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.

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.

Possession as Ruse—A Conversation about Digital Dispossession

Dec 9 2024

This conversation reveals how traditional frameworks of dispossession, while valuable, may not fully capture the complexities of exploitation in today's digital economy.

Reframing histories of vaccine development through non-human animal lenses

Dec 2 2024

In this post, Alexis Bedolla explores vaccine development in Mexico through non-human animal lenses, arguing for the transgression of epidemiological representations.

Zines as communication tools to engage the public in debates about technology

Nov 25 2024

Engaging the public in critical conversations about technology presents a key challenge for researchers in STS and related fields. Jussara Rowland and Ana Delicado argue that zines are a valuable, yet under-utilized, tool for achieving this goal.

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.

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.