The field talks back: listening to Southeast Asia after the book

Jun 16 2025

An STS scholar researching social media and society in Southeast Asia reflects on a whirlwind book tour that became an unexpected journey of “post-publication listening”—where dialogue with regional publics reanimated the book’s arguments and affirmed Southeast Asia as a microcosm of global digital politics.

Cancer in multiple realities, medical technologies and their political implications

Jun 2 2025

Tainã Queiroz discusses the incorporation of medical technologies for oncological treatments in the Brazilian health system, focusing on the challenge of combining multiple realities.

Encountering the data lives of the dead

May 23 2025

Catriona Brickel considers the various ethical dilemmas encountered when studying digital memorials

The stuff of taxonomic nightmares: the frustrating volatility of color

May 22 2025

Roos Hopman reflects on the slippery place of color within natural history

Mixtures: Research Stories on the Zika Virus – An Invitation to Read

May 19 2025

In this bilingual post (English and Brazilian Portuguese), Thais Valim, Isadora Valle and Mariana Petruceli present the content and launch of the “Mixtures: Research Stories on the Zika Virus” book, an invitation to read about scientific production on the emblematic Zika virus epidemic in Brazil, through STS lenses.

Locating STS in Southeast Asia: a Belgian migrant looking for a place of belonging

May 5 2025

A Belgian, trained in STS at the University of Vienna, shares her experience of locating STS hubs in Southeast Asia after moving to Bangkok.

The Heartware approach: how cultural values drive sustainable socio-technical change

Apr 7 2025

Zeeda F. Mohamad explores the “Heartware approach” in sustainability science: a visualisation tool to enable community-based participation that emphasizes the integration of cultural values into environmental sustainability governance frameworks.

Caring about Psychedelic Science: An Alternative Approach to Studying Hype

Mar 1 2025

Kai River Blevins argues for the development of a critical phenomenology of care to better understand hype around psychedelic science

Re-networking digital infrastructure: a Non-Aligned Tech Movement to take us beyond the age of informational capitalism

Feb 24 2025

In this post, Juan Ortiz Freuler presents a need for a wide collective structure beyond central players to reclaim digital sovereignty for nations in the Global Majority

Towards fairness in machine learning for dermatology: a skin tone representation disparities study

Feb 10 2025

Images depicting dark skin tones are significantly under-represented in the educational materials used to teach primary care physicians and dermatologists to recognize skin diseases. In this piece, Celia Cintas introduces an open-source initiative to fight this issue.