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STS @ YorkU

@stsyorku.bsky.social

#STS @ York University, Canada: (1) Dept. of Science, Technology & Society; (2) Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies; and (3) Institute for Technoscience & Society https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/ Picture credit: Zoran Svilar

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Danya Glabau@allergyphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cool, and, my next piece is in part about what to do with critique. Cool to see others in the field thinking about the same questions!

STS @ YorkU@stsyorku.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Graduate Student Association at YorkU presents STS After Critique on April 2nd 2026. A keynote by Yousif Hassan, and student & faculty panels will consider what it means to challenge stigmatizing, racist, patriarchal, ableist, and colonial ways of doing science & technology. Register below!

AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The AusSTS Making and Doing award celebrates non-traditional research scholarship that prioritises enacted, embodied and situated forms of STS knowledge making. Examples of Making & Doing activities include ethnographic films, installations, hands-on workshops, games, and more.

AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

Kean Birch@keanbirch.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025

Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

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Kean Birch@keanbirch.bsky.social · last yr.

I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing #tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Killing the Digital Services Tax is a step backwards

Canadian consumer are handing over billions of dollars in data assets each year to U.S. firms and receiving zero returns for it. That’s why we need a Digital Services Tax,

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Kean Birch@keanbirch.bsky.social · last yr.

"If Data Is Accounted For, the #USA Has a Trade Surplus with #Canada" New opinion from me for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) #assetization #data #trade #tariff #tradewar #Trump #bigtech www.cigionline.org/articles/if-...

If Data Is Accounted For, the United States Has a Trade Surplus with Canada

Corporations such as Alphabet, Meta and Amazon have been extracting billions of dollars’ worth of data assets from Canada for years.

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STS @ YorkU@stsyorku.bsky.social · last yr.

ITS in-person Talk @ #YorkU (Kaneff 519): Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW, Australia) on "Computing the Planet: Images and Imaginaries" #sts #compute #Earth #Toronto || More info: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

Institute for Technoscience & Society - Institute for Technoscience & Society

Upcoming! ITS In-person Talk Welcome to the Institute for Technoscience & Society! Our goal is to create a global hub of critical and interdisciplinary research and information about the relationship ...

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Lukas Engelmann@engelmal.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors) at The University of Edinburgh

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Medicine without Doctors). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Kim TallBear@kimtallbear.bsky.social · last yr.

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10. Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program

Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....

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