Aysel Sultan
@drayselsultan.bsky.social
STS, health & illness, harm reduction, digital health, drug policy
Lecturer @Technical University of Munich
Editor of @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Associate Editor @Harm Reduction Journal
Lecturer @Technical University of Munich
Editor of @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Associate Editor @Harm Reduction Journal
Reposted by Aysel Sultan
NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇
www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...
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Editorial: Where does digital health leave people who use drugs?
Digital health is a term that has become increasingly important in public health, biomedicine and social studies of health and illness. WHO’s “Global Strategy on Digital Health” for 2020–2025 (WHO, 20...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇
www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...
www.emerald.com/dhs/article/...
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Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...
Link: link.springer.com/collections/...
@philosophynow.bsky.social
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...
Link: link.springer.com/collections/...
@philosophynow.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...
Link: link.springer.com/collections/...
@philosophynow.bsky.social
Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM)
Deadline: 10 April 2026
Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default...
Link: link.springer.com/collections/...
@philosophynow.bsky.social
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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 ...
journals.sagepub.com
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...
I have the honor of being a visiting fellow this month at "The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy" at the gorgeous campus of @au.dk. Wonderfully collegial and inspiring atmosphere to be working from, and the walks around this campus are definitely helping thinking minds!
August 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I have the honor of being a visiting fellow this month at "The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy" at the gorgeous campus of @au.dk. Wonderfully collegial and inspiring atmosphere to be working from, and the walks around this campus are definitely helping thinking minds!
In other news, I'm pleased to have joined #HarmReductionJournal as #AssociateEditor. This role allows me to contribute to visibility of digital interventions, treatment & recovery research. HRJ is a high-impact journal connecting policy, practice, research & amplifying advocacy. shorturl.at/p5mhu
Harm Reduction Journal
The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, community-focused journal for research on reducing risks and harms associated with drug use, gambling, online ...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In other news, I'm pleased to have joined #HarmReductionJournal as #AssociateEditor. This role allows me to contribute to visibility of digital interventions, treatment & recovery research. HRJ is a high-impact journal connecting policy, practice, research & amplifying advocacy. shorturl.at/p5mhu
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Here comes a new #CriticalConcept, "Subject-Positioning", by Landhaus Fellow Ben Glasson.
Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.
Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.
July 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Here comes a new #CriticalConcept, "Subject-Positioning", by Landhaus Fellow Ben Glasson.
Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.
Ben first introduced this concept to the RCC in his Lunchtime Colloquium “Greenwash 2.0: The Poetics of Corporate Environmentalism.” The recording of the LC will be posted on our YouTube channel soon.
It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
July 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press!
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osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
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July 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press!
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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🚨 Call for papers 🚨
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.
Abstracts are due September 20!
🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.
Abstracts are due September 20!
🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction
This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨 Call for papers 🚨
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.
Abstracts are due September 20!
🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.
Abstracts are due September 20!
🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Congratulations to Ani & Ray whose game design about drug consumption rooms has won the Unseen prize 🏆
I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape!
🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo
I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape!
🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo
GamesPreis25 Preisverleihung am 01.06.2025 in München
YouTube video by ComputerSpielAkademie
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June 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Congratulations to Ani & Ray whose game design about drug consumption rooms has won the Unseen prize 🏆
I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape!
🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo
I had the pleasure & fun of supervising this project & happy for the visibility it brought to the topic, especially in the Bavarian drug policy landscape!
🎥 From 48:55 on: youtu.be/JoUjpttL0vo
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DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
Call for Special Issue on Food Habits
The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming f...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too.
The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇
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The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇
akjournals.com/view/journal...
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too.
The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇
akjournals.com/view/journal...
The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇
akjournals.com/view/journal...
Come work with us at DHSP!
Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
April 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Come work with us at DHSP!
Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
Any questions, feel free to get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to our team 😊
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...
📣 Folks, I’m looking to offer co-supervision of PhD dissertations. If you are working (or know someone who is) across the biomedicine and health spectrum with special focus on critical public health, drug policy or digital health interventions, feel free to get in touch!
April 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📣 Folks, I’m looking to offer co-supervision of PhD dissertations. If you are working (or know someone who is) across the biomedicine and health spectrum with special focus on critical public health, drug policy or digital health interventions, feel free to get in touch!
Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
If you're at the #STSHub2025 in #Berlin come join our panel Nr. 22 on Friday at 9:00! I look forward to speculating about how diffractive methodologies can help understand digital harm reduction on social media.
Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html
Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html
STS-Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical ➜ Panels
The STS Hub 2025 'Diffracting the Critical' explores contemporary formations of critique in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Emphasizing feminist approaches, postcolonial studies, and more-than-h...
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March 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If you're at the #STSHub2025 in #Berlin come join our panel Nr. 22 on Friday at 9:00! I look forward to speculating about how diffractive methodologies can help understand digital harm reduction on social media.
Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html
Check out the full panel "Medical Critique in Hashtags?" sts-hub.de/25/panels.html
“Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now.”
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
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February 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“Imagining the future beyond the end of this world is part of what it means to live life now.”
lithub.com/judith-butle...
lithub.com/judith-butle...
📣 Looking forward to speaking about feminist harm reduction next week at @durham-university.bsky.social Health & Social Theory Seminars.
🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany.
February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
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Please DM for the link.
🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany.
February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
🔗
Please DM for the link.
February 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📣 Looking forward to speaking about feminist harm reduction next week at @durham-university.bsky.social Health & Social Theory Seminars.
🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany.
February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
🔗
Please DM for the link.
🧵 The talk draws on the case of world's first women-only drug consumption room originated in Germany.
February 26, 14:00-15:30 (CET)
🔗
Please DM for the link.
Oh, and this little blog went online in December - forgot to post! ✍️ Thanks for the invitation to put science communication into practice 📝 #TalkingDrugs @releasedrugs.bsky.social
www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...
www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...
Azerbaijan: Between the Soviet Legacy and International Drug Control - TalkingDrugs
Azerbaijan drug control sits between a Soviet past and present commitments to international communities, forcing future policy options.
www.talkingdrugs.org
January 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh, and this little blog went online in December - forgot to post! ✍️ Thanks for the invitation to put science communication into practice 📝 #TalkingDrugs @releasedrugs.bsky.social
www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...
www.talkingdrugs.org/azerbaijan-b...
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Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG
As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings
Platform fosters collegial interactions among scientists, but potentially limits interactions beyond the academic community
scim.ag
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Scientists are starting to study—and debate—how the unique features of Bluesky might affect discussions of research and workplace culture, and efforts to engage with the public. scim.ag/428RTYG
Let there be light even on very frosty days. Happy 2025! 🥂
December 31, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Let there be light even on very frosty days. Happy 2025! 🥂
What does it mean to approach harm reduction design as a pedagogical endeavor?
Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
December 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM
What does it mean to approach harm reduction design as a pedagogical endeavor?
Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
Check out this original piece by Nancy Campbell just out in @dhspolicy.bsky.social
Full paper 🔗 www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
Reposted by Aysel Sultan
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
As editors of @dhspolicy.bsky.social, it's our joy to continue this service for the academic, policy and practitioner communities! 💫
Read the full post here ⬇️
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Read the full post here ⬇️
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December 15, 2024 at 12:22 PM
As editors of @dhspolicy.bsky.social, it's our joy to continue this service for the academic, policy and practitioner communities! 💫
Read the full post here ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/drugs-...
Read the full post here ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/posts/drugs-...