Centre for Science Studies

Human Ghosts in the Machine

Our Talking STS series resumes, with a dialogue between Paula Bialski and Carolyn Pedwell, focusing on the forms of relationality and sensi(a)bility that go into maintaining software infrastructures

An interdisciplinary roundtable exploring the consequences and ethical possibilities of the connections between the climate crisis and discourses of certainty, including guest speaker Prof. Hannah Knox

Being in the world!

Juliana Michelon Alvarenga reports on the 2023 Continental Philosophy of Technoscience course that she attended at the University of Wageningen in March 2023

Nuclear Futures battles the elements

A report from the organisers on part one of a three-part event series, in which the team and the participants had to adapt quickly in the face of severe weather

Carbon capture and alternative energy: how do they interact?

On the one hand there are mitigation technologies for removing greenhouse gases from emissions. On the other hand there are alternative sources of ‘green’ energy. But how do they interact? Does investment in mitigation technologies reduce investment in alternative energy? How do

EASST 2018 Conference now on Twitter

The EASST 2018 Lancaster conference is now on Twitter. Follow us at @easst2018 for updates, progress reports and key announcements over the next 14 months. The call for papers will be coming soon.

EASST Council: Lancaster Visit

Vicky Singleton and Richard Tutton report …. The Centre for Science Studies welcomed the EASST Council to Lancaster University 22-23 May for their biannual meeting. This was also a chance for the new President Professor Ulrike Felt and other recently

Wiebe Bijker

Who invented technology studies? Not a very STS question! But even so, which are the names that spring to mind? Michel Callon? Trevor Pinch? Wiebe Bijker? All three were crucially important. Michel Callon created ANT, while Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker

Alternative facts?

The current EASST Review is wrestling with the topical question of Alternative Facts. Clearly this is an issue STS cannot duck. But here’s a little historical context. Since the creation of STS the world has changed. When SSK started in EuroAmerica science