🏄 New publication! 🏄

Or rather, a series of reflections on a book that left quite a strong impression on me: Middle Tech – Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press, 2024) by the digital sociologist and ethnographer Paula Bialski.

journals.openedition.org/rac/41398

🤸 Nouvelle publication 🤸
La première d'une série, co-écrite avec Marc Lenglet, qui tente de réconcilier les vues cyber-modernistes et éco-critiques sur ce que les algorithmes – et par extension la dite 'intelligence artificielle' – peuvent faire.
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CB186: Ground truths and the epistemology of AI The study of ground truth construction practices reveals the contingent, negotiated processes underlying AI's epistemological claims. This track pursues

🤗 EASST2026 in Kraków! 🤗 8-11 Sept 2026

Want to address AI’s repressed dependance to referential 'ground truth' datasets? Then submit an abstract to our panel here (deadline 9 March 2026): nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

We look forward to seeing you!

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

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Aux origines de ChatGPT: histoire d’une évolution algorithmique YouTube video by Université de Lausanne

On entend beaucoup parler de chatGPT ces temps-ci, évidemment. Mais savez-vous d'où vient l'architecture algorithmique qui alimente ce type de chatbots? C'est ce que j'ai tenté de retracer lors d'une conférence récente @unil.bsky.social, à découvrir ici: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6j...

Such an amazing conference in beautiful Zurich! Big THANKS to all the contributors!
See you soon, and have a safe trip home 😘
#STSCH25

Intelligence artificielle générative, bulle spéculative? - Le Temps OPINION. Comment se fait-il que nous restions muets et aveugles devant les fondamentaux économiques de l’IA générative qui ne sont pas bons?, écrit Florian Jaton, sociologue. Il faut cependant affront...

Avec l'espoir de contribuer à une réflexion approndie (et si possible apaisée) sur l'industrie de l'IA générative..
www.letemps.ch/opinions/deb...

Deadline extended until Sunday, May 18!!
Submit your papers here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
Much looking forward!

Until Sunday, May 18

Deadline extended! 😁 submit here ---> sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

2 days left to submit your papers, #STS friends!
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STS-CH Conference 2025 Holding things together? Change, continuity, critique Conference date: Sept 10 – 12, 2025Venues in Zurich: University of Zurich, ETH, ZHdKKeynotes by Brit Ross Winthereik and Hannah Rogers Sp…

🗓️ The next #STS Switzerland conference will take place in Zurich on 10-12 Sept. 2025!

Join @loicriom.bsky.social and me for our panel on:

💥What Holds #Startups Together? Exploring Infrastructures, Places, and Knowledge💥

🔗 sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

@sts-ch.bsky.social

10 days left to submit your papers, folks!
sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you in Zurich!

Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗

🚨Call for papers🚨

@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)

all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa

please distribute widely!

Hey #STS friends!
Quick announcement for a great panel at the upcoming STS-CH 2025 conference in Zurich (Sept 10-12):
🔥🔥 Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions 🔥🔥
To submit your papers: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
Looking forward!

Thanks for your message!
Our platform was a little slow to update 🫣...
But it's all sorted now. You can submit papers here: express.converia.de/frontend/ind...
Looking forward to seeing you in Zurich!

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Hello friends! Just at the #STS-Hub in Berlin (sts-hub.de/25/). Who's here from our Swiss STS crew?

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social

#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk

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IA et référence performative - Florian JATON IA et référence performative par Florian JATON (Genève - Tech Hub)

Découvrez ou redécouvrez le séminaire "IA et référence performative : le cas du projet TESLA et des néoantigènes en immunothérapie personnalisée du cancer" avec @flojaton.bsky.social de @gvagrad.bsky.social

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Institute for Technoscience & Society - Institute for Technoscience & Society Upcoming! ITS Virtual Seminar Series Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society! Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relat...

We have the wonderful Fabian Muniesa (@provokedeconomy.bsky.social) talking about his new book "Paranoid Finance" on Monday 10th Feb @ 11am EST

It's virtual, so everyone welcome! More details here: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

Deadline extended until February 16! 🤺
Submit your panel here: express.converia.de/frontend/ind...

News Nicolas Nova (1977–2024) It is with immense sadness that we learned of the passing of our colleague Nicolas Nova on December 31st. Nicolas was a professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design…

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Digital daemons, nymphs and hydras,
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Cry for our friend, Nicolas Nova
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Tribute here: sts-ch.org/news/

If you want to get nerdy and read about the reconfiguration of the social and political tenets of precision oncology happening at the crossroad of immunology and genomics, check out the new paper just published on SSS by Luca Chiapperino, Nils Graber and Francesco Panese! doi.org/10.1177/0306...

Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements In this article, we examine public subsidies for musiques actuelles (popular music) in French-speaking Switzerland. Drawing on mixed-methods research focusing on the 2017–2019 period, we employ the...

🚀 New article out! 🚀

How are musiques actuelles subsidized in French-speaking Switzerland?

🔍 Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements

📖 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#MusicPolicy #CulturalFunding

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Only 7 more days to apply to the Swiss-STS conference this September in Zurich. Aptly titled "Holding things together?
Change, continuity, critique" -- in times of various deepening fractions, lets meet and share how to hold this all together: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

10 days left! ✊
Submit here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

Any Swiss-STS folks heading to the German STS conference in Berlin in March? If so, ping us and let's meet up! Ps: the registration is free :)

A resolutely #STS conference in train-friendly Zurich!
To submit, go here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

Peeps! The call for Panels for the STS-CH Conference 2025 is now open! The conference titled “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique” will take place from Sept. 10–12, 2025 in Zurich and is being co-hosted by @ethzurich.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social.Join us!