Kari Lancaster
@karilancaster.bsky.social
Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | check out @contemporarycriticalthought.org
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Kari Lancaster
@karilancaster.bsky.social
· Jun 23
New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak?
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Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
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Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happening tomorrow 🤓
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet…
A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #1
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November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Happening tomorrow 🤓
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New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet…
A Thousand Wetlands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality #1
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us for our first event! We are reading and discussing the first installment of A Thousand WetLands: Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality: Rivulet 1 / Let us be wet...
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
Read online and sign up to join the reading group on Tuesday, Nov 3 at 3pm GMT 💦💦
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New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia - Sylvia Cifuentes, 2025
Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
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Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...
A Thousand Wet-Lands
Southern Thinking against the Gods of Coloniality
www.contemporarycriticalthought.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Join us for the first in a series of @contemporarycriticalthought.org events! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/a-thous...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics - Julien Larregue, Séverine Louvel, 2025
Social epigenetics is presented as a promising interdisciplinary avenue between the natural and social sciences to explore the links between neighborhood enviro...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics" by Julien Larregue and Séverine Louvel @julienlarregue.bsky.social #epigenetics #biosocial #sociology #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Framing the Planetary and Calculating the Complex: The Controversies, Overflows, and Floods of the EAT-Lancet Planetary Diet" by George Cusworth #overflows #complexity #planetary #environmentalknowledge #scientificcontroversies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
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QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain - Na Fu, 2025
E-retail platforms are fundamentally restructuring global production networks, creating new forms of labor exploitation hidden behind digital interfaces. In Chi...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain" by Na Fu #customization #networkproduction #platformcapitalism #digitallabor #China Part of a forthcoming SI on "Interasian Technocapitalism"
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Extending public health framings of drug use to the health impacts of drug production: The case of coca growers in Northeastern Colombia
This article critically examines the absence of a public health approach to the well-being of coca leaf producers in Colombia, a group disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. While harm re...
www.tandfonline.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What if harm reduction applied to drug production, not just drug use?
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new open access piece with Javier Lezaun calls for a radical reframing of health & justice for Colombia’s coca growers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
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#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices.
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961
#Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics" by Declan Kuch and @dominicboyer.bsky.social Dominic Boyer #blackouts #climatechange #electricity #energopolitics #energytransition #storms journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For the Health
of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice - Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost, Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, Environmental Data...
The 2016 election of Donald Trump heightened the disproportionate risks from toxicants faced by minoritized communities from cuts in the US Environmental Protec...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice" by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas, Lourdes Vera, Steve Hansen, Eric Nost Sara Wylie, Cole Alder, + Environmental Data & Governance Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
journals.sagepub.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Reposted by Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Constructing Comparability: Climate Change Adaptation and the Transnational Settler Modularity of Desalination" by
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Justin Holmes and Brian F. O’Neill #settlercolonialism #modularity #climatechange journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Glad to see this one out… open access.
Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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August 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Glad to see this one out… open access.
Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Regimes of Futurity: Progress, Catastrophe, and Historicity in the Anthropocene
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Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
University Assistant (Post-doc) in Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures
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August 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994
Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to
funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
