Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org
Kari Lancaster
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Come along to our next @contemporarycriticalthought.org event! Molly McPhee & Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez lead a discussion of Herd/Atmospherics, to examine how forms of collectivity are materially produced through atmospheric management.
May 21 👉 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-at...
Come along to our next @contemporarycriticalthought.org event! Molly McPhee & Nerea Calvillo Gonzalez lead a discussion of Herd/Atmospherics, to examine how forms of collectivity are materially produced through atmospheric management.
May 21 👉 www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd-at...
New OnlineFirst article: "Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly" by Irina Papazu + Rose Marie Højbjerg Henrichsen #participation #digital #mediation #climatechange #citizensassemblies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Kari Lancaster
Kari Lancaster
As hantavirus outbreak discussion kicks off, it is timely to remember that outbreaks do not simply require us to speed up existing evidence-based approaches, but necessitate new ways of thinking about how more adaptive evidence-making might be done: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
This is part of a new series where we will be gathering to collectively think with the figure of the Herd. Each session will experiment with the concept’s many permutations, to rethink Herd as /Species, as /The Masses, as /Population, as /Kin, and more. www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/post/herd
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Terrarium as Geo-Fetish: On the Vectorialist Re-Commoning of the Earth" by Sungyong Ahn #terrarium #geo-fetish #Badiou #actornetworktheory #vectoralist #cosmopolitics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
1/ A few thoughts on the recent hantavirus outbreak. I'm not entirely sure all of those commenting had read up on the literature, especially www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... and this outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/hantavirus...
TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems...
#HPS #STS #histstm #histsci
Kari Lancaster
New OnlineFirst article: "Promises/Manual Labor Paradox: The Accountability Style of On-Site Validation in Microbiology Laboratory Automation" by Joaquín Yrivarren, Alessandra C. Jacomuzzi + Miquel Domènech #accountability
#robots #AI #credibility #legitimation
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Rethinking Herd/Atmospherics amidst the here and now of our present planetary condition.
As part of the Danish Climate Act of 2019, the government established a Climate Citizens’ Assembly to secure public participation in the formulation of climate ...
From November 2018 through February 2019, person-to-person transmission of Andes virus
(ANDV) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome occurred in Chubut Province, Argentina, and resulted
in 34 confirmed infe...
How do we reconcile our individual bodies with the company of us, and ideas that imply that they are in the first order apart?
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This article examines the transformation of terrarium building from a colonial-era hobbyist practice into a contemporary YouTube-based citizen science movement,...
This study investigates the role of validation reports in legitimizing laboratory automation through artificial intelligence and robotic systems in clinical mic...
