Kari Lancaster

New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al

Very excited to have Steve Hinchliffe join us to discuss his work on Epithelial Geographies and Multi-Scopic Earthly Terrains. Join us! Nov 18, 5pm, Waterloo London. Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought @contemporarycriticalthought.org www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-ep...

This Friday! The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought invites you to join us for a seminar and discussion with Dinesh Wadiwel on animals and the totalitarian state. 5pm, Waterloo London. @contemporarycriticalthought.org register here👇 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/animals...

Michel Foucault Centennial at Duke University Press (2026) Michel Foucault Centennial, Duke University Press, 15 October - 15 December 2026 In celebration of Michel Foucault’s 100th birthday, Duke University Press is pleased to present a wide selection of articles and books that explore the life…

In Toronto at 4S conference? So are we! Come along to the @sthv.bsky.social Meet the Editors session on Friday to find out more about ST&HV and STS publishing. Friday 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM Science, Technology, & Human Values - Meet the Editorial Team Meetup 2nd Floor, Wentworth @4sweb.bsky.social

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Valuation and Its Problems: Economics and Markets for Environmental Concerns and Their Failure" by Kristin Asdal + Einar Lie #economics #markets #valuationstudies #environment #economists #performativity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Dreamy Stacks: Digital Public Infrastructure, Futurity, and Failure in Startup India" by Sandeep Mertia @sandeepmertia.bsky.social #digital #infrastructure #data #artificialintelligence #start-ups #globaltech #futures #failure journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy to announce a 3-year #postdoc opening in our research group on Aquatic #STS at the University of @oulu.fi Position is linked to the amazing SAFIRE interdisciplinary research programme. Get in touch if you have any question! Deadline 15.10.26. oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

**JOB OPP** Lecturer in Health Sociology University of Tasmania Applications close 28 October For details, visit

New OnlineFirst article: "The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism" by Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social We are very proud to have this 2025 Bernal Lecture published in the journal.

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "What Can an STS Journal Do?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... As the editors write: "Keeping this question live and at the forefront of our practice has enabled us to think creatively with the affordances of the journal and its infrastructures..."

At @easst.bsky.social conference this week? Interested in STS publishing? Come along to the Meet the editors of Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV) session on Wednesday 9 Sept 12:45-13:45. @courtneyaddison.bsky.social and I will be there to answer all your @sthv.bsky.social questions! 🤓

“Qualitative evidence of service user experiences and perspectives on long-acting injectable buprenorphine for opioid treatment – a scoping review” by Charles Henderson and colleagues (2026) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social. What do you think of LAI buprenorphine? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In "Mosquito Work," Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun follow entomologists, technicians, community volunteers, and mosquitoes to illuminate the collaborations, improvisations, and political entanglements behind contemporary disease control. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/JusZnQy

Nearly 5000 researchers applied for an ERC starting grand in the last round. Just over 400 (less than 9%) were successful. Many people applying are spending up to 12 months working seriously on their application. This is absolutely crazy. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

In our new publication, Helen Keane and I explore the development of ‘critical drug studies’ as a field. We consider what makes the field 'critical', what is included in the category of 'drugs', and what kinds of 'studies' are carried out by critical drug scholars. lnkd.in/gG9c9g6Y

Wonderful to read this report in @castac.bsky.social’s blog, Platypus, by Lachlan Hensey - reflections on the @sthv.bsky.social STS School in Seoul 2026. blog.castac.org/2026/08/disp...

New OnlineFirst article: "A Feel for Technology: Technocapitalism and the Symbiotic Ethic in Japan" by Grant Jun Otsuki @otsuki3c.bsky.social #affinity #markets/economies #interfaces #Japan #robotics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔔 New paper, from me and Sarah Larney @burnetinstitute.bsky.social in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social Claims to crisis: Rethinking opioid overdose in Canada authors.elsevier.com/c/1na7O3PEro...

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

Remember the daily ritual of checking COVID-19 dashboards? My new article, How the COVID-19 Dashboard Went Viral: Affective Flows and the Mediation of Emergency, now published in @sthv.bsky.social, reconstructs the trajectory of this key emergency medium. doi.org/10.1177/0162...

Disappointed to read that the 4S Mullins Prize will not be awarded this year. It is time to reform the eligibility criteria, which are too restrictive and do not align with graduates careers in so many regions today.

You can read their excellent Open Access article “Psychedelic Nation? (De)Provincializing the Psychedelic Renaissance from Brazil” at Science, Technology, & Human Values: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🔔 New paper, from me and Sarah Larney @burnetinstitute.bsky.social in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social Claims to crisis: Rethinking opioid overdose in Canada authors.elsevier.com/c/1na7O3PEro...

This came out a year and half ago as online first in @sthv.bsky.social Really happy to see it now as part of an issue! The article is #openaccess and theorizes the implications of environmental care using seagrass Posidonia in the Balearics as a case study. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2027 round is now open. It's usually a very competitive field, often best fit for someone who has done 1 postdoc already. Applications close 11 August. www.deakin.edu.au/research/our...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Decommissioning as Residual Care: Transforming Nuclear Reactors into Waste" by Ange Pottin @angepottin.bsky.social + Ulrike Felt @ulrike-felt.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #nuclear #residues #decommissioning #care #nuclearwaste

New OnlineFirst article: "Eating Dust: Toxic Air and Parasitic Relations of Gold Mining in DR Congo" by Simon Marijsse journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #artisanalmining #gold #Congo #dust #silicosis #geo-anthropology

STS postdoc opportunity at Birmingham

This coming Monday we kick off our second instalment of the ST&HV STS School, this time in Seoul. 4 days of seminars, workshops, plenaries and field trips, hosted by the Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University and KAIST Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy. So excited!

New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper! Presence, absence, and contingent engagement: mobilising care in the endgame of hepatitis C elimination. Led by Sophia Schroeder in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social, from our NHMRC Synergy project with @burnetinstitute.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Managing the Boundaries of Citizen Science: Reordering Science–Society Relations" by Claudia Göbel, Kevin Altmann, Sascha Dickel,, Michael Kitzing,, and Andreas Wenninger #citizenscience #participation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice" by Jia Hui Lee #undergroundSTS #treasure #hunting #resource #nationalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly" by Irina Papazu + Rose Marie Højbjerg Henrichsen #participation #digital #mediation #climatechange #citizensassemblies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst article: "Promises/Manual Labor Paradox: The Accountability Style of On-Site Validation in Microbiology Laboratory Automation" by Joaquín Yrivarren, Alessandra C. Jacomuzzi + Miquel Domènech #accountability #robots #AI #credibility #legitimation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come along to our next @contemporarycriticalthought.org event! Molly McPhee & Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez lead a discussion of Herd/Atmospherics, to examine how forms of collectivity are materially produced through atmospheric management. May 21 👉 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-at...

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

1/ A few thoughts on the recent hantavirus outbreak. I'm not entirely sure all of those commenting had read up on the literature, especially www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... and this outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/hantavirus...

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

As hantavirus outbreak discussion kicks off, it is timely to remember that outbreaks do not simply require us to speed up existing evidence-based approaches, but necessitate new ways of thinking about how more adaptive evidence-making might be done: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Terrarium as Geo-Fetish: On the Vectorialist Re-Commoning of the Earth" by Sungyong Ahn #terrarium #geo-fetish #Badiou #actornetworktheory #vectoralist #cosmopolitics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Developmental new space in South Korea: Militarized developmentalism and the privatization of outer space" by Hae-Seo Kim #outerspace #newspace #developmentalism #militarism #SouthKorea journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Today is the 25th birthday of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Sydney. Thank you to Marianne Jauncey and her extraordinary team for continuing to meet people where they are at. Harm reduction in the every day. More of it. youtu.be/EmvXY-o3FNk

An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "“Go to Another State”: Rust Belts, Microchip Futures, and Innovation's Others in Upstate New York" by Marlise Horvath Schneider and Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer #innovation #policy #microchips #semiconductors journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Otherwising or Attaching? Play, Care, and Critique in Interdisciplinary Public Engagement" by Catherine M. Montgomery, Santini Basra, Corrienne McCulloch, and Annemarie B. Docherty #DesignSTS #criticalcare #interdisciplinarity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sub-tropical multispecies entanglements at the annual @sthv.bsky.social Editorial Collective meeting 🦎