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?
gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...
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
Deadline for EASST abstracts has been extended to 9 March!
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇
Dear #sts folks working on watery topics. We are hosting a panel on ”Watery encounters and knoweldge” at EASST 2026 with @karilancaster.bsky.social and are looking forward your abstracts!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P078: Watery encounters and knowledge-flows
Water is a substance of knowledge-making, constituting what can be known of our unstable world and relations between technology, science, environments, and
nomadit.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Deadline for EASST abstracts has been extended to 9 March!
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇
I’m co-convening an open panel on watery encounters and knowledge making with @hetatarkkala.bsky.social. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… join us! #STS @easst.bsky.social 👇
Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Join us! Lots happening as we kick off events in 2026 - wetlandic thought, animal readings, writing sessions, bringing down capitalism, book launches to come, big ideas, critical explorations and speculative experiments. What’s not to love? Sign up for updates at www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
Lecturer in Criminology job in Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Might be of interest to those out there working in drug policy/critical drug studies too? www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... @issdrugpolicy.bsky.social
ED13355 Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
lecturer
www.bath.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Lecturer in Criminology job in Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Might be of interest to those out there working in drug policy/critical drug studies too? www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... @issdrugpolicy.bsky.social
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇
Dear #sts folks working on watery topics. We are hosting a panel on ”Watery encounters and knoweldge” at EASST 2026 with @karilancaster.bsky.social and are looking forward your abstracts!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P078: Watery encounters and knowledge-flows
Water is a substance of knowledge-making, constituting what can be known of our unstable world and relations between technology, science, environments, and
nomadit.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇
New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
New paper! Drawing on the concept of desiring-assemblages, we asked ‘what can a body with PrEP do?’
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Led by @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social in Sexualities:
The limits of promoting pleasure: Desiring-assemblages and #HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
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we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣 New paper in Social Science & Medicine!
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and
on-demand dosing in Australia
#sts #hiv #prep #evidence #expertise @martinxholt.bsky.social @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems" by
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems - Myung-Ae Choi, Buhm Soon Park, 2025
What can social scientists contribute to the development of AI? To date, their efforts have primarily been viewed through the lens of AI's social consequen...
journals.sagepub.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems" by
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Myung-Ae Choi and Buhm Soon Park #artificialintelligence #interdisciplinary #environmental #mediators #more-than-human journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "From The Lancet to Duterte: How COVID-19 Scientific Articles Figured in Policy and Public Discourse in the Philippines" by Gideon Lasco #knowledgetranslation #evidence #expertise #COVID-19 #TheLancet #globalhealth #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "From The Lancet to Duterte: How COVID-19 Scientific Articles Figured in Policy and Public Discourse in the Philippines" by Gideon Lasco #knowledgetranslation #evidence #expertise #COVID-19 #TheLancet #globalhealth #Philippines journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇
Dear #sts folks working on watery topics. We are hosting a panel on ”Watery encounters and knoweldge” at EASST 2026 with @karilancaster.bsky.social and are looking forward your abstracts!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P078: Watery encounters and knowledge-flows
Water is a substance of knowledge-making, constituting what can be known of our unstable world and relations between technology, science, environments, and
nomadit.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📣 #STS folks contemplating EASST 2026 @easst.bsky.social panels, please consider joining me and @hetatarkkala.bsky.social as we consider watery encounters. Wastewater epidemiology, water security, infrastructures, pollution, toxicity, disease, disasters… get amongst it 👇
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings" by Shelly Tsui, Sebastian Pfotenhauer + Gunter Bombaerts #engagement #citizenship #innovation #smartcity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings" by Shelly Tsui, Sebastian Pfotenhauer + Gunter Bombaerts #engagement #citizenship #innovation #smartcity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile" by Hugo Sir #evolutionaryetiologies #ADHD #neurodiversity #biosociality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile - Hugo Sir, 2025
In this paper, I examine the social, subjective, and scientific implications of the hunter hypothesis, an evolutionary etiology for Attention Deficit Hyperactiv...
journals.sagepub.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile" by Hugo Sir #evolutionaryetiologies #ADHD #neurodiversity #biosociality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
Writing a large grant application takes months. Now they're not even going to read them. It is very hard to maintain morale in these conditions www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Writing a large grant application takes months. Now they're not even going to read them. It is very hard to maintain morale in these conditions www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data - Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, Becky Mansfield, 2025
Vocal opposition to fracking (the practice of fracturing the subsurface to increase oil and gas production), from shale deposits in Pennsylvania to oil fields i...
journals.sagepub.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Applications close on Dec 10. Come and join us in Seoul!
Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
sthvschool.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Applications close on Dec 10. Come and join us in Seoul!
5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded)
This position is continuing (contingent funded...
jobs.anu.edu.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
STS in conversation with clinical researchers, to rethink blood reference ranges and how medical practices produce and operationalise racial differences and ideas of “normal” theconversation.com/rethinking-b...
Rethinking blood test reference ranges could make medicine fairer – and safer
Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to needless biopsies and lower chemo doses.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
STS in conversation with clinical researchers, to rethink blood reference ranges and how medical practices produce and operationalise racial differences and ideas of “normal” theconversation.com/rethinking-b...
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!
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
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
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
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
www.theguardian.com
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...