Dr. Melina Packer, former STS DE student, is collaborating with biologist Dr. Ambika Kamath on her forthcoming second book, Feminism in the Wild (MIT Press, Spring 2025). In Feminism in the Wild, Dr. Ambika Kamath and Dr. Melina Packer reveal how scientists studying animal behavior have long projected human norms and values onto animals while seeking to understand them.… Read more

Available for pre-order Former STS DE student, Dr. Melina Packer’s first book, Toxic Sexual Politics (forthcoming spring 2025, from NYU Press) shows how the founding fathers of U.S. toxicology were ideologically aligned with the chemical industry, inventing a science that could “make chemicals safe,” as opposed to one that could adequately protect planetary health from toxicants’ hazards.… Read more

Applications for the STS Undergraduate Minor are now open. The deadline to apply is October 15th, 2024! As our students enter into a world of accelerating change, it has become ever more important that these future scientists, engineers, computer and data scientists, health care practitioners, social scientists, teachers, policymakers, and more be able to reason… Read more

This course is a STS DE student requirement. Graduate students must take at least one semester of the CSTMS Thursday colloquium (HIST/STS 290) as the third required class. Colloquium Dates in Fall 2024:October 3rdOctober 10thOctober 24thNovember 14th TH 4:00 pm – 5:29 pmLocation: Stephens 470 Instructor: Sandra Eder, Director of CSTMS Class #:19299Units:1 Course Catalog Description Colloquium… Read more

Fall 2024 : DATA C104 / STS C104/ HIS C184D Human Contexts and Ethics of Data Aug 28 2024 – Dec 13 2024Undergraduate section: M, W, F from 3:00 pm – 3:59 pmInstructors: Cathryn Carson, Ari EdmundsonLocation: Dwinelle 155, UC Berkeley Campus Class #: 24482 This course teaches you to use the tools of applied… Read more

Fall 2024 : DATA C204 / STS C204/ HIS 254 Human Contexts and Ethics of Data Aug 28 2024 – Dec 13 2024Graduate section: Tu 10am – 12pmInstructor: Ari EdmundsonLocation: Mulford 107 Class #:34154 This course teaches you to use approaches from the across the humanities and interpretive social sciences and tools of Science, Technology,… Read more

Human Contexts and Ethics of Data- DATA/History/STS Jul 17 2024 – Aug 09 2024 TU, W, TH 2:00 pm – 3:59 pm Dwinelle 145 Class #:15608 Units:4 Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction Class Description: This course teaches you to use the tools of applied historical thinking and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) to recognize, analyze, and shape the human contexts… Read more

Special Topics in the History of Science: The History of Silicon Valley Jul 01 2024 – Aug 09 2024 TU, W, TH 2:00 pm – 4:30 pmLewis 9, UC Berkeley CampusClass #:15650Units:4 Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction Class Description: Silicon Valley: the place where our quotidian is manufactured. The Hollywood of the digital, it’s the literal ground upon which… Read more

The HSNS February 2024 Issue marks the first for a new “Essays and Reviews” editorial team: Melinda Baldwin and Brigid Vance. From the Editorial Team: Henry Cowles and Chitra Ramalingam have left us big shoes to fill, and we want to express our appreciation for everything they have done for both HSNS and us during this editorial… Read more

The Erc Socialist Medicine research group at Humboldt University in Berlin is looking to hire a postdoctoral research fellow for two years The deadline for applications is April 17, 2024. Socialist Medicine pushes the boundaries of global health history by shifting the focus of research in terms of place, people, and institutions to the socialist… Read more