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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · 6d

How do digital platforms like Deliveroo and Uber Eats protect consumers from unsafe food? And how do they reconcile ethical imperatives to care for food safety with their commercial drive to promote consumer choice? Find out in my new OA Journal of Cultural Economy article: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Careful choice and choiceful care: digital marketplace platforms, food safety and the redistribution of care

Eating is becoming platformised as consumers increasingly choose food using digital marketplaces. Platformisation promises expanded consumer choice, but online food safety scandals have raised ques...

doi.org

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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · 6d

This article is part of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy on Digital Eating, which I’m co-editing with @taschn.bsky.social and Karin Eli. Stay tuned for more information on this very exciting collection!

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 14d

Online seminar series "Digital Foodscapes" hosted in collaboration between @taschn.bsky.social, @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß, Katharina Graf, myself #HPGVienna and @ox.ac.uk Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity www.oxfordobesity.org/upcoming-sem...

Bi-weekly, Thursdays, 12.00 UK time / 13.00 CET

On Zoom, all welcome

Meeting ID: 651 1959 8776

Passcode: 105639

16th October

Henri Hyvönen

University of Eastern Finland

‘Hopefulness, cautiousness, fear and victimhood: Male creators navigating follower feedback in food-related social media’

30th October

Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Stanley Ulijaszek

Oregon State University, Portland, and University of Oxford

‘Digital gastro-solidarity and mukbang’

13th November

Susanne Jaspars and C. Sathyamala

SOAS, University of London, and Institute for Human Development, New Delhi

‘Digitalising food assistance: political, economic and food security effects across the Global North-South divide’

27th November

Christian Krupitzer

University of Hohenheim

‘Digital food twins – Concept, use cases, potential’

No seminars on October 23rd, November 6th, November 20th, December 4th

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · 22d

The rain showers couldn’t convince me so far. But when unlocking my bike today, I had to admit: Autumn is around the corner 🍂🍁🍃🪶
Enjoy the colour!
#autumn
#leaves
#nature

Leaves, acorns and feather on pavement next to bicycle

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · 23d

#STSCH2025

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for three 🌟 conference days in Zurich @sts-ch.bsky.social and especially to all organisers across @ethz.ch @zhdk.bsky.social and University of Zurich!

#STS

Conference organisers of STS Switzerland 2025 conference

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · 29d

Just arrived in Zurich for the #STSCH2025 conference

Very much looking forward to reconnecting with my great colleagues in science and technology studies in Switzerland, as well as meeting new ones!

And STS DK is well represented, too, with 2 keynotes: @britwinthereik.bsky.social & Hannah Rogers

Loïc Riom @loicriom.bsky.social · Sep 5

#STSCH2025

More info: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/...

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp

@sciasculture.bsky.social

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

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Embryo Project @embryoproject.bsky.social · Aug 16

When the outsiders became the experts: AIDS activists transformed the field of biomedicine, and paved the way for additional research on illness-related social movements.

embryo.asu.edu/pages/constr...

#hpbio #philsci #histstm #histsci #philbio #hbio #sts #hps #biology #AIDS #encyclopedia

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Sometimes you walk down a dimly-lit alley in an unfamiliar place and realise it is a dead end street. Only to turn around, look up and meet the Queen of the Night 🤩 Very lucky to have seen this rare spectacle as the #pitaya #flower blossoms for one night only! #dragonfruit #summer #bloomscrolling 🌱

pitahaya or dragonfruit flower blossoming next to a house wall in the dusk

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jul 15

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Jobs

www.sts.sot.tum.de

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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

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jun 26

Not coming to #AusSTS25? You can catch each keynote, livestreamed here www.eventbrite.com/cc/aussts-20...

AusSTS 2025

Join the SSN and AusSTS for a series of free events in the week of 8- 11 July. We start off with the SSN's 'Doing Interdisciplinarity' on Tuesday afternoon, in-person at Deakin Downtown. This is follo...

www.eventbrite.com

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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: ⤵️

berufungsservice.univie.ac.at

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Snapped this photo in the Danish evening sun last Thursday for this #RoseWednesday

#Bloomscrolling #FlowerFeed #Flowers #Rose #Copenhagen 🌱

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jun 25

⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️

#STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology
#AcademicSky

Professeur-e en "Etudes des plateformes numériques (platform Studies)" (6417)

jobs.unige.ch

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jun 21

🚨 Call for Papers: Tech Oligarchy Forum 🚨
Science as Culture invites contributions on how digital elites shape science, tech, and society—from AI monopolies to platform power

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July

Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
#TechOligarchy #ScienceAsCulture #STS

Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jun 19

No, unfortunately no fragrance.

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jun 19

I was thinking the same. Anyone else would know the name? 🌱

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · Jun 18

Returning to sunny #Copenhagen after two fantastic conferences in beautiful Stockholm #NordicSTS2025 & #IMSW2025 and greeted by this beautiful rose nearby my local S-train station on #RoseWednesday

#bloomscrolling #flowers #roses 🌱

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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢Workshop – Sustainable Investment & the Politics of Materiality, University of Manchester, 16-17 September 2025 📢
I'm co-organising an event at UoM exploring how relationships between politics, finance & sustainability are changing as sustainable investment becomes a focus of political controversy.

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Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography @oxford-anthro.bsky.social · May 27

Which #Anthropology seminar theme will you choose this week?

🥣Future of food in digital times
🥼Developments in UK acupuncture
🌍Prehistory in eastern Africa
🏗️Disobedient Buildings event asking how do we nurture care, connection and belonging?

See all events: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · May 15

If you are curious how 🤖🤖 robotics and digital interfaces 📱📱 mediate #food consumption 🍝🍝 in the home and in restaurants, how artificial intelligence #AI is used to discover new recipes for food products, and how extended reality is employed to study the future of food, join us for

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Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social · May 15

an online workshop at
@oxford-anthro.bsky.social on 27 May!

You can find the programme and more information here: www.oxfordobesity.org/upcoming-sem...

#food #anthropology #sociology #STS #digital #technology

Upcoming UBVO Seminars

www.oxfordobesity.org

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