Rob Smith
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rdjs.bsky.social
Rob Smith
@rdjs.bsky.social
Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies @ Edinburgh

Biology, Politics, Funding, Governance, Morethanhuman etc.

Our group is engineeringlife.bsky.social
Also, perhaps 'an' approach is a typo for 'any'. Or perhaps it's an STS approach that we're peddling...
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oooh, thanks!
July 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Of all of those, the cybertruck safari felt the sketchiest by far
January 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
now we're queuing for the human to check our passports
January 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
These two points -- tech *is* the solution vs tech as part of solutions, and full amnesia about how that went before -- are really important, and I think part of my and my friends beef with all the chat in the U.K. about engineering biology atm.
December 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
December 28, 2024 at 9:39 AM
yes, and actually lots of big journals look like (and sometimes say) they want qualitative work, but the qualitative reviewers want widely relevant, transferable, pre-registered experimental studies, ie they're all still positivists.
December 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM