Oh wow... when it spreads to Ruteng and Waingapu we'll know we've really got something

Looks like NTT has been spared DPRD fires so far...?

I once saw a sign like this at ANU, something like, "Do not remove the stack of paper below this sign: it is blocking an air vent with a possum inside."

What will you take from the last three days that you didn't have before?

What has surprised or struck you?

What do you want to keep thinking about?

#AusSTS25

(There's some old French intellectual history and theory in here that I'm sure plenty of people in this room are familiar with, but I'm not)

We cannot control ghosts. We can only let them get on with their work. #AusSTS25

Some theorists want to pathologize noise. Others see it as a valuable hauntology: noise as specter, interference, a disturbing tone, disorienting. A hauntology disturbs an ontology, overthrows a hegemony.

#AusSTS25

Public health can benefit from taking multiple ways of knowing on board: health humanities, ecological science. Help to attune to the noise, to the extending set of relations between drugs, bodies, waters, politics, inequalities, ecologies. #AusSTS25

The potential for drug harm is a transferable concept. Can we attribute addiction and withdrawal to fish? Hyper-aggressive meth-gators? Coke-eels? #AusSTS25

Tons of research have established that harm from drug use is socially mediated. Wastewater testing, with the social elements removed, can be a proxy for use, but not for harm. #AusSTS25

Testing wastewater promises a non-invasive, accurate, real-time stream of evidence about drug use, about which other kinds of evidence are noisy. In the water, the signal is meant to be clean: drug use, separated from bodies and social practices. #AusSTS25

In wastewater epidemiology, we can see how human activities, like drug use, entangle much more than human worlds. It's ecological, an environmental problem. #AusSTS25

The value and risks posed by feces are now on everybody's minds. #AusSTS25 www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...

Checking wastewater for evidence of drug use -- both medical and recreational/illegal -- is now widespread around the world. It's a technoscientific solution that aims to clean up the mess and eliminate noise. #AusSTS25