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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · Jul 8

Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025.

More info:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jul 1

No! What a find! They were everywhere…

Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are so thrilled to have been included - and are excited to see the rest of the special issue!

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · May 31

Super proud to share the research Casey lead on how climate change is shifting the co-existence of agriculture and artisanal gold mining in rural Colombia! @sthv.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rethinking Extractivism in a Changing Climate: Complementary Gold and Coffee Livelihoods in the Steep, Tropical Andes - Casey Gibson, Jessica Smith, 2025

In the municipality of Andes, agriculture rules the steep surface of la tierra, while informal miners pick and blast subterranean tunnels to make a living from ...

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · May 2

First they came for the "DEI and justice" grants, and when they purged those with success, now are going after the others. When are we going to learn this historical lesson?

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 2

Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · May 2

The May 5th deadline for Energy Ethics 2026 is coming up!

Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Mar 25

Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...

EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · May 2

High five!

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

“[Wyoming leaders] like to talk about our work ethic and how we love our workers; We get the job done and we don’t complain,” Kindred said. “But when it comes time to put our policies and our efforts where our mouth is, we just want workers to be our mascot. We don’t really want to support them...”

Dustin Bleizeffer @dbleizeffer.bsky.social · Apr 28

It's #WorkersMemorialDay, a solemn occasion to commemorate those who have died on the job. In Wyoming, which kills workers at the highest rates in the nation, advocates say officials are ignoring the carnage.
- @WyoFile wyofile.com/labor-advoca...

Labor advocates: Most lethal state in the nation for workers ignores blue-collar plight - WyoFile

It's Workers Memorial Day. Yet Wyoming elected officials mostly silent in wake of yet another alarming report of workplace carnage, advocates say.

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Apr 16

Beyond thrilled to join the ranks of #CarnegieFellows, spend next year's sabbatical doing research in Gillette and Pueblo, and draft my next book manuscript about how the #energytransition is reshaping the political landscape for working Americans.

Jessica M. Smith named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

An anthropologist who studies energy, engineering and public accountability, Smith is one of 26 scholars across the United States – and the first Mines professor ever – selected for the prestigious ho...

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Mar 25

Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...

EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Mar 21

Even in Wyoming

Dustin Bleizeffer @dbleizeffer.bsky.social · Mar 20

Crowd jeers Hageman at tense Laramie town hall. She calls them ‘hysterical.’ - story by Maggie Mullen, images by Megan Johnson, video by @annabrader.bsky.social @wyofile.com wyofile.com/crowd-jeers-...

Crowd jeers Hageman at tense Laramie town hall. She calls them ‘hysterical.’ - WyoFile

Wyoming’s lone congresswoman faced tough questions and angry constituents Wednesday night.

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Mar 21

1 of my books and 20 articles

Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Fred Plamondon @fredplamondon.bsky.social · Feb 25

Le management et l'ingénierie partagent une longue histoire.

Ce numéro de Engineering Studies rappelle que l'histoire a montré que la science appliquée n'est pas neutre.

La montée de l'autoritarisme devrait inciter les ingénieurs à réfléchir de manière critique à leur rôle social.

Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Feb 25

under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism

Published in Engineering Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Feb 27

More bold than my usual brand, but absolutely necessary for what we are living. Thank you @ccmmody.bsky.social, @engrstudies.bsky.social, @dmriley.bsky.social, @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social.

Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Feb 25

under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism

Published in Engineering Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 18

The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers today.

The NSF was established by Congress to promote science, advance public health and contribute to the national defense.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers on Trump’s Order

The National Science Foundation fired 168 workers to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, the latest in a series of layoffs throughout the US government as the Trump administration se...

www.bloomberg.com

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · Feb 14

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Feb 12

if you know of any promising undergraduates interested in getting a master's degree in an STS-related field, please point them toward the ESST (1-year) and CAST (2-year) programs. outstanding instructors, curriculum, fellow students & training for a PhD or many other careers.

Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · Feb 12

We’re excited to announce the Rachel and Alan Wyatt #STS #Scholarship! Established by @sallywyatt.bsky.social in memory of her parents, it supports EU/EER students facing financial barriers in pursuing a master’s in ESST or CAST at FASoS.

Learn more & apply👉 tinyurl.com/38ncyay4

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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · Feb 12

So do we have contract law anymore or nah?

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 12

So far, the president’s freeze on climate and infrastructure law spending has been covered as a constitutional issue.

But Trump is also about to start breaching hundreds of federal contracts — and *that* could soon open a new front in the legal war. I wrote about it:

heatmap.news/politics/tru...

The Next Front of Trump’s Renewables War Is Contract Law

And that’s on top of the constitutional questions.

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jan 23

So manly! “Nothing can destroy coal. Not the weather, not a bomb, nothing. It might make it a little smaller, might make it a little different shape. But coal is very strong.” x.com/Acyn/status/...

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Dec 28

Excellent and highly anticipated special issue!

Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · Nov 1

the oil spillover - read all about it!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology

Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 23

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Dec 23

And nary a word on Herzog's recent "reality check" on DAC! energy.mit.edu/news/technol...

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sounds wonderful - thank you!

Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jun 29

And Betty! Mines is conspicuously absent otherwise 🫣. I'm having lunch with Stan next week! Where did you find this one?

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · Jun 29

Amen! Frustration with how rural folks and miners are portrayed by academics is also what inspired my dissertation on Wyoming miners. “Who’s going to trust the experts when that’s what the experts have to say about you?” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/b...

How ‘Rural Studies’ Is Thinking About the Heartland

What’s the matter with America’s rural voters? Many scholars believe that the question itself is the problem.

www.nytimes.com

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