📣New chapter in this brilliant CUP volume with best editorial duo @simonflacks.bsky.social & Kate Seear! The volume explores court cases on judging drugs from across the world. My chapter is on the case of #ShinyFlakes! Check out it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Book launch tba! 🐝 #STS

Revisiting the Entrepreneurial ‘Dealer’ (Chapter 10) - Judging Drugs

Judging Drugs - May 2026

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A little recognition goes a long way to show the educational power of a serious game! 👇 www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

This Place Saves Lives: An award for a serious game that looks closer

Two TUM students develop a game about marginalized realities in supervised drug consumption rooms during a project week – awarded at GamesFestival25.

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Back from “Teaching STS in STEM fields” workshop at @tuwien.at - intense two days working with students and lecturers around key concerns & ways forward in bringing STS to technical spaces. Time & again, critical pedagogies & institutionalizing exchange spaces are at the center of students’ needs!

Our “Clarion Call” has been re-published for the fourth time. This one is in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse signaling the urgency of repercussions of the attacks on science in the US… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A clarion call to the addiction science community: it’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration

Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Encompassing All Addictive Disorders (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇 www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...

Editorial: Where does digital health leave people who use drugs?

Digital health is a term that has become increasingly important in public health, biomedicine and social studies of health and illness. WHO’s “Global Strategy on Digital Health” for 2020–2025 (WHO, 20...

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Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM) Deadline: 10 April 2026 Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default... Link: link.springer.com/collections/... @philosophynow.bsky.social

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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I have the honor of being a visiting fellow this month at "The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy" at the gorgeous campus of @au.dk. Wonderfully collegial and inspiring atmosphere to be working from, and the walks around this campus are definitely helping thinking minds!

In other news, I'm pleased to have joined #HarmReductionJournal as #AssociateEditor. This role allows me to contribute to visibility of digital interventions, treatment & recovery research. HRJ is a high-impact journal connecting policy, practice, research & amplifying advocacy. shorturl.at/p5mhu

Harm Reduction Journal

The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, community-focused journal for research on reducing risks and harms associated with drug use, gambling, online ...

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Here comes a new #CriticalConcept, "Subject-Positioning", by Landhaus Fellow Ben Glasson. Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.

Aysel Sultan@drayselsultan.bsky.social · last yr.

I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press! osf.io/preprints/os...

It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Aysel Sultan@drayselsultan.bsky.social · last yr.

I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press! osf.io/preprints/os...

I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press! osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden. Abstracts are due September 20! 🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction

This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...

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Congratulations to Ani & Ray whose game design about drug consumption rooms has won the Unseen prize 🏆 I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape! 🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo

GamesPreis25 Preisverleihung am 01.06.2025 in München

YouTube video by ComputerSpielAkademie

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DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

Call for Special Issue on Food Habits

The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming f...

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In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too. The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇 akjournals.com/view/journal...

Aysel Sultan@drayselsultan.bsky.social · last yr.

Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come work with us at DHSP! Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

Call for applications - Managing Editor

Call for applications for a managing editorDrugs, Habits and Social Policy (DHSP) journal is looking to appoint a new managing editor. DHSP is among the key publications in the field of drug policy an...

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📣 Folks, I’m looking to offer co-supervision of PhD dissertations. If you are working (or know someone who is) across the biomedicine and health spectrum with special focus on critical public health, drug policy or digital health interventions, feel free to get in touch!

Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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If you're at the #STSHub2025 in #Berlin come join our panel Nr. 22 on Friday at 9:00! I look forward to speculating about how diffractive methodologies can help understand digital harm reduction on social media. Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html

“Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now.” lithub.com/judith-butle...

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

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📣 Looking forward to speaking about feminist harm reduction next week at @durham-university.bsky.social Health & Social Theory Seminars. 🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany. February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET) 🔗 Please DM for the link.

Oh, and this little blog went online in December - forgot to post! ✍️ Thanks for the invitation to put science communication into practice 📝 #TalkingDrugs @releasedrugs.bsky.social www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...

Azerbaijan: Between the Soviet Legacy and International Drug Control - TalkingDrugs

Azerbaijan drug control sits between a Soviet past and present commitments to international communities, forcing future policy options.

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Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG

As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings

Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community

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Let there be light even on very frosty days. Happy 2025! 🥂

What does it mean to approach harm reduction design as a pedagogical endeavor? Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

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As editors of @dhspolicy.bsky.social, it's our joy to continue this service for the academic, policy and practitioner communities! 💫 Read the full post here ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/drugs-...

Join us! CfA: 25 January 2025 Joint DSC-IAS #Fellowship on #EmpiricalEthics & #DataScience Methods. We explicitly welcome joint applications from small teams of researchers that blend expertise in #ethics, #philosophy, #anthropology, or #STS, with #datascience approaches. ias.uva.nl/content/news...

Joint DSC/IAS Fellowship Call on Empirical Ethics and Data Science Methods - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

The UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) are joining forces for the fourth time by opening up a joint fellowship opportunity. We welcome applications for our DSC/IAS Jo...

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