New Book | The Smartification of Everything: Critical Perspectives in Sciences, Arts, and Society

Published On: Oct 18 2025

From the smart phone to the smart home, smartness has become an almost inescapable reality of everyday life. Supposedly intelligent, interconnected technologies, smart systems have taken on their own forms of life, and it is no longer easy to determine who these systems benefit  and what their long-term social and ethical implications may be. In twenty contributions spanning the social sciences, humanities, and the arts, The Smartification of Everything offers a deep dive into a variety of studies that critically interrogate smartification processes and systems.The book is edited by exper...

New Book | Infrastructures of Reality: Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies

Published On: Oct 18 2025

This open-access book seeks to critically position the 'Metaverse' as a tripartite endeavour undertaken by large technology companies to virtualize, datafy, and infrastructuralize society, particularly on the levels of spatiality and embodiment. On the one hand, metaversal technologies render space in virtual form or overlay digital layers onto pre-existing physical spaces. On the other hand, metaversal technologies not only seek to extend or expand our embodied senses and emplace our bodies and identities in virtual spaces, but they also seek to virtualize and capture our behaviours and actio...

New Book | The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life

Published On: Sep 24 2025

In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world. While many images of these abyssal creatures circulate as shallow c...

New Book | Taming Egg Donors: The Egg Donation Reproductive Market in Spain

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Spain has become one of the most prominent fertility markets in the world, largely fuelled by the availability of human eggs. Behind the promise of cutting-edge technology and parenthood lies a carefully tailored system to recruit, manage, and discipline egg donors. In this book, published as part of Palgrave's flagship book series 'Health, Technology and Society', Anna Molas explores how young women are incorporated as egg donors into the global reproductive industry. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with both donors and clinicians, the book reveals the fragile processes of selection, ...

New Book | Science Communication and Trust

Published On: Sep 24 2025

This open access book presents groundbreaking research, offering new empirical findings, showcasing a range of different methods, and advancing theoretical perspectives relating to science communication and trust. The investigation of science communication and trust is enhanced by the many international scholars and disciplinary approaches featured. The book includes three thematic sections: the first focuses on the role of trustworthy science communicators, the second is concerned with the varying contexts of science communication for trust, while the third unpacks various features of trust i...

New Book | Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory

Published On: Sep 24 2025

This volume edited by Noela Invernizzi and Leandro Rodriguez Medina enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field’s diversification and internationalization. This is the first book published in Palgrave's new series: Transnationalizing Theory in Science and Technology Studies.

Call for Participants | Teaching on Latin America and the Environment

Published On: Sep 24 2025

Deadline: Oct 10, 2025

Registration is open for a one-day, online pedagogy workshop on integrating Latin American and Caribbean history of science and environmental history into teaching in adjacent fields. The workshop aims to inspire historians to teach about Latin American science and environment, with a specific focus on the nineteenth and twentieth-century periods. Participants will come away with concrete ideas for teaching modules that can be integrated into existing courses or used to design new ones. The modules will include peer-reviewed readings, primary sources, and ideas generated from discussion. The w...

Workshop on How to Research Academic Communities

Published On: Feb 10 2025

Deadline: Mar 14, 2025

We are excited to announce a workshop focused on researching academic communities, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.

UESTC | Academic Positions at all levels

Published On: May 15 2025

Deadline: Dec 31, 2025

The Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS) of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is seeking outstanding scholars at all career stages to strengthen our research and teaching capabilities in the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. Successful candidates will join either the Research Center for Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology or the Research Center for Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology, conducting cutting-edge research on ethical, philosophical, and governance issues related to emerging te...

Call for Nominations: Engineering Studies Paper Prize

Published On: Jul 8 2025

Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

Please nominate publications for the International Network for Engineering Studies' 2025 Paper Prize. The prize celebrates an excellent refereed journal paper or book chapter addressing the relationships among the technical, social and philosophical dimensions of engineering practices, and how these relationships change over time and from place to place. This year, the prize committee is calling for articles published in 2024 or 2025 in media other than the Engineering Studies journal.

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