Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association | castac.org |https://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mjihrzee7s2nToday on Platypus, Dr. Melissa Villa Nicholas revisits her 2023 book, Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants, exploring its cultural and political resonance as ICE raids intensify across the country (1/2)...14 Apr 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjihrzee7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mj5qpeo2ek2lToday on Platypus, Isha Bhallamudi, Anushree Gupta, and Eesha Kunduri unpack how the gendered nature of platform work affects labour organizing in India and the opportunities for solidarity and forms of care that can emerge. Read to the complete post here: https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/gender-dimensions-of-platform-work-how-do-they-shape-unionizing/10 Apr 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5qpeo2ek2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mix67vrb2s2sHow can an Africanist lens of “incompleteness” (Nyamnjoh2017) inform feminist visions of AI in Africa? This Platypus blog series brings together work on LLMs that calls for a “relational, multimodal, and community-centered AI” beyond “totalizing linguistic (1/2)08 Apr 2026 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mix67vrb2s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mimf5cnzn22wToday on Platypus, Joyce Lu, Katharina Rynkiewich, and Pat Kinley introduce a special series on the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of infection. The posts in this series critically examine how epidemiologic keywords are socialized among experts and the broader public.03 Apr 2026 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimf5cnzn22whttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mifaqam2rs2dToday on platypus, Misria Shaik Ali reflects on how as people against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), Tamil Nadu endure the weight of an (un)resolved controversy...31 Mar 2026 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mifaqam2rs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mhsqlgywg22bToday on Platypus, Samiksha Bhan asks how precision becomes idealized and produced in AI-assisted diagnostics under uneven labor conditions that makes data workers in the global South vulnerable to harm and distress. Read and listen to the complete post here: https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/the-human-cost-of-precision/24 Mar 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsqlgywg22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mhjq67fq4k2xToday on Platypus Eva Steinberg asks how Mars Candy Corporations use of romance and the family shapes our understanding of plant breeding, genetics, and climate change. Read the complete post here: blog.castac.org/2026/03/love-a…21 Mar 2026 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhjq67fq4k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mgvy7daebk2pThis week on platypus Meenakshi Mani shows that the everyday work of typically well-paid tech professionals—whether that be within specific domains like EdTech or within Big Tech—are by no means without frustration. Read and listen to the complete post: https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/engineering-through-stuckness/13 Mar 2026 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgvy7daebk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mg6juzs6o22dWhat might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Today on Platypus, Michelle Venetucci and Shoko Yamada introduce a new series, exploring stuckness as a way to draw out structural conditions and meaning-making amongst experts: https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/series-theorizing-stuckness-in-science-and-technology/03 Mar 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6juzs6o22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mfrfvvjzus25Today on Platypus, Rachel Lim explores how climate‑crisis ‘emergency’ rhetoric ignores colonial roots, urging us to confront racial capitalism and extractive violence: https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/there-is-a-climate-emergency-and-its-called-colonialism/ #STS26 Feb 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrfvvjzus25https://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mftwbcqets2dA deadly, high-profile assault on a New Delhi bus in 2012 led to the installation of panic buttons on city's autorickshaws. Today on Platypus, William Stafford Jr. writes about the complex interplay of suspicion, affordance, and securitization that played out after. https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/a-promise-of-safety-for-everyone-anywhere-any-time-the-panic-button-the-city-and-the-box/27 Feb 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftwbcqets2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mfrpqlpr5s2bDon't forget our latest call to join CASTAC! 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Anushree, Debopriya and Malcolm reflect and offer some answers from their own work where they deploy labor as a lens to think with labor movements and write collaboratively: https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/transnational-translations-an-interdisciplinary-dialogue-on-platforms-and-labor/18 Feb 2026 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5s7fepdk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mf34tot7ak2k🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications. 🌎 Open for everyone in the world. Ready to apply? More information on the process: https://castac.org/cfa-public-relations-manager/17 Feb 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf34tot7ak2khttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mem2gbcxy22m🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications. 🔍More information on the role and process here: https://castac.org/cfa-public-relations-manager/ We invite you to apply!11 Feb 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mem2gbcxy22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3mem2gbcxy22m🔎 CASTAC is seeking applications for the Public Relations Manager role, a key board member who supports our organisation by managing social media and email communications. 🔍More information on the role and process here: https://castac.org/cfa-public-relations-manager/ We invite you to apply!11 Feb 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mem2gbcxy22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3me2a7fefc224The MAHA movement is skeptical of hormonal birth control, favoring a high-tech take on much older techniques of cycle tracking. Anthropology PhD student Anna Wood explores what's behind this rightward shift in reproductive discourse and women's health: https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed-cycling-toward-a-crossroads-menstrual-positivity-and-hormone-practices-under-right-wing-regimes/04 Feb 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2a7fefc224https://bsky.app/profile/castac.bsky.social/post/3me2a7fefc224The MAHA movement is skeptical of hormonal birth control, favoring a high-tech take on much older techniques of cycle tracking. Anthropology PhD student Anna Wood explores what's behind this rightward shift in reproductive discourse and women's health: https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed-cycling-toward-a-crossroads-menstrual-positivity-and-hormone-practices-under-right-wing-regimes/04 Feb 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:vjhq4kwygdo3ky65o723dni2/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2a7fefc224