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Five years today since the WHO declared #COVID19 a global pandemic. These even more unstable times call for a radical reimagining of health, outbreaks, and concepts taken for granted in discussions of them. Some thoughts towards this, but more to come: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The full forum, all 8 contributions, on university truth-telling now available open access - in latest issue of @historyaustralia.bsky.social Lessons for settler colonial & other imperial institutions elsewhere - esp timely in the US! #history @humanitiesau.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

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New paper! "The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance meets Resistance" (open access) in @sthv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0162... By @katherinekenny.bsky.social @alexbroom.bsky.social Jennifer Broom & @leahmouse.bsky.social The paper asks what #AMR monitoring in hospitals makes in/visible.

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New OnlineFirst article: "Consolidating the Strata: Geoscience and Underground Territory in South Korean Radioactive Waste Disposal" by Sungeun Kim #nuclearfuel #geological #disposal #underground #territorialization #SouthKorea journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge

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‘What was billed as a ninety-day freeze to undertake a review ended last week in the formal termination of thousands of projects across the world, including HIV treatment programmes that supported millions of people.’ Sophie Cousins on USAID: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including Warwick Anderson Kari Lancaster Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh Fabian Offert Dang Nguyen Kate Mannel Chris O'Neill Elizabeth Stephens Jaya Keaney & more!! Deadline 14 March

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The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/

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Looking forward to being back home in July and honoured to be part of this keynote panel at @aussts.bsky.social. AusSTS has grown into such a vibrant scholarly community. Can’t wait!

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Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

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The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

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📣 We are advertising for a Research Assistant to join our qualitative research team at the Burnet Institute Melbourne, linked to NHMRC Synergy work on hepatitis C elimination. 12 months; especially keen to hear from applicants who would like to pursue PhD research. au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...

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Pleased to see the whole of @historyaustralia.bsky.social forum on truth telling in Australian universities is now online, open access. This powerful essay by Prof Marcia Langton will follow my introduction when published in the first issue this year #history #Indigenous @austhistassoc.bsky.social

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📣 We are advertising for a Research Assistant to join our qualitative research team at the Burnet Institute Melbourne, linked to NHMRC Synergy work on hepatitis C elimination. 12 months; especially keen to hear from applicants who would like to pursue PhD research. au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/re...

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🚨POSTDOC JOB🚨 History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison #AcademicSky #HistSTM #HistMed mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

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🔖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 7 In Spectacles of Waste, Warwick Anderson examines the cultural politics of human 💩, which reviewer Alexis Bedolla praises for its fresh critique of colonial binaries and its call for an ecological reimagining of waste. 🎐 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/

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tfw someone says, "But who is going to TRANSLATE all this hard theory for non-academics???" and the answer is, "Me, I did it!" If you've struggled reading Donna Haraway, standpoint theory, feminist theories of tech, or intersectionality, may I present: CYBORG mitpress.mit.edu/978026254755...

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Invisible Participation: Patients with Oncological and Rare Diseases in Russia" by Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva, and Klasien Horstman #patient #participation #Russia #cancer #rarediseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Every 2 years, we like to publicly thank all those fantastic scholars who help keep the wheels of peer review and journal publishing running by heeding the call and (unpaid!) reviewing new manuscripts for us. Read "On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen" here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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One more week before the deadline 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 #STS #philsky #hps #race #Hpbio

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Self-care Against the Grain: Normative Negotiations in Contraceptive Self-Tracking" by Ellen Algera #selftracking #selfcare #contraceptive #technologies #norms #agency journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New OnlineFirst article: "Multi-Faceted Platform Politics in the Design of the Korean Digital Environmental Impact Assessment System" by Eun-Sung Kim #datascience #environmentalgovernance #environmental #impact #assessment #platformcapitalism #senses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy" by Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley and Ruth Little #Brexit #landmanagement #participation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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New paper! We examine the complexities of how ‘long-acting’ treatments are made to work over time, and argue for an adaptive and emergent conceptualisation of what ‘treatment retention’ can mean, reflective of how people connect with treatment and make it work, in practice. doi.org/10.1111/dar....

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Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!

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Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine, outlining 'the sociology of prescribing'. This is the sort of literature I wish I had access to in one place during my PhD. I outline sociological contributions to understanding drug prescribing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!

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Special issue by the Global War Against the Rat project, on the subject of "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" is now available adv. access @ JHMAS See this great thread by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social on the articles contained in the special issue

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Junior scholars out there! If you‘re into (the social study of) microbes and how we make sense of them and happen to be a PhD, please apply to the most vibrant PhD School in the Nordics and beyond. More details here👇

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Post-doc in planetary health humanities, to work with Andy Lakoff and colleagues at USC on their timely project on 'The city on life support: Los Angeles as a laboratory for planetary health'. Important topic... #STS #envhum #medanthro

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📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: The CSSM now welcomes applications for The CSSM PhD School, held in Helsinki, 4-6 June 2025. 📅Deadline: 7 March 2025 🦠For more details, please visit our website: www.socialmicrobes.org/current/call...

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January issue is out now: journals.sagepub.com/toc/sthd/50/1 Featuring an editorial on "Doing STS Now" by Gül et al., research articles on storm warnings, coding beauty and ugliness, synthetic biology, green chemistry, waste tours, and plastics burning. Sounds like #STS to us...

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On another matter, I see Medicine on a Larger Scale has a webpage now. You could pre-order the paperback but I advise waiting till June 2025 to get it all open access #histSTM #STS #histmed #globalhealth

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AusSTS2025 @aussts.bsky.social is going to be here in Naarm/Melbourne in July, sponsored by Deakin's Science and Society Network + @sthv.bsky.social The call for proposals is now OPEN (closes 15 March) so please submit + spread the word: aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

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The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for @estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS 4sonline.org/news_manager...

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics" by Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social, Mike Michael, Rebecca Steinbach, + Phil Edwards #infrastructures #lighting #publics #expertise #ignorance journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...

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📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡ 9 - 11 July, 2025 Melbourne/Naarm Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social Ful CFP coming soon!

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Call for papers for @4sweb.bsky.social: please do share with others who may be interested and join us for a panel on “Toxic volatility: Knowing chemical relations beyond dose and damage”. Details below. #STS

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Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

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The way “global health” people have stated the value of WHO to the US (and to the world) and what’s at stake in US withdrawal from WHO has been very revealing of the strong neocolonial tendencies/undercurrents that shape how people do “global health” and how the field works.

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A revealing report from Rachel Yang on our Sydney meeting last year on the social sciences of epidemic intelligence and disease modelling, when we discussed 'epistemic preparedness' - much to ponder. Organised with @sonjavw.bsky.social & @karilancaster.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social #STS #histstm

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Agree. We argued for medical advocacy against climate change and its clear and present health impacts in @nejm.org in 2019 (open access) - and received considerable push back from colleagues then. Radical action for planetary health needed more than ever.... #STS #histSTM #climate

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We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now #histstm #histsci #STS

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Call for abstracts for #issdp2025 has been extended to 31st January (you've still got time to submit your excellent drug policy research!) pretalx.com/internationa...

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So many excellent open panels at @4sweb.bsky.social conference this year! Along with Zeynel Gül and Courtney Addison, I’ll be convening a panel on “Toxic volatility: Knowing chemical relations beyond dose and damage”. Join us! Abstracts are due Jan 31. www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

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