Encountering the data lives of the dead

May 23 2025

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

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.

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.

Environmental Injustice Pedagogies: Brokering Epistemic Trust in Cross-Institutional & Inter-Disciplinary Projects

May 27 2024

In this reflection on the development of interdisciplinary environmental justice units for California high schoolers, authors Prerna Srigyan, Margaret Tebbe, and Nadine Tanio reflexively analyze the politics of knowledge in translational research involving STS scholars and STEM educators.

Dependencies out of place: the medieval horror of our times is but the shrapnels of the peripheral modernity

Jun 3 2024

In this text, Giuliana Faccioli critically revisits the supposed return of feudal relations in platform capitalism through a reading of “North by South” applied to political economy. Rather than venturing into the genealogy of the term, she argues we should look into its more recent historical origins and outcomes.

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.

Major Internet Outages are Getting Bigger and Occurring More Often: A Reflection on the CrowdStrike IT Outage

Aug 12 2024

In this timely post, A.R.E. Taylor, an anthropologist of technology and Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter reflects on the wider socioeconomic issues underpinning the CrowdStrike IT outage that occurred on Friday 19th July 2024.

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