May 23 2025
Catriona Brickel considers the various ethical dilemmas encountered when studying digital memorials
May 22 2025
Roos Hopman reflects on the slippery place of color within natural history
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.