Who shapes sustainability science? Tetley traces how #EpistemicAuthority and centre–periphery inequalities structure African–European forest research. doi.org/10.17351/est... Image: USAID/E. Benya, Sierra Leone, 2012. Public domain. #scienceforsustainability #sustainabilitysciencepolicy

How do #extraplanetary relations shape #terrestrial life? 👀 Chakad Ojani on an #STS approach to cosmic relations: https://doi.org/hcbzct #OuterSpace #Infrastructure Art: Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766.

What sight cannot decipher, sound might! 👀 de Neergaard on #sounding as a way to access embodied realities in interview archives: https://doi.org/rg62 #DigitalEthnography #CriticalArchivalStudies Art: Abraham Bosse, Hearing, c. 1638, The Met.

Overemphasis on #reflexivity in #STS can obscure how #policy work requires compromises in principles and commitments. 👀 Torvetjønn Haugland & Myklebust: https://doi.org/rgx8 Art: Gerard ter Borch II, The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 1648, National Gallery UK.

As #preprint servers grow, #moderation is becoming a form of #gatekeeping before—or instead of—peer review. Chtena et al. on how moderation makes #science in #OpenAccess publishing: https://doi.org/rgw3 #STS #scholcomm Art: Karl Blechen, Pilgrim at the Gate, 1827, The Met.

What happens when #retooling becomes a catalyst for collective action and sociotechnical change? 👀Read @christyspackman E. Benson @aballes2 Katie Ulrich on water reuse + sugarcane futures: https://doi.org/qk5m #maintenance #repair #innovation #infrastructure #OpenScience

What happens when #retooling becomes a catalyst for collective action and sociotechnical change? 👀Read @christyspackman E. Benson @aballes2 Katie Ulrich on water reuse + sugarcane futures: https://doi.org/qk5m #maintenance #repair #innovation #infrastructure #OpenScience

Open software technologies are far from good enough if they are not designed to be in the service of social justice 👀Read L. Murillo & E. McElroy on software politics in housing justice action research: https://doi.org/qk5h #Technopolitics #CriticalCartography #Commons #OpenScience

Predominantly a North American & Eurocentric organization, 4S is gradually evolving toward a more globally #inclusive #ScholarlyCommunity 👀 N. Invernizzi & S. Foladori-Invernizzi's Engagement on the crucial work of #transnationalization of 4S: https://doi.org/qk5g #OpenScience @4sweb.bsky.social

Situating #Carbon sequestration technologies exposes diverse #EnergyJustice imaginaries and raises critical questions about how #STS scholarship can shape efforts to reduce carbon emissions. 👀V. Underhill and @ThatMinesGirl on Carbon Capture and Storage: https://doi.org/qk5f #OpenScience

📢Issue 11.3 out now! 2 Engagements, 2 ORAs + the Final Editorial of the 2020-25 ESTS Collective on the difference & promise of leading and running a diamond open access journal #ClimateChange #TransnationalSTS #Retooling #Openness #HousingJustice #OpenScience 👀https://bit.ly/3LoiLxT

How do crime analysts navigate the tensions between data from police reporting and the request to produce data analysis for governance purposes? How does it affect knowledge production in police work? 👀Read by M. Leese: https://doi.org/qjzw #Standardization #Desrosières

What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given? 👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: https://doi.org/qjxb

How may following the embodied and tactile worlding of the #durian fruit add generative possibilities to well-rehearsed critiques of #AreaStudies? 👀"Manifesto of the Durian" by @FadjarThufail: https://doi.org/qjwq #SoutheastAsia #EntangledAreas #Multispecies #Topology

#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders 👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: https://doi.org/qjv4

By following #malaria across Greater Mekong #borderlands—& its links to Africa through parasites, research networks + postcolonial histories—this article rethinks what #regions are & why they matter for #GlobalMalariaControl 👀Read by @imagethnography: https://doi.org/qjvz

How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area? 👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: https://doi.org/qjnw #Blackness #Circulation

Taking the example of peripheral urban gardens in Manila @ksaguin reconceptualizes #Area within #Urbanism + #SoutheastAsia, shifting from static spatial formulations toward its generative capacities for multiplicity & heterogeneity 👀https://doi.org/qh2x #UrbanEntangledAreas

This engagement urges readers to rethink Southeast Asian studies by delving into how #SoutheastAsia as an #area emerged through & is shaped by the colonial logic of #EconomicGeology 👀@karib.13 & D. Listiana: https://doi.org/qh2v #GeoColonialAssemblages #EntangledAreas

How can rising fine-dust pollution in #Zomia signal how this historically autonomous highland region of #SoutheastAsia is being transformed by new forms of #EnvironmentalExploitation? 👀Read by @jonanthro: https://doi.org/qh2t #Anthropocene #Atmosphere #Dust #EntangledAreas

How do #Indonesia’s #tsunami-warning systems mediate social + environmental life, shaping and interconnecting imagined spaces and the meanings different groups attach to them? 👀 Read Irina Rafliana's engagement: https://doi.org/qhwf #EntangledAreas #SoutheastAsia

How can the idea of #buoyancy help question the hype around #FloatingCities amid the rapid submergence of #SoutheastAsia’s coastlines? 👀Read @rsiriw & M. S. C. Gemilang: https://doi.org/qhrh #CoastCities #UrbanJustice #CoastalAdaptation #UrbanAnthropology

In this #collaborative engagement, Zahirah, Klein, Bogart, Keller, Huang & Gutierrez explore the potential of #sediments in #CoastalEnvironments for rethinking the #entanglements of history, policy + national #developmentalism in #SoutheastAsia 👀 https://doi.org/qhcm

How can the concept of #entanglement help to think anew about #areas & #SoutheastAsia in the #Anthropocene? What new #STS reflections does it open up to? 👀@cbruunjensen@bsky.social + F. Thufail's intro of their thematic collection "Entangled Areas": https://doi.org/qg64

📢Issue 11.2 out now! 12 engagements from the thematic collection "Entangled Areas" on #STS & #SouthEastAsia in the #Anthropocene + the journal's editorial reflection on the collection ++ 1 ORA on the limits of standardization in police reporting 👀https://bit.ly/49RT8PW

Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control? Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://doi.org/pzvq #makingspaceforMicrobes

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society 👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://doi.org/pzvn #scienceinculture #scicomm

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment @RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://doi.org/pzvm #ticks #chronicillness

How can #EnvironmentalHealth focus on #multispecies connections rather than on pathologizing life forms as threats? @anthrobite.bsky.social on a #biotechnology project in #Brazil for more convivial co-existence of humans mosquitos & pathogens: https://doi.org/pzvp

Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr #Fanon #Wynter