I wrote a review of Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins—a must-read that challenges misconceptions about genetics and identity. Let’s read it together and discuss your thoughts!

We are pleased to share the preliminary schedule for the upcoming STS-IN Winter School, 12-14th December at IIT Sonepat. PS: This is only a preliminary schedule and is subject to change.

https://t.co/vmF76CkAUG

Discussion Map | Mixing Science and Spiritualism: The Curious Case of Indian Modernity https://t.co/bH43Exzxqk

The latest in our Spotlight Series is now up on the blog! Hear from PhD candidate Santosh Kumar: https://t.co/PKpcziIbNu @serene_santosh's research seeks to understand how emerging scientific knowledge reconfigures views of the environment 🌏☁️📝

Join us virtually for a 5-Day National Workshop (1–5 Sept 2025) on "Nutritional Assessment, Dietary Profiling & Anthropometry – From Community to Policy Level". 📢 Live on Zoom & YouTube Zoom: https://t.co/8lr4LWHIcy (Passcode: 677557) #Nutrition

Challenges of accumulation in a dry livestock farming area. Experiences from Matobo, Zimbabwe https://t.co/zyJ6iQj4HV via @ianscoones

The September Dialogue in Dimapur. A time to reflect and share the Naga repatriation journey and ways forward. Everyone is welcome. There will be a photo exhibition on “Belongings of our Ancestors”. These are funerary artefacts taken away from graves in the Naga homeland.

https://t.co/zGEqgJGi7u

Guest editing this issue on Defining Work for Perspectives - the annual ejournal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. The CFP is here: https://t.co/l1DmHHppk2

🟡Just Out New Editorial "In no small words: Sandra Harding (1935–2025)" 𓍲🕯️ By @luisreyes, Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza, Raoni Rajão, Sandra González-Santos & @VivaVivette 🍂 https://t.co/xL0SfLYycB #SandraHarding #OpenAccess #Tapuya8

From the Archive: Michael Haworth, 'Bernard Stiegler on Transgenerational Memory and the Dual Origin of the Human' - reconsiders Stiegler’s account of the emergence of the human species in light of research in transgenerational epigenetics. (2015)

Devastating...

Ads don’t just sell products; they sell values. American Eagle’s ad campaign isn’t just selling jeans, it’s also selling eugenics, race, and genetic determinism. https://t.co/aynjJePBTU

A must read. Thank you ⁦@mgergan⁩ for writing this brilliant essay. The intellectual clarity and theoretical engagement is powerful. Full article: The Universal Meets the Himalayan Particular: Indigeneity, Race, and Decolonization in India

Can the scientific practice of #KnowingMicrobes rely on inquiry and interdependence instead of control? Read the study by @heymayahey on fermentation as an #epistemic practice in a #sake #brewery in #Japan: https://t.co/Yfg0JUUpAE #makingspaceforMicrobes

Images play a crucial role in mediating the relationship between #microbes & humans at the interface of science+society 👀Whiteley Nygaard & Glerup on human agency in the depiction of the relation between #microbiome & #mind: https://t.co/okQX2zLvUb #scienceinculture #scicomm

My article - on how three Environment ministers between 2009-14 intervened in the debate over #GMcrops - is out in the Annals of @theAAG. It provides a rare ethnography of the politics of expertise at the interface between senior bureaucrats and the union cabinet of ministers.

Evaluating health risks is not limited to pathogens, and depends on views of the environment @RittiSoncco on the construction of Scottish landscapes as beautiful & safe that renders the high prevalence of #lymedisease invisible: https://t.co/pmNJs34Xut #ticks #chronicillness

Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://t.co/BRoU9TeRtN #Fanon #Wynter

How can #STS expand the view of #microbes beyond the pathogenic, the human, and toward complex #ecologies? 👀 Read Cañada, Sariola, and Rest's introduction of the thematic collection Microbes and STS: https://t.co/dnYaQiP8Do #humanmicroberelations #situatedknowledge