#sts — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/116523605434204476

I didn’t set out to write about LLMs but felt compelled to given the media’s abject failure to explain the tech.

I think there’s still a need for good information, but I’m not an expert. I’m looking for recommendations on technical people to talk to about this from a social impact lens. Is this a rare combo or are there such people?

#technology #research #STS #computerscience #AI #datascience #machinelearning

K útoku, pri ktorom zomreli zástupkyňa riaditeľky školy a študentka, došlo 16. januára 2025. Ďalšiu žiačku útočník zranil.

Tón: : mierne negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #znalec #šts #spišská

https://www.teraz.sk/regiony/v-pripade-utoku-v-spisskej-starej-vsi/961860-clanok.html

Obžalobe z obzvlášť závažného zločinu úkladnej vraždy, v časti dokonaný, v časti v štádiu pokusu a v časti v štádiu prípravy čelí Samuel S.

Tón: : veľmi negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #útok #šts #gymnázium

https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/proces-v-pripade-utoku-v-spisskej-sta/961725-clanok.html

Obžalobe z obzvlášť závažného zločinu úkladnej vraždy, v časti dokonaný, v časti v štádiu pokusu a v časti v štádiu prípravy čelí Samuel S.

Tón: : veľmi negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #útok #šts #gymnázium

https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/proces-v-pripade-utoku-v-spisskej-sta/961725-clanok.html

Obžalobe z obzvlášť závažného zločinu úkladnej vraždy, v časti dokonaný, v časti v štádiu pokusu a v časti v štádiu prípravy čelí Samuel S.

Tón: : veľmi negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #útok #šts #gymnázium

https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/proces-v-pripade-utoku-v-spisskej-sta/961725-clanok.html

Under the banner "The winding road to better science", we are joining forces with our metaresearch centre and are offering ourselves as hosts for potential MSCA postdoctoral fellows. If you are interested in developing a project on or across the boundaries of #metascience and #STS, reach out! 1/

Are you a friend or alumnus of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas? Join us 13/5 for our first ever alumni meetup! בוגר של מכון כהן באוניברסיטת תל אביב או שייך לקהילת המכון? כנס בוגרים ראשון מאד ומעולם, ב 13/5. להתראות בגילמן! #hps #sts #philsci #histsci

CBI is thrilled to host ASI President, CBI Research Fellow, TEDx speaker Dr. Molly Steenson for "Generating AI History Through Architecture" May 6th at noon (free lunch, 11:45am), Andersen Lib. Rm 120B. #ai #sts #history #science #technology #socialscience #minneapolis #computerscience #hci #userx

Register at:

z.umn.edu/SteensonAITalk

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Goethe University — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU

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@sts #STS #ethnography #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #StudySTS #maProgramme

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Goethe University — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU

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@sts #STS #ethnography #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #StudySTS #maProgramme

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Goethe University — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU

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Goethe University — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU

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@sts #STS #ethnography #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #StudySTS #maProgramme

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Goethe University — Studying Science and Technology Studies at Frankfurt @KAEEGoetheUni – STS@GU

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@sts #STS #ethnography #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #StudySTS #maProgramme

Today is #EarthDay. 🌍 But what about Earth at #night? 🌌🌃 And how did scientists come to understand #night as environment, albeit in distinct ways? #envhist #envhum #histsci #histtech #sts @[email protected] uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Transforming Night

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

Obžalovaný Samuel S. na videu opisoval priamo v budove gymnázia priebeh skutku.

Tón: : veľmi negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #útok #rekonštrukcia #šts

https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/v-pripade-utoku-na-gymnaziu-prehrava/956129-clanok.html

CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Event: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.

#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS

CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Event: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.

#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS

CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Event: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.

#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS

CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Event: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.

#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS

CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers

Event: October 15-16, 2026

Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026

For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.

#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS

I am very excited to share that University of Chicago Press is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book)

Link is here: https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

#STS #Bookstodon #EnvHist #CriticalLogistics #OilBeach #FossilFuels #oil #pollution #AnimalStudies #ecology #ports #LosAngeles

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/

> The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

#sts2 #Godot #megaCrit #linux #foss #gaming #openSource #pcGaming #roguelike #deckbuilder #deckbuilding #sts #unity #gamedev

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/

> The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

#sts2 #Godot #megaCrit #linux #foss #gaming #openSource #pcGaming #roguelike #deckbuilder #deckbuilding #sts #unity #gamedev

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/

> The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

#sts2 #Godot #megaCrit #linux #foss #gaming #openSource #pcGaming #roguelike #deckbuilder #deckbuilding #sts #unity #gamedev

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/

> The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

#sts2 #Godot #megaCrit #linux #foss #gaming #openSource #pcGaming #roguelike #deckbuilder #deckbuilding #sts #unity #gamedev

Godot gets a funding boost from Slay the Spire 2 devs Mega Crit

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/godot-gets-a-funding-boost-from-slay-the-spire-2-devs-mega-crit/

> The Godot Engine team have announced that Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit have given them quite a nice funding boost.

#sts2 #Godot #megaCrit #linux #foss #gaming #openSource #pcGaming #roguelike #deckbuilder #deckbuilding #sts #unity #gamedev

#MașiniElectrice pentru 🕵🏻‍♂️#SRI, 📡#STS (📡#ServiciulDeTelecomunicațiiSpeciale) și SPP. Anunțul ministrului Transporturilor despre investițiile din 💶#FonduriEuropene.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5d1g

#Știri #România #UE #UniuneaEuropeană #Europa

#MașiniElectrice pentru 🕵🏻‍♂️#SRI, 📡#STS (📡#ServiciulDeTelecomunicațiiSpeciale) și SPP. Anunțul ministrului Transporturilor despre investițiile din 💶#FonduriEuropene.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5d1g

#Știri #România #UE #UniuneaEuropeană #Europa

#MașiniElectrice pentru 🕵🏻‍♂️#SRI, 📡#STS (📡#ServiciulDeTelecomunicațiiSpeciale) și SPP. Anunțul ministrului Transporturilor despre investițiile din 💶#FonduriEuropene.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5d1g

#Știri #România #UE #UniuneaEuropeană #Europa

Puppet Bruno Latour on Aramis, a failed public transport system (by theoretical puppets)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnKbFZdF4c
#ant #sts #latour #puppets

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

We are about to start #BeforeRuins at Ruhr-University Bochum #RUB. Imagine a very excited team! And some Easter eggs. @rustlab

All the key programme info, including the venue location, to be found here:

https://stsing.org/before-ruins/programme

#STS #Anthropocene #Bochum

"AI models have one undeniable virtue: the increase in speed and efficiency with which they can carry out tasks that were once the province of human beings. Language models can produce functional text for a wide range of contexts, while image generation models are giving us the capability to render into existence whatever image or video takes our fancy. This is widely taken as clear evidence of the benefits of AI. For Mumford, this type of thinking is precisely the problem. The myth of the machine is dehumanizing because it subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.

The most striking evidence of the myth’s cultural pervasiveness is that many avid accelerationists do not deny that AI could mean the end of humanity. They merely differ from the doomers in believing that this risk is necessary—even desirable—to achieve the spectacular increases in efficiency and productivity promised by AGI. Mumford foresaw this extreme endpoint. “The myth of the machine,” he wrote, “the basic religion of our present culture, has so captured the modern mind that no human sacrifice seems too great provided it is offered up to the insolent Marduks and Molochs of science and technology.”

Those branded as skeptics or doomers also still accept the premises of the myth of the machine. The stated aim of many organizations concerned with avoiding the worst AI outcomes is that we should “realize the benefits while mitigating the risks” of the technology. Mumford would argue the first half of this statement concedes too much, accepting the basic premise of the myth of the machine while presenting the task as removing the obstacles to realize its benefits. Many skeptics also share a basic misanthropic premise of machine superiority, focusing as they do on the biased, irrational, and flawed nature of human beings that needs machinic augmentation."

https://www.compactmag.com/article/ai-and-the-myth-of-the-machine/

#AI #Neoluddism #AIBoosters #AIHype #AIDoomers #GenerativeAI #Mumford #STS #MediaEcology

»Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and
the Uninventionof Nuclear Weapons« by Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi

https://gwern.net/doc/radiance/1995-mackenzie.pdf

#STS #forgetting #uninvention

#hps #sts #academicjobs

📣 Upcoming Online Workshop, 19–20 March 2026 *Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next?* Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop #NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS

Challenger-Märchenstunde beim SWR 3/3:
".. und irgendwann hat der Booster dem dann nicht mehr standgehalten, wurde zerstört, und das hat dann letztendlich zur ganzen Explosion des Space Shuttles geführt. .."

Auch falsch. Der lecke Booster hat seine Befestigungen am Haupttank und den Haupttank beschädigt. Auch der lecke Booster flog deutlich sichtbar aus der Trümmerwolke heraus.

Quelle: https://www.swr.de/swraktuell-radio/challenger-katastrophe-vor-40-jahren-was-hat-die-space-shuttle-aera-gebracht-100.html

#Challenger #Presse #Raumfahrt #Raumfähre #Recherche #SpaceFlight #STS #STS51L #SWR

Challenger-Märchenstunde beim SWR 2/3:

"Eine mangelhafte Dichtung hat dann zur Katastrophe geführt."

Nicht die Dichtung war mangelhaft. Die Berücksichtigung des für ihr Funktionieren notwendigen Betriebsregimes war ungenügend. Bei der Kälte konnte die Dichtung nicht zuverlässig funktionieren.

Quelle: https://www.swr.de/swraktuell-radio/challenger-katastrophe-vor-40-jahren-was-hat-die-space-shuttle-aera-gebracht-100.html

#Challenger #Presse #Raumfahrt #Raumfähre #Recherche #SpaceFlight #STS #STS51L #SWR

Challenger-Märchenstunde beim SWR 1/3:
"
Die "Challenger" explodiert

28.1.1986 | Die Raumfähre "Challenger" explodiert kurz nach dem Start. Die sieben Astronauten an Bord sterben. Eine Katastrophe der Raumfahrt.
"
Nein, die Raumfähre ist nicht "explodiert". Kommt das auch beim SWR an?

Nicht alles, was eine "feurige Wolke" produziert, ist eine Explosion.

Quelle: https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/archivradio/raumfaehre-challenger-explodiert-106.html

#Challenger #Presse #Raumfahrt #Raumfähre #Recherche #SpaceFlight #STS #STS51L #SWR

#TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 🤩 #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #envhist #envhum #envjustice #histtech #histsci #sts #Anthropocene

Est-ce qu’il y a encore du sens à organiser de grandes conférences scientifiques internationales ?

📖 Au cours d'une résidence d'écriture avec des collègues de #STS il y a deux ans, nous avons écrit un texte collectif pour imaginer d'autres formes d'échanges scientifiques, en mode #SlowScience.

Il vient de paraître dans le Journal of Environmental Media 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jem_00153_1

🧵J'en parle dans ce fil.

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hello mastodon —
sound, listening and performance as ways of thinking with territory.
non-anthropocentric perspectives, infrastructures, measurement, and resistant environments.
psychogeography, cultural studies, and the arts as ways of attending — including alternative mappings and cartographies.
photography as field note. sound as method.
slow conversations welcome.

#SoundStudies #SoundArt #Listening
#CriticalGeography #Psychogeography
#CulturalStudies #MoreThanHuman #cart
#STS #ArtResearch

"
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
"
".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/

28.1.2026

#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

"
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
"
".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/

28.1.2026

#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

"
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
"
".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/

28.1.2026

#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

"
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
"
".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/

28.1.2026

#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

"
How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
"
".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/

28.1.2026

#Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

#ABC:
"
Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-28/space-shuttle-challenger-disaster-nasa-explosion-video-engineers/106162902

27.1.2026

#arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

#ABC:
"
Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-28/space-shuttle-challenger-disaster-nasa-explosion-video-engineers/106162902

27.1.2026

#arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol