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

Nov 7 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.

Reflections on Copernicus and Africa–EU Space Diplomacy

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.

The Energy Fictions of Cure and Dependency

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.

Cancer in multiple realities, medical technologies and their political implications

Jun 2 2025

Tainã Queiroz discusses the incorporation of medical technologies for oncological treatments in the Brazilian health system, focusing on the challenge of combining multiple realities.

Encountering the data lives of the dead

May 23 2025

Catriona Brickel considers the various ethical dilemmas encountered when studying digital memorials

Exploring Lay Knowledge in a Chinese Village During the COVID-19 Period

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.

My journey through the cell in search of possible paths to becoming a feminist scientist: the “Feminista In Vitro” podcast

Nov 3 2025

In Feminista In Vitro, Fernanda Mariath explores how feminist perspectives can reshape biomedical science—bridging cells, stories, and the social dimensions of research. Drawing on her laboratory experience and her journey as an early-career feminist STS researcher in Brazil, she reflects on how science can be reimagined through a feminist lens. Her research inspired a podcast of the same name, featuring interviews with STS feminist scholars from Brazil and other parts of the world.

The stuff of taxonomic nightmares: the frustrating volatility of color

May 22 2025

Roos Hopman reflects on the slippery place of color within natural history

Mixtures: Research Stories on the Zika Virus – An Invitation to Read

May 19 2025

In this bilingual post (English and Brazilian Portuguese), Thais Valim, Isadora Valle and Mariana Petruceli present the content and launch of the “Mixtures: Research Stories on the Zika Virus” book, an invitation to read about scientific production on the emblematic Zika virus epidemic in Brazil, through STS lenses.

Locating STS in Southeast Asia: a Belgian migrant looking for a place of belonging

May 5 2025

A Belgian, trained in STS at the University of Vienna, shares her experience of locating STS hubs in Southeast Asia after moving to Bangkok.