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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control?

Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq

#makingspaceforMicrobes

Photograph of Sake being poured into decorative wedding cups. By Frederick Shaw under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3IvgQFT

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 14

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society

👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn

#scienceinculture #scicomm

A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors):
(i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023
(ii) Dave Cutler, 2015
(iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020
(iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017
(v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment

@RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm

#ticks #chronicillness

Photograph of an orange tent and a green tent are set up on the hillside, with four mountains behind them. Photo by the author.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 13

How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats?

@anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp

Close-up photograph of a mosquito on a leaf. By Erik Karits under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4lraLJ8

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame

Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr

#Fanon #Wynter

Photograph of a bottle of murky water sitting on top of a checkered table. By Fotografía de Alimentos under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3ItoQas

Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots

👀Read by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs

Photograph of a gloved hand holding a yellow closed petri dish containing cultures of bacteria. By UK Department for International Development, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/46EYdJA

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

Photograph of bubbles and small grains of sand in a turquoise blue liquid. By Mariola Grobelska under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/44ISujB.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking:

Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation?

https://doi.org/pzvh

The photograph shows six butterfly chrysalis hanging next to each other on a wooden plank. Image by Labbradolci under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3GpUHbk.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢Issue 11.1 out now!

7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes

+1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations

👀https://bit.ly/4m31ese

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Apr 7

It's that season once again 🍂 ☀️ ❄️ 🌱 so please spread the word: Science, Technology, & Human Values are pleased to announce that we are taking proposals for Special Issues of the journal 📬 ⏰ The call closes 21 June 2025 - and you can find details in the form: forms.gle/6uYdQim9J1z5...

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Apr 4

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens

Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Apr 3

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Apr 2

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.

Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Apr 1

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 28

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood

👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky... & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp

Photograph of a red brick wall. By Seyi Ariyo under a free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/41LEkMS.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 27

Farmers’ #embodied #knowledge in #AlternativeAgriculture resists the bureaucratic technological & economic #expertise even when it seeks to enable the farmers’ #agency

Dimas Dwi Laksmana on the knowledge politics of agricultural #development in Indonesia: https://doi.org/pcgq

Close-up photograph of rice plants in the water. By Utsman Media under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4iI8CH8.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 26

While both human centric + automated approaches to #AirportSecurity center the detection of 'harmful intentions', they follow different #epistemologies + #politics

👀Kühne & Paul on the #automatization of airport secruity: https://doi.org/pcgn

Photograph of a person stranding on a moving walkway in an airport beside a brown leather handbag. The word "stand" is written in yellow at their feet. By White Field Photo, under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3XNjLyr.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Narratives of #sustainability often leave larger logics of profit & ecological degradation unchallenged

👀C. A. Salling & J. Maguire on the #politics of #excess in re-using the excess #energy of Facebook datacenters for a Danish non-profit heating system: https://doi.org/pcgf

Artwork of colorful abstract patterns that remind of electric circuits. By FlyD under a Free Unsplash license: bit.ly/3XJ36Mu.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US

👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd

Close-up photograph of a piece of raw uranium on an orange background. From the New Mexico Mining Museum. By Marcin Wichary, under a free flickr license: https://bit.ly/3R1e6RB.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 21

Developments in #AirPollution #governance in Canada culminated in treating the #atmosphere as a sink, invisibilizing chemical harm + deferring interventions

👀@sophia_jaworski on #petrochemical - derived gas emissions in Toronto 1950s-1970s: https://doi.org/pcgc

Photograph of industry chimneys emitting smoke. By Octavian Catană under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/41LJcSe.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 21

With deep sadness we pay respects to the passing of Professor Sandra Harding

Her work in feminism philosophy & STS has been pivotal to shaping STS over several decades

👀Harding's response to Sharon Traweek featured in our Editorial Collective’s 1st Vol: https://doi.org/hbw6

Drawing of the portrait of Prof. Sandra Harding. Original creation by Mina Kara, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://bit.ly/3RitWra.

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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) @estsjournal.bsky.social · Mar 19

📢Issue 10.3 out now!

8 articles on environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, and surveillance

The editorial, includes thanks to reviewers and a call for new editorship: doi.org/pcf8

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · Jan 17

The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for
@estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS

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