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Published On: Jan 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored diamond open access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. ESTS is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and technology infuse the world in which we live.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form and short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections, engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into three issues annually, and includes work that represents ...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
“Systemic Risks of Artificial Intelligence” invites qualified experts to apply for two open tenders on the systemic risks of artificial intelligence (AI): 1) Systemic environmental risks of AI: Development and roll-out of AI have accelerated dramatically in recent years and show no signs of slowing down. Simultaneously, AI consumes vast amounts of resources and may have complex secondary effects that pose systemic risks to the environment. We call on experts to assess causes, pathways, extent of, and governance measures for those risks. 2) Systemic risks of interacting AI: Recently...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Drs. Thoko Kamwendo and D. Scott have created an online course on using conscious and inclusive language in academic teaching and writing. The course consists of 15 lessons, with accompanying transcripts, exercises, and links to relevant resources, as well as an extensive annotated list of resources, organized by issue. Participants go through the course at their own speed and have access to Q&A Zoom calls with the course organizers several times a year. The course is particularly suitable for departments, projects, and networks who want to foster an inclusive culture (in the current US co...
Published On: Mar 3 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
Murmurations in Avian Technoscience; A Special Section of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. In this special section, we invite birders, that is, those who notice avian relations, to explore how birds enter, become, confound, or mutate technology (expansively defined). We seek to engage in how the stuff of birds—their beaks, bones, and feathers—is datafied, mechanized, and digitized. We are also interested in constellations in flight that reflect on avian boundaries and breakdowns as they intersect gendered, queer, crip, raced, classed, and anticolonial questions, highlight...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
As digital humanities continue to grow, the creation, maintenance, and accessibility of databases are becoming critical to scholarly practice. However, databases in the humanities face a unique set of challenges: How can we represent the complexity and ambiguity of humanities data in digital forms? What strategies help build sustainable communities of practice to maintain and develop databases in new directions? How can we ensure long-term sustainability for humanities databases? Should there be specialized funding programs for databases in the humanities? How do we document and re-use data an...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Leaders of the International Network for Engineering Studies have published an editorial reflecting on insights and responsibilities of engineering studies scholars that are relevant to the ongoing political changes in the United States.
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 1, 2025
The Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies (STS) will join a vibrant, collaborative faculty invested in improving the ethics and socio-technical systems thinking instruction of STEM majors and improving socio-technical systems thinking in STEM curriculum through research. The lecturer will deliver courses and program support for initiatives within the Science, Technology and Society programs in the A. James Clark School of Engineering, a unit that that oversees the integration of ethics and socio-technical systems thinking into undergraduate engineering education curriculum. The lecturer i...
Published On: Feb 14 2025
Deadline: Apr 15, 2025
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne is seeking an outstanding social scientist for the position of Research Group Leader in Social Science in the field of Digitalization and Society (W2 tenure track) for a new research group focused on the societal implications of digitalization and technological change. The group will explore the broad socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change, strengthening the MPIfG’s capacity to analyze the relationship between economy, society, and technology. The starting date is October 1, 2025, or by agreement.
Published On: Mar 3 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
We invite you to submit abstracts for the planned special issue on ‘Predictive Governance in the 21st Century – Governing Futures through Forecasting Algorithms’. Deadline for 300-500 word abstract submission is 31 March 2025. Invited full texts (max. 8000 words) must be submitted by the end of September 2025.
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 15, 2025
SciDataCon is the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research. The scope of SciDataCon covers policy matters and the place of data in the scientific endeavour and scholarly communications; the opportunities of the data revolution for the global research enterprise; innovations in data science and data stewardship; and the challenge of developing a sustainable data ecosystem, including the role of education and capacity building. Since 2016, SciDataCon has been organised as an integral part of International Data Week. 15 April 2025, 23:59 AE...