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Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University welcomes 2025-2026 fellowships applications. Fellows will reside in Cambridge, MA, to conduct independent work in collaboration with BKC faculty, staff, students, and the broader BKC community. Through this call, the Center will accept candidates across three tracks: Academic fellowships for full-time faculty members; Post-doc fellowships for scholars who have recently completed their PhDs or equivalent; Non-academic fellowships for accomplished practitioners from outside the academy.
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything and fostering an authoritarian culture. This SaC special issue will explore linkages among three dynamics: modern pre-emptive techno-securitisation, today’s active colonial relations, and the mili...
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Postdoctoral Visitor (PDV) will work on an international project for two-and-half years. The project title is “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” and is funded by the Open Research Area 8 initiative through SSHRC (Canada), ESRC (UK), ANR (France), and DFG (Germany). The PDV will be working directly for Prof Birch on the Canadian part of the project but will also work with the other project partners. This project is a comparative study of the roles and relevance of open versus commercial digital research informati...
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue. Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship. The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The Land Institute is hiring an Ecosphere Fellow who will collaboratively lead the next iteration of The Land Institute's fellows program, focused on envisioning the human future within ecological limits. This is a two-year, full-time position. The Ecosphere Fellow will also actively participate in the program through their own research.
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 15, 2025
This proposed special issue invites contributors to explore how “negative space”, whether as a theoretical heuristic or research methodology, produces new meanings, responses, and relationships. In visual arts, negative space refers to the constitutive background, or the surrounding imprint that helps to shape the foregrounded subject or object in a visual field. Inspired by this concept, this special issue brings together multidisciplinary researchers and artists who engage with the political implications of reorienting our gaze away from the so-called “positive space”...
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: May 31, 2025
The Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (Momentum PPDF) is an initiative designed to attract and nurture up to 35 exceptional postdoctoral researchers from around the globe to “Lendület”, Momentum research groups in Hungary. The Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is co-funded by the European Commission and the Secretariat of MTA, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, under the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant. This 5-year initiative offers unparalleled opportunities for career advancement and scientific excellence.
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Jun 1, 2025
The Ethical Legal Implications of Psychedelics in Society (ELIPSIS) Program in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Associate for a two-year non-laboratory research position. The selected candidate will support the Director of the Center, Dr. Amy McGuire, on funded research related to psychedelic ethics and policy, which includes: Being a catalyst for increasing the quality and quantity of research on ethical and policy issues related to the therapeutic use of psychedelics; Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team ...
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...
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Jun 21, 2025
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture. ST&HV publi...