Published On: Apr 30 2025
Just one week to go to register & receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025! 🐥 Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first. 4S is undertaking many steps to help and support our members during their visit to Seattle for the conference. We have given 100 registration fee waivers this year & we've offered hybridity for those who want to connect online. While these offers come at a significant financial loss, 4S made the decision to offer this support. 4S exec & organizing committees &...
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this transformation has engendered and considers how those experiences can be qualitative as well as quantitative. Drawing on process philosophy, Munster approaches computational experience through its relations and operations. She combines deep learning—th...
Published On: Apr 3 2025
Professor Sandra Harding was a path-breaking scholar in Feminist Philosophy and Science Studies, and her many books and contributions will inspire future scholars for decades to come. She was a founding associate editor for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and this fund is being managed by the non-profit Board of Hypatia together with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP, Pacific Division). This memorial fund will provide resources to support scholarly projects--such as conferences, travel grants, and publications--in the research areas to which Prof. Harding devoted her career. ...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
This open access book is about how Israel is using Algorithmic Intelligence (AI) and other computer technology in military operations in the Gaza Strip to achieve goals based on ancient religious entitlements. Changes in Israel Defense Force (IDF) ethical codes and innovation policies have not led to victory, but have resulted in a wide range of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in a strategy focused on The Torture of Gaza, which includes ethnic cleansing and is approaching genocide.
Published On: Jan 23 2025
Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
We are excited to announce a workshop focused on researching academic communities, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.
Published On: Feb 10 2025
The Treachery of Realities: Safeguarding Truth in the Age of Science Denial targets the contemporary atmosphere of lies, post-truths, and alternative facts. Previously, we had no reason to think humanity was about to have its dinosaur moment; we could be confident of surviving for millennia. It now seems that humanity's future might be a matter of decades, given the variety of existential threats we face, from climate change and asteroids to robots and AI. We are not going to save ourselves driven by faith, belief, hopes, prayers, and wishes in an atmosphere of science deniers. What is require...
Published On: Jan 23 2025
The Association of Research Libraries, a membership organization of research libraries and archives in the United States and Canada, has launched a blog series called Repertoires, which will feature quarterly posts about recent STS books that highlight changing research practices in scholarly communities. Led by Marcel LaFlamme, ARL's Director of Research Policy and Scholarship as well as a 4S member, the series aims to distill actionable insights that library leaders can use to develop scholar-focused services at their institutions and beyond. In doing so, Repertoires hopes to play a role in ...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 17, 2025
An invitation to a workshop organized by MISTRA environmental communication and The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, October 23, 2025.
This workshop invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to discuss and explore the role and use of digital environmental technologies in policies, in professional use and in everyday life. We particularly invite papers that critically engage with environmental data as an everyday practice, and welcome participants to reflect on questions such as: In which ways do digitized ways of obtaining environmental data ch...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
This textbook on introductory environmental sociology explores the ecological crisis from a sociological perspective, with a partial focus on STS concepts. It addresses theoretical frameworks and research on environmental perceptions, nature-society relations, consumption patterns, innovations, infrastructures, and risks. The book offers students of sociology and other social sciences a comprehensive guide to the central questions, theories, and topics of environmental sociology. It is presented in ten concise chapters, which can also be read individually.