Are you ready for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting? We sure are! Join us for the CASTAC Business Meeting to review our achievements during 2025 and our plans for 2026. Details below ⬇️

Many in China are buying residential apartments not to live in, but to store relatives’ ashes. In this thought-provoking piece, Xinyi Wu explores how “bone ash apartments” intersect with housing policy, real estate, shifting beliefs, and urban life. https://t.co/j0XLAmwKUh

📣 Ready to apply? We’re accepting applications for Contributing Editors (CEs) and Multimodal Contributing Editors (MCEs) until December 5, 2025. Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/2b92VtlHKq #Anthropology #STS #CASTAC

💬🎙️ 3. Keep the conversations going You can extend discussions beyond conferences or classrooms, whether through thematic series or experimental formats you might not get to try in a dissertation or journal article.

🌱🌎 2. Shape the field You can help grow the conversations you care about through the authors you work with, the ideas you curate, and the directions you’d like to see STS and anthropology move toward.

✨🤝1. Collaborate and learn You can join a growing community of people doing all kinds of work at the intersections of anthropology and STS. It’s a great way to learn from others and share what excites you!

Still hesitant about sending your application to work on our blog? Here are 3 reasons to join Platypus as a contributing editor🧵 by Kim Fernandes, Platypus Managing Editor https://t.co/ug2qbYWa0q

Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors! Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 https://t.co/wuQ1Rbi4DJ

2️⃣ [Volume 2] This volume deepens our collective exploration of how science and technology are made, unmade, and remade from Latin America. Across its clusters, V2 expands conversations between ethnography, postcolonial STS, feminist epistemologies, and the politics of knowledge

This week on Platypus, what can space selfies tell us about orbit and home?🛰️ Read the essay by @sendivovkis right here: https://t.co/I6xZjCzFr0 Also available in Russian: https://t.co/Hfjl56R5Zz

We want to meet you!🙌 CASTAC is hosting an informal networking event for current and prospective members. Join us and meet scholars who work at the intersection of STS with anthropology. See you at the @AmericanAnthro Annual Meeting🙂

Are you ready for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting? We sure are! Join us for the CASTAC Business Meeting to review our achievements during 2025 and our plans for 2026. Details below ⬇️

En la cultura andina, las constelaciones se forman observando los espacios entre las estrellas. Martina di Tullio utiliza este ejemplo para contarnos sobre su experiencia haciendo etnografía en Cusi Cusi, un poblado al noroeste de Argentina: https://t.co/EyQ9mX8fIF

Join us for the CASTAC Book Talk at the @AmericanAnthro Annual Meeting to discuss the work of the Diana Forsythe Prize-winning authors! Check the program for more details. Interested in knowing more about Emily Yates-Doerr and Amy Zhang's books? 👉 https://t.co/wuQ1Rbi4DJ

This week on Platypus, what can space selfies tell us about orbit and home?🛰️ Read the essay by @sendivovkis right here: https://t.co/I6xZjCzFr0 Also available in Russian: https://t.co/Hfjl56R5Zz

Platypus is hiring! 📣📣📣 The blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor. https://t.co/2b92VtlHKq

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Diana Forsythe Prize!🏆 Dr. Emily Yates-Doerr with her book Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm (2025, U. of California Press). Read what our Forsythe committee had to say: https://t.co/wuQ1Rbi4DJ

How to balance the researcher’s agenda and needs vs a union’s agenda and needs? Today on Platypus, @antishree and @ishabhallamudi introduce a new series: The Politics of Writing About Platform Workers’ Organizing. Read more here: https://t.co/lSJeH3kblS

Quando a psicanálise encontra a genômica: Rogelio Scott-Insua explora como psicanalistas e geneticistas brasileiros colaboram na Clínica Psicanalítica do Genoma, redefinindo as fronteiras da ciência. https://t.co/vOJYOi9me8

Aditionally, Dr. Amy Zhang received an honorable mention for their book Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (2024, Stanford University Press). Congratulations to both!👏👏👏