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Published On: Oct 30 2025
Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
4S seeks to appoint a new Digital Website Coordinator, to work for 10 hours per week for at least 12 months. Appropriate candidates should have familiarity with STS as a domain, solid technical skills with digital infrastructures, and the ability to work collaboratively with the Managing Director and elected leadership at 4S as well as the external providers. The rate of pay is US$25–30 per hour depending on skills and experience, for an annual rate of pay of US $12,500–15,000. Note that because the workflow is in large part oriented toward key tasks around the annual conference wh...
Published On: Nov 8 2025
Deadline: Nov 19, 2025
Please join us for an open seminar with the authors of "A Call for Multilingual Inclusiveness in Science and Disaster Research"--recently published in the Journal of Disaster Studies (JDS). The event is co-hosted by JDS and University of California Irvine EcoGovLab.
Authors: Rodolfo Hernandez (Howard University, US), Jen Henderson (Texas Tech University, US), Kim Fortun (University of California Irvine, US). Discussants: Leandro Rodriguez Medina (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco), Wen-Hua Kuo (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Noela Invernizzi (Feder...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Nov 10, 2025
The Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Digital Cultures and Ethnography. The field of specialization is open, and we welcome scholars whose work reflects the department’s commitment to critical, interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society. We are especially interested in candidates whose research engages with contemporary debates in digital cultures, ethnography, and artificial intelligence.
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The editors of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS), together with guest editors Tobias Burgers and Ian Kalman, invite submissions for an upcoming special issue. We welcome manuscripts that engage with the theme of the special issue. The abstract outlining its scope is included below. Scholars with relevant work are encouraged to submit full manuscripts directly through the EASTS submission system: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/teas20
When submitting, please indicate your intention to be considered for this special issue.
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
As part of the Desirable AI programme – a collaboration between Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Cambridge – this interdisciplinary conference, will explore the profound implications of large language models (LLMs), affective computing, and emotionally responsive AI. As machines venture into realms once thought uniquely human – emotion, creativity, irrationality – we ask: What does this mean for language, ethics, and the future of human expression? We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions from schola...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Nov 12, 2025
The Department of Educational Policy Studies at the UW-Madison invites application for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant/Associate level, with a focus on Education, Environment, and Society. The faculty member is expected to develop original, innovative research that can attract external funding to explore the relationships among education, environmental systems, and social, cultural, economic, and political systems. Fields of educational study might include (but are not limited to): environmental change, sustainability, planetary health, environmental justice, Indige...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Deadline: Apr 24, 2026
The Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology is an experiment in creating a dedicated intellectual space for medical anthropology. This biennial conference was founded in 2011 to establish regional expertise, regular research sharing, networking and collaboration, graduate student training, and cooperative teaching and publication support in the medical anthropology field. It is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and British C...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Nov 14, 2025
The Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in the College of Sciences invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-earning assistant professor anticipated to begin August 2026. We seek candidates with scholarly expertise in technology and society who have an active research agenda and a commitment to effective teaching. The ideal candidate will have research and teaching interests that align with the department’s strengths in social inequalities, medical sociology, criminology, and spatial sociology/GIS and/or any of the university’s priority ar...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
We are excited to announce a workshop focused on researching academic communities, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Nov 15, 2025
We seek candidates who will exploit emerging datasets to advance environmental and Earth system modeling, forecasting, and projection using state-of-the-art computational approaches such as machine vision, digital twins, AI, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation, or fusion techniques, with the goal of improving forecasts, hindcasts and future projections of environmental change. Methodological strengths may include Earth-system foundation or other machine-learned physics models; the use of AI methods for model parametrization; multi-model and multi-fidelity ensemble and generative appr...
