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Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association |

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Who do we listen with, and who counts as a maker of culture? Listening with Whales is a digital commons bringing scientific, ancestral, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and embodied ways of listening into conversation. Listen with us! blog.castac.org/2026/10/list… #Platypus
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AI was supposed to make job hunting easier. So why did it feel like "putting out a fire with a bucket of fire"? New on #Platypus, Anna Huntington reflects on nearly a year of unemployment: ghost jobs, automated resume screening, ChatGPT...
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...and an increasingly impersonal hiring process. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/10/my-u…
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A normal guy came close to the gray-market peptide danger zone, then walked away. New on #Platypus, Tiffany Prendergast traces how looksmaxxing culture quietly mainstreams anti-institutional, DIY-medicine rhetoric. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/10/soft…
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How do health interventions reproduce an imagined distinction between places even when everyday practices blur those boundaries? New on #Platypus, Luisa Madrigal Marroquín maps this out through fieldwork on maternal health interventions in Guatemala.
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Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/imag…
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🟡Just Out New Article “STS needs deeper frames of participation: historicizing public dialogues with technoscience from Latin America” 🗪 By Julian “Iñaki” Goñi 🗫 Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.202… #PublicParticipation #DeeperFrames #STS #LatinAmerica #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
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📢 Platypus, the CASTAC blog, is seeking a new Managing Editor! Two-year term starting Jan 2027, ~5 hrs/week, two-person teams welcome. If you work at the intersection of anthropology and STS, we want to hear from you. Apps due Nov 1: blog.castac.org/cfa-platypus…
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Male infertility is often understood through deficit, loss, and vulnerability. But what might become visible if we also attended to men's capacities, relationships, resources, and reproductive futures? New on #Platypus. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/beyo…
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Today on Platypus, Lucy Pei examines how gig worker activists contest corporate claims to the global scale, building transnational solidarity to reshape the future of work: blog.castac.org/2026/09/tran… #STS #FutureOfWork
A sample book cover proposal featuring an illustration of the Earth with silhouettes of gig delivery workers (on bicycles, motorcycles, and foot) positioned across the top of the globe. At the top and center, Spanish slogans and titles read: "Una explotación con una nueva economía", "Si la precarización es mundial, la lucha es internacional", and "La precarización en las empresas de plataformas digitales a nivel mundial", listing editors Yuli Ramírez, Carolina Hevia, and Lucy Pei at the bottom.

ALT A sample book cover proposal featuring an illustration of the Earth with silhouettes of gig delivery workers (on bicycles, motorcycles, and foot) positioned across the top of the globe. At the top and center, Spanish slogans and titles read: "Una explotación con una nueva economía", "Si la precarización es mundial, la lucha es internacional", and "La precarización en las empresas de plataformas digitales a nivel mundial", listing editors Yuli Ramírez, Carolina Hevia, and Lucy Pei at the bottom.

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Catherina Wilson shows us how while WhatsApp can promote the inclusion of highly relevant analyses and insights by potential authors who feel excluded by academic (English) jargon, we need to critically reflect on its use and ethical implications. New on #Platypus.
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Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/smar…
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Ambar Reyes studies the lives and labor of delivery workers in New York City. In her blog post, she explores how systems designed for labor extraction are repurposed as infrastructures of care, accountability, and collective knowledge, connecting neighbourhoods and communities
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How does "digital immanence" reframe intimacy with the divine? This post thinks with the linguistic anthropological notion of "chronotope" as it relates to the digital and the future of our ever-mediated religious practices. New on #Platypus.
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Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/time…
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What happens when we measure aesthetic experience with an electroencephalogram? Two workshops by the Interspecifics collective show that the intersection of art and science does not produce synthesis, but productive friction. New on #Platypus.
Screenshot of the Scope software showing the XY-plane tracking of three regions of a Paenibacillus vortex colony, used to modulate sound synthesizer parameters.

ALT Screenshot of the Scope software showing the XY-plane tracking of three regions of a Paenibacillus vortex colony, used to modulate sound synthesizer parameters.

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¿Qué ocurre cuando medimos la experiencia estética con un electroencefalograma? Dos talleres del colectivo Interspecifics muestran que el cruce entre arte y ciencia no produce síntesis, sino fricción productiva. Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/stra…
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In Mexico, the word quelite comes from the Nahuatl kilitl. New on #Platypus, Aldo Palafox argues the declining use of quelites is best understood as a conflict between political ontologies, offering a critical perspective on narratives that reintegrate them into Mexican diets...
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... as native "vegetables." Read and listen: blog.castac.org/2026/09/kili…
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