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‪The Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the Society for Science and Technology Studies (GWTF) is now open. Varieties of science and technology in Europe: Shifting fortunes of STS in turbulent times Featuring a Winter School (09.-13. Nov.) and a Conference (12. & 13. Nov.). www.gwtf.de #sts

EASST2026 Registration Registration for the face-to-face EASST2026 conference is now open, with early-bird rates available until 13 July 2026 before fees increase by €100 and unregistered presentations are withdrawn. easst.net?p=25901

Very good news for the research-on-research community! #STS #philsci #metascience #sociologyofscience

Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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Under the banner "The winding road to better science", we are joining forces with our metaresearch centre and are offering ourselves as hosts for potential MSCA postdoctoral fellows. If you are interested in developing a project on or across the boundaries of #metascience and #STS, reach out! 1/

For more details on the programs: University of Padova PhD (Social Sciences / STS): Deadline: 20 May 2026. Contact: stefano.crabu@unipd.it Website: www.unipd.it/en/node/91954 University of Vienna PhD (STS): Contact: maximilian.fochler@univie.ac.at Website: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... #sts

🚨 CfP: SI on "Boundaries, boundary concepts, and datafication" in Digital Culture & Society 🚨 ℹ️ Together with Yana Boeva (@dropsmops.bsky.social) and Sarah R. Davies, we invite proposals to our SI. See here for more details: www.sowi.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/... #boundaryconcepts #STS

What's the cost to research – to an entire discipline – of "AI" living rent-free in our heads? @dawnnafus brilliantly lays out the loss to #STS from so many being focused on AI-hype: 24% of papers at #4S were on AI. https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=43606

This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you can join online: www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...

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This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book https://lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you ...

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FLiNG report is live! What does financial well-being even mean today? We look at the landscape of finfluencers, online communities, hustle economy, new forms of credit and lending like BNPL, and gambling and high risk investing to try to make sense of it. digitalculturesandeconomies.com/fling.html

FLiNG: Financial Lives in the Networked Generation

How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being. A report by the DiCE Lab at the University of Virginia.

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Dear all at #STS sky! Last week we published the Winter 2026 issue of EASST Review, which comes accompanied by an EASST website renewal. You can find the entire issue here: easst.net/easst-review...

EASST Review: Volume 44(2) March 2026

Our Winter 2026 issue includes pieces that reflect the unsettling times we are living in, with pieces thematizing existential threats, environmental harm, and technological autocracy.

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📄 New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! (Open access) @susigeiger.bsky.social examines one ideological space that has recently received a great deal of emphasis from tech oligarchs as well as from conservative religious quarters: pronatalism. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchs’ obsession with pronatalism and fertility markets

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳

Call for Paper Abstracts and Other Proposals is NOW OPEN: March 3–April 30, 2026 Call for Paper Abstracts, Closed Panels, Making & Doing Sessions, Roundtables, and Meetups: www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub... Accepted Open Panels: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Tomorrow: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 3: Techno-Politics of Interoperability with Nina Amelung, Can E Mutlu, Annalisa Pelizza, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup. Mar 4 uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304 #STS #DataGovernance

Venture capital doesn’t just fund tech. In a new article, @loicriom.bsky.social and I explore venture capitalization: how ideas and technologies are made investable, and how this process fuels tech oligarchy—not just as economic power, but as a force that reshapes culture, values, and truth.

CfP: Digital Foodscapes: Ernährung, Technik und Gesellschaft im Wandel Panel 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 👉Deadline 31.03.2026 Alle Infos gibt's hier: kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

A real pleasure to join Addie, Philip & my co-editor @taschn.bsky.social on the JCE podcast to talk about our recent special issue on Digital Eating. Listen along to learn what digital eating is, where digital marketplaces and athletic eaters fit into it & why I'm currently living off lentil curry!

Journal of Cultural Economy@jcultecon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...

Latest episode is OUT. Feat. 🥁 @taschn.bsky.social and @jeremybrice.bsky.social talking about how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means with our hosts @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8A...

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Journal of Cultural Economy@jcultecon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our next episode is now LIVE! Featuring @lanalanalana.bsky.social, Andreu Belsunces @imaginaries.bsky.social & Kobe De Keere unpacking the neoliberal roots of crypto, its design principles, role as a ‘social and cultural shapeshifter’, and the promises broken along the way.

4 days left to submit! Call closes Feb. 9, 2026. You can submit (either hybrid or in-person) here: xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abs...

📢 #CFP: Futuring Digital Foodscapes Join us at @easst.bsky.social in Krakow (8–11 Sept) to discuss how digital tech shapes food futures, values, and inequalities. Panel 177 co-organised with @allgaier.bsky.social, Tina Bartelmeß & Katharina Graf #STS DL: 9 March nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

P177: futuring digital foodscapes

Digital foodscapes are key sites where future social values, inequalities and alternative possibilities for living well are negotiated and enacted. This panel

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Sektionsveranstaltung mitorganisiert von Simon Egbert, Stefanie Raible und @juliaschubert.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns auf Einreichungen rund um die Herstellung von Zukunftswissen. Insbesondere, aber nicht nur, aus Perspektive der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. #sts

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V.@dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📱🍏 How are researchers studying food’s digital turn? My new chapter in ‘The Handbook of Digital & Computational Research Methods’ (ed. @Anders Koed Madsen & @akmunk.bsky.social) charts inventive methods for exploring food’s datafication, algorithmisation & platformisation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4su87xnz

The Digital Turn in Food Studies

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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Funded doctoral positions at the University of Vienna, deadline March 2nd 2026 40 funded #doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities ( #SSH ). This thematically open call allows you to apply with your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.

We invite proposals to our "futuring digital foodscapes" panel at the EASST2026 "More than now: exploring resilient futures" conference in Krakow (8-11 September). ➡️Panel 17: futuring digital foodscapes easst.net/conference/e... The cfp is open until 28-02-2026 here: easst.net/conference/e... #food

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I suppose they mean reparative STS, not just paranoid STS. Should be interesting - and in Canada, so perhaps still safe #STS @4sonline.bsky.social

📣Hiring📣 Assistant Professor in Science, Technology & Society Join a vibrant, international community, contribute to #interdisciplinary research & teaching on #sustainability, #innovation & #society. Apply before 8 February 2026👉 shorturl.at/qLCBb #AcademicJobs #STS

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...