Cool, and, my next piece is in part about what to do with critique. Cool to see others in the field thinking about the same questions!

York University Science & Technology Studies Graduate Conference 2026 STS After Critique: Transforming Sociotechnical Injustices

The Graduate Student Association at YorkU presents STS After Critique on April 2nd 2026. A keynote by Yousif Hassan, and student & faculty panels will consider what it means to challenge stigmatizing, racist, patriarchal, ableist, and colonial ways of doing science & technology. Register below!

From Everyday Crypto Speculation to its Geopolitics: In Conversation with Wesam Hassan and Antulio Rosales

I am pleased to share this conversation about crisis, governance, and everyday use of #crypto in contexts of volatility, in the Society for Economic Anthropology's podcast Mergers & Acquisitions.

It was a pleasure to share the space with Wesam Hassan and Al Lim.

open.spotify.com/episode/7kPU...

Together with Denielle Elliott (@stsyorku.bsky.social), we’re organizing a workshop on brain health & art (Aug 12–14, Jardín Botánico de Medellín), supported by @connectedminds.bsky.social.

Call for participation (deadline April 30) 👇
ENGLISH url-shortener.me/HLPP
ESPAÑOL url-shortener.me/HLPZ

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

The AusSTS Making and Doing award celebrates non-traditional research scholarship that prioritises enacted, embodied and situated forms of STS knowledge making. Examples of Making & Doing activities include ethnographic films, installations, hands-on workshops, games, and more.

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨

The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

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...

Online Workshop: From Dissertation to Book

Join me to explore how to turn a dissertation into a book. I’ll share the process behind "Maraña" and its upcoming Spanish edition, plus tips on pitching presses and navigating a book’s afterlife.

@stsyorku.bsky.social

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a flyer for the ITS virtual talk with Jeff Nagy. Institute for Technoscience & Society Dec. 3rd, 12:00 - 1:30pm Virtual Talk Jeff Nagy, a black and white photo of a white-presenting person's face with square rimmed glasses and a slight smile. An ITS Seminar in collaboration with the Centre for Al and Society Big Blue: Depression from the DSM to Al Psychodiagnostics Jeff Nagy is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Critical Data Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, he was a DISCO Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he collaborated with scholars, artists, and policymakers to envision and build anti-racist and anti-ableist technological futures, also ran Search Engines, a programming series centered around the arts, emerging technology, and social justice. He is a historian of computing and Al focused on the intersections between that history with disability and psychological and psychiatric science. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University. Save the date: Registration information coming soon For more information visit: https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/ YORK U logo.

Tomorrow!
ITS Virtual Seminar Series with Dr. Jeff Nagy.
Big Blue: Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics.
December 3, 2025 from 12:00 pm till 1:30 pm.
Register here: yorku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited to give a virtual talk at York University on Jan 28!

Research with Colombia’s Neurosciences Group of Antioquia shows their care practices for families with Alzheimer’s may be even more crucial than their biomedical research.

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This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on the ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam by Sarah Rose Bieszczad and Pouya Sepehr

"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner)

#STS #EASST

easst.net/easst-review...

New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu

#sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

For all those people out there thinking about writing ...

Killing the Digital Services Tax is a step backwards Canadian consumer are handing over billions of dollars in data assets each year to U.S. firms and receiving zero returns for it. That’s why we need a Digital Services Tax,

I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing

#tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Invitation Vienna STS Talks x IPW Talks by Kean Birch on May 08, 2025, 17:00-18:30

📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️
🔽🔽🔽
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Information from the fellowship application page: "Research Fellowships (Application deadline on May 1 and December 15) Research Fellowships are for scholars who would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions. Research Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $1,000 plus $750 for use of each collection, $425 if the collection is less than 100 miles from another collection for which a stipend has already been awarded. Fellows typically receive between $2,500 and $5,000 depending on number and locations of collections used. How to Apply Late applications will not normally be accepted. All Fellowships: Applications must include an abstract limited to 150 words a single PDF file, single-spaced, in Times New Roman font, no smaller than 11 pt type with at least 1” margins: - Curriculum Vitae, limited to 3 pages - project description explaining the research project and how it will advance scholarship in the history of science, technology or medicine, limited to 6 pages - references cited in the project description, limited to 2 pages contact information for two recognized scholars who will be asked to submit letters of recommendation. We will send instructions to these scholars upon receipt of an application, but applicants should let their recommenders know to have a letter ready for submission. Letters are due 15 days after the application deadline."

Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM

If Data Is Accounted For, the United States Has a Trade Surplus with Canada Corporations such as Alphabet, Meta and Amazon have been extracting billions of dollars’ worth of data assets from Canada for years.

"If Data Is Accounted For, the #USA Has a Trade Surplus with #Canada"

New opinion from me for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

#assetization #data #trade #tariff #tradewar #Trump #bigtech

www.cigionline.org/articles/if-...

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

@tru-uoft.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social @yorkuphil.bsky.social @yorkulaps.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social @dighr-yorku.bsky.social @torontosri.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

Institute for Technoscience & Society - Institute for Technoscience & Society Upcoming! ITS In-person Talk Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society! Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relationship ...

ITS in-person Talk @ #YorkU (Kaneff 519): Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW, Australia) on "Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries" #sts #compute #Earth #Toronto || More info: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

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Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come join us for in-person film showing!

"Becoming the Butterfly" - a film screening & roundtable on brain injuries.

10th April @ 6.30-8.30pm (details below)

Not streamed, but video will be posted

Next week! @keanbirch.bsky.social is giving lecture on "Rise of the Tech Oligarchy" as part of the inaugural Richard A. Jarrell Fund Science, Technology & Society talks

When: Tues, 25 March @ 3-4.30pm
Where: Osgoode Hall IKB 1006, YorkU Keele

Registration: natssts.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/vie...

Go see how many of your publications have been used to train #Meta's #artificialintelligence systems!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project!

The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration.

Deadline 31 March 2025

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...