Thanks to Ramin Skibba for this great summary for WIRED looking at how LEO #satellites are impacting #Hubble Space Telescope #science and the prospects for the facility's remaining lifetime.
It contains a typically spicy take from yours truly about #space / #STS / #EnvHist. 🌶
"Bots, Rhymes & Life: Ethics of Automation as If Humans Matter"
Sets a faux rap battle ChatGPT4 v A Tribe Called Quest shows absurdity of ChatGPT4 as capable of thinking. It is as Drs. Bender & Gebru argue a #StochasticParrot
The 'critical friends' of computing - fields like #feminist#STS, critical #SystemsThinking and others - critique because they care. (So do I!) That's uncomfortable. Uncomfortable is good! That's a start for a new, better, ecologized #computing. With the #CriticalFriends, INSOLVENT develops a vision for #JustSustainabilityDesign. For those in tech, it can help them orient their work; for those adjacent, it offers insights into how tech reasons and ways to build critical friendships with tech.
Had a nice conversation with Matt Haugen about my new book #OilBeach in his newsletter, Terrain, “exploring political ecology, planetary crises, and what is to be done”
"When #engineers frame their work as apolitical or “purely” technical, they are not being naïve. Some may genuinely believe that #technology can be fully neutral, but many rhetorically employ a strategic naivety, because they know it allows the #IETF to continue to exist, and their employers to continue to benefit from its decisions about internet standards.
This cultural imperative to downplay or sideline politics in" #tech decisions creates a steep hurdle for society.
⸺ https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf
Hi, I'm a Brazilian doing my PhD in Germany. My topic of interest is higher education from an organizational perspective. I don't toot a lot about work since I don't usually have any academic connections in here, but if you're on organization studies, or research higher education from any perspective, I'd love to follow you :)
Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.
“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”
New paper argues insights from qualitative research can help to improve open science.
Steltenpohl et al. (2023). Rethinking transparency and rigor from a qualitative open science perspective. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr7
Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading. #STS #HistoryOfScience #SocialConstruction #ThomasKuhn #Philosophy
Deadline approaching: Submissions to the special issue, "Perspectives on Data Literacies" are due May 31, 2023 (Information and Learning Sciences journal). Guest edited by Profs. Leanne Bowler (Pratt), Amelia Acker (UT-Austin), and Luci Pangrazio (Deakin Univ. Australia). Please circulate! #edtech#stshttps://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/perspectives-data-literacies
New article by Thomas Hostler in the Journal of Trial and Error:
“There is a high chance that without intervention, increased expectations to engage in open research practices may lead to unacceptable increases in demands on academics.”
"Somehow, I have been instrumentalized by the internet, which operates me through my phone. It often feels like the internet is reading my mind."
A beautifully-written piece by #MerrittTierce that traces the not-quite-serendipity of connection through the internet, and shows how the internet mediates our relationships - to each other, and with the internet itself.
@i_ngli@sts I think that the old-fashioned German understanding of a "discipline" is not really what #STS is about. "Studies" always remain interdisciplinary, and have been the continuous source of new modes of thinking. Think Media Studies, Gender Studies, Laboratory Studies, Social Studies of ...
We just finished a discussion on the state of STS in Germany, w/Gisela Welz, Jörg Niewöhner and myself on a humble panel. This was fruitful and let to a collective exploration with the audience on careers, collaborative ways of publishing, and more.
And now for something completely different. Infrastructuring an organisation. No, we of course translate the needs into improving the infrastructure. True STS work 🤝 @sts#sts
Dr Ann Moyal AM FAHA (1926–2019) was a Petherick reader, a Harold White Fellow and an established historian of science and technology. As a champion of independence in research and scholarly pursuits, she established the Independent Scholars Association of Australia in 1995 during the ‘Against the Grain’ conference, held at the Library.
Excited to have a new peer-reviewed essay entitled "Home Drone" in "The Domestication of War" special section of the latest issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Co-written with the brilliant Michael Richardson. Every piece in the issue looks fantastic: https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/issue/view/2721#feministSTS#STS