Published On: Oct 13 2025
In this multi-media report, Holly O'Neil shared drawings and reflections from AusSTS 2025 to consider not how signal and noise might be separated, but how they are continually redefined. This report invites the reader to explore the knowledge systems that determine these categorical registers, and how noise might in fact provide productive understandings through which to work creatively with the f...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The editors of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS), together with guest editors Tobias Burgers and Ian Kalman, invite submissions for an upcoming special issue. We welcome manuscripts that engage with the theme of the special issue. The abstract outlining its scope is included below. Scholars with relevant work are encouraged to submit full manuscripts dire...
Published On: Oct 11 2025
In this blog post, Nelly-Helen Ebruka reflects on the implications of space-based earth observation data sharing within the context of Africa–EU relations.
Published On: Sep 22 2025
Can energy enliven political ecology’s relationship to disability? Dr. Emerson Cram has been lingering with this question as they feel through remnants of poor farms, state asylums, and other carceral institutions negating “abnormal” dependencies.
Published On: Sep 8 2025
This report shares insights drawn from the panel “Navigating the Grey: Assemblage Thinking and Digital Artifacts” conducted during the 10th Annual STS Italia Conference hosted in Milano (11–13 June 2025). The panelists and authors of this post investigate the ways in which assemblage thinking might assist STS analyses of digital artifacts.
Published On: Jan 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form an...
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Jun 21, 2025
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journ...
Published On: Sep 5 2025
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Published On: Aug 18 2025
In this post, Siyi Chen discusses the emergence of a distinct form of lay epidemiology, in China's Hanan Province, prompted by a local HIV/Aids crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published On: Jul 8 2025
In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and practices that make decentering possible. Drawing ...