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As we look ahead to another engaging year of publishing a wide range of work from the social sciences on science and technology, we are thankful for the labor that our editorial team and our authors continue to put in. Today, we invite you to meet the 2026 team!🙌

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The Academic Roastery on Instagram: "Roast-a-Discipline 📍@graduateinstitute Fellow PhDs…. Sara, Marisa, Jolene (representing Hossein), Niccolò, Clare and myself (@kanikka.sersia) — wilfully and cour... 30 likes, 2 comments - academic_roastery on December 14, 2025: "Roast-a-Discipline 📍@graduateinstitute Fellow PhDs…. Sara, Marisa, Jolene (representing Hossein), Niccolò, Clare and myself (@kanikka....

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Kanikka Sersia (@algolabour.bsky.social), PhD Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology, has been awarded the 2024 M. Estellie Smith Dissertation Award by the Society of Economic Anthropology, US, to supplement her PhD dissertation fieldwork expenses in Bengaluru, India.

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From Platforms to Protocol | Platform Cooperativism Consortium On 9 August 2023, ONDC, a government of India backed initiative, co-organised an event with the Beckn Foundation or FIDE, a community of eminent tech enthusiasts and Antler, a venture capital firm.

"From Platforms to Protocol"

Wrote a blog for @pcc-global.bsky.social on Bengaluru’s tech developments about how local, alternative models could challenge globally dominant platforms to build a more inclusive tech ecosystem.

To what extent? It is yet to be seen! 👀

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