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STS @ YorkU
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#STS @ York University, Canada: (1) Dept. of Science, Technology & Society; (2) Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies; and (3) Institute for Technoscience & Society

https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/

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linapintogarcia.bsky.social
Excited to give a virtual talk at York University on Jan 28!

Research with Colombia’s Neurosciences Group of Antioquia shows their care practices for families with Alzheimer’s may be even more crucial than their biomedical research.

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November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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haimson.bsky.social
This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

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Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025
Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner)

#STS #EASST

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Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on the ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam
by Sarah Rose Bieszczad and Pouya Sepehr
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July 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu

#sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation

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Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions
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July 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
stsyorku.bsky.social
For all those people out there thinking about writing ...
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 3
When I read non-academic essayists + critics I sometimes 🤔: did they do any *research* on this topic, or do they think theirs are all original ideas? This post from Brandon, whose work I admire greatly, confirms that contextualizing one's ideas + acknwldgng interlocutors isn't a universal practice
amateur hour
research for amateurs
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July 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing

#tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax

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Killing the Digital Services Tax is a step backwards
Canadian consumer are handing over billions of dollars in data assets each year to U.S. firms and receiving zero returns for it. That’s why we need a Digital Services Tax,
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July 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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stsvienna.bsky.social
📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️
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Invitation Vienna STS Talks x IPW Talks by Kean Birch on May 08, 2025, 17:00-18:30
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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karlgalle.bsky.social
Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM
Information from the fellowship application page: "Research Fellowships (Application deadline on May 1 and December 15) Research Fellowships are for scholars who would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions. Research Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $1,000 plus $750 for use of each collection, $425 if the collection is less than 100 miles from another collection for which a stipend has already been awarded. Fellows typically receive between $2,500 and $5,000 depending on number and locations of collections used. How to Apply Late applications will not normally be accepted. All Fellowships: Applications must include an abstract limited to 150 words a single PDF file, single-spaced, in Times New Roman font, no smaller than 11 pt type with at least 1” margins: - Curriculum Vitae, limited to 3 pages - project description explaining the research project and how it will advance scholarship in the history of science, technology or medicine, limited to 6 pages - references cited in the project description, limited to 2 pages contact information for two recognized scholars who will be asked to submit letters of recommendation. We will send instructions to these scholars upon receipt of an application, but applicants should let their recommenders know to have a letter ready for submission. Letters are due 15 days after the application deadline."
April 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
"If Data Is Accounted For, the #USA Has a Trade Surplus with #Canada"

New opinion from me for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

#assetization #data #trade #tariff #tradewar #Trump #bigtech

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If Data Is Accounted For, the United States Has a Trade Surplus with Canada
Corporations such as Alphabet, Meta and Amazon have been extracting billions of dollars’ worth of data assets from Canada for years.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
www.yorku.ca
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
stsyorku.bsky.social
ITS in-person Talk @ #YorkU (Kaneff 519): Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW, Australia) on "Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries" #sts #compute #Earth #Toronto || More info: www.yorku.ca/research/its/
Institute for Technoscience & Society - Institute for Technoscience & Society
Upcoming! ITS In-person Talk Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society! Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relationship ...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech

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April 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
stsyorku.bsky.social
Come join us for in-person film showing!

"Becoming the Butterfly" - a film screening & roundtable on brain injuries.

10th April @ 6.30-8.30pm (details below)
March 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
stsyorku.bsky.social
Next week! @keanbirch.bsky.social is giving lecture on "Rise of the Tech Oligarchy" as part of the inaugural Richard A. Jarrell Fund Science, Technology & Society talks

When: Tues, 25 March @ 3-4.30pm
Where: Osgoode Hall IKB 1006, YorkU Keele

Registration: natssts.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/vie...
STS Research Talk March 25th 3:00-4:30pm
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March 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
stsyorku.bsky.social
Go see how many of your publications have been used to train #Meta's #artificialintelligence systems!
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Mar 21
Unsurprisingly, all of my books have been ingested into Meta's AI systems

The joke's on them, though — it means the Luddites are in there, too
March 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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engelmal.bsky.social
🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project!

The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration.

Deadline 31 March 2025

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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pgolka.bsky.social
Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share!
- 2yr postdoc in wealth research
- 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty
- 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy
- 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology
- tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society
Job Openings
www.mpifg.de
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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kimtallbear.bsky.social
Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.

Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program
Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....
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March 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
stsyorku.bsky.social
We’re celebrating "Maraña" by Lina Pinto-García (MA ’14, PhD ’20, STS, #YorkU) with an engaging discussion!

📢 Chair: Denielle Elliott
🎙 Speakers: Aryn Martin, Drew Belsky & Luis Van Isschot

📅 Mar 4 | ⏰ 10 AM | 📍 York U | 💻 Hybrid

🔗 Register: rb.gy/qryzik
February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
Just out! My new paper w/ @damolaadediji.bsky.social on #bigtech #personaldata and #competitionpolicy in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social ||

"Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy"

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Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy - Kean Birch, ‘Damola Adediji, 2025
Many countries and jurisdictions are reforming their competition policies in response to growing political and public concerns about market concentration, espec...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social

#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk

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Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”
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February 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
#CfP Call for Papers: Exploring Solutions to the Challenges of Our Time: A Positive Turn in Economic #Sociology? Mid-Term Conference of the European Sociological Association #ESA Research Network “Economic Sociology”.

📌 Apply by 1 May 2025.

➡️ www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
February 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM