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.

The Heartware approach: how cultural values drive sustainable socio-technical change

Apr 7 2025

Zeeda F. Mohamad explores the “Heartware approach” in sustainability science: a visualisation tool to enable community-based participation that emphasizes the integration of cultural values into environmental sustainability governance frameworks.

Caring about Psychedelic Science: An Alternative Approach to Studying Hype

Mar 1 2025

Kai River Blevins argues for the development of a critical phenomenology of care to better understand hype around psychedelic science

Re-networking digital infrastructure: a Non-Aligned Tech Movement to take us beyond the age of informational capitalism

Feb 24 2025

In this post, Juan Ortiz Freuler presents a need for a wide collective structure beyond central players to reclaim digital sovereignty for nations in the Global Majority

Towards fairness in machine learning for dermatology: a skin tone representation disparities study

Feb 10 2025

Images depicting dark skin tones are significantly under-represented in the educational materials used to teach primary care physicians and dermatologists to recognize skin diseases. In this piece, Celia Cintas introduces an open-source initiative to fight this issue.

And the winner is…Alphafold!

Feb 9 2025

Reflecting upon the Alphafold as the recent recipient of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry, this post examines the role of artificial intelligence and new ways of 'doing science' aligned toward gamification, contests and awards.

Bee smellscapes: olfactory relations in urban everyday ecologies

Nov 11 2024

In this post, Ceall Quinn describes multispecies smellwalking, a method for attuning to olfactory pollinator relations in urban ecologies.

Contextual Nuances of Knowledge Translation in Ghana

Jul 1 2024

In this reflection based on her fieldwork in Ghana, Joyce Koranteng-Acquah shows how farmers engage with scientific institutions to produce knowledge and technologies, addressing the complex dynamics between scientific research, community engagement and policy development.

Technology, health, and gender: contributions from and with Feminist STS

Dec 30 2024

In this post, Mariana Pitta Lima discusses contributions from and with feminist STS from the South, drawing on a recently published chapter on technologies, health, and gender based on fieldwork in Brazil.

Border leakages: counting deaths in the Mediterranean

Oct 28 2024

In this post, Bruno Magalhães elaborates the concept of "leakage" as a lens through which to examine the hidden costs of externalized border controls. The concept allows us to address that which both escapes and reshapes containment.

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