Demystifying Publishing Landscapes for Early Career Researchers: A Reflection on the ECR Panel at EASST/4S Amsterdam
As Early Career Researcher (ECR) representatives for the EASST and 4S councils, we, Sarah Rose Bieszczad and Pouya Sepehr, organized a panel at the EASST/4S Amsterdam conference. With a lot of valuable help from other ECRs in the Science & Technology Studies (STS) community, the session addressed a central and often fraught aspect of academic life: publishing. In interdisciplinary fields like STS, publishing can feel like an opaque and exclusionary system—especially for ECRs navigating it for the first time.
Lessons in love: what speed-dating taught us about interdisciplinary collaboration
Collaboration between Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) is essential if we are to produce science and technology that is able to respond to future sociotechnical challenges.
MEETING AT THE INTERSECTION: STS as a Form of Collective Inquiry
by María Juárez González, Biel Navarro López, Pablo Alonso García, Iván Gallardo Esclapez, Lucía García Fernández, Ana Leirós Villas, Saioa Marrón Pérez, Patricia Alía Martínez, Aaron Zau Nkosi Río
Report from Space Science in Context 2023: Our efforts to bring STS approaches to Outer Space to a wider community
A conference report that shares ways to creatively and collectively rethink what it means to host an inclusive conference.
Leakage Revisited – Report from the inaugural conference of stsing
stsing board members and conference participants look back on the inaugural conference of stsing in March 2024.
Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies 2024 Symposium ‘How to make a scientific contribution
Elis Jones, one of the attendants to the Finnish Science Studies Symposium that took place in Helsinki last June, explains how STS events, no matter the size, can be rich in content and contribute greatly to community building.
Capitalization and the Startup Economy: Critical Perspectives on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalism
June 20-21 2024. University of LausanneWorkshop Report The author would like to thank Tanja Schneider and Loïc Riom for their assistance in producing this report. What do a secret music concert and a vertical farm have in common? The workshop on Capitalization and the Startup Economy1, led by Loïc Riom and Tanja Schneider at the […]
Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community: an Unconference?
Summary On 25 June 2024, with the support of the EASST Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy, scholars from Ireland and elsewhere participated in a day-long hybrid (un)conference: Creating an Irish Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Community. This event, the first of its kind to take place in Ireland, brought […]
Beyond fun: Experiments in epistemic dizziness
Event: Epistemic Dizziness. Science & Technology Studies Movement WorkshopLocation: Excellence Cluster: Matters of Activity, Humboldt University of Berlin27. – 29. September 2023 Introduction What if we take dizziness not as a threat to orientation but as a means for epistemic enhancement? In our EASST-supported STS Movement workshop in Berlin, guests and contributors from across Europe […]
EASST-4S 2024 conference update: Making, Doing & Transforming
We used to feel that we belonged to a small, somewhat marginal field at the fringes of academia. Mostly overshadowed by the dominance of the life sciences, technologies, and medicines we studied, we thought of ourselves as bugs, parasites, and/or idiots. With the help of Serres, Deleuze and Stengers we felt relatively comfortable at these […]
