Editor(s), Open-Access Journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

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 and short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections, engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into three issues annually, and includes work that represents ...

Online course | Conscious and Inclusive Language in Academic Contexts

Published On: Mar 17 2025

Drs. Thoko Kamwendo and D. Scott have created an online course on using conscious and inclusive language in academic teaching and writing. The course consists of 15 lessons, with accompanying transcripts, exercises, and links to relevant resources, as well as an extensive annotated list of resources, organized by issue. Participants go through the course at their own speed and have access to Q&A Zoom calls with the course organizers several times a year. The course is particularly suitable for departments, projects, and networks who want to foster an inclusive culture (in the current US co...

New Article | We have been here before: Reflections on engineering and authoritarianism

Published On: Mar 17 2025

Leaders of the International Network for Engineering Studies have published an editorial reflecting on insights and responsibilities of engineering studies scholars that are relevant to the ongoing political changes in the United States.

Digitizing nature - A workshop on the use of digital environmental technologies in everyday life

Published On: Feb 10 2025

Deadline: Apr 17, 2025

An invitation to a workshop organized by MISTRA environmental communication and The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, October 23, 2025.
This workshop invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to discuss and explore the role and use of digital environmental technologies in policies, in professional use and in everyday life. We particularly invite papers that critically engage with environmental data as an everyday practice, and welcome participants to reflect on questions such as: In which ways do digitized ways of obtaining environmental data ch...

Repertoires: A Series on Scholarly Ways of Working

Published On: Jan 23 2025

The Association of Research Libraries, a membership organization of research libraries and archives in the United States and Canada, has launched a blog series called Repertoires, which will feature quarterly posts about recent STS books that highlight changing research practices in scholarly communities. Led by Marcel LaFlamme, ARL's Director of Research Policy and Scholarship as well as a 4S member, the series aims to distill actionable insights that library leaders can use to develop scholar-focused services at their institutions and beyond. In doing so, Repertoires hopes to play a role in ...

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.

United Nations Call for Science-Policy Briefs for the Multi-stakeholder Forum

Published On: Jan 23 2025

Deadline: Feb 4, 2025

The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...

New Book | Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance

Published On: Mar 3 2025

A critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities, and what we stand to lose when we rely on “innovative finance.” This book will be of STS interest because of several chapters explaining the modeling and data systems that make it possible to price and sell the risk of pandemics, deployed in the name of humanitarian response.
In a world increasingly defined by crisis, bankers and investors behind the scenes turn catastrophes like pandemics into financial securities that can be bought and sold. Offering new insigh...

New Book | Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development

Published On: Mar 3 2025

Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia’s rapid post–World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the entire country, bringing transformative socioeconomic benefits across its heterogeneous territories and populations. While this project was driven by nationalistic impulses, it was also motivated by a genuine interest in social justice. The entanglement of these two ideologies “nation-building and equity” shaped how electrifi...

AAAS-TWAS | Course on Science Diplomacy

Published On: Jan 13 2025

Deadline: Jan 23, 2025

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21-24 July, 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy.
The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and he...

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