Category: STS

ECSA 2024 reflections – policy and STS attention, turbulent futures and a celebration

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The ECSA conference is now over, and for me, it ended with the final excursion of the citizen science day. On a lovely spring evening, we joined the coordinators of the amphibiom project at Bednar Park, observing and hearing the story of a unique green toads community that is managing to hang on in a … Continue reading ECSA 2024 reflections – policy and STS attention, turbulent futures and a celebration →

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Notes from STS and Citizen Science colloquium 02/04/2024

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The colloquium on STS and Citizen Science was organised by Katja Mayer and Claudia Gobel at Vienna University. The workshop brings in the tension between being a researcher and understanding society through STS lenses about knowledge production and the way participatory research develops. The second aspect is the activities of people who are involved in … Continue reading Notes from STS and Citizen Science colloquium 02/04/2024 →

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Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? (notes)

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These are the notes from an event at UCL on 1st July 2019 part of Scaling (H2020 project) – innovations in Living Labs. The chair was Jack Stilgoe  – Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University College London. The second part of it emerged from Tom Wakefield at the ETC group which is looking at early … Continue reading Experiments outside the laboratory: Who should decide? (notes)

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Science & Dissent – Day 2 – Afternoon session, round table and conclusion

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The afternoon and concluding session of the workshop (here are part 1 and part 2) Making as Dissent: The Performance of Producing Pharmaceuticals in Biohacking (Gabriela A. Sanchez, University of Geneva, Switzerland) looking at laboratory protocol to develop insulin and the researchers want to use a 50 years protocol. The Open Insulin Project at the Counter … Continue reading Science & Dissent – Day 2 – Afternoon session, round table and conclusion

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Science & Dissent – Day 2 – Morning session

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The second day of the workshop (day one here) started with The New Technocracy: Scientific Dissent and New Forms of American Governance (Kelly Moore, Loyola University, United States) what are the political conditions of scientists in the US and what are the reorganisation of epistemology and knowledge. Dissent and political reorganisation are dependent on the forms … Continue reading Science & Dissent – Day 2 – Morning session

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Alan Irwin talk on Citizen Science and Scientific Citizenship (JRC, October 2015)

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The EU Joint Research Centre in Ispra has recently released the recording of a talk by Alan Irwin at the Joint Research Centre as part of the STS “Contro  Corrente” series of seminars from 15 October 2015, with Jerome Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz (famous for their post-normal science) as discussants. The talk, titled Citizen Science and Scientific Citizenship: same words, … Continue reading Alan Irwin talk on Citizen Science and Scientific Citizenship (JRC, October 2015)

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