Jessica M. Smith
@thatminesgirl.bsky.social
Anthropologist & STS scholar | Energy geek | Author of Extracting Accountability | Editing @EngrStudies | Prof Engineering, Design & Society @coschoolofmines views my own | jessicamsmith.net
We are thrilled to present an evening of special lectures courtesy of CEE Director @mettehigh.bsky.social & EE2026 co-organiser @thatminesgirl.bsky.social 🕔 1700 - 2030 BST 🗓️ Mon 3rd August Registration for online & in-person attendees is open now. 👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Hey @ccmmody.bsky.social - I’ve been looking more into uranium mining and processing and it didn’t take long to find oil! Excited to read more of your student Michiel’s work.
🚨job alert🚨 I'm looking to hire at least one PhD student for next year, looking at decarbonization-oriented technology deployment within an ethical frame of resource allocation and justice outcomes. Full ad attached! Pref for CEEES admissions; deadline is 1 January.
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: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions
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Super proud to share the research Casey lead on how climate change is shifting the co-existence of agriculture and artisanal gold mining in rural Colombia! @sthv.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rethinking Extractivism in a Changing Climate: Complementary Gold and Coffee Livelihoods in the Steep, Tropical Andes - Casey Gibson, Jessica Smith, 2025
In the municipality of Andes, agriculture rules the steep surface of la tierra, while informal miners pick and blast subterranean tunnels to make a living from ...
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First they came for the "DEI and justice" grants, and when they purged those with success, now are going after the others. When are we going to learn this historical lesson?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.
The May 5th deadline for Energy Ethics 2026 is coming up!
Jessica M. Smith@thatminesgirl.bsky.social · last yr.Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
“[Wyoming leaders] like to talk about our work ethic and how we love our workers; We get the job done and we don’t complain,” Kindred said. “But when it comes time to put our policies and our efforts where our mouth is, we just want workers to be our mascot. We don’t really want to support them...”
Dustin Bleizeffer@dbleizeffer.bsky.social · last yr.It's #WorkersMemorialDay, a solemn occasion to commemorate those who have died on the job. In Wyoming, which kills workers at the highest rates in the nation, advocates say officials are ignoring the carnage. - @WyoFile wyofile.com/labor-advoca...
Beyond thrilled to join the ranks of #CarnegieFellows, spend next year's sabbatical doing research in Gillette and Pueblo, and draft my next book manuscript about how the #energytransition is reshaping the political landscape for working Americans.
Jessica M. Smith named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
An anthropologist who studies energy, engineering and public accountability, Smith is one of 26 scholars across the United States – and the first Mines professor ever – selected for the prestigious ho...
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Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics
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Le management et l'ingénierie partagent une longue histoire. Ce numéro de Engineering Studies rappelle que l'histoire a montré que la science appliquée n'est pas neutre. La montée de l'autoritarisme devrait inciter les ingénieurs à réfléchir de manière critique à leur rôle social.
Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · last yr.under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More bold than my usual brand, but absolutely necessary for what we are living. Thank you @ccmmody.bsky.social, @engrstudies.bsky.social, @dmriley.bsky.social, @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social.
Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · last yr.under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers today. The NSF was established by Congress to promote science, advance public health and contribute to the national defense. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers on Trump’s Order
The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the US government as the Trump administration se...
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
if you know of any promising undergraduates interested in getting a master's degree in an STS-related field, please point them toward the ESST (1-year) and CAST (2-year) programs. outstanding instructors, curriculum, fellow students & training for a PhD or many other careers.
Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · last yr.We’re excited to announce the Rachel and Alan Wyatt #STS #Scholarship! Established by @sallywyatt.bsky.social in memory of her parents, it supports EU/EER students facing financial barriers in pursuing a master’s in ESST or CAST at FASoS. Learn more & apply👉 tinyurl.com/38ncyay4
So do we have contract law anymore or nah?
Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.So far, the president’s freeze on climate and infrastructure law spending has been covered as a constitutional issue. But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/tru...
So manly! “Nothing can destroy coal. Not the weather, not a bomb, nothing. It might make it a little smaller, might make it a little different shape. But coal is very strong.” x.com/Acyn/status/...
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
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And nary a word on Herzog's recent "reality check" on DAC! energy.mit.edu/news/technol...
Technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air: A reality check
In 2015, 195 nations plus the European Union signed the Paris Agreement and pledged to undertake plans designed to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C. Yet in 2023, the world exceeded that ...
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holly jean buck@hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you were to write a piece on carbon removal at the end of 2024, would it be about billionaires investing in a "gold rush"? Or about flight from a sector that has no clear and durable business model, in the face of decreasing climatetech funding and net-zero talk? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...
Amen! Frustration with how rural folks and miners are portrayed by academics is also what inspired my dissertation on Wyoming miners. “Who’s going to trust the experts when that’s what the experts have to say about you?” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/b...
How ‘Rural Studies’ Is Thinking About the Heartland
What’s the matter with America’s rural voters? Many scholars believe that the question itself is the problem.
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This is the way. If low marriage rates are denying people the benefits of marriage, the answer is not coercing or shaming people into marriage--it's granting those benefits to support the many ways people do build community, stability, and family.
Opinion | Marriage has a monopoly on legal benefits. It shouldn’t.
Marriage isn’t always forever — or for everyone. Our policies should protect a wider array of committed relationships.
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If you are from the Midwest, love someone from the Midwest, or care about the politics of home ec, check out my new Journal of Rural Studies article Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965-1982: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ibnd2eyKF...
Intrigued by a prediction that net zero will "offset" fossil fuel job losses, tho I wish they had been more clear about changes in full-time vs temporary work. From what I observe and they also find, most of these jobs are construction, which are almost always temporary & mobile.
Labor pathways to achieve net-zero emissions in the United States by mid-century
Achieving an economy-wide net-zero emissions goal by mid-century in the United States entails transforming not only the physical energy system, but al…
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