Sonja van Wichelen
@sonjavw.bsky.social
Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
Check out an in-person book launch in #Sydney hosted by @gleebooks.bsky.social for Nikita Kaur Simpson’s "Tension" on June 25. She will be in conversation with Sophie Chao, @wombatscholar.bsky.social, @seyeabimbola.bsky.social, and Michael Edwards. buff.ly/OnKTuG0
48 hours for Society members to nominate for Council positions of 6S (student representative), Treasurer and President-Elect. Here's what you can do— To become a member: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem... To nominate: www.4sonline.org/4s_nominatio...
48 hours left to submit your abstracts to— 1. Submissions to Open Panels 2. Closed Panels 3. Making & Doing 4. Meet-Ups 5. Roundtables Submit here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/mem...
Call for nominations remains open for the 2026 4S Council elections! Help shape the future of STS—nominations invited for Council, President-Elect, Treasurer & 6S student rep. Deadline: April 19! For more info: www.4sonline.org/4s_nominatio...
4S Nominations 2026
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AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa! Deadline extended to April 10. aussts.org/aussts2026 #STS
AusSTS | AusSTS 2026
Submit to AusSTS 2026: Antipodean Interruptions, 9-11 Nov at Victoria University of Wellington. Deadline: 3 April 2026. All career stages welcome.
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📣 PhD opportunity at University of Sydney/University of Glasgow! Come work with me, Sophie Chao, @sotiriagrek.bsky.social & @dremilinesmith.bsky.social on "Epistemic Infrastructures of Planetary Health Governance in Southeast Asia" #STS #hitmed #Planetary #PhDopportunity
University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Social Sciences - Student funding opportunities - Postgraduate Research - Latest PhD opportunities
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Sydney STS Peeps 📣 Join us for a talk by Deboleena Roy (Emory University): “Stolonic Strategies: Biophilosophies and Community Building in STS.” With discussants @cwaldby.bsky.social & @jiannitien.bsky.social Chaired by @shoshohini.bsky.social 🗓 17 March | USYD | See flyer for deets
Don't forget to join us this Friday at Sydney Uni for the inaugural event of SydSTS! #STS
Sonja van Wichelen@sonjavw.bsky.social · 6mo agoSydney STS folks 👋 Join us for the inaugural event of the Sydney STS Network (Friday 27 Feb) where a panel will respond to the prompt: Why (Australian) STS now? #STS
Sydney STS folks 👋 Join us for the inaugural event of the Sydney STS Network (Friday 27 Feb) where a panel will respond to the prompt: Why (Australian) STS now? #STS
Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.org
About the school - Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Ischia 2013 Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences: About the summer school.
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Nice 5-year STS/anthropology post at the ANU working with excellent people on an important project. The institution's had problems but seems to be overcoming them. I like Canberra as a city, too #STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded...
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Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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Looking forward to my time at CRASSH -- eager to exchange ideas and to meet new colleagues!
CRASSH@crasshlive.bsky.social · 10mo agoDr Federica Paddeu (Cambridge) Dr Ayesha Siddiqi (Cambridge) Prof @sonjavw.bsky.social (Sydney) Prof Soile Ylivuori (Helsinki) Read a brief introduction to fellows joining us this term on our blog. www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/whos-he... 2/2
Check out this exciting event (in-person & online) celebrating the work of Professor Catherine Waldby. Hope to see some of you there! #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
Petition to ANU Council
In support of our petition, we observe that: • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...
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Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
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Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS www.sthvschool.org
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
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so cool ...
Warwick Anderson@wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12mo agoDelighted 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
3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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So pleased to see this out in the world!
Kari Lancaster@karilancaster.bsky.social · last yr.New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
We warmly welcome proposals for the Biolegalities Series! And delighted to introduce our advisory board: Amade M’charek, Irus Braverman, Margaret Davies, @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social, Thomas Lemke, Brad Sherman, Britta van Beers, Miguel Vatter, and Catherine Mills. link.springer.com/series/15629 #STS
Biolegalities
As advances in genetic engineering, postgenomic sciences, synthetic biology, neurotechnology, and biomedicine reshape the fabric of life, new legal, ethical, ...
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Marion Duval@marionduval.bsky.social · last yr.A lovely surprise at #AusSTS25 was meeting with @sonjavw.bsky.social! Did you know we have an open call for proposals for Palgrave's #Biolegalities series? We welcome projects that critically examine the evolving relationship between law, life & (bio)technology: link.springer.com/series/15629 #STS
#AusSTS25 was a blast. Such cool plenaries from @elizabethstephens.bsky.social, Jaya Keaney, @blueskychris.bsky.social, @wombatscholar.bsky.social and @karilancaster.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the organizers for such a great ride!
Kari Lancaster@karilancaster.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks to @aussts.bsky.social for an immensely stimulating, challenging, convivial, and inspiring conference. I’m leaving #AusSTS2025 with a head full of ideas, re-energised by conversations with colleagues and kin. There is a very special STS community in the antipodes 🫶
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 · last yr.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...
#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪
FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments
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⚡️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)
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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