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Such an amazing conference in beautiful Zurich! Big THANKS to all the contributors! See you soon, and have a safe trip home 😘 #STSCH25

Two participatory workshops on personal data & digital labour platforms (Uber Eats, Batmaid, Yojoo)! Analyse data with open-source tools and engage with workers, unions and researchers. 5 May in Geneva ; 26 May in Lausanne Register and more info at: jessica.pidoux@unine.ch #STS #DataRights

🏄 New publication! 🏄 Or rather, a series of reflections on a book that left quite a strong impression on me: Middle Tech – Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press, 2024) by the digital sociologist and ethnographer Paula Bialski. journals.openedition.org/rac/41398

🤸 Nouvelle publication 🤸 La première d'une série, co-écrite avec Marc Lenglet, qui tente de réconcilier les vues cyber-modernistes et éco-critiques sur ce que les algorithmes – et par extension la dite 'intelligence artificielle' – peuvent faire. ➡️ journals.openedition.org/socio-anthro...

🤗 EASST2026 in Kraków! 🤗 8-11 Sept 2026 Want to address AI’s repressed dependance to referential 'ground truth' datasets? Then submit an abstract to our panel here (deadline 9 March 2026): nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... We look forward to seeing you!

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

On entend beaucoup parler de chatGPT ces temps-ci, évidemment. Mais savez-vous d'où vient l'architecture algorithmique qui alimente ce type de chatbots? C'est ce que j'ai tenté de retracer lors d'une conférence récente @unil.bsky.social, à découvrir ici: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6j...

Avec l'espoir de contribuer à une réflexion approndie (et si possible apaisée) sur l'industrie de l'IA générative.. www.letemps.ch/opinions/deb...

Deadline extended until Sunday, May 18!! Submit your papers here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ Much looking forward!

2 days left to submit your papers, #STS friends! sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

10 days left to submit your papers, folks! sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ We look forward to seeing you in Zurich!

Dear #STS friends, Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich! You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗

🚨Call for papers🚨 @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep) all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa please distribute widely!

Hey #STS friends! Quick announcement for a great panel at the upcoming STS-CH 2025 conference in Zurich (Sept 10-12): 🔥🔥 Has critique of algorithms run out of steam? Social studies of AI, machine learning, and big data in questions 🔥🔥 To submit your papers: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/ Looking forward!

Hello friends! Just at the #STS-Hub in Berlin (sts-hub.de/25/). Who's here from our Swiss STS crew?

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Découvrez ou redécouvrez le séminaire "IA et référence performative : le cas du projet TESLA et des néoantigènes en immunothérapie personnalisée du cancer" avec @flojaton.bsky.social de @gvagrad.bsky.social Disponible sur le compte Vimeo du médialab ⬇️

We have the wonderful Fabian Muniesa (@provokedeconomy.bsky.social) talking about his new book "Paranoid Finance" on Monday 10th Feb @ 11am EST It's virtual, so everyone welcome! More details here: www.yorku.ca/research/its/

Deadline extended until February 16! 🤺 Submit your panel here: express.converia.de/frontend/ind...

😔 Digital daemons, nymphs and hydras, 😔 Cry for our friend, Nicolas Nova 😔 Tribute here: sts-ch.org/news/

If you want to get nerdy and read about the reconfiguration of the social and political tenets of precision oncology happening at the crossroad of immunology and genomics, check out the new paper just published on SSS by Luca Chiapperino, Nils Graber and Francesco Panese! doi.org/10.1177/0306...

🚀 New article out! 🚀 How are musiques actuelles subsidized in French-speaking Switzerland? 🔍 Subsidizing ‘musiques actuelles’ in French-speaking Switzerland: mapping policy instruments and local arrangements 📖 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MusicPolicy #CulturalFunding

Only 7 more days to apply to the Swiss-STS conference this September in Zurich. Aptly titled "Holding things together? Change, continuity, critique" -- in times of various deepening fractions, lets meet and share how to hold this all together: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

10 days left! ✊ Submit here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

Any Swiss-STS folks heading to the German STS conference in Berlin in March? If so, ping us and let's meet up! Ps: the registration is free :)

A resolutely #STS conference in train-friendly Zurich! To submit, go here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

Peeps! The call for Panels for the STS-CH Conference 2025 is now open! The conference titled “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique” will take place from Sept. 10–12, 2025 in Zurich and is being co-hosted by @ethzurich.bsky.social @sociology-uzh.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social.Join us!

Hi everybody! Greetings from STS-CH, your association for #STS in and through Switzerland! So happy to start chatting here (instead of you-know-where...) sts-ch.org