Science as Culture
@sciasculture.bsky.social
Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
📜 New article just out📜
In "How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme," the authors analyze the use of co-creation frameworks in European Union-funded projects
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In "How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme," the authors analyze the use of co-creation frameworks in European Union-funded projects
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme
Climate change has provoked several grand societal challenges that require transdisciplinary approaches to interconnected problems. The need to re-shape our energy systems away from fossil fuels th...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
📜 New article just out📜
In "How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme," the authors analyze the use of co-creation frameworks in European Union-funded projects
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In "How does co-creation facilitate transdisciplinarity? The case of an EU energy demand research programme," the authors analyze the use of co-creation frameworks in European Union-funded projects
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
New Book Review released!
In our latest review essay "Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS," Christine Hine reviews the book "A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration," by Jane Calvert
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In our latest review essay "Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS," Christine Hine reviews the book "A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration," by Jane Calvert
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Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New Book Review released!
In our latest review essay "Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS," Christine Hine reviews the book "A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration," by Jane Calvert
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our latest review essay "Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS," Christine Hine reviews the book "A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration," by Jane Calvert
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our latest piece "Grounding circularity in Fryslân," @ahendriks.bsky.social, Gert Goeminne, and Erik Paredis investigate how the notion of circular economy gains meaning and what shifts it enables in future imaginaries.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Grounding circularity in Fryslân: discursive politics in the embedding of sociotechnical imaginaries
The circular economy (CE) promises sustainable resource use, but how this vision materialises in specific contexts remains contested. In the Dutch region of Fryslân, a distinct sociotechnical imagi...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In our latest piece "Grounding circularity in Fryslân," @ahendriks.bsky.social, Gert Goeminne, and Erik Paredis investigate how the notion of circular economy gains meaning and what shifts it enables in future imaginaries.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Final days before the submission deadline for our upcoming special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions," co-edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Gisle Solbu.
More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
September 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Final days before the submission deadline for our upcoming special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions," co-edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Gisle Solbu.
More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.
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On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
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September 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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‼️ NEW ARTICLE ALERT
📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab
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📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab
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Good chemistry and its interruptions: about caring scientists and uncooperative molecules
Science policy has increasingly organised science as if it were a training ground for excellent individual scientists who can be found through fierce competition for research money and publications...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
‼️ NEW ARTICLE ALERT
📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📑 In our latest piece, Jonna Brenninkmeijer and Jeannette Pols investigate the dynamics of socio-material collaboration and competition/individual research excellence in a Dutch chemistry lab
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Volume 34, Number 3 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on expertise, scientific practice, the scientific community, and biotechnology.
Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
September 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Volume 34, Number 3 is now available, featuring intriguing discussions on expertise, scientific practice, the scientific community, and biotechnology.
Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
Full volume: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
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Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025
Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026
#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp
@sciasculture.bsky.social
Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025
Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026
#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp
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⚡️My #STS colleague Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is co-editing a special issue on Co-creating low-carbon transitions in the journal @sciasculture.bsky.social⚡️
More information and #CfP ⬇️
More information and #CfP ⬇️
New #CfP for a Special Issue from @sciasculture.bsky.social: "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions" edited by Sophie Nyborg, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Thomas Berker, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold & Gisle Solbu
#sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation
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#sustainability #STS #lowcarbon #transitions #cocreation
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August 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025
Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026
#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp
@sciasculture.bsky.social
Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025
Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026
#STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp
@sciasculture.bsky.social
‼️ NEW ARTICLE ‼️
📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance.
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📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance.
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Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement
This article presents an engagement study rooted in ethnographic fieldwork at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) during the development of the 2020 Environmental Performance I...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
‼️ NEW ARTICLE ‼️
📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📑 In "Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement", José Ballesteros-Figueroa (Tecnológico de Monterrey) reflects on the tensions and power dynamics that emerge in environmental governance.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
How far can community-based biology movements go within financialised biotech?
These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism."
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism."
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism
The Open Insulin Project is a community lab-based effort to make affordable insulin using bioengineering. The growth of financialised biotechnology and biomedicine yielded both a crisis of access t...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
How far can community-based biology movements go within financialised biotech?
These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism."
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
These are some of the questions answered in our latest piece, "Biologics of resistance: Open Insulin and the limits of bioengineering-as-activism."
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
NEW ARTICLE! Our latest piece "Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems" addresses the collective dimension of relevance in research communities on social-environmental problems.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems
Relevant research in a longer-term perspective is not result of a one-point intervention and re-direction of research to address social-environmental problems. Rather, for a research field to stay ...
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July 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
NEW ARTICLE! Our latest piece "Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems" addresses the collective dimension of relevance in research communities on social-environmental problems.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025.
More info:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
More info:
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Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions
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July 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025.
More info:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
More info:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
A reminder that the deadline for the Special Forum on "Tech Oligarchy" is fast approaching (end of July 2025). Make sure to contact the editor @keanbirch.bsky.social with abstract proposals and queries for suitability!!!
Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”
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June 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A reminder that the deadline for the Special Forum on "Tech Oligarchy" is fast approaching (end of July 2025). Make sure to contact the editor @keanbirch.bsky.social with abstract proposals and queries for suitability!!!
📄 NEW PAPER ALERT!
In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology
Computing and data science have permeated diverse fields of knowledge in recent decades. In biology the change has been especially noticeable, as very large data sets are revising how science is do...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
📄 NEW PAPER ALERT!
In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest paper, Liron Shani, Talie Fried, and Michael Fischer provide an empirical observation and analysis of computational biology as a teeming site of interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📄 NEW ARTICLE 📄
In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Bodies sensing air pollution in asthma research
Air pollution knowledge practices are rapidly changing in science and policy research because of growing awareness of its harmful effects on environmental and human health. Informed by developments...
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May 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
📄 NEW ARTICLE 📄
In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest piece, Emma Garnett (University of Exeter) invites us to consider how the entanglements of bodies and air influence data, knowledge practices, responses, and the allocation of responsibility in scientific and medical practices.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
📕 In our latest book review essay, Mark Brown (CSUS) brings STS and political science together for a much-needed dialogue on the notions of representation, democracy, and expertise. Make sure to check it out!
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Political theory and the reconstruction of expertise and democracy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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April 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
📕 In our latest book review essay, Mark Brown (CSUS) brings STS and political science together for a much-needed dialogue on the notions of representation, democracy, and expertise. Make sure to check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Reposted by Science as Culture
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
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April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
Just a reminder that the deadline is right around the corner for submissions to our special issue "Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation."
Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!
Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!
Are you interested in the linkages between techno-securitisation, today's active colonial relations, and the military-industrial-security complex? We are welcoming submissions for the special issue: Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation.
Deadline: April 2025
Full CfP: bit.ly/3CBS9EI
Deadline: April 2025
Full CfP: bit.ly/3CBS9EI
Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation
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March 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just a reminder that the deadline is right around the corner for submissions to our special issue "Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation."
Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!
Contributors have until the end of April to submit, but are highly encouraged to send an abstract to the editors as soon as possible!
📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out!
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Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts
Scientific work has always worked alongside promises of future developments. Promises, though, have very different consequences across different contexts. Indeed, the formulation of scientific prom...
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March 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📂Are you interested in the study of technoscientific promises? SaC is making the article "Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts," by Pablo Kreimer, available free access. Make sure to check out!
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excellent new paper by Avey Nelson and @kathleenor.bsky.social. It offers a counterpoint to narratives around de-extinction projects, which perpetuate neocolonial practices by controlling land, resources, and marginalising local communities. Thanks for the amazing contribution to SaC
Really happy this has made it into publication. Many thanks to my fabulous co-author Avey Nelson and the Science as Culture team. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mammoths and tigers and rhinos, oh my: mapping de-extinction species and networks
De-extinction initiatives targeting species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine, and northern white rhino reinscribe neocolonial networks through the extraction and circulation of resources. These p...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Excellent new paper by Avey Nelson and @kathleenor.bsky.social. It offers a counterpoint to narratives around de-extinction projects, which perpetuate neocolonial practices by controlling land, resources, and marginalising local communities. Thanks for the amazing contribution to SaC
‼️In our latest piece, David Hess compares two different types of expertise on outcome decisions in opposition movements to landfills in the USA, asking what type of expertise is important in shaping outcomes.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315
March 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
‼️In our latest piece, David Hess compares two different types of expertise on outcome decisions in opposition movements to landfills in the USA, asking what type of expertise is important in shaping outcomes.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315
🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2025.2475315
Thanks for the reminder @paulnaish.bsky.social: our first issue of 2025 is out. Make sure to check the great array of contributions from different fields and locations to this critical topic.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...
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Special Forum: Participatory Knowledge Co-production
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Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production
This special Forum presents three articles that demonstrate efforts at participatory knowledge co-production. The three experiences were successful in the modest sense that they provided meaningful...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thanks for the reminder @paulnaish.bsky.social: our first issue of 2025 is out. Make sure to check the great array of contributions from different fields and locations to this critical topic.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...
Our special issue invites STS scholars to critically address tech oligarchy and a world where few billionaries drawn from the digital tech sector and venture capital world have an outsized influence on innovation, determining the technoscientific direction of our societies.
Deadline: July 2025
Deadline: July 2025
Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our special issue invites STS scholars to critically address tech oligarchy and a world where few billionaries drawn from the digital tech sector and venture capital world have an outsized influence on innovation, determining the technoscientific direction of our societies.
Deadline: July 2025
Deadline: July 2025
New article out on Science as Culture!
In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
(De)naturalizing knowledge ecosystems: on the use of ecological metaphors in STS and innovation studies
Ecological metaphors are ubiquitous but largely uncontested in discourses about the changing dynamics of knowledge production and circulation. Both formally and colloquially, scholars, policymakers...
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February 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New article out on Science as Culture!
In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
In our latest piece, Jorrit Smit analyzes the use and implication of ecological metaphors in STS research: a timely contribution in the face of ecological destruction and STS focus on socio-ecological transformation.
doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Out now! Based on empirical insights from two community science labs in the US, Dan Santos (ANU) investigates what sorts of biotechnological knowledge and innovation, along with norms and cultures around democratization, are developed in community science labs
The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs
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The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs
Biotechnological knowledge, materials and tools are becoming broadly available and accessible. As a result, biohacking – the conduct of scientific experiments and projects outside of mainstream sci...
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February 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Out now! Based on empirical insights from two community science labs in the US, Dan Santos (ANU) investigates what sorts of biotechnological knowledge and innovation, along with norms and cultures around democratization, are developed in community science labs