STS Futures Initiative

@seyiolojo and I have co-organized a *virtual* Fall Reading Group on "Black Study and STS"! Our first meeting will be on Thursday, September 22nd. There we will discuss meeting times & cadence. DM if interested. For a longer description: 1/4

organising a grad conference with @nnneim at @MCMBrownU this November under a theme v close to my heart: “Digital Histories,” with a keynote by @maramills! Plz submit! networks.h-net.org/node/73374/ann…

Submit your short/critical/creative work on reproductive rights & justice to @FeministTheory -- trying create a more immediate and open access space to think and write through current issues in feminism. Open format--visual/written/creative work welcome. feministtheoryjournal.com/2022/06/28/cal…

Holy crap. Our department is hiring, big time: 9 postdocs and 13 assistant professors on resilience, human tech, inequality & diversity. Want to work on the human factor in new neurotech and neuromodulation? Happy to help. ru.nl/en/working-at/… ru.nl/en/working-at/…

We sent a news flash out! Quick review: 1. @SHOT_ECIG Workshop CFP is up and submissions open 2. #shot2022 info and preliminary program coming July 1st 3. Travel Grants application is OPEN 4. CFP for "Tech and Material Culture in Africa" conference #histSTM #STS #history

My book review for @CriticalInquiry of Seb Franklin's "The Digitally Disposed," a major contribution to theorising colonial and racialised underpinnings of digital infrastructures, is online here: bit.ly/3y3SASr

NYU Postdocs in Data Justice and Racial Equity (July 8): The Digital Interests Lab is hiring 2 postdocs to start in Sept & possibly renew through 2024. $70K salary+benefits. Data Justice fellow: apply.interfolio.com/106757 Racial Equity fellow: apply.interfolio.com/106755

From the latest issue of Catalyst (Vol. 8, No. 1): Deboleena Roy (@deboleena_roy), “Transplacental and Molecular Migrations: Methyl Isocyanate Gas and Reproductive Bioeconomies in Bhopal” catalystjournal.org/index.php/cata… #feministSTS #Transplacental #MolecularMigrations #MIC #bhopal

Updates from the June 2022 Presidential Message: The editorship of @STHV_journal officially changes over to the new Editorial Collective at the end of June. Congratulations to the incoming team and 4S expresses a huge thank you to Ed Hackett and Katie Vann for all their work.

This week at @NYMag I wrote about the war on cash, the two kinds of money, and what the fuck is a stablecoin. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

"If capitalism breeds the con, then its institutions shape the conditions of the gullibility it feeds on: belief in systems of safety and protection that do not, in fact, exist." harpers.org/archive/2022/0…

Today on NOTCHES, @caitmckinney discusses their book Information Activism (@DukePress ) and how lesbian feminists in North American during the 1980s and 1990s used new technologies to build movements, connections, and communities. ow.ly/qGwm50JCcbt #histsex

Registration is OPEN for #ESOCITE4S22! Early bird rates until July 31st. Get ready for #Cholula #Puebla! 4sonline.org/meeting/regist…

My new essay--on the science of thermal sensation in colonial India and how it inflected debates about race & pigmentation--is out in BJHS Themes! (@BJHSeditor) doi.org/10.1017/bjt.20… Thanks to @MMAHendriksen & @wraggem for the invitation to write & a lot of encouragement

1/14 It’s book release day for #MisconceivingMerit with @CechErin from @UChicagoPress! Using survey, interview, & admin data, we show how academic STEM culture, esp. cherished beliefs in objectivity & meritocracy, CREATES unfair outcomes for scientists & hurts science.

Blurbs for my forthcoming book CODE: FROM INFORMATION THEORY TO FRENCH THEORY surfaced! Thanks for the kind words Kate Hayles, @manovich and @fturner, and the indispensable @DukePress team including @courtney_berger @sandraylk @jonathansterne & many more dukeupress.edu/code

We reached and surpassed peak scam, the crypto bubble burst, & many have had their happy schadenfreude moment, said their "I told you sos." For @Harpers, I wrote about American gullibility, the ordinary victim of financial scams, and the case of Deborah: harpers.org/archive/2022/0…