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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 12h

📆‼️📣Join us for the #ViennaSTSxFutureSpaceTalk on October 23 #online about 'The Perils of Periodising #Astropolitics: Towards a Global #SpaceAge'
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"Invitation to Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk on October 23, 2025, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM by Bleddyn Bowen (Durham University) on The Perils of Periodising Astropolitics:
Towards a Global Space Age"

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 6d

📅 ‼️ #ViennaSTSTalks is busy in October ‼️ Join us and @sallywyatt.bsky.social on October 16 about 'Hostile #technologies types and concepts' @univie.ac.at ⤵️

Invitation to Vienna STS Talk on October 16, 2025, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM by Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University) on Hostile technologies: types and concepts

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 6d

📆TODAY📣‼️We keep busy‼️📣Join the panel discussion on 'Alternative #knowledge practices and the #politics of #urban #transformation' ⤵️

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 20d

📣❗🗓️ @aschiko.bsky.social, Pouya Sepehr, Denver V. Nixon and Anique Hommels organised a panel discussion on 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation' on October 2
@univie.ac.at 📣❗🗓️
Come and join us!!⤵️

Invitation to Vienna STS Talk x Panel discussion 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation' on October 02, 2025, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 7d

📣‼️ #ViennaSTSTalks series starts today‼️📣

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 21d

📣Join us and @ingaulnicane.bsky.social for her #STSTalk about 'Reimagining #AI #policy for societal challenges' @univie.ac.at on October 1‼️📣

Invitation to Vienna STS Talk on October 01, 2025, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM by Inga Ulnicane (University of Cambridge) on Reimagining Artificial Intelligence policy for societal challenges

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 15d

🚨new #STS #blog online🚨 ‼️ In "No Research in a Muted Country – On Academic Neutrality and Survival Science in Georgia." Ina Kaplanishvili reflects on the current state of #academia in Georgia.‼️ #research #neutrality #UniveristyofVienna

No Research in a Muted Country – On Academic Neutrality and Survival Science in Georgia – STS Blog

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 20d

📣❗🗓️ @aschiko.bsky.social, Pouya Sepehr, Denver V. Nixon and Anique Hommels organised a panel discussion on 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation' on October 2
@univie.ac.at 📣❗🗓️
Come and join us!!⤵️

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 21d

📣Join us and @ingaulnicane.bsky.social for her #STSTalk about 'Reimagining #AI #policy for societal challenges' @univie.ac.at on October 1‼️📣

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Christian Haddad @chddd.bsky.social · 29d

Working on shifts in global heath - related to #AMR, #vaccines and #antibiotics?
This workshop is for you!! 👇 #CfA send us your #abstract and join us in Vienna @univie.ac.at

👁️ @ifswien.bsky.social @stsvienna.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @sjvanders.bsky.social

Katharina T Paul @katharinatpaul.bsky.social · 29d

Interested in the politics of immunity, vaccination and #AMR? Check out this workshop I’m putting together with @chddd.bsky.social and @sjvanders.bsky.social 14-15 December @univie.ac.at! Submission deadline next week. tinyurl.com/3xbrcwbv

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · 29d

📅Join us for our upcoming #ViennaSTSTalk Series in the Autumn 2025 @univie.ac.at, online or hybrid.📢📢

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨new #STS #blog online🚨 Read about how Michal Nodzynski explores a range of issues posed by techno-solutionist approaches to #wildlife #conservation efforts - focusing on the proposed #"de-extinction" of the #DireWolf! #UniversityofVienna

STS Blog – Blog of the STS Department at the University of Vienna

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Jul 14

#Technologies & scientific knowledge are all around us. In her recent book, Sarah Davies suggests a #toolkit to navigate this increasingly complex world. The most important strategy: to understand that the way that #technoscience develops is not inevitable, but the result of human choices. ⤵️🥼🧪

Rudolphina Reads | Science Societies by Sarah Davies

Technologies and scientific knowledge are all around us. In her recent book, Sarah Davies suggests a toolkit to navigate this increasingly complex world. The most important strategy: to understand tha...

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨NEW 🚨 Apply for a four-year PhD position at @univie.ac.at, funded by the #ViennaDoctoralCollege on #DigitalHumanism and co-supervised between #STS and computer science!

Apply now: ⤵️

Job vacancy: University Assistant Prae-Doc - Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism

Apply for a four-year PhD position at the University of Vienna, funded by the Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism and co-supervised between STS and computer science!

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Department of Science and Technology Studies at the @univie.ac.at is now recruiting for a full professor in Science and Technology Studies!

📅 Deadline for Application 17 September 2025.

Please share widely with your colleagues and those who may be interested! #STS

Apply now: ⤵️

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 3

🎉🎈🥳🍾🎓We also congratulate Florentine Frantz to her PhD!!🎉🎈🥳🍾🎓

Congratulations to Florentine Frantz

We congratulate Florentine Frantz on her PhD defensio!

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 2

🍾🥳 🎓Congratulations are in order!🍾🥳 🎓Vera Ulmer defended her PhD‼️
@univie.ac.at
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Congratulations to Vera Ulmer

We congratulate Vera Ulmer on her PhD defensio!

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨Can a Cloud Catch Fire?☁️🔥❓ Read all about it in Carsten Horn's new blog post @univie.ac.at

Can a Cloud Catch Fire? – STS Blog

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Jul 1

📣📣📣NEW BLOG online 📣📣📣What's it like working as a researcher❓Read about the challenges of describing practice and passion for research to non-academic audience‼️ @univie.ac.at

What’s it like working as a researcher? – STS Blog

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Christian Haddad @chddd.bsky.social · Jun 13

Schöner Beitrag über ein tolles Projekt und eine fantastische Kollegin @stsvienna.bsky.social !!
> unbedingt reinhören!!

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Jun 12

Warum sich die Zukunft im Weltraum entscheidet? 🚀 🌌
Das erfährst du in der neuen & letzten Folge vor der Sommerpause von "An der Quelle"- #Podcast. 👂
Die Sozialwissenschafterin & Technikforscherin Nina Klimburg-Witjes ergründet die großen Zusammenhänge von #Raumfahrt und irdischer #Politik. 🎧 ⤵️

Podcast: Warum sich die Zukunft im Weltraum entscheidet

Für Technikforscherin Nina Klimburg-Witjes ist Ariane 6 mehr als eine Rakete. Sie steht sinnbildlich für die europäische Integration – inmitten eines neuen Wettlaufs um den Weltraum, der von Millitari...

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jun 3

Save the date! Book launch for @ulrike-felt.bsky.social's new book: "Academic Times: Contesting the Chronopolitics of Research" with discussant Alan Irwin.

June 11th, 2025, 6pm in person and online. Link in image! #STS @academic-chatter.bsky.social #AcademicChat #ECRchat #academia

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · May 22

📅Today!📅📣 Join us and @sarahschoenbauer.bsky.social for the #ViennaSTSTalk‼️ It starts at 17:00 in the NIG @univie.ac.at📣

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · May 8

📅📣📣Join us for our last #ViennsSTSTalk before the Summer by @sarahschoenbauer.bsky.social on 'ENGAGED SCIENCE – Scientists and Environmental Changes' at the NIG @univie.ac.at 📣📣

Invitation to Vienna STS Talk x INNORES Talk on May 22, 2025, 05:00 PM-06:30 PM by Sarah Schönbauer (Technical University of Munich) on 'ENGAGED SCIENCE – Scientists and Environmental Changes'

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · May 15

📆 ‼️It's today‼️ You can still register and join us online about⤵️

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Apr 30

📅May keeps getting more interesting: ‼️Join our #STSxTalk x @futurespaceproject.bsky.social
by Victor Buchli on “Low Earth Orbit and Perfectibility” online via Zoom @univie.ac.at
Register via the link down below!
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Invitation for Victor Buchli's FutureSpace Talk on May 15, 2025, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM online via Zoom

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · May 13

📣📣‼️We have a very busy week‼️ Join us TODAY for the #ViennaSTSTalk by Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero @univie.ac.at ⤵️

STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · Apr 29

🗓️‼️We keep busy in May‼️ Join us for the #ViennaSTSTalk by Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero on “Where are the missing fingers? On being allergic to electronic fingerprinting” @univie.ac.at !⤵️
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Invitation for Malcolm Ashmore & Olga Restrepo Forero's STS Talk on May 13, 2025, 17:00-18:30

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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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Ulrike Felt @ulrike-felt.bsky.social · May 10

Excited to share that my new book with @Palgrave is out since May 1st. It explores the hidden politics of time profoundly shaping academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. Have a look if you are interested in these questions link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Academic Times

This open access book profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities.

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STSVienna @stsvienna.bsky.social · May 12

🎬📖📽️ ‼️New blog post by our master student Lucas Nensel‼️ A video essay called “Science per Unit Time”, which was made during the short course titled “Thinking on Screen: Exploring the Video Essay as a Research Method for STS”🎬📽️@univie.ac.at⤵️

Science Per Unit Time: Insights into Living in Space – STS Blog

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