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Chronicity and Its Social Lives: Reflections on Everyday Experiences of Osteoarthritis

Published On: Nov 7 2025

Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

In this post, Perseverence Madhuku discusses the tensions between biomedical, social, and personal understandings of ageing, immobility, and care in Zimbabwe through the case study of Osteoarthritis.

Call for Assistant Editors for 4S Backchannels (Global South)

Published On: Nov 27 2025

Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) is looking for STS graduate students, postdocs or early career scholars from/based in the Global South (especially Africa, Middle East, Asia) who can contribute as Assistant Editors for 4S Backchannels.
The candidate will be part of the team sharing and disseminating STS news, research from/about Global South in the form of short academic writi...

CfP | Examining the State of STS in Southeast Asia: A (Technological) Snapshot

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...

BOOK REVIEW: 'Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape our Understanding of Animal Behavior' by Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, 2025 (MIT Press)

Published On: Nov 24 2025

Behavioral ecologist and feminist science studies scholar unite to offer paradigm shifting possibilities in an endlessly teachable new book: Feminism in the Wild.

The richness of STS scholarship in Brazil: takes on the 11th ESOCITE.BR Symposium

Published On: Nov 20 2025

The climate emergency took the main stage at the 11th edition of the Brazilian Association for the Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE.BR), organized shortly before COP30 in Belém

New Book | Decentralizing Knowledges: Essays in Distributed Agency

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 ...

Around the Future Campfire: Listening with Signals and Noise

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...

Reflections on Copernicus and Africa–EU Space Diplomacy

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.

CFP for a special issue of Science, Technology & Human values

Published On: Aug 2 2023

Deadline: Sep 14, 2023

The editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values and guest editors Canay Özden-Schilling and Emily Chua are calling for proposed papers for an upcoming Special Issue.

Call for Proposals for Special Issues: STHV

Published On: Mar 7 2024

Deadline: Jun 21, 2024

The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Interested scholars should submit a proposal by 21 June 2024. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable...

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