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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to UCL STS student Tanisha Zaman on the publication of Beyond the Screens: The Legacy of the Digital Health Ambassadors. A fantastic achievement. View the full paper here:

Beyond the Screens: The Legacy of the Digital Health Ambassadors

Over the last five years, the Digital Health Ambassadors (DHA) programme, delivered by Partnership for Young London with Good Thinking and NHS England, has brought together young people aged 16-25 from across London to shape digital mental health information, resources and campaigns - ensuring youth voice was not just included, but central to decision-making.From co-designing wellbeing content and supporting NHS youth engagement work, to creating digital campaigns that reached thousands, the Amb

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Congratulations to UCL STS’s Professor Simon Werrett on the publication of his new paper exploring the rich intersections of art and science in eighteenth‑century Russia. A fascinating contribution to the field. Read it here:

Enlightened Icons: Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov and Glass Mosaics in 18th-Century Russia | Brepols Online

Abstract In the 1750s the Russian academician and chemist Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov experimented with making coloured glass in his laboratory at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Lomonosov went on to open a manufactory nearby at Ust-Ruditsa, where he produced coloured glass mosaics. This enterprise has been represented variously as the work of a lone genius, as a failed business enterprise, and more recently as a form of projecting. The present essay places Lomonosov's glass work in a courtly context, as in part a continuation of the Academy's role of celebrating the Russian sovereign through spectacles such as fireworks and illuminations. Lomonosov sought to shape and contribute to a ‘ruling image” for the empress Elizabeth Petrovna, turning to mosaics owing to their capacity to interweave Russian tradition, Orthodox religion, and enlightened chemistry. Glass was a business, to be sure, but also a courtly, political, and religious material in Lomonosov's experiments.

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to UCL STS’s Dr Erman Sözüdoğru on his new paper “Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism.” Read it here: www.sciencedirect.co... #UCL #STS #Philosophy #Pragmatism #Research

Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism

In this paper I focus on the benefits of scientific pluralism in practice. My main motivation is to investigate how do these benefits play out in prac…

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