athletic eaters fit into it & why I'm currently living off lentil curry!
Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...
4 days left to submit! Call closes Feb. 9, 2026. You can submit (either hybrid or in-person) here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...
📢 #CFP: Futuring Digital Foodscapes
Join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss how digital tech shapes food futures, values, and inequalities.
Panel 177 co-organised with @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß & Katharina Graf
#STS
DL: 9 March
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
Sektionsveranstaltung mitorganisiert von Simon Egbert, Stefanie Raible und @juliaschubert.bsky.social.
Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen rund um die Herstellung von Zukunftswissen. Insbesondere, aber nicht nur, aus Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung.
#sts
📱🍏 How are researchers studying food’s digital turn?
My new chapter in ‘The Handbook of Digital & Computational Research Methods’ (ed. @Anders Koed Madsen & @akmunk.bsky.social) charts inventive methods for exploring food’s datafication, algorithmisation & platformisation.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4su87xnz
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
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
Funded doctoral positions at the University of Vienna, deadline March 2nd 2026
40 funded #doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities ( #SSH ).
This thematically open call allows you to apply with your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.
We invite proposals to our "futuring digital foodscapes" panel at the EASST2026 "More than now: exploring resilient futures" conference in Krakow (8-11 September).
➡️Panel 17: futuring digital foodscapes
easst.net/conference/e...
The cfp is open until 28-02-2026 here:
easst.net/conference/e...
#food
I suppose they mean reparative STS, not just paranoid STS. Should be interesting - and in Canada, so perhaps still safe
#STS @4sonline.bsky.social
📣Hiring📣
Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society
Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society.
Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb
#AcademicJobs #STS
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
‼️ Our final issue of 2025 is out! Volume 34, Number 4 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on interdisciplinarity, expertise, science governance, and science and technology publics.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current
That‘s great to hear 😊
focusing on the reconfiguration of expertise, choice, and care.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#STS #eating #digital
NEW PUBLICATION:
Digital Eating special issue co-edited with @jeremybrice.bsky.social and Karin Eli in @jcultecon.bsky.social
The special issue examines how digitalisation is transforming the conditions under which eating is organised, valued, and contested in everyday life,
This is what Cultural Economy in the kitchen, a new podcast series cooked up (sorry) by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social looks like. Episode 1 features @tgpb.bsky.social & @allartmarkets.bsky.social waxing nostalgic before getting into Economic Emergencies with Simone Polillo
