Dec 15 2025
In this reflection piece, Luciana Musello shares the experience of rereading dependency theory in the age of technoimperialism alongside an interdisciplinary group of Latin American scholars
Dec 8 2025
Many emerging solutions to environmental problems are imagined as technoscientific. Here I detail how one AI-equipped conservation tool is made effective only through the labour, skill, and care of practitioners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 23 2025
Catriona Brickel considers the various ethical dilemmas encountered when studying digital memorials
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.
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.
May 22 2025
Roos Hopman reflects on the slippery place of color within natural history