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Journal of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)
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The diamond open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (4S).
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Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control?

Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq

#makingspaceforMicrobes
Photograph of Sake being poured into decorative wedding cups. By Frederick Shaw under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3IvgQFT
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society

👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn

#scienceinculture #scicomm
A collage of 5 hand-drawn and computer-generated illustrations depicting the relation between the human gut and brain. Collage by the authors. Credits of individual images, from top left to bottom right (licenses purchased by the authors): (i) Chombosan on iStock by Getty Images, 2023 (ii) Dave Cutler, 2015 (iii) Steven. Adobe Stock, 2020 (iv) Biocodex Microbiota Institute, 2017 (v) Anna Bergbauer on www.dreamstime.com, last accessed, 2025.
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment

@RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm

#ticks #chronicillness
Photograph of an orange tent and a green tent are set up on the hillside, with four mountains behind them. Photo by the author.
August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats?

@anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp
Close-up photograph of a mosquito on a leaf. By Erik Karits under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4lraLJ8
August 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame

Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr

#Fanon #Wynter
Photograph of a bottle of murky water sitting on top of a checkered table. By Fotografía de Alimentos under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3ItoQas
August 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Postcolonial ideologies of #development contribute to the reproduction of racialized stereotypes in the biomedical approach to #antimicrobial resistance #hotspots

👀Read by Andrea Butcher on the cases of Bangladesh and Benin: https://doi.org/pzvs
Photograph of a gloved hand holding a yellow closed petri dish containing cultures of bacteria. By UK Department for International Development, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/46EYdJA
August 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge
Photograph of bubbles and small grains of sand in a turquoise blue liquid. By Mariola Grobelska under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/44ISujB.
August 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies?

👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://doi.org/pzvj

#humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge
Photograph of bubbles and small grains of sand in a turquoise blue liquid. By Mariola Grobelska under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/44ISujB.
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Editorial for 11.1 reflects on the end of our tenure + the thematic collection on #STS #Situating #Microbes by asking:

Why does it matter to hold a #transnational #OpenAccess space for recording multiple forms of life + life forms in #transformation?

https://doi.org/pzvh
The photograph shows six butterfly chrysalis hanging next to each other on a wooden plank. Image by Labbradolci under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3GpUHbk.
August 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢Issue 11.1 out now!

7 articles from a thematic collection on #STS and #Situating #Microbes

+1 editorial reflecting on microbes ++ the transition of editorship through the lens of #transformations

👀https://bit.ly/4m31ese
Screenshot of ESTS webpages and all the content listed as PDF and HTML content.
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens
Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
April 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens
Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
April 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how?

Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: https://doi.org/pcgm
Photograph of two anthropoid robots, respectively in white and blue and white and orange. By University of Salford Press Press Office's Photostream, under a CC BY 2.0 license: https://bit.ly/3DD5IVt.
March 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood

👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky... & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp
Photograph of a red brick wall. By Seyi Ariyo under a free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/41LEkMS.
March 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Farmers’ #embodied #knowledge in #AlternativeAgriculture resists the bureaucratic technological & economic #expertise even when it seeks to enable the farmers’ #agency

Dimas Dwi Laksmana on the knowledge politics of agricultural #development in Indonesia: https://doi.org/pcgq
Close-up photograph of rice plants in the water. By Utsman Media under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/4iI8CH8.
March 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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While both human centric + automated approaches to #AirportSecurity center the detection of 'harmful intentions', they follow different #epistemologies + #politics

👀Kühne & Paul on the #automatization of airport secruity: https://doi.org/pcgn
Photograph of a person stranding on a moving walkway in an airport beside a brown leather handbag. The word "stand" is written in yellow at their feet. By White Field Photo, under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/3XNjLyr.
March 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Narratives of #sustainability often leave larger logics of profit & ecological degradation unchallenged

👀C. A. Salling & J. Maguire on the #politics of #excess in re-using the excess #energy of Facebook datacenters for a Danish non-profit heating system: https://doi.org/pcgf
Artwork of colorful abstract patterns that remind of electric circuits. By FlyD under a Free Unsplash license: bit.ly/3XJ36Mu.
March 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US

👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd
Close-up photograph of a piece of raw uranium on an orange background. From the New Mexico Mining Museum. By Marcin Wichary, under a free flickr license: https://bit.ly/3R1e6RB.
March 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Developments in #AirPollution #governance in Canada culminated in treating the #atmosphere as a sink, invisibilizing chemical harm + deferring interventions

👀@sophia_jaworski on #petrochemical - derived gas emissions in Toronto 1950s-1970s: https://doi.org/pcgc
Photograph of industry chimneys emitting smoke. By Octavian Catană under a free Unsplash license: https://bit.ly/41LJcSe.
March 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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With deep sadness we pay respects to the passing of Professor Sandra Harding

Her work in feminism philosophy & STS has been pivotal to shaping STS over several decades

👀Harding's response to Sharon Traweek featured in our Editorial Collective’s 1st Vol: https://doi.org/hbw6
Drawing of the portrait of Prof. Sandra Harding. Original creation by Mina Kara, under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://bit.ly/3RitWra.
March 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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📢Issue 10.3 out now!

8 articles on environment, extractivism, air pollution, climate change, digitalization, automation, care, and surveillance

The editorial, includes thanks to reviewers and a call for new editorship: doi.org/pcf8
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March 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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What shape does #standardization take in #medicine when #uncertainty prevails?

Read Benoît Pouget on the role of the French military health service in the standardization of the management of #flu epidemics in the inter-war period: https://doi.org/n2n6n
Photograph of health military staff, holding stretchers at the back of trucks. St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during influenza epidemic (1918). Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Under a CC-BY 4.0 license: https://bit.ly/3WfaQFg
January 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Norms of #vaccination as a main focus of #postcolonial health care are shaped by the synchronization of a wide range of entities

Read Noémi Tousignant's article on the politics of routine childhood vaccination schedule in West Africa: https://doi.org/n2nv
Photograph of a watch and two clocks on a table. By Mike Roth under a CC BY-NC-ND license: bit.ly/4fWrctm
January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM