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2 PhD positions at ours with the wonderful Geoff Hobbis on his ERC digitizing other economies. Sub-project India: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd… Sub-project Kyrgyz Republic: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd… As background a broader (short) manifesto about the project: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

You can listen to my ⁦Radio 4 Analysis⁩ prog here, featuring ⁦Kate Crawford⁩, ⁦Divya Siddarth⁩, ⁦Marietje Schaake⁩, ⁦Geoffrey Hinton⁩, ⁦Michael Wooldridge⁩, ⁦Connor Leahy⁩, Reuben Adams and Shazeda Ahmed podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how…

Excited for the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions, running July 3-5 at BAK in Utrecht, exploring: how might artistic practices enable radical imagination and politics? Three moments of the event are open to the public, so register for free here: uu.nl/en/events/utop…

Such sad news. Simon was a friend, collaborator and fellow traveller on the journey to democratise policymaking. Wise and warm and kind and persuasive. He has been writing poignantly about his illnesses for the last few years. We will miss him hugely.

The instinct of mainstream politicians & commentators is to ‘depoliticise’ far right & racist street politics - by calling it thuggery, explaining it as a kind of ‘mistake’ caused by disinformation etc. They don’t want to ‘dignify’ it by admitting it to the Court (1/x)

Extraordinary text by Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a former IDF soldier who's now the world's leading scholar on genocide and the Holocaust: theguardian.com/world/article/… He directly compares the ideology in today's Israel to that of Nazi Germany, says Israel is committing genocide

In my new Science Magazine piece, I argue that AI needs deliberative democracy.

If you’re in Beijing, join us at the Chinese Academy of Sciences for my talk with great discussants

Finally, some years of work and engagement have materialised in this encyclopedia of #STS. Many thanks to the + 90 authors who contributed! And what a pleasure it has been to go on that adventure with Alan Irwin - thanks for being such a great colleague, conspirator and friend!

What does it mean to "future-proof" crops? In a new paper with Maywa Montenegro, Ann Kingiri and Matthew Schnurr, we examine promissory narratives around genome editing, what they purport, and what they miss. Open access in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene: doi.org/10.1525/elemen…

“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: Trump’s obsession with dictators and disdain for America’s military are deepening. via ⁦The Atlantic⁩ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Today the blog features Steven Shapin writing on Bruno Latour. This piece is drawn from Shapin's talk at the Harvard symposium “Thinking after Latour," honoring the memory of Bruno Latour and reflecting on his work. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/1…

I was interviewed by the journal "GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society". For the full journal issue, see here oekom.de/ausgabe/03-202…

... and the theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society Theory, Culture & Society on 'Thinking with Latour' journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/41/5

A good time to boost this piece, from 2016, by Dan Sarewitz

As closing statements were heard at the Post Office inquiry today, we paid an early ‘tribute’ to the great figure at the centre of it all. Saint Paula Vennells…

New paper from Michelle Habets and I arising from a public dialogue on gene editing in the Netherlands. Exploring differences and commonalities between GM and GE and their implications for policy in the European context.

Iron Sky: Peter Thiel and the Rise of Gay Space Fascism mereorthodoxy.com/gay-space-fasc…

I am happy to share this paper written with Michelle Habets, 'From genes to governance: Engaging citizens in the new genomic techniques policy debate' that demonstrates the social fragility of assumptions prevalent in European (and Dutch) policymaking nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp…