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Torsten Voigt @thvoigt.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking for sociologists & STS scholars (science & technology studies) to join us for 2 yrs of fully funded research at RWTH, one of Europe’s top technical universities.

Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 | Start latest Mar 2026

www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje...

Open Call: RWTH ”Port to Europe” Postdoc Fellowship | RWTH Aachen University | EN

RWTH Aachen University invites early-career researchers from outside the European Union to conduct their next research project at an institution where academic freedom, reliable long-term funding, and European culture and values come together.

www.rwth-aachen.de

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George Kirkham @kirkham.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.

Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties

Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...

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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · Apr 25

“The New Reproductive Order” is out today! Edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn, this volume explores the transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century.

Groundbreaking and sophisticated, this collection of essays opens new horizons of scholarship.

The New Reproductive Order

The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biol...

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · May 13

ICYMI: 'Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses'; Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan and Jenny Slatman research Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses - Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan, Jenny Slatman, 2022

This article is based on an online ethnographic study of Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. During 13 mont...

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · May 9

How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives? Join us for our May 20th webinar! stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/w...

Image of participants in the webinar, Making Tech Work for Everyone. How can technologists better serve civil society? What kinds of training do they need, and how can they serve respectfully? How can civil society organizations benefit from technologists and critical tech perspectives?

Join University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program on May 20th for a webinar addressing these questions, featuring alumni Trevor Odelberg, Divya Ramesh, Melvin Washington II, and Annabella Vidrio as well as Managing Director Molly Kleinman, and myself! We'll feature short presentations, audience Q&A, and breakout rooms to ensure robust conversation with participants.

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Association for the Study of Death and Society @asdsdeath.bsky.social · May 7

We're looking forward to hearing from Aimee Middlemiss next Weds on personhood, pregnancy loss and the politics of death for the third in our series of free, online #deathstudies events.

Book here. deathandsociety.org/etn/death-si...

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · May 6

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Merrill Singer @merrillsinger.bsky.social · Feb 18

My new book will be out in Spring:
It examines ecosyndemics through the lens of Planetary Health:

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Christian Haddad @chddd.bsky.social · May 12

🚨JOBS
Interested in #STS research on pharmaceutical innovation and microbial biopolitics?

2 position available @stsvienna.bsky.social to work with me on my @erc.europa.eu ERC Project #ALTERBIOTIC:

PhD: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-posi...

POSTDOC: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoc-...

Postdoc position for the ERC project ALTERBIOTIC

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John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · May 8

*UPDATE*
We've had a great response, especially from early-career researchers. Thank you!

BUT we really also want to hear from researchers who are mid-career and professors.

Your perspectives on the ups and downs of an academic career will really help us refine our recommendations!

John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us to help develop recommendations to improve how "failure" is understood and experienced in HE!

We want to hear from academic researchers at ANY career stage - PhDs all the way to established professors - in ANY department or discipline.

*Please re-post to your networks!*

Join our study!
Are you a research academic based in higher education?

If so, we would like to invite you to an engagement workshop to discuss recommendations and accommodations that can be made to support researchers when navigating failure in higher education.

What is the research about?
Failure is often a predominant feature of academic research and can include things such as research grant paper rejections, non-promotion or supervision upgrades.

We are asking you to share your views on a framework of recommendations we have developed including the usefulness of the recommendations identified.

We would like to talk to research academics at any stage of their career (early, mid or late) who:
Hold a research post including – PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers, Research Assistants, Associates or Fellows, Senior Research Fellows, Readers, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors or Professors (clinical or non-clinical).

What will I have to do?
We would like to invite you to attend a focus group remotely over Microsoft Teams where you will discuss your experiences of failure in academic research culture. You will be asked:

Thoughts on accommodations to maintain wellbeing whilst navigating failure.

To feedback on a framework of recommendations developed by the research team and how it could be implemented across research cultures. This might include what works for whom and when in regard to this topic.

The focus group will take between 90-120 minutes and you will receive an e-voucher as a thank you for your time.

For further information, please use your institutional email address to contact us:
Dr Celia Bernstein
researchculturestudy@warwick.ac.uk

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Filippa Lentzos @filippalentzos.bsky.social · Apr 29

After 20 yrs, @biosocieties.bsky.social founding editor and global thought leader, Prof @rose-nikolas.bsky.social, steps down from his active editorial role. We reflect on this significant transition in the journal's history and pay tribute to him. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...

Our Thanks to Founding Editor Professor Nikolas Rose

As BioSocieties reaches its twentieth year we write to mark a significant transition in our history. Professor Nikolas Rose, founding editor and global leader

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Ayo Wahlberg @ayowahlberg.bsky.social · May 13

Must read, open access, couldn't be more timely! "The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe" edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia Inhorn
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe

[Open Access] The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half centuryBoth fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent ...

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent!
#histstm #histmed #sts

Medicine on a Larger Scale

Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

www.cambridge.org

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Cambridge Reproduction @cam-repro.bsky.social · May 12

Great news, the programme for our Forum next week is now live! Take a look here 👇
www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/male-...
Not registered yet? There's still time, sign up on Eventbrite and we'll see you there!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-male-f...

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BioSocieties @biosocieties.bsky.social · Mar 6

Welcome! BioSocieties is an international, interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. Founded 19 years ago, it is just as relevant today.

@biosocieties.bsky.social and @biosocieties on X, where we post our issue publications and repost when tagged.

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