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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 1d

What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 3d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 9d

New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
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QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain - Na Fu, 2025

E-retail platforms are fundamentally restructuring global production networks, creating new forms of labor exploitation hidden behind digital interfaces. In Chi...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 15d

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 22d

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 28d

In this review article, Hegarty explores transgender health through the work of Christoph Hanssmann (Care without Pathology, 2023), Vaibhav Saria (Hijras, Lovers, Brothers, 2021) and Moisés Lino e Silva (Minoritarian Liberalism, 2022).

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 28d

New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025

Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 29d

New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice - Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, Environmental Data...

The 2016 election of Donald Trump heightened the disproportionate risks from toxicants faced by minoritized communities from cuts in the US Environmental Protec...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 4

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025

Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Sep 2

New paper alert! A new article in @sthv.bsky.social reflects on how EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch program uses computational civic notebooks to intervene in environmental data regimes that otherwise sustain a harmful permission-to-pollute system.

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Sep 2

New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Aug 18

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 11

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?" by Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social #constructivist #politicaleconomy #assetization #LangdonWinner #RobertMoses #adtech #generativeAI #techbros journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 13

In this article Callon confronts the question (vital then, imperative now) of whether governments should devote funding to basic research? "Science is a public good," Callon argues, "not because of its intrinsic properties but because it is a source of diversity and flexibility."

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 13

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994

Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 11

The article explores "adtech" and genAI "within an approach I define as constructivist political economy sitting at the interface of STS and political economy, which can provide a useful analytical tool to analyze and address the vagaries of contemporary technoscientific capitalism."

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Aug 11

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?" by Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social #constructivist #politicaleconomy #assetization #LangdonWinner #RobertMoses #adtech #generativeAI #techbros journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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

"Translating aspirations into institutionally rooted practices requires effort and resourcefulness, ultimately producing a “homegrown” version of data labor... We demonstrate that the friction lens provides a novel way to analyze data-based automation from a critical perspective..."

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

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Friction and Promise in Data Labor" by Minna Ruckenstein + Tuukka Lehtiniemi #datafication #friction #datalabor #prison #human-fueled #automation #aspiration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · Aug 5

Join @sthv.bsky.social next June for the 2026 STS summer school! Esp for early career researchers, it will include seminars, workshops, and keynotes to advance research/professional careers. Asia-Pacific scholars preferred. (I'll be a keynote instructor!) Apply by Dec 10.

Please circulate widely!

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Jul 29

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Jul 28

New OnlineFirst article: "Hard-Earned Glimpses: Using GPS Tracking in Dementia Care" by Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard + Anders Albrechtslund #GPStracking #dementia #carework #surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hard-Earned Glimpses: Using GPS Tracking in Dementia Care - Astrid Meyer, Stinne Aaløkke Ballegaard, Anders Albrechtslund, 2025

Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking is a common tool used to prevent and handle situations where people with dementia get lost. Based on ethnographic field...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Jul 14

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "“This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies" by Jennifer Gabrys @planetarypraxis.bsky.social #forests #treeplanting #restoration #climatetechnology #technicity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies - Jennifer Gabrys, 2025

Trees and forests often feature as solutions to environmental crises, thereby encouraging tree planting projects. This article considers how “trillion trees” pr...

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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Jul 5

Our editors @karilancaster.bsky.social @tdneale.bsky.social and @matthewkearnes.bsky.social will be there, and we are co-hosting a workshop on publishing in STS with Catalyst. If you cannot make the workshop feel free to find us for a chat about future submissions 📝

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