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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 21d

"Amid shifting settings of scientific governance, political contestation, climate destruction, genocide, and widening social and economic inequalities, what can we reach for in our conceptual toolkit to help us chart these waters and take on the urgent questions of our time?"

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 21d

We have chosen three concept - boundary objects, sociotechnical imaginaries, participation - as a kind of “vibe check” (but could equally have chosen others, e.g., care, biopolitics, etc.) as prompts to begin thinking through where we are conceptually as a field at this time.

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 21d

In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...

Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 21d

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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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 28d

It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!

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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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Sep 8

So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...

Making Do | Stanford University Press

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Aug 18

Extremely hypocritical take from me in "Cyborg Anthropology" undergrad class this week (I love going to the movies, as long as everyone else present is pretty much inaudible to me):

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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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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Aug 6

Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS

Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal

Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Aug 10

Publishing interdisciplinary work in the humanities is wild but so is publishing interdisciplinary work in the sciences... (I am a co-author on this manuscript) substack.com/home/post/p-...

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A ballad of peer review gone wrong

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

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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

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 22

In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage.bsky.social explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #philosophy #anthropology

Cover of Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being by Ghassan Hage. The cover has a minimalist design, with a warm, light yellow gradient background. The title text and byline appear in a simple but elegant serif font, in center alignment. Pierre Bourdieu's name is in red with the rest of the title in black. The byline is written in dark gray, italicized text.

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited that the STS scholar Aalok Khandekar is coming to Melbourne and, even better, giving a seminar for @deakinssn.bsky.social Come along in person or join online, Thurs 7 August (1530 AEST): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...

SSN seminar: 'Toward Community-Based Heat Adaptation' with Aalok Khandekar

Join the SSN for a hybrid seminar "Cooling in a Fractal Grid: Towards Community-Based Heat Adaptation in Hyderabad’s Informal Settlements"

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Jul 17

If you were interest in #AusSTS25, or @aussts.bsky.social in general, the best thing to do is to join our Google group: groups.google.com/g/ausstsgrad

AusSTS mailing list - Google Groups

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jul 12

Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social

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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · Jul 11

And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!

AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 11

And here we are at the final session of the day which is our keynote panel on "Bodies of Signals and Noise" with @blueskychris.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social and @karilancaster.bsky.social chaired by @tdneale.bsky.social

You can watch live here👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...

AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"

Join AusSTS online for the final keynote of 'Signals and Noises 2025' with Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster and Christopher O' Neill.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 11

It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · Jul 9

Loving being back on home soil and with this excellent #STS community as @aussts.bsky.social 2025 kicks off today. A reminder that all the keynotes are being streamed live. Get amongst it 👇

AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8

All of our keynote panels will be live streamed 🛰️

Our day 1 keynote panels is on "Infrastructures of Noise" w Ranjodh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org, Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social & Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...

AusSTS 2025 Day 1 Keynote "Infrastructures of Noise"

Join AusSTS online for the first keynote of 'Signals and noises' with Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal & Kate Mannell.

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AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Jul 8

Kicking off #AusSTS2025 is Wurendjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcoming us to country and NCM Artistic Director Emily Siddons welcoming us to the National Communication Museum☎️📶

You can follow along the highlights from the conference using #AusSTS2025 and #signalsandnoises

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

It's #AusSTS25 this week in Naarm Melbourne! We are very proud to be able to sponsor @aussts.bsky.social once again - it's a great event + is growing each year

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · Jul 2

Exciting news: @univie.ac.at created new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna!

We’ve just opened our first call for applications — for both senior and junior fellows. If you’re working on something bold, interdisciplinary, and timely, take a look: vicas.univie.ac.at

Center for Advanced Studies

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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · Jul 1

In Bath? Join us for a special public lecture by Professor Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social, Planetary Health beyond Spaceship Earth.

Thursday 31 July 5:30pm, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social.

To register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planetary-...

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

New OnlineFirst article: "Constitutional Infrastructures: The Politics of Urban Sovereignty in the “Race to 5G”" by Nicole W. Bassoff #constitutionalism #fifth-generation #wireless #cities #politics #power #5G #law journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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