Sonja van Wichelen
Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
- Deadline for Open Panels closes soon! #STS
- Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.org
- Science matters – and so do its stories. Please consider supporting Knowable Magazine this holiday season. secure.qgiv.com/for/knowable...
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- Applications due December 10!
- Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS www.sthvschool.org
- Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
- Looking forward to my time at CRASSH -- eager to exchange ideas and to meet new colleagues!
- Check out this exciting event (in-person & online) celebrating the work of Professor Catherine Waldby. Hope to see some of you there! #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social
- This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...
- Check out this 6-year STS postdoc opportunity at the University of Vienna! #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
- Check out the call for applications for the 2026 STHV STS School in Seoul!! Wish this existed when I was a graduate student/early career researcher!! #STS www.sthvschool.org
- so cool ...
- 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
- 3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...
- So pleased to see this out in the world!
- We warmly welcome proposals for the Biolegalities Series! And delighted to introduce our advisory board: Amade M’charek, Irus Braverman, Margaret Davies, @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social, Thomas Lemke, Brad Sherman, Britta van Beers, Miguel Vatter, and Catherine Mills. link.springer.com/series/15629 #STS
- #AusSTS25 was a blast. Such cool plenaries from @elizabethstephens.bsky.social, Jaya Keaney, @blueskychris.bsky.social, @wombatscholar.bsky.social and @karilancaster.bsky.social. Huge thanks to the organizers for such a great ride!
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- Reposted by Sonja van Wichelen#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪
- Reposted by Sonja van Wichelen⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️ #STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Sonja van Wichelen"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- Such a tremendous loss for STS and legal anthropology! Will miss his sharp analysis, humour, and graceful disposition...
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- So much looking forward to this talk by Courtney Addison at UNSW next week! www.events.unsw.edu.au/event/defere...
- Can’t wait to read "Land of Famished Beings" by colleague and friend @sophiechao2024.bsky.social! Available from @dukepress.bsky.social in August. #STS #cultanthro
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- Can't wait to go to Ruha Benjamin's talk tomorrow in Sydney!!
- Reposted by Sonja van WichelenPost-doc in planetary health humanities, to work with Andy Lakoff and colleagues at USC on their timely project on 'The city on life support: Los Angeles as a laboratory for planetary health'. Important topic... #STS #envhum #medanthro
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- Reposted by Sonja van WichelenRare #jobfairy alert - lecturer (permanent position, c. assist prof) in Medicine, Health and Society, pref. Global south expertise. #histSTM #STS - deadline 2 March 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Check out this continuing Lecturer opportunity in HPS at USyd (and come hang out with the Sydney STS folks!) Focus: History of science or medicine in Asia/Pacific #histstm #histsci #STS
- For the Sydney peeps, do join me in celebrating the launch of Jaya Keaney's book tonight at The Glebe Hotel!
- A dream postdoc opportunity with amazing colleagues at Brown (Anthropology of Environment and Health) apply.interfolio.com/159067
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- Reposted by Sonja van WichelenLibrarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
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- Come work with me and @wombatscholar.bsky.social at USYD! We have a 2-year postdoc for an early career anthropologist or STS scholar to conduct research on the social, political, and epistemic aspects of medical research and public health. See bit.ly/3XVvhsd. Applications close October 22.
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- For the Sydney peeps, Marcia Inhorn is visiting us too! Join us on Monday March 18 @ noon AED. Register here: events.humanitix.com/motherhood-o...
- Best shit book out there!! Written by my dear mentor and friend @wombatscholar.bsky.social. Available now! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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- Heritable genome editing is a social justice issue. That’s why we endorse Social Justice and Human Rights Principles for Global Deliberations on Heritable Genome Editing. www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-con...
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- Last day to submit your abstract for the EASST-4S meeting! Consider joining Ann Kelly and me in the open panel (P396) “Probing Openness in Biomedical Platforms: Global Health meets Open Science”. And so psyched to announce @alondra.bsky.social will act as discussant! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
- Join Ann Kelly and me in Amsterdam for the EASST-4S 2024 and submit an abstract on openness in biomedical platforms before February 12! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
