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Sam weiss evans Jul 23, 2023

Still one of my favorite quotes from my doctorate. And apt for this platform :-)

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b997ee24-8e28-4bf6-9440-298d8e9dcab0

Technological ambiguity & the Wassenaar Arrangement - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

International cooperation on export controls for technology is based on three assumptions, that it is possible: to know against whom controls should be directed; to control the international transfer of technology; and to deﬁne the items to be controlled. These assumptions paint a very hierarchical

Sam weiss evans Jul 5, 2023

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

The Guardian

Sam weiss evans Jul 3, 2023

I remember that time in grad school when I first found an Ur paper for a particular metric, and I just scratched my head and said, “that's all we’ve got to go on??" It's even more fun when this is an STS paper, talking about the ways science/engineering are socially constructed 🙃 #smbc https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics

Sam weiss evans Jul 3, 2023

Does anyone have a good #biosecurity list going on here yet?

Sam weiss evans May 4, 2023

Nick Seaver May 4, 2023

Boston-area STS folks: Tufts STS is looking to hire a part-time lecturer for next academic year. Teaching load is one intro course and two discussion-only reading groups, all on topics of your choice. Benefits-eligible! Hit me up with any questions. https://apply.interfolio.com/124875

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Sam weiss evans Mar 21, 2023

1) top cover for practitioners who want to try something different

2) funding for small scale experiments in governance that are directly addressing the structural issues that limit our current systems

3) a process for those engaged in these experiments in governance to share our learning across communities, and for that learning from below to feed back into policy design.

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Sam weiss evans Mar 21, 2023

We note that rethinking involves being methodical about experimenting in governance. For these experiments in governance to work, we note three things that need to be place:

Sam weiss evans Mar 21, 2023

In @statnews today, David Gillum and I argue that now is an excellent time to rethink the infrastructure we have in place to identify and address #biosecurity concerns.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/21/lab-leak-biosecurity-risk-policies/

The lab leak conversation shows it’s time to rethink our biosecurity infrastructure, not just policies

With biosecurity at the forefront of people’s minds, this is an opportune moment to think differently.

STAT

Sam weiss evans Feb 2, 2023

Next Monday I'll be giving the STS Circle talk at Harvard on

"The governance of security concerns in science"

Monday Feb 6
12:15-2pm Eastern

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: STS Circle Spring 2023. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Jan. 30 - Jamie Wong (HASTS, MIT), Crowdsourced Cats: Machine Learning as Culture in Chinese Governance Feb. 6 - Sam Weiss Evans (Harvard STS, Research Affiliate Harvard SEAS), Governance of Security Concerns in Science Feb. 13 - Rahul Bhatia (Harvard Radcliffe Institute), India’s Biometric Identity Project Feb. 27 - Marlise Schneider (Technical University Munich & Harvard STS), Ever Upward? Microchip Futures for New York’s Rustbelt Mar. 6 - Arunabh Ghosh (History, Harvard), China and Global Small Hydropower in the 1980s Mar. 20 - Abigail Coplin (Vassar), The Precarious Expert: Science and the State During China’s GMO Controversy Mar. 27 - Martin Abbott (S&TS, Cornell), Fragile New Orleans. Fortress New Orleans Apr. 3 - Andy Murray (Harvard STS), Democracy in a Dish? Open Insulin and the Democratization of Biotechnology Apr. 10 - Elizabeth Dietz (ASU & Harvard STS), No Choice But to Choose: Informed Consent, Abortion, and the Politics of Denying Politics Apr. 17 - Larry Au (City College of New York), Chinese Scientists and Imaginaries of Global Science Apr. 24, Neil Safier (Brown), Translating the Plantationocene from the Prevolutionary Caribbean to Colonial Brazil

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Sam weiss evans Jan 16, 2023

I just realized I’ve been using “pique” wrong all my life 🤦

I didn’t know that there was a negative connotation to it, i.e. that “piquing my curiousity” implies that I’m irritated by what’s caused it.