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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 8d

Final days before the submission deadline for our upcoming special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions," co-edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Gisle Solbu.

More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 22d

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.

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On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 27d

‼️ NEW ARTICLE ALERT

📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab

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Good chemistry and its interruptions: about caring scientists and uncooperative molecules

Science policy has increasingly organised science as if it were a training ground for excellent individual scientists who can be found through fierce competition for research money and publications...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Sep 1

Volume 34, Number 3 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on expertise, scientific practice, the scientific community, and biotechnology.

Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025
Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026

#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jul 11

⚡️My #STS colleague Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is co-editing a special issue on Co-creating low-carbon transitions in the journal @sciasculture.bsky.social⚡️

More information and #CfP ⬇️

Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Aug 20

‼️ NEW ARTICLE ‼️

📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance.

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Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement

This article presents an engagement study rooted in ethnographic fieldwork at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) during the development of the 2020 Environmental Performance I...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Aug 14

How far can community-based biology movements go within financialised biotech?

These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism."

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Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism

The Open Insulin Project is a community lab-based effort to make affordable insulin using bioengineering. The growth of financialised biotechnology and biomedicine yielded both a crisis of access t...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW ARTICLE! Our latest piece "Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems" addresses the collective dimension of relevance in research communities on social-environmental problems.

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Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems

Relevant research in a longer-term perspective is not result of a one-point intervention and re-direction of research to address social-environmental problems. Rather, for a research field to stay ...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jul 8

Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025.

More info:
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Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jun 22

A reminder that the deadline for the Special Forum on "Tech Oligarchy" is fast approaching (end of July 2025). Make sure to contact the editor @keanbirch.bsky.social with abstract proposals and queries for suitability!!!

Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Feb 20

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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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jun 18

📄 NEW PAPER ALERT!

In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology

Computing and data science have permeated diverse fields of knowledge in recent decades. In biology the change has been especially noticeable, as very large data sets are revising how science is do...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · May 8

📄 NEW ARTICLE 📄

In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices.

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Bodies sensing air pollution in asthma research

Air pollution knowledge practices are rapidly changing in science and policy research because of growing awareness of its harmful effects on environmental and human health. Informed by developments...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Apr 23

📕 In our latest book review essay, Mark Brown (CSUS) brings STS and political science together for a much-needed dialogue on the notions of representation, democracy, and expertise. Make sure to check it out!

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Political theory and the reconstruction of expertise and democracy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 30

Just a reminder that the deadline is right around the corner for submissions to our special issue "Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation."

Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!

Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Nov 14

Are you interested in the linkages between techno-securitisation, today's active colonial relations, and the military-industrial-security complex? We are welcoming submissions for the special issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation.

Deadline: April 2025
Full CfP: bit.ly/3CBS9EI

Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 19

📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out!

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Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts

Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific prom...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 13

Excellent new paper by Avey Nelson and @kathleenor.bsky.social. It offers a counterpoint to narratives around de-extinction projects, which perpetuate neocolonial practices by controlling land, resources, and marginalising local communities. Thanks for the amazing contribution to SaC

Kate O'Riordan @kathleenor.bsky.social · Mar 13

Really happy this has made it into publication. Many thanks to my fabulous co-author Avey Nelson and the Science as Culture team. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mammoths and tigers and rhinos, oh my: mapping de-extinction species and networks

De-extinction initiatives targeting species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine, and northern white rhino reinscribe neocolonial networks through the extraction and circulation of resources. These p...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 12

‼️In our latest piece, David Hess compares two different types of expertise on outcome decisions in opposition movements to landfills in the USA, asking what type of expertise is important in shaping outcomes.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315

Figure showing the location of historical hazardous waste cases in Southern California

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thanks for the reminder @paulnaish.bsky.social: our first issue of 2025 is out. Make sure to check the great array of contributions from different fields and locations to this critical topic.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...

Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · Mar 4

Special Forum: Participatory Knowledge Co-production

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Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production

This special Forum presents three articles that demonstrate efforts at participatory knowledge co-production. The three experiences were successful in the modest sense that they provided meaningful...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Mar 10

And we hope to strengthen that critical space in the difficult times we are facing. Thanks for your support!

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Feb 20

Our special issue invites STS scholars to critically address tech oligarchy and a world where few billionaries drawn from the digital tech sector and venture capital world have an outsized influence on innovation, determining the technoscientific direction of our societies.
Deadline: July 2025

Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Feb 20

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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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Feb 8

New article out on Science as Culture!

In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation.

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(De)naturalizing knowledge ecosystems: on the use of ecological metaphors in STS and innovation studies

Ecological metaphors are ubiquitous but largely uncontested in discourses about the changing dynamics of knowledge production and circulation. Both formally and colloquially, scholars, policymakers...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Feb 5

Out now! Based on empirical insights from two community science labs in the US, Dan Santos (ANU) investigates what sorts of biotechnological knowledge and innovation, along with norms and cultures around democratization, are developed in community science labs

Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · Feb 5

The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs

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The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs

Biotechnological knowledge, materials and tools are becoming broadly available and accessible. As a result, biohacking – the conduct of scientific experiments and projects outside of mainstream sci...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jan 15

‼️New paper alert‼️

The latest article (first in 2025) discusses lessons from the pilot year of the DE-SILO initiative, a project designed to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming in academic science fields across the United States.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/4br52av6

Developing an intervention tool for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in laboratory settings

In the wake of ongoing injustices and disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic and continued extrajudicial killings by police in the United States (US) during 2020, many academic science communities be...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jan 6

Have you read a recently published book or watched a new movie/documentary/TV show that could offer insights to STS scholars? Science as Culture invites you to submit a book or media review during 2025. For book/cultural media suggestions and more information: tiny.cc/t1a4001

SaC_Book_Media_Reviews.docx

Reviews Science as Culture https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current Updated Sept 2023 Book and Media Reviews For more information or to make a submission, contact the Reviews Editors Mascha Gug...

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