Gummies on an aluminium tray. An orange llama, a green heart, a pinkish llama, and above then a red star.

Gummy llamas art at the last day of the #BeforeRuins conference. Had great conversations and found new conspirators 🤗

A slide showing the top of some buildings. The photo is in green and white with some red accents. Text: 2nd stsing conference beforeruins Science & Technology Studies in and through Germany Ruhr University Bochum 25-27 March 2026

Slide with the text: AI BEFORE THE RUINS Industry and Inquiry Before and After the Bubble Pops Anne Pasek Trent University @apasek@bsky.social @aepasek@scholar.social

At the #BeforeRuins conference and it started with a bang of a presentation by @apasek.bsky.social.

The picture shows a window view of a rainy landscape from a train. The foreground shows a closed coffee mug, sitting on a small table.

On my way to #BeforeRuins Conference and #stsing GA in Bochum (thx @rustlab). Of course, it just started raining. So let’s have some rain and some rust

HGBA, the main venue, from the outside. Lots of concrete, and some funky colours in between

A snapshot from inside, the printed out programme on the wall, the poster in the back

A rendering of the Ruhr valley, in our conference colours 16bit style, which is placed in front of every seminar room that we use

We are about to start #BeforeRuins at Ruhr-University Bochum #RUB. Imagine a very excited team!

All the key programme info, including the venue location, to be found here:

stsing.org/before-ruins...

#STS #Anthropocene #Bochum

Snapshot of a concrete wall close to our upcoming registration desk

In the way to the lecture hall, there is yellow joy

On Wednesday, our #stsing conference in #Bochum starts. Final prep walk done. Standing #BeforeRuins. #sts

Check our lovely booklet here:
stsing.org/before-ru…