STS Futures Initiative

STS Futures Initiative is an ongoing project dedicated to opening new professional pathways for STS grad students, with support from @UCHRInews & @CSTMSBerkeley

[Hannah Zeavin @HZeavin]

@seyiolojo and I have co-organized a *virtual* Fall Reading Group on "Black Study and STS"!

Our first meeting will be on Thursday, September 22nd. There we will discuss meeting times & cadence. DM if interested. For a longer description: 1/4

[Rose Rowson @roserowson]

organising a grad conference with @nnneim at @MCMBrownU this November under a theme v close to my heart: “Digital Histories,” with a keynote by @maramills! Plz submit! https://t.co/PjFLAjWShc

[Samantha Pinto @samanthanpinto]

Submit your short/critical/creative work on reproductive rights & justice to @FeministTheory -- trying create a more immediate and open access space to think and write through current issues in feminism. Open format--visual/written/creative work welcome. https://t.co/O2Szo78Q0g

[Lennart Verhagen @LennartVerhagen]

Holy crap. Our department is hiring, big time: 9 postdocs and 13 assistant professors on resilience, human tech, inequality & diversity.

Want to work on the human factor in new neurotech and neuromodulation? Happy to help.
https://t.co/uUaHxU7wJn
https://t.co/27oGH28wiL

[The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) @SocHistTech]

We sent a news flash out! Quick review:

1. @SHOT_ECIG Workshop CFP is up and submissions open
2. #shot2022 info and preliminary program coming July 1st
3. Travel Grants application is OPEN
4. CFP for "Tech and Material Culture in Africa" conference

#histSTM #STS #history

[Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernardionysius]

My book review for @CriticalInquiry of Seb Franklin's "The Digitally Disposed," a major contribution to theorising colonial and racialised underpinnings of digital infrastructures, is online here: https://t.co/3NYIbnwiKD

[Beza Merid @BezaMerid]

NYU Postdocs in Data Justice and Racial Equity (July 8): The Digital Interests Lab is hiring 2 postdocs to start in Sept & possibly renew through 2024. $70K salary+benefits. Data Justice fellow: https://t.co/hMqSO4mV6k Racial Equity fellow: https://t.co/ekryXDyn3P

[Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience @catalyst_sts]

From the latest issue of Catalyst (Vol. 8, No. 1):

Deboleena Roy (@deboleena_roy), “Transplacental and Molecular Migrations: Methyl Isocyanate Gas and Reproductive Bioeconomies in Bhopal”

https://t.co/Jc3R3SsfyD

#feministSTS #Transplacental #MolecularMigrations #MIC #bhopal

[The Society for Social Studies of Science @4sWeb]

Updates from the June 2022 Presidential Message: The editorship of @STHV_journal officially changes over to the new Editorial Collective at the end of June. Congratulations to the incoming team and 4S expresses a huge thank you to Ed Hackett and Katie Vann for all their work.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

This week at @NYMag I wrote about the war on cash, the two kinds of money, and what the fuck is a stablecoin. https://t.co/pFWXHcEDYp

[reclaim UC @reclaimuc]

"If capitalism breeds the con, then its institutions shape the conditions of the gullibility it feeds on: belief in systems of safety and protection that do not, in fact, exist." https://t.co/jIkJTyaPUP

[Notches Blog @NotchesBlog]

Today on NOTCHES, @caitmckinney discusses their book Information Activism (@DukePress ) and how lesbian feminists in North American during the 1980s and 1990s used new technologies to build movements, connections, and communities. https://t.co/yWFB1UAw4Q #histsex

[The Society for Social Studies of Science @4sWeb]

Registration is OPEN for #ESOCITE4S22! Early bird rates until July 31st. Get ready for #Cholula #Puebla!
https://t.co/uTxJ3gijgQ

[Bharat Venkat @bhar_venkat]

My new essay--on the science of thermal sensation in colonial India and how it inflected debates about race & pigmentation--is out in BJHS Themes! (@BJHSeditor)
https://t.co/id9MJFxngL

Thanks to @MMAHendriksen & @wraggem for the invitation to write & a lot of encouragement

[Mary Blair-Loy (Mary Blair, she/her) @MaryBlairLoy]

1/14 It’s book release day for #MisconceivingMerit with @CechErin from @UChicagoPress!
Using survey, interview, & admin data, we show how academic STEM culture, esp. cherished beliefs in objectivity & meritocracy, CREATES unfair outcomes for scientists & hurts science.

[Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernardionysius]

Blurbs for my forthcoming book CODE: FROM INFORMATION THEORY TO FRENCH THEORY surfaced! Thanks for the kind words Kate Hayles, @manovich and @fturner, and the indispensable @DukePress team including @courtney_berger @sandraylk @jonathansterne & many more https://t.co/xayEmsyiKv

[Hannah Zeavin @HZeavin]

We reached and surpassed peak scam, the crypto bubble burst, & many have had their happy schadenfreude moment, said their "I told you sos."

For @Harpers, I wrote about American gullibility, the ordinary victim of financial scams, and the case of Deborah: https://t.co/FMgruSVCie