Humanities & Social Sciences
We showcase how HSS research shapes our world—featuring insights from current publications, diverse voices, and timely debates. Follow us for curated content from Nature, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, J.B. Metzler, Apress, Springer VS & BMC.
- 💙📚 'Technologies of the Future Self' dives into ethical visions for transhuman flourishing, asking who we want to become in a tech-driven future. A must read for anyone curious about our next evolutionary step. bit.ly/3M7Y75l #PhilSci
- 🔍 Behind the paper: 'How to distinguish a good socialist country from a bad one—Measuring biased representation on the world.' 📊 This post explores biased representation on the world and how socialist countries are portrayed. 🔗 bit.ly/4a64oGM 🗺
- 💙📚 This book confronts a pressing moral challenge of our technological age: should intelligent machines be recognized as having moral and socio-political rights? It challenges us to rethink the boundaries of moral community and prepare for a shared human–machine future. bit.ly/4rctkUB #STS
- 🔍 Behind the paper: 'Rethinking Dengue Surveillance in Bangladesh.' 😷💉 Following Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, this post shares the story behind the narrative review and why integrated surveillance matters. 🔗 bit.ly/4qUTqLr #PublicHealth
- 💙📚 Der Band verbindet rassismuskritische Ansätze mit Bourdieus Theorieinstrumenten. Im Fokus steht die Symbolische Ordnung und ihre Rolle bei Entstehung, Sichtbarkeit und Reproduktion von Rassismus. So werden Mechanismen sozialer Ungleichheit neu beleuchtet. bit.ly/4kfHLV2 #Sociology
- 🔍 Behind the paper: 'Turning the Page–Evaluating the Feasibility of online Shared Reading for Gynaecological Cancers.' Examines whether a literature-based online group can support wellbeing, connection, and reflection alongside medical care. 🔗 bit.ly/3LXjIxv. #WorldCancerDay2026 #Cancer
- Congratulation Dr. James Bultema, on winning the 'Freie Theologishe Hochschule (FTH) Gießen' Science Award on Religious Freedom 2026 for his book 'Free Enough to Grow'—An #OpenAccess volume on the multifaceted mission that gave rise to the Turkish Protestant movement. bit.ly/45Hukay #BookSky
- 🔍 Behind the paper: 'When ancient Japanese musical instruments became a wood identification test.' 🏺 This study grew from the challenge of identifying wood species in culturally significant objects without compromising their integrity. 🔗 bit.ly/4a7rg8H #woodanatomy
- 🧪🧬 Agency; the capacity of an organism to act, make decisions, and exercise control over its actions to achieve goals or to navigate and interact with its environment. Our new publication ‘An Evolutionary Story of Agency’ is both topical and free to read #OpenAccess #Evolution bit.ly/4t8mQr7
- 💙📚 'Media Matters: Towards New Safeguards for Their Democratic Functions', an #OpenAccess book, provides a comprehensive analysis of how digitisation and platformisation have fundamentally altered the #media system. bit.ly/4tfYN9N #SciComm
