A Claude inspired by Levi-Strauss and not Shannon - when?
Timothy Neale
@tdneale.bsky.social
Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
You can read their excellent Open Access article “Psychedelic Nation? (De)Provincializing the Psychedelic Renaissance from Brazil” at Science, Technology, & Human Values: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Pietro Benedito and Emilia Sanabria on their Honorable Mention in the 2026 4S Edge Prize, which is awarded annually for outstanding article and chapters. 🏆🏆🏆
Disappointed to read that the 4S Mullins Prize will not be awarded this year. It is time to reform the eligibility criteria, which are too restrictive and do not align with graduates careers in so many regions today.
Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2027 round is now open. It's usually a very competitive field, often best fit for someone who has done 1 postdoc already. Applications close 11 August. www.deakin.edu.au/research/our...
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An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK
Reminder! Closes soon! Lose control with us.
Timothy Neale@tdneale.bsky.social · 5mo agoSTS-ers, do you want a life *after* control? After anthropogenic biology and technomilitarism? Well... think about joining us for this 4S Open Panel on "Life After Control" with @courtneyaddison.bsky.social + Chris Kelty. Call for abstracts closes 30 April 2026 www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.
Free Yousof Azizi
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How exciting is this!?
AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026
I have a new article on confusions and the sense of vibration published in @sthv.bsky.social . It’s partly about experiences that do not neatly fold into clear and distinct categories and classifications, and how to think with them.
Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations - Brett Mommersteeg, 2026
Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...
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New OnlineFirst article: "Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City" by Canay Özden-Schilling #markets #economies #supplychains #maritime #shipping #congestion #ports #Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City - Canay Özden-Schilling, 2026
Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the management and optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to sc...
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STS-ers, do you want a life *after* control? After anthropogenic biology and technomilitarism? Well... think about joining us for this 4S Open Panel on "Life After Control" with @courtneyaddison.bsky.social + Chris Kelty. Call for abstracts closes 30 April 2026 www.4sonline.org/call_for_sub...
📯 Nominations for the AusSTS Best Paper Prize are now open!! 🏆 A prize to celebrate the best scholarship in the region by a junior scholar. Published and unpublished manuscripts accepted 💌 Self-nominations strongly encouraged
AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 5mo agoAusSTS 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.
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.
The Melbourne Node of AusSTS is holding a symposium today on AFTERMATH. Beginning with a plenary keynote by Prof. Hannah Landecker (UCLA) on "Not Liquid but Emulsified Modernity." Landecker asks us to attend to "the anthropogenic gelation of the present."
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China" by Angela Ke Li #technopolitics #migrantlabor #algorithmicmanagement #designlogic #fooddelivery journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China - Angela Ke Li, 2026
Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...
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Call for Proposals - AusSTS 2026, Antipodean Interruptions - Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa aussts.org/aussts2026 It's going to be so good!
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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Wrote a post for Hamish Clarke's excellent fire blog: hclarke.substack.com/p/breaking-a... I discuss Jordan Thomas's recent ethnographic book "When It All Burns" about his time as a wildland firefighter + the big question of who’s going to be sweating it out on the fireline in our future climate?
Breaking: Anthropologist Reads Fire Book, Has To Tell You About It
Guest post by Timothy Neale
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Nice to see the technical (and technopolitical) dimensions of wildfire (bushfire) mapping getting a public airing. Attention to these issues take me to the broader point that our epistemologies reveal the kind of "problem" we think that wildfires are. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
The invisible work that goes into 'near real-time' bushfire mapping
As the devastating fires in Victoria spread earlier this month, people at home could see how they were moving across the state — not just in videos on the news and social media, but on an interactive ...
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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...
About the Conference
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Back from leave but still (kind of) amidst some fire fieldwork here in Victoria. The last week has been devastating for people and Country in so many parts of the state + its great to finally see some good fortune with the weather moderating.
Woo! Breaking news from @aussts.bsky.social! See you in November in Te Whanganui-a-Tara! 🥝🥝🥝
AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 8mo agoA holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
Dear STS-niks, you wonderful assemblage of contingent and unfolding practices, we hope that you are imminently intra-acting with some holiday snacks and beverages (if not soon). FYI, as per, the ST&HV office will be closed from 20 Dec 2025, returning to regular operating hours after 19 Jan 2026.
My open panel idea got rejected from EASST 2026 😅😅 The double-blind system of peer review strikes again...
One day to go before applications close!
Science, Technology, & Human Values@sthv.bsky.social · 8mo agoApplications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰
I mostly want people to start coming back to the office more so I can try and create elaborate high five routines with them
As we prepare to dispatch our beloved/behated manuscripts for review ahead of End-of-Year-Holidays-jamboree, may we all understand that as we ourselves switch on the sweet relief of "out-of-office," so too do all the people we might hope would review that manuscript (*insert Spiderman meme*)
CASTAC is great! Think about contributing!
CASTAC@castac.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe’re still accepting applications for Contributing Editors (CEs) and Multimodal Contributing Editors (MCEs) for Platypus, our blog. Check 3 reasons to join our community with Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor⬇️ More info: blog.castac.org/call-for-mce... #Anthropology #STS #CASTAC
Seeing an emerging stream of #dashboard STS and ethnography 🖥️🔢📊
Science, Technology, & Human Values@sthv.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.