The Sydney Science and Technology Studies (STS) Network brings together researchers, students, and practitioners across academic institutions in greater Sydney interested in how science, technology, and society shape one another.
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The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
British-Canadian applied social psychologist investigating LGBTQ+ prejudice, resilience, and digital technology use. INQYR Research Associate (https://www.inqyr.org/) and Secretary of Options for Sexual Health. Lifelong gaymer, avid foodie, and cat dad.
Performance & video artist, queer harm reduction & bodily autonomy activist, and rabid slut from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland based in Tkaronto. Mixed white settler/indigenous. Eats shoots and leaves, shoots, and leaves. Anarchist. Antitheist.
Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. 2026 books: FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. Prepping book on Twin Peaks.
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Former news journalist and magazine editor | PhD candidate | 20th & 21st century Black queer lit and visual media practices. 🌈📚🎞️🎥
📸shikeith
Novelist, essayist, art writer based on Gadigal country in Sydney, Australia.
April 2026: The Trap, follow up to Iris. Set Sydney 1942-43, The Trap is about an entrapment scandal that went all the way to the top.
No generative AI pls.
STS + Anthropology @ Te Herenga Waka's School of Science in Society | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values
@sthv.bsky.social
Perusing archives for LGBTQ+ History. Forever #LGBWithTheT.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology: non-carceral responses to drugs, harm reduction. Qualitative research on non-medical pharmaceutical use, injecting use.
Live on stolen and unceeded Wallumattagal country, and work on Bedegal country.
enseignant-chercheur, Université de Lille
culture, médias, éducation, genre, sexualités
https://pro.univ-lille.fr/florian-voros
Docteure en histoire de la médecine. Postdoc au Cermes3, INSERM, CNRS. Psychotropes, psychédéliques, médicaments, XIXe - XXIe siècles.
Site : https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
English profile: https://bsky.app/profile/zoe-dubus.
theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre: Seeding and accelerating collaborative research.
@ArtSS_Sydney
@sydneyuni.bsky.social
Filipino MD-medical anthropologist.
Theater, film, TV, poetry, fiction.
Currently a University of Sydney (medical) anthropology PhD.
GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AZJYL5AAAAAJ&hl=en
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/vincengyu/
Sociologist. Focus: queer ageing.
Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES)
2× @ERC_Research winner🏆
Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology
Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
post-fertile funny girl 💘 writer, carpenter, researcher 🏳️🌈 still masking and anti gen-AI 💋 proud trans woman, and board member of @transjusticeau
she/her
www.lizduckchong.com
Associate Professor of Public Policy. Focus on the role of emotions in the policy process, including moral panic agenda-setting, LGBTQ+ politics, and human-shark interactions. Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
Genderfluid. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Based in London. Arsenal fan
LGBT+ History Month UK, which takes place in February each year, was founded by @SchoolsOUTUK.bsky.social in 2004, and was first celebrated in 2005. The 2026 theme is Science and innovation.
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/
Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️🌈📚
International Political Theory / Political Philosophy.
Political Disagreement; Democratic Innovations; International Ethics
Luiss University, Roma
https://x.com/paulsaproza
https://linkedin.com/in/boscolebrun/
https://academicsinpolitics.com/ocw/
Professor. My focus is on gender and sexuality minority health, and newly public health preparedness. She/Her.
Lived(-ing) Experience Researcher, Enhancement Drugs (#ROIDs)
UK Comedian/Host.
🎙️ Wake up with me on @hitsradiouk
🎧 Listen to my podcast @gaynongay
www.jamesbarrcomedy.com
Sydney Innerwestie. Author of Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer. Digital Cultures Academic at Uni of Sydney
Prof/Director, Big Anxiety Research Centre & fEEL, Felt Experience & Empathy Lab, UNSW Sydney: lived experience-led VR/immersive media/AI; creative approaches to transforming trauma; psychosocial design; aesthetics/embodiment/engagement
Ex-lumpenprole,ruthless editrix,tedious dilettante, community researcher,mediocre organizer.National Survivors Union/NC Survivors Union/Whose Corner Is It Anyway/Yale School of Medicine--give to gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway
Queer East Asian writer and academic based in Nottingham, UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Self-Portrait as a Banaba (Poetic Edge) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
-PhD in culture studies/ post in gender, foresight and STS;
-sexual health counsellor at a VCT based in Cracow, PL;
-member of EATG, EACS, AAE;
• HIV/AIDS and sexual health studies • LGBTQ+ migration and refugee studies • anthropology of organising
The voice of all people living with and affected by HIV in NSW. Join the largest organisation by & for all people living with HIV | Images are illustrative.
A community-led collective conducting research, producing public-facing education, and supporting ongoing advocacy work on issues related to sexual and reproductive health, 2SLGBTQIA+ equity, and disability justice.
https://campsite.bio/sexploreproject
Senior Research Fellow, Specialty of Child & Adolescent Health, University of Sydney. President, Australian Association for Adolescent Health; Co-convenor CHYSIG Public Health Association Australia. Views my own. She/her.
Covering Queer, Trans and Feminist issues, Thursdays 8PM on 100.5 FM CFRO in Vancouver, Canada (Unceded Coast Salish territory)
Contact Us: genderqueeries@coopradio.org
Queer, feminist, angry, etc.
She/they 🏳️🌈
Views my own
Medical sociologist working on pandemics and syndemics.
Research Fellow Inserm CEMS France, Sociology, Political Science, Drug Policy, Harm reduction, Gender studies, Ethnicity, participatory method
Trustee ISDDP, Scientific committee EUDA
Scientific director D3S program EHESS IRESP
Revue Esprit editorial board
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Medical Humanities researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW | she/her
Professor of human-centred digitalization making & doing experimental analytic ethnography to re-experiencing experience. STS, anthropology. In Denmark.
Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University and Uppsala University. Researcher of digital sexual cultures, queer stuff, audio porn and pleasure.
Poz fella working in community health. Chairperson of NUAA. Senior Program Manager at Positive Life NSW. Interested in HIV/BBV, research, LGBTQA+ health, progressing LLE agendas and workforces. Farmer, gardener, photographer, musician. Social media clinker
Research centre at The University of Sydney, focused on transforming how we think about, engage with, and foster health.
Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Science & Technology Studies | History of Sci/Tech/Med | Qualitative Metascience | Medical Humanities.
Associate Prof at UW Madison.
🇨🇦 living in the 🇺🇸 married to a 🇩🇪.
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Tāłtān, scholar, Media Indigena contributor, faculty - UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs & Critical Indigenous Studies. Books: How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts / Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Dean & Head of School, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. International law, legal theory, law & technology etc. Latest books: https://tinyurl.com/HelpBookOUP & https://tinyurl.com/2cv626hf
(Views expressed here are mine not those of my employer.)
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Science & tech politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Executive Director of Environment Centre NT.
Northern Australia | Climate | Water | Nature | The State
Postdoctoral research fellow at Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney. Anthropology, STS and gender studies. Living and working on unceded Gadigal lands. From Adelaide/Kaurna country. She/her
Writer, Teacher, Researcher | on Epistemic Practices in Health Systems and Global Health | @sydney.edu.au | Views expressed here are my own.
Social and Cultural Anthropologist @ FU Berlin, Director of Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies", Head of Research Area Medical Anthropology | Global Health, Co-speaker of DFG Network "Public Anthropology" & Co-PI @ MoRePPaR
Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies. University of Sydney. On unceded Gadigal land. From Singapore.
Harm reduction & home baking
Prof of Inclusion Health Sociology, LSHTM
Current projects:
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ihost
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/sipp
History: http://youtu.be/0H51Nk-I7PA
Social media researcher, Gadigal country (aka Sydney)
Researching friendship, care, LGBTQ+ peer support, young people, mental health, porn literacies, hook-up apps.
https://profiles.uts.edu.au/paul.byron
Medical Anthropologist @ University of California - San Francisco
Associate Director, Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative
Opioid Industry Document Archive
addicted.pregnant.poor
Gender Studies at UCD | Interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies | programmes, news, events | RT is not an endorsement. https://www.ucd.ie/genderstudies/
Senior Research Fellow at UNSW, Sydney, living/working in nipaluna. LGBTIQA+ social scenes, health and wellbeing, community engagement.
HIV+ activist, social psychologist, gay nerd, grandfather to two most awesome granddaughters, Berliner from Budapest, I’m a hot mess. Minus the hotness.
Researcher & editor on unceded Wurundjeri land. Author of Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of Post-Crisis (Bloomsbury 2018). Occasional book and film reviews. Research on hep C, hep B, HIV at Health+Law, UNSW and ARCSHS, La Trobe.
One half of Itch-E & Scratch-E, The Dissociatives, & Stereogamous. Lover of trains and techno. Queer, likes a beer, get used to it.
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. We are friendly, cosmopolitan & socially engaged - consistently top rated in national & international league tables. See our staff & projects here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/
CSSM is a Wellcome Trust center based in the University of Helsinki that serves as a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations. socialmicrobes.org
We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
PhD | Instructor of Communication, Performance, and Sexuality Studies | Queer Latinx Performances of Loss from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderland | Connoisseur of Guilty Pleasures
They/Them
PhD Candidate at Northumbria University, Law School. Sexuality, queer male desire, chemsex, sexual consent, intoxication & capacity. 🏳️🌈He/him
Law, theatre, queerness, repair | Lecturer at La Trobe, Melbourne
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh
socio-legal doctoral student
India/UK he/they
mihirxr.wordpress.com/profile
📍london | not normal but safe to approach
https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
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Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Sociologist
Sexualities, Technology, Deviance
Associate Prof of Anthropology, Biology, and WGS at Boston University, queer 🏳️🌈, AAAG devotee, primate genetics/genomics and field biology. he/they.
Sociologue de la santé @Inserm.fr @Sesstim.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr | VIH, santé sexuelle, santé LGBTQI+, santé publique | compte personnel
PhD in Sociology. Currently in limbo.
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Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Public sociologist, scientist-activist, lover of the arts
Working Group within the German Anthropological Association
Blog AnthroDesires: https://anthrodes.hypotheses.org/
Field philosopher and writer. Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney. Author of "Flight Ways," "The Wake of Crows," and "A World in a Shell."
www.thomvandooren.org
