Timothy Neale
@tdneale.bsky.social
Lives in Narrm / Melbourne, comes from Aotearoa / New Zealand, works in Anthropology @ Deakin University | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values aka @sthv.bsky.social | timneale.me
CASTAC is great! Think about contributing!
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Check 3 reasons to join our community with Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor⬇️
More info: blog.castac.org/call-for-mce...
#Anthropology #STS #CASTAC
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
CASTAC is great! Think about contributing!
Seeing an emerging stream of #dashboard STS and ethnography 🖥️🔢📊
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Calculable Bureaucratic Time: The Performativity of Data and Dashboards in a Digitizing Public Bureaucracy" by Nafis Aziz Hasan #publicbureaucracy #calculabletime #digital #data #performance #dashboards journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Seeing an emerging stream of #dashboard STS and ethnography 🖥️🔢📊
2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.
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New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New OnlineFirst article: "Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination" by Louise Elstow #radiation #knowledgeproduction #qualculation #agencement #Fukushima journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit" by Chiara Carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen + Antoinette de Bont #machinelearning #nursing #attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Come along to this @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on 'Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures' with Anusheree Gupta. Mon Nov 17, 2:00pm AEDT online and in person! #STS #platforms
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
SSN Seminar 'Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures' with A Gupta
Join this hybrid SSN seminar "Thank you ‘Someone’: Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures in the Southern city"
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November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Come along to this @deakinssn.bsky.social seminar on 'Platform Collectives as crisis infrastructures' with Anusheree Gupta. Mon Nov 17, 2:00pm AEDT online and in person! #STS #platforms
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
Melbourne-ite STS-ers, the local AusSTS node are doing a wee Summer Symposium on AFTERMATH - Mon 23 February 2026. If you are interested in coming along then please submit an abstract by 25 Nov 2025 ⏰https://forms.gle/9kwgnpDiE2HP61sF7?_imcp=1
AFTERMATH: AUSSTS MELBOURNE SUMMER SYMPOSIUM 2026
The Melbourne Node of AusSTS is holding a 1-day summer symposium for scholars to present and discuss works in progress. We welcome applications that broadly engage with Science and Technology Studies ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Melbourne-ite STS-ers, the local AusSTS node are doing a wee Summer Symposium on AFTERMATH - Mon 23 February 2026. If you are interested in coming along then please submit an abstract by 25 Nov 2025 ⏰https://forms.gle/9kwgnpDiE2HP61sF7?_imcp=1
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What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What timing! The "planetary health diet" has just been updated: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia - Sylvia Cifuentes, 2025
Scholars and activists highlight the importance of Indigenous knowledges (IK) in maintaining higher proportions of forest cover and carbon storage in Amazonian ...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New OnlineFirst article: "Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia" by Sylvia Cifuentes #postcolonial #decolonial #boundarywork #climatepolitics #Indigenousknowledge #Indigenoustechnologies #Amazonia
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Current Canons and Canonical Currents" by the ST&HV editorial collective @tdneale.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @matthewkearnes.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Canons and Canonical Currents - Timothy Neale, Matthew Kearnes, Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, 2025
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September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
In this editorial, we've taken the opportunity of being 3 years in - amidst the "flow or tide" of submissions - to ask how the field's energies are being distributed, + reflect on the concepts and theories that are so central to new STS work that they almost form a canon or infrastructure...
It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times" by Martin Savransky #IsabelleStengers
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#catastrophe #interstices #intelligence #present journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times - Martin Savransky, 2025
Recent editorials in Science, Technology & Human Values have invited us to expand alternative ways of doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) that respon...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It was a pleasure work with @martinsavransky.bsky.social on this for @sthv.bsky.social. It closes with a call for STS "as an art of complicity," daring "to participate in the heterogeneous composition of unruly habits of thought and modes of planetary habitation." Read it!
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Making Do | Stanford University Press
Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm at @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle! Catch me around, or come to our very excellent "Retooling" panel on Friday. I promise some fire and Freud.
Extremely hypocritical take from me in "Cyborg Anthropology" undergrad class this week (I love going to the movies, as long as everyone else present is pretty much inaudible to me):
August 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Extremely hypocritical take from me in "Cyborg Anthropology" undergrad class this week (I love going to the movies, as long as everyone else present is pretty much inaudible to me):
Reposted by Timothy Neale
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994
Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to
funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...
journals.sagepub.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
Dr Thao Phan wins 2025 Max Crawford Medal
Dr Thao Phan has won the 2025 Max Crawford medal for her work investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture.
humanities.org.au
August 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Delighted to learn that Dr Thao Phan is awarded the 2025 Max Crawford medal, Australia's major prize for early-career humanities researchers! Pleasantly surprised it went to an STS scholar for the first time too. Such good news!
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
@thaophan.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #STS
Publishing interdisciplinary work in the humanities is wild but so is publishing interdisciplinary work in the sciences... (I am a co-author on this manuscript) substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reviewer 2
A ballad of peer review gone wrong
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August 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Publishing interdisciplinary work in the humanities is wild but so is publishing interdisciplinary work in the sciences... (I am a co-author on this manuscript) substack.com/home/post/p-...
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
August 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Wellcome-funded 'Between Deception and Dissent' project is recruiting a postdoc working at the interface of medical STS and socio-legal studies, supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @ Edinburgh #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
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The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
www.sthvschool.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025
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In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage.bsky.social explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #philosophy #anthropology
July 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In "Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being," @anthroprofhage.bsky.social explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eSp8Mua #philosophy #anthropology
Excited that the STS scholar Aalok Khandekar is coming to Melbourne and, even better, giving a seminar for @deakinssn.bsky.social Come along in person or join online, Thurs 7 August (1530 AEST): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
SSN seminar: 'Toward Community-Based Heat Adaptation' with Aalok Khandekar
Join the SSN for a hybrid seminar "Cooling in a Fractal Grid: Towards Community-Based Heat Adaptation in Hyderabad’s Informal Settlements"
www.eventbrite.com.au
July 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Excited that the STS scholar Aalok Khandekar is coming to Melbourne and, even better, giving a seminar for @deakinssn.bsky.social Come along in person or join online, Thurs 7 August (1530 AEST): www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ssn-semina...
If you were interest in #AusSTS25, or @aussts.bsky.social in general, the best thing to do is to join our Google group: groups.google.com/g/ausstsgrad
AusSTS mailing list - Google Groups
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July 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you were interest in #AusSTS25, or @aussts.bsky.social in general, the best thing to do is to join our Google group: groups.google.com/g/ausstsgrad
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Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Speaking on noise and the insurrection of subjugated unknowables.... or something like that. Hauntology and #STS. At @aussts.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Melbourne (Narrm). A very interesting meeting....
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
@tdneale.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!
And here we are at the final session of the day which is our keynote panel on "Bodies of Signals and Noise" with @blueskychris.bsky.social @wombatscholar.bsky.social and @karilancaster.bsky.social chaired by @tdneale.bsky.social
You can watch live here👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...
You can watch live here👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/aussts-202...
AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"
Join AusSTS online for the final keynote of 'Signals and Noises 2025' with Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster and Christopher O' Neill.
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July 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
And you can watch now (or later) if you missed it!
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It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises
July 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's day 3 of #AusSTS25! Opening the day with presentations and works-in-progress paper workshops #signalsandnoises