stefanlaser, to Sociology
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de avatar

From #sociomaterial to #planetary: I think that's a good move.

#sts #sociology #anthropology

stephen_cornford, to random
@stephen_cornford@assemblag.es avatar

This morning I have been reading a chapter by Ian Hacking on The Creation of Phenomena in scientific practice.

Hacking's essential argument is that often the conditions in the lab are so artificial, or "pure" that the phenomena found in their experiment is created rather than discovered. "Its modern equivalent has become technology, reliable and routinely produced. The effect, at least in a pure state, can only be embodied by such devices"

#STS

inquiline, to history
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Forgive my ignorance but where can I find good on the historical intersection of and ?

@sts @communicationscholars @histodons

i_ngli, to AdobePhotoshop
@i_ngli@assemblag.es avatar

@sts #STS #Professorship #call at #GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt/Germany.

Are you interested in Critical Reflection and/or Governance of Computational Technologies?

consider applying at Frankfurt to work with us
https://www.c3s-frankfurt.de/workshop-2

#Computation
#digitalisation
#digital
#CriticalDataStudies
#Code

#ScienceAndTechnologyStudies

KathyReid, to Sociology
@KathyReid@aus.social avatar

Insightful essay from Bruce #Schneier and Barath Raghavan - using James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State" and showing how abstraction of socio-technical systems now lets us "See like a Data Structure".

Worth a read for anyone into #STS, #data and #sociology.

Where it left me wanting was solutions - how do we stop seeing like a data structure, and embrace nuance, complexity, richness and diversity?

It reminds me very much of the work "Re-wilding the internet" by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/seeing-like-a-data-structure.html

inquiline, (edited ) to academia
@inquiline@union.place avatar

"A university fired a faculty member almost immediately not for out-of-classroom speech but for an optional course assignment. The assignment asked students to, among other things, explain “the impact of genocide/ethnic cleansing on the health/biology of the people it impacts.”"

ETA: Petition to sign in support of reinstating the fired adjunct! https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/q9iroj

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/06/03/depaul-adjunct-ousted-optional-gaza-assignment

#Academia #STS

i_ngli, to sts
@i_ngli@assemblag.es avatar

Dear #academic colleagues in @sts #STS,

does anybody have access to

#BrunoLatour: Recollections of a Traveling Companion
#IsabelleStengers
Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 283–308.
https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10862493

I would love to read, but cannot find any access.
Cheers

tscriado, to Anthropology
@tscriado@assemblag.es avatar

EN] We have never been solar - Manifesto of the Department of Umbrology

[ES] Nunca fuimos solares - Manifiesto del Departamento de Umbrología

https://umbrology.org/manifesto/

DoU, a joint production of http://xcol.org & http://tarde.info

w/ @santiagorrego

#anthropology #urbanecology #shade #sts

ESTSjournal, to random
@ESTSjournal@mastodon.world avatar

anticipation of in railway pushes workers to displace & rethink their expertise & agency

Read the study of railway maintenance in Switzerland by @tobias_roehl: https://doi.org/mvhd

i_ngli, to berlin
@i_ngli@assemblag.es avatar

Anybody planning to go on Monday by train from to to ? That is on the 15th of July, leaving round 8am? Early morning @sts folks?

gauthier, to random
@gauthier@mastodon.design avatar

Here's my new poster, which explains in simplified terms all the processes involved, from quartz extraction to the production of a monocrystalline wafer. This time I've also included the inputs and outputs of each type of process to give an idea of the flows and associated environmental impacts.

Download here: https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/resources/from-silicon-to-wafer

@mrchrisadams @limitesnumeriques @vincib

#sts

ErrantCanadian, to philosophy
@ErrantCanadian@zirk.us avatar

The recording of the 2024 Sue and Harry Bovay Lecture in the History & Ethics of Engineering is now live!

Jon Leydens (Colorado School of Mines) spoke about social context & public welfare in engineering curricula and how we can better include these topics in engineering education.

https://vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Contextualizing+the+Problems+of+the+Engineering+Curriculum+%7C+2024+Bovay+Lecture+%7C+Jon+Leydens+%28Colorado+School+of+Mines%29/1_tikhsped/344438282

#philosophy #ethics #sts #engineeringEthics #engineeringEducation #cornell #teaching #sotl

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar
ESTSjournal, to random
@ESTSjournal@mastodon.world avatar

J. Denis, D. Florentin & D. Pontille ask—what situated #knowledges & #ontologies are required in an always already broken world?

Intro to thematic collection on #maintenance & #repairMaintenance'—to think beyond by breakdowns in #sts: https://doi.org/mvhb

#practices

softhook, to random
@softhook@tldr.nettime.org avatar

We are running a workshop (W147) at EASST to map the intersections of STS and citizen science. The participants will map their experiences, methods, and practices using Miro and pen-paper. The Situational Analysis approach highlights elements that might be overlooked to enable future collaborations.

We think our workshop will be 17/07/2024 15:30 come and join us if you will be in Amsterdam.

Christian Nold & Emma Garnett

#STS @i_ngli @easst

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Electric trucks as a boundary object in the Star & Griesemer sense #STS #Petrocultures2024 #CriticalLogistics

A #UnionPlace joint featuring @athena

ErrantCanadian, to philosophy
@ErrantCanadian@zirk.us avatar

Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.

https://philpapers.org/rec/GOEAAI-2

@philosophy @facct #AIEthics #philosophy #sts

beadsland, to history
@beadsland@disabled.social avatar
MichaelTBacon, to sts
@MichaelTBacon@social.coop avatar

Oh, man, it's happening. There was an #STS @sts article (or book?) that I really thought was Maria Kaika but very apparently isn't about three phases of modernist water management—something like ascendant, triumphant, and chastened, or some such.

I went to look it up tonight in the old references and I cannot find it.

MichaelTBacon, to uk
@MichaelTBacon@social.coop avatar

To all the #STS folks in the #UK, does anyone know of an STS treatment of the Horizon scandal?

stefanlaser, to random
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de avatar
yetiinabox, to medical
@yetiinabox@todon.nl avatar

Tomasz Poprawka: « la recherche est aujourd’hui l’un des piliers politiques essentiels de l’Union européenne ».

Usually science administrators prefer to hide behind a Popperian curtain of political neutrality - even where actual scientists <@ScientistRebellion > get arrested - but the actual disconnect between the scientific consensus and the miasma exhaled by certain political agendas is now so obvious that even the conservative academies of science are accepting that they are, indeed, political actors with moral responsibilities.

«Les élections de juin ne seront pas normales, elles seront cruciales dans un contexte de très fortes incertitudes.» ( Patrizio Bianchi)

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/05/06/les-vingt-sept-academies-des-sciences-s-unissent-pour-interpeller-les-candidats-aux-elections-europeennes_6231928_1650684.html

#STS #policy

stefanlaser, to Sociology
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de avatar

Ever used Zoom? Googled? Discussed numbers and their implications?

We have a new article out and ask how online data is endowed with worth in virtual collaboration workshops.

https://valuationstudies.liu.se/article/view/3598

A RUSTlab and Uni Dresden collab. 🫶

#valuationstudies #sociology #sts

ErrantCanadian, to philosophy
@ErrantCanadian@zirk.us avatar

On May 7 at 4:30 PM EDT, Jon Leydens will deliver the Bovay Lecture in the History & Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University. His research concerns how engineering education can contribute to social justice, sociotechnical thinking, and humanitarian engineering.

To attend virtually, register here:
https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nm8wcGY9T7KFo3fZxrRU2w

@philosophy #philosophy #engineering #sts #education

lina, to random
@lina@neuromatch.social avatar

#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion

not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)

looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...

there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too

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