Kari Lancaster
@karilancaster.bsky.social
Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | check out @contemporarycriticalthought.org
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Kari Lancaster
@karilancaster.bsky.social
· Jun 23
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak?
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Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
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Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
A great opportunity to spend some time with a dynamic and thoughtful team. I loved my time with CSSM as a Visiting Fellow in 2023, which led to long lasting collaborations and friendships. Go for it!
📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM Visiting Fellowships for May 2026. The CSSM is looking for three fellows at any career stage for the month of May 2026!
📅Application deadline: 8 January 2026
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
📅Application deadline: 8 January 2026
🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CSSM Visiting Fellowships for May 2026 – The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes
The Centre for the Social Study of Microbes at the University of Helsinki is looking for fellows for the month of May 2026. The annual CSSM fellowship is awarded to three scholars who may be at any ca...
www.socialmicrobes.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A great opportunity to spend some time with a dynamic and thoughtful team. I loved my time with CSSM as a Visiting Fellow in 2023, which led to long lasting collaborations and friendships. Go for it!
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Coming up! We are reading and discussing the next installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Wetness against the three gods by @tshafique.bsky.social
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡
Wetness against the three gods
A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #2
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Coming up! We are reading and discussing the next installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Wetness against the three gods by @tshafique.bsky.social
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Friday, Dec 5 at 3pm GMT 🧡
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: '“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media' by Emily Dawson #media #popularculture #television #newspapers #sciencecommunication #knowledgeproduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media - Emily Dawson, 2025
Science saturates popular culture, but how might we understand the roles played by popular culture in producing scientific knowledge? Based on fieldwork and int...
journals.sagepub.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: '“We Have to, Like, Make Science”: Cultural Producers and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in UK Mass Media' by Emily Dawson #media #popularculture #television #newspapers #sciencecommunication #knowledgeproduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A lot to unpack here about the thing we call evidence and its making. Not least what we might learn from the disruptive practices of an albatross?
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
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November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A lot to unpack here about the thing we call evidence and its making. Not least what we might learn from the disruptive practices of an albatross?
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Design, Disability, and Critical Pedagogy in STS" by Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Kristoffer Whitney, Katie Healey, Jessica Hardin, Anna Carter, Angeline Hamele, + Lee Smith @kstackwhitney.bsky.social #criticalSTS #pedagogy #technoableism journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happening tomorrow 🤓
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet…
A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #1
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November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happening tomorrow 🤓
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet…
A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #1
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia - Sylvia Cifuentes, 2025
Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...
A Thousand Wet-Lands
Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics - Julien Larregue, Séverine Louvel, 2025
Social epigenetics is presented as a promising interdisciplinary avenue between the natural and social sciences to explore the links between neighborhood enviro...
journals.sagepub.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain - Na Fu, 2025
E-retail platforms are fundamentally restructuring global production networks, creating new forms of labor exploitation hidden behind digital interfaces. In Chi...
journals.sagepub.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extending public health framings of drug use to the health impacts of drug production: The case of coca growers in Northeastern Colombia
This article critically examines the absence of a public health approach to the well-being of coca leaf producers in Colombia, a group disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. While harm re...
www.tandfonline.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For the Health
of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice - Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, Environmental Data...
The 2016 election of Donald Trump heightened the disproportionate risks from toxicants faced by minoritized communities from cuts in the US Environmental Protec...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
journals.sagepub.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...