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
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 🙃
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metrics
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
register for the webinar: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gA9P80DbQvuYIYCYUMQlow
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
