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What does it mean to do research at the crossroads of adolescence and cyborgs? In RAFeCT’s new series post, an anthropologist and five teenagers trace how youth, bodies, and emerging technologies intersect — an invitation into the cyborgian textures of growing up.

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Doing Research Between Adolescence and Cyborgs | Platypus
Cyborgs and adolescence have historically coexisted and have a love-hate relationship. Daily connected, their bodies inhabiting poorly demarcated boundaries between online and the offline.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...
In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles by Lisa Messeri
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? Today on #Platypus, Sakari Mesimäki takes us through the Finnish startup landscape to explore how new progressive narratives are rehabilitating shareholder value.

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Renouncing and Returning to Shareholder Value | Platypus
Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? As Finnish national politics have moved towards austerity measures, progressive causes are gravitat...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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🔴¡ABIERTA LA INSCRIPCIÓN PARA SUMARSE AL V ELAD COMO ASISTENTE!

🛜Durante los días 3, 4 y 5 de diciembre se estará desarrollando el V Encuentro Latinoamericano de Antropología Digital, cuya temática de este año es “Navegando la cotidianidad”. 🧵1/8🧵
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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We want to meet you tomorrow!🙌

CASTAC is hosting an informal networking event for current and prospective members. Join us and meet scholars who work at the intersection of STS with anthropology. See you at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting🙂
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? Today on #Platypus, Sakari Mesimäki takes us through the Finnish startup landscape to explore how new progressive narratives are rehabilitating shareholder value.

blog.castac.org/2025/11/reno...
Renouncing and Returning to Shareholder Value | Platypus
Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? As Finnish national politics have moved towards austerity measures, progressive causes are gravitat...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors!

Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 castac.org/castac-award...
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Still hesitant about sending your application to work on our blog? Here are 3 reasons to join Platypus as a contributing editor💡

by Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor
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November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors!

Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 castac.org/castac-award...
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Many in China are buying residential apartments not to live in, but to store relatives’ ashes. In this thought-provoking piece, Xinyi Wu explores how “bone ash apartments” intersect with housing policy, real estate, shifting beliefs, and urban life.

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Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an Alternative to Cemeteries in Urban China | Platypus
The Bone Ash Apartments are at a grey zone of policy because turning residential units into burial sites is not allowed. As per the civil affairs official,
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November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors!

Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 castac.org/castac-award...
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Still hesitant about sending your application to work on our blog? Here are 3 reasons to join Platypus as a contributing editor💡

by Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor
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alt text: image of Kim, a brown-skinned non-binary person starting to smile at the camera. They have long black hair that falls past their left shoulder, and are wearing a black blazer over a white shirt. alt text: image of Kim, a brown-skinned non-binary person starting to smile at the camera. They have long black hair that falls past their left shoulder, and are wearing a black blazer over a white shirt.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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2️⃣ [Volume 2]

This volume deepens our collective exploration of how science and technology are made, unmade, and remade from Latin America. Across its clusters, Volume 2 expands conversations between ethnography, postcolonial STS, feminist epistemologies, and the politics of knowledge.
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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This week on Platypus, what can space selfies tell us about orbit and home?🛰️

Read the essay by Denis Sivkov right here: blog.castac.org/2025/11/spac...

Also available in Russian:
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Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and Home | Platypus
By attempting a space selfie, ham radio enthusiasts are not expanding their home to the size of the universe, nor are they simply connecting home and places in the outer space. As Dmitry notes in his ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We want to meet you!🙌

CASTAC is hosting an informal networking event for current and prospective members. Join us and meet scholars who work at the intersection of STS with anthropology. See you at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting🙂
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Are you ready for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting? We sure are! Join us for the CASTAC Business Meeting to review our achievements during 2025 and our plans for 2026. Details below ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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En la cultura andina, las constelaciones se forman observando los espacios entre las estrellas. Martina di Tullio utiliza este ejemplo para contarnos sobre su experiencia haciendo etnografía en Cusi Cusi, un poblado en la Puna de Jujuy, al noroeste de Argentina:

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Los Que se Alejan de Internet | Platypus
En la cosmovisión andina, las constelaciones no se forman uniendo los puntos de luz de las estrellas, sino a partir de las manchas de oscuridad en el cielo. La más importante es la Yakana, que tiene f...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the @americananthro.bsky.social Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors!

Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books?
👉https://castac.org/castac-awards/diana-forsythe-prize/
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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This week on Platypus, what can space selfies tell us about orbit and home?🛰️

Read the essay by Denis Sivkov right here: blog.castac.org/2025/11/spac...

Also available in Russian:
blog.castac.org/multilingual...
Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and Home | Platypus
By attempting a space selfie, ham radio enthusiasts are not expanding their home to the size of the universe, nor are they simply connecting home and places in the outer space. As Dmitry notes in his ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Platypus is hiring! 📣📣📣

The official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor!

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Image contains orange and black text against a thick black border on a white background, with a platypus (the animal) lying down at the bottom of the border. The text on the flyer reads "Platypus: The CASTAC Blog. Call for Contributing Editors & Multimodal Contributing Editors. Deadline: December 5, 2025. Interested in writing and curating blog posts and other forms of experimental content at the intersections of anthropology & STS? Come join a growing community of scholars as a contributing editor at Platypus, the CASTAC blog. Multilingual scholarship is also welcome! Learn more: blog.castac.org/call-for-mce-ce." Below the text is a QR code that links to the call for contributing editors on the blog. Next to the QR code is the logo, consisting of an orange platypus and the word CASTAC in black.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2025 Diana Forsythe Prize is Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr with her book Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm (2025, University of California Press)!🏆

Read what our Forsythe committee had to say: castac.org/castac-award...
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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How to balance the researcher’s agenda and needs vs a union’s agenda and needs? Today on Platypus, Isha Bhallamudi and Anushree Gupta introduce a new series: The Politics of Writing About Platform Workers’ Organizing.

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Series Introduction: The Politics of Writing About Platform Workers’ Organizing | Platypus
We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the Labor Tech Research Network collective, and hav...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Quando a psicanálise encontra a genômica: Rogelio Scott-Insua explora como psicanalistas e geneticistas brasileiros colaboram na Clínica Psicanalítica do Genoma, redefinindo as fronteiras da ciência.

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Freud Entre os Geneticistas | Platypus
Em vez de se esforçarem para reinscrever sua disciplina no lado “correto” da demarcação científica, os psicanalistas estão criando um terceiro terreno no meio da separação radical entre ciência e não ...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Are you ready for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting? We sure are! Join us for the CASTAC Business Meeting to review our achievements during 2025 and our plans for 2026. Details below ⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2025 Diana Forsythe Prize is Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr with her book Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm (2025, University of California Press)!🏆

Read what our Forsythe committee had to say: castac.org/castac-award...
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM