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📄"Harmonising automation: Challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe," by Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Benjamin Lipp, Federica Pepponia, and Mathieu Baudrin
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📣Now open: Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of @tapuya.org
We're looking for a leader (or editorial collective) to shape the future of one of the most distinctive open-access journals in Latin American STS.📓
🔥Read the call: tapuya.org/2026/05/15/call-for-nominations-2026-tapuyas-editor-in-chief/
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📄 "Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing," by Andrew Ivan Brown, Sara Goering, and Eran Klein
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📜 New article!
In "The specificity ratchet: agribusiness techniques for contesting state knowledge about antibiotics," @lansing.bsky.social shows how industry groups in the US instrumentalize knowledge production to gain favorable public opinion and regulatory advantage
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📢New Forum article!
📜 In "Small Modular Reactors: scaling down to better scale-up?", Mathias Sabbe and Céline Parotte examine the extent to which international Small Module Reactor (SMR) proponents’ promissory discourse aligns with those involved in SMR in Europe
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📢 NEW ARTICLE! Forum on Tech Oligarchy
📜 "The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned," by @mcforelle.bsky.social
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📄Our latest Forum on Tech Oligarchy article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China.
"Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi," by @taoyue.bsky.social
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"Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy
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📢 Forum on Tech Oligarchy welcomes a new piece!
📜 "Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth," by Frank Söderberg.
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📸 In our latest Media Review "Curating across epistemologies: art, science, and technology studies in practice," Hannah Roger Stars uses an STS lens to analyse the photography exhibition Picturing the Invisible, by Makoto Takahashi.
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Science as Culture
Taking DiDi Chuxing as its case, this Forum Article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. Through a digital analysis of DiDi’s pl...
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Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
Robotics and artificial intelligence are regularly framed as potential solutions to grand societal challenges such as climate change, staff shortages and demographic aging. The European Union has d...
Powerful business groups are known to deny, block, and obfuscate public knowledge about their industries. Public comments by agricultural interest groups concerning the United States Food and Drug ...
