Knowing Enough and Space-Making for Microbes in Sake Fermentation Practices [0.03%]
sake发酵实践中的知止与留白——兼论微生物的作用
Maya Hey
Maya Hey
This paper examines how one comes to know microbes in fermentation settings. Based on praxiographic data from field research at a sake brewery in Japan, the paper analyzes how brewers work in an anticipatory manner to make spaces that encou...
Origin Stories of the 'Grants Uranium District' in Northwestern New Mexico: Archives, Memoirs, and Exploratory Boreholes in the Production of Geological Regions [0.03%]
新墨西哥州北部“格兰茨铀矿带”的地质成因：源于档案、回忆和勘探井中的地质地区生成史
Thomas DE Pree
Thomas DE Pree
The "Grants uranium district" of northwestern New Mexico yielded more uranium ore than any other mining district in the United States during the Cold War Period (1947-1989). After the national market for uranium collapsed in 1979, the mines...
Hormonal Health: Period Tracking Apps, Wellness, and Self-Management in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism [0.03%]
荷尔蒙健康： surveillance资本主义时代的经期追踪应用、保健和自我管理
Andrea Ford,Giulia De Togni,Livia Miller
Andrea Ford
Period tracking is an increasingly widespread practice, and its emphasis is changing from monitoring fertility to encompassing a more broad-based picture of users' health. Delving into the data of one's menstrual cycle, and the hormones tha...
The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research [0.03%]
转化科学的伦理：基因环境相互作用研究中公众利益的构想
Sara L Ackerman,Katherine Weatherford Darling,Sandra Soo-Jin Lee et al.
Sara L Ackerman et al.
Biomedical research is increasingly informed by expectations of "translation," which call for the production of scientific knowledge that can be used to create services and products that improve health outcomes. In this paper, we ask how tr...
Learning in Crisis: Training students to monitor and address irresponsible knowledge construction by U.S. federal agencies under Trump [0.03%]
危机中的学习：培训学生监督和应对特朗普政府下美国联邦机构不负责任的知识建构
Chris Tirrell,Laura Senier,Sara Ann Wylie et al.
Chris Tirrell et al.
Immediately after President Trump's inauguration, U.S. federal science agencies began deleting information about climate change from their websites, triggering alarm among scientists, environmental activists, and journalists about the admin...
Pandemic Sociology [0.03%]
疫情下的社会学
Martyn Pickersgill
Martyn Pickersgill
In 1990, the sociologist Phil Strong wrote about "epidemic psychology" as part of his research on the recent history of AIDS. Strong described vividly how epidemics of fear, of explanation and moralization, and of (proposed) action accompan...
ST(&)S: Martyn Pickersgill Talks with Sheila Jasanoff [0.03%]
ST&S：Sheila Jasanoff访谈-Martyn Pickersgill
Martyn Pickersgill,Sheila Jasanoff
Martyn Pickersgill
In this interview, Sheila Jasanoff and Martyn Pickersgill discuss the contested meanings of STS, defined as either "science and technology studies" (often associated with European origins) or "science, technology, and society" (commonly see...
(Low) Expectations, Legitimization, and the Contingent Uses of Scientific Knowledge: Engagements with Neuroscience in Scottish Social Policy and Services [0.03%]
期待、正当化与科学知识的运用：苏格兰社会政策和公共服务中的神经科学议题
Tineke Broer,Martyn Pickersgill
Tineke Broer
Neuroscientific research increasingly sparks the imaginations and hopes of policymakers. Whilst the diversity of assertive statements being made on the basis of neuroscience has been well documented, less frequently explored are more contin...
Materializing Exposure: Developing an Indexical Method to Visualize Health Hazards Related to Fossil Fuel Extraction [0.03%]
化石化燃料开采相关健康危害的视觉指数方法的发展与应用
Sara Wylie,Elisabeth Wilder,Lourdes Vera et al.
Sara Wylie et al.
How can STS researchers collaborate with communities to design environmental monitoring devices that more effectively express their experiences and address gaps in regulation? This paper describes and shows the results of a novel method of ...
Real Vegan Cheese and the Artistic Critique of Biotechnology [0.03%]
素的真谛与生物技术的艺术批判——关于“真实素奶酪”项目的一次访谈
Rebecca Wilbanks
Rebecca Wilbanks
Drawing on the case study of Real Vegan Cheese (RVC), a synthetic biology project housed in a community lab or "biohackerspace," I argue that biohacking performs an "artistic critique" of the bioeconomy. Following Boltanski and Chiapello's ...