New Book | Revealing Relations: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable Futures

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Do our tools for knowing about the world actually obscure important knowledge? Anne Beaulieu's 'Revealing Relations" uncovers how knowledge infrastructures—including satellite tracking, climate models, machine learning and citizen science apps—shape our understanding of contemporary crises. Rooted in logics of resource assessment, these systems often reinforce extractive thinking, even when intended to protect.

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (Princeton University) | Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Deadline: Oct 31, 2026

Princeton University seeks to appoint a distinguished humanist whose work is related to the environment for the 2027-28 academic year. Applicants should be accomplished scholars on leave from their home institution, who have exceptional records of publication and teaching and whose interests lie at the intersection of environmental issues and the humanities. Of particular interest are scholars with expertise and interests related to air and water sustainability, biodiversity, energy, environmental justice, food system change, global health, global warming, and wilderness histories and futures.

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (Princeton University) | 2027-28 HMEI Environmental Fellows Program

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Deadline: Nov 2, 2026

The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University is accepting applications for the 2027-28 HMEI Environmental Fellows Program. This postdoctoral program seeks scholars from all disciplines across the sciences, engineering, policy, and the humanities. The fellowship supports early career scholars in developing their research within a highly collaborative community of environmental scholars.

New Book | The Science of Repair: How People who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Doing science is an increasingly prevalent strategy of social and environmental justice movements. But while it seems apparent that science can aid in the pursuit of justice, it can be hard to explain how it does so--and thus hard to know how to deploy science most strategically. In 'The Science of Repair,' Gwen Ottinger offers transformative account of the role science plays in combatting injustice: While proving that people have been harmed, in itself, rarely advances justice, the process of investigating injustice can deepening our moral commitments to each other. Specifically, research can...

New Book | Configuring Psychology: Access to Therapy and the Transformation of Psychological Care

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Attending to the development and instantiation of an ethic of access in mental health, Martyn Pickersgill's new book, 'Configuring Psychology,' examines how political, economic, legal, and social dynamics intertwine with clinical norms and expertise. These interactions configure broader healthcare contexts, defining not only entry into therapy but also exclusion from it. Through close attention to policy developments, professional strategies, and psychologists' experiences, Pickersgill examines how access reforms shape clinical knowledge, therapeutic practice, and understandings of the psychol...

CfP | DIY Methods: Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Deadline: Apr 20, 2026

DIY Methods is an unconventional conference about unconventional approaches to research methods in the social sciences and humanities. It takes place through the mail, via print zines made by researchers around the world, exploring new ways to conduct and communicate their work. We welcome pitches for zines researchers have already made, or would like to make, along these themes. Pitches should describe both the form and content of the zine, and how these considerations relate to one another and the conference’s focus on unconventional research methods.

CfP | In Collaboration On Cooperation: Research In Linguistics Within French-Polish Teams

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Deadline: May 10, 2026

The proposed conference (9–10 July 2026, Paris) will constitute the first event entirely devoted to French-Polish scientific cooperation in linguistics. It will provide an opportunity to present a wide range of collaborative projects, showcase results from mixed research teams, exchange views on current issues and trends, strengthen existing ties, and foster the emergence of new forms of collaboration.

CfP | Sovereign AI and Digital Sovereignty

Published On: Mar 31 2026

Deadline: Dec 31, 2026

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has intensified debates over digital sovereignty worldwide. As AI systems increasingly shape economic activities, political discourse, and social interactions, the ability to develop indigenous AI capabilities and control digital infrastructure becomes essential to national autonomy. This Theme Collection examines how different nations experience and respond to these challenges.

CfP | Biomimicry & the Nature of Technoscience

Published On: Feb 27 2026

Deadline: May 1, 2026

This Call for Papers welcomes submissions for a series on ‘Biomimicry & the Nature of Technoscience’. 4S Backchannels seeks contributions from established and emerging scholars engaging broadly with biomimicry, biotechnology, biovalue, biocapital, bioprospecting, and the biopolitics that emerge throughout. Submissions should include original reflections and research contributions, and may attend to historical, contemporary, or speculative domains.

The Center for Ethnography at the Colorado School of Mines | two Post-Doctoral positions in environmental social science

Published On: Feb 25 2026

Deadline: Mar 15, 2026

The Center for Ethnography at the Colorado School of Mines invites applications for two Post-Doctoral positions in environmental social science with expertise in ethnography. The Center is a new hub at Mines that emphasizes community partnerships, collaborative research and public writing on major social and environmental issues in rural America, including the American West and Western Arctic.