The AusSTS Making and Doing award celebrates non-traditional research scholarship that prioritises enacted, embodied and situated forms of STS knowledge making. Examples of Making & Doing activities include ethnographic films, installations, hands-on workshops, games, and more.
02.03.2026 03:43
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AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨
The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.
02.03.2026 03:42
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About the Conference
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation
Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".
Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!
Deadline: 2nd February 2026
www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
14.01.2026 16:12
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Online Workshop: From Dissertation to Book
Join me to explore how to turn a dissertation into a book. I’ll share the process behind "Maraña" and its upcoming Spanish edition, plus tips on pitching presses and navigating a book’s afterlife.
@stsyorku.bsky.social
Register tiny.cc/dissertation...
11.12.2025 16:25
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a flyer for the ITS virtual talk with Jeff Nagy.
Institute for Technoscience & Society
Dec. 3rd, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Virtual Talk
Jeff Nagy, a black and white photo of a white-presenting person's face with square rimmed glasses and a slight smile.
An ITS Seminar in collaboration with the Centre for Al and Society
Big Blue: Depression from the DSM to Al Psychodiagnostics
Jeff Nagy is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Critical Data Studies in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, he was a DISCO Network Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he collaborated with scholars, artists, and policymakers to envision and build anti-racist and anti-ableist technological futures, also ran Search Engines, a programming series centered around the arts, emerging technology, and social justice. He is a historian of computing and Al focused on the intersections between that history with disability and psychological and psychiatric science. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University.
Save the date: Registration information coming soon
For more information visit:
https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/
YORK U logo.
Tomorrow!
ITS Virtual Seminar Series with Dr. Jeff Nagy.
Big Blue: Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics.
December 3, 2025 from 12:00 pm till 1:30 pm.
Register here: yorku.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
02.12.2025 18:25
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Excited to give a virtual talk at York University on Jan 28!
Research with Colombia’s Neurosciences Group of Antioquia shows their care practices for families with Alzheimer’s may be even more crucial than their biomedical research.
@stsyorku.bsky.social
19.11.2025 18:13
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This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...
03.11.2025 08:33
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Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025
Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...
I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology
#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
05.08.2025 13:15
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Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on the ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam
by Sarah Rose Bieszczad and Pouya Sepehr
"Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam" published in EASST Review by Sarah Rose Bieszczad & Pouya Sepehr (w/ contributions from myself & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner)
#STS #EASST
easst.net/easst-review...
29.07.2025 14:43
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Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions
New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu
#sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
08.07.2025 13:36
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For all those people out there thinking about writing ...
03.07.2025 16:07
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Killing the Digital Services Tax is a step backwards
Canadian consumer are handing over billions of dollars in data assets each year to U.S. firms and receiving zero returns for it. That’s why we need a Digital Services Tax,
I have a new opinion piece out in the @thestar.com today: "Killing the digital services tax is a step backwards" (paywalled) - #Google extracts $b worth of #DataAssets from Canada each year, but #Canada gets nothing
#tariff #Trump #Carney #TACO #digitalservicestax
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
03.07.2025 14:39
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Invitation Vienna STS Talks x IPW Talks by Kean Birch on May 08, 2025, 17:00-18:30
📆‼️‼️Join the cohosted #ViennaSTSTalk & #IPWLecutres by Kean Birch (York University) on Do Artefacts Have Political Economy? @univie.ac.at‼️‼️
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sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
24.04.2025 08:16
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Information from the fellowship application page: "Research Fellowships (Application deadline on May 1 and December 15)
Research Fellowships are for scholars who would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions. Research Fellows will be awarded a stipend of $1,000 plus $750 for use of each collection, $425 if the collection is less than 100 miles from another collection for which a stipend has already been awarded. Fellows typically receive between $2,500 and $5,000 depending on number and locations of collections used.
How to Apply
Late applications will not normally be accepted.
All Fellowships: Applications must include
an abstract limited to 150 words
a single PDF file, single-spaced, in Times New Roman font, no smaller than 11 pt type with at least 1” margins:
- Curriculum Vitae, limited to 3 pages
- project description explaining the research project and how it will advance scholarship in the history of science, technology or medicine, limited to 6 pages
- references cited in the project description, limited to 2 pages
contact information for two recognized scholars who will be asked to submit letters of recommendation. We will send instructions to these scholars upon receipt of an application, but applicants should let their recommenders know to have a letter ready for submission. Letters are due 15 days after the application deadline."
Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM
28.04.2025 16:34
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If Data Is Accounted For, the United States Has a Trade Surplus with Canada
Corporations such as Alphabet, Meta and Amazon have been extracting billions of dollars’ worth of data assets from Canada for years.
"If Data Is Accounted For, the #USA Has a Trade Surplus with #Canada"
New opinion from me for Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
#assetization #data #trade #tariff #tradewar #Trump #bigtech
www.cigionline.org/articles/if-...
22.04.2025 18:51
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New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
10.04.2025 18:27
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@tru-uoft.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social @yorkuphil.bsky.social @yorkulaps.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social @dighr-yorku.bsky.social @torontosri.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
08.04.2025 17:43
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
03.04.2025 14:59
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Come join us for in-person film showing!
"Becoming the Butterfly" - a film screening & roundtable on brain injuries.
10th April @ 6.30-8.30pm (details below)
27.03.2025 02:11
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Not streamed, but video will be posted
26.03.2025 17:58
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STS Research Talk March 25th 3:00-4:30pm
Next week! @keanbirch.bsky.social is giving lecture on "Rise of the Tech Oligarchy" as part of the inaugural Richard A. Jarrell Fund Science, Technology & Society talks
When: Tues, 25 March @ 3-4.30pm
Where: Osgoode Hall IKB 1006, YorkU Keele
Registration: natssts.apps01.yorku.ca/machform/vie...
21.03.2025 19:05
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Go see how many of your publications have been used to train #Meta's #artificialintelligence systems!
21.03.2025 19:00
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Job Openings
Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share!
- 2yr postdoc in wealth research
- 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty
- 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy
- 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology
- tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society
10.03.2025 14:22
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Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program
Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton,
As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....
Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
03.03.2025 02:24
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We’re celebrating "Maraña" by Lina Pinto-García (MA ’14, PhD ’20, STS, #YorkU) with an engaging discussion!
📢 Chair: Denielle Elliott
🎙 Speakers: Aryn Martin, Drew Belsky & Luis Van Isschot
📅 Mar 4 | ⏰ 10 AM | 📍 York U | 💻 Hybrid
🔗 Register: rb.gy/qryzik
24.02.2025 14:07
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