Our paper on welfare technology policy in the Nordic countries is finally out publicera.kb.se/sjpa/article...

Thank you for taking charge of the paper @anttihamalainen.bsky.social

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.

Please read and consider signing uppsaladeclaration.se

Hello from parental leave bubble. Any suggestions for new, interesting and thought provoking #sts articles that I can read at night while feeding my baby? Getting tired of scrolling and still not ready to read real novels with real feelings bc hormones 🫠

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Nature, Published online: 06 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00703-1 Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

The death sentence for science in the US: killing running grants for political reasons.

"Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1

If this stands, #science in the US is dead.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack!

It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks!
Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added.

go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

The dept of Sociology and Work Science, at the University of Gothenburg is hiring a professor in STS!

web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

CFA Workshop of the Reassembling Care for Older People (RECOPE) network, in Jyväskylä in May. Keynote by Britt Östlund. For more info see: www.jyu.fi/en/news/call...

#sts #digitalisation

Thank you Anna 🥰

Our book "Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions
Careful Engagements in Healthcare, Museums, Design and Beyond" is finally published link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #STS #sociology #socialscience

#STS #scienceandtechnologystudies #sociology

The call for abstracts for the 31st Nordic Sociological Association (NSA) Conference,14-16 August in Norrköping is out! Please consider submitting an abstract to the session “Care and technologies in a digitalised society” before Feb 29th.

Read more under s3 here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/ns...

Välfärdsteknikens värden – en slutrapport Hur motiverar olika aktörer inom äldreomsorgen användningen av välfärdsteknik? Och hur påverkar en specifik välfärdsteknik, trygghetslarmet, värden relaterade till omsorg och hur förändras ...

Den populärvetenskapliga slutrapporten för mitt projekt "Välfärdsteknikens värden" finns nu att läsa här: goteborgsregionen.se/kunskapsbank...

Möjligen att rubrik och ingress får det hela att låta aningen mer högtravande än det var menat, men Historien om Sverige gav mig chansen att skriva om en sak jag funderat över länge: varför är det så mycket komiker överallt? För GP Kultur.
www.gp.se/kultur/kultu...

January!

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology publishes sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi

Getting ready to co-host the first workshop of the Key themes in STS PhD-cours in Gothenburg.

Congratulations!!! Well done, well deserved and super cool 🎉🍾💪

On a meta level: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The book Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen and I are editing has a cover!