The making of the #MolecularGaze can be traced to overlooked #experimental lab practices of #MicrobialCultures connecting #ColonialMedicine to postwar life science Read Charles A. Kollmer on the circulation and study of blood parasites: doi.org/nvz7

What does the uneven neglect of #typhoid in global health owe to #colonial bacteriology & global north #biosecurity? Learn fm @Kirchhelle & @CKirchhelle about #Bacteriophages, #PhagesTyping and Northern #Taxonomies of power in #Microbiology: doi.org/nvz8

Colonial #infrastructures still shape #MedicalTechnologies even as processes of global #standardization invisibilize them @arohelmet about the yellow fever vaccine in French colonial Africa and global health: doi.org/nvz9 #twitterstorians #colonialism #histbiology

Norms of #vaccination as a main focus of #postcolonial health care are shaped by the synchronization of a wide range of entities Read Noémi Tousignant's article on the politics of routine childhood vaccination schedule in West Africa: doi.org/n2nv

What shape does #standardization take in #medicine when #uncertainty prevails? Read Benoît Pouget on the role of the French military health service in the standardization of the management of #flu epidemics in the inter-war period: doi.org/n2n6n

Expression of Interest: Next editorial team for our diamond open access journal— Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) More on the call here: 4sonline.org/engaging_scien… And for enquiries contact our Editor-in-Chief: estsjournal.org/index.php/ests…

📢4S Seattle Meeting 3–6 Sep We are planning to enable hybrid participation This support for hybridity reflects our work & conversations w/disability justice & environmental justice scholars & activists—reflecting political shifts that may affect travel to the US #4SSeattle25

With deep sadness we pay respects to the passing of Professor Sandra Harding Her work in feminism philosophy & STS has been pivotal to shaping STS over several decades 👀Harding's response to Sharon Traweek featured in our Editorial Collective’s 1st Vol: doi.org/hbw6

Developments in #AirPollution #governance in Canada culminated in treating the #atmosphere as a sink, invisibilizing chemical harm + deferring interventions 👀Sophia Jaworski on #petrochemical - derived gas emissions in Toronto 1950s-1970s: doi.org/pcgc

Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US 👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: doi.org/pcgd

Narratives of #sustainability often leave larger logics of profit & ecological degradation unchallenged 👀C. A. Salling & J. Maguire on the #politics of #excess in re-using the excess #energy of Facebook datacenters for a Danish non-profit heating system: doi.org/pcgf

While both human centric + automated approaches to #AirportSecurity center the detection of 'harmful intentions', they follow different #epistemologies + #politics 👀Kühne & Paul on the #automatization of airport secruity: doi.org/pcgn

Farmers’ #embodied #knowledge in #AlternativeAgriculture resists the bureaucratic technological & economic #expertise even when it seeks to enable the farmers’ #agency Dimas Dwi Laksmana on the knowledge politics of agricultural #development in Indonesia: doi.org/pcgq

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood 👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky.social & mcforelle.bsky.social: doi.org/pcgp

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: doi.org/pcgm

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: doi.org/pcgm

Can #robots help #CareProfessionals deliver person-centered care? If so, how? Learn from @naokody.bsky.social Kohli Maeda Obayashi Prendergast & Masuyama about #care robots in #residential #homes in Ireland + Japan: doi.org/pcgm

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: doi.org/pcgr #borders #ProcessCitizens

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility? 👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: doi.org/pcgr #borders #ProcessCitizens