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@keanbirch.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:12 PM

And #4S2026 is off! Just getting a chance to grab lunch and catch a breather

@kwissoker.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:19 PM

Happy to be in Toronto at the #4S2026 science studies meeting with Assistant Editor Kate Mullen and a lot of great @dukepress.bsky.social books!

A table of Duke University Press books at the 4S science studies meeting in Toronto
@igraywill.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:08 PM

#4S2026 begins today. I am psyched to be in this program with so many interesting & amazing thinkers. #STS @datasociety.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

@richmondywong.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:57 PM

We've got a couple Spatial STS oriented events today (Wed Oct 7) at the #4S2026 conference!

12:20-1:30pm in Churchill room, Panel: Spatial STS - A Living Glossary for Place-based Scholarship. We'll talk about how space/place show up in our research, and concepts that help us make sense of that.

@uchicagopress.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:03 PM

The Society for Social Studies of Science meeting is underway! You can check out our featured books and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping with promo code EX58412 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEX4S #4S2026

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@dukepress.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:01 PM

We're joining you in Toronto for #4S2026! On the blog today, we've got everything you need to know about our presence and our conference savings. buff.ly/2sbHZXV

Text reads, "Society for the Social Studies of Science 2026 Conference Exhibit. Use code 4S26 for 40% off when you order from dukeupress.edu." Background features assorted book and journal covers arranged in columns.
@stephenyang.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:39 PM

Might have to show up to my session at #4S2026 straight from the airport after a red-eye with a layover

This is my 5th (or 6th?) flight in a row where my flight either got delayed for 6+hours or straight up cancelled

Am tired đŸ„±

@tpelinski.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:21 PM

and I'll be at 4S2026 #4S2026 this week!! presenting at the "Many, Many Machine Agencies: Recipes for Posthuman-Human Encouters" tomorrow Wednesday 8-10am (2nd Floor Kent) presenting "Cyberpunk inversions and chatbot escapes"

Screenshot of conference programme: 24. Many, Many Machine Agencies: Recipes for Posthuman-Human
Encounters 1
Panel
8:00 to 10:00 AM
2nd Floor
Kent
Participants:
Empowerment or Alienation: Assemblage Relations of Human-Machine
Hybrids from the Perspective of Relational Ontology Andrew Wu, Sun-
Yat-sen University; Xiang Fang, Sun Yat-sen University
A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Fugitive Machine Agencies Maurice Jones,
Concordia University
Cyberpunk inversions and chatbot escapes Teresa Pelinski, University of the
Arts London
Panel Organizer:
Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University
Nicole De Brabandere
Ceyda Yolgormez, Concordia University
Bart Simon, Concordia University
@sarabpritchard.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:12 PM

Attending #4S #4SToronto #4S2026 ?

I am giving away* 2 print copies of my new book, #TransformingNight, to grad students, postdocs, and/or contingent faculty who are attending in-person and repost this tweek/skeet/post/thingy between now and Friday.

* randomly selected, obvi 1 copy per person

Cover of my new book, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution, showing Hong Kong at night ("night"?), which glows in various shades of white, yellow, and orange. It's a striking cover, if I do say so myself (lol).
@jameshodges.netOct 6, 2026, 5:55 PM

🌎Just arrived in Toronto for #4S2026!

🌊Come by tomorrow (Weds) for my talk (w/ @robarcand.bsky.social) on the history of surf prediction

🌎Part of a three-session panel “Environment as Information, Information as Environment”

Two graphs of wave energy spectra above two images of ocean waves (one peaky beach break and one lined up point)112. Environment as Information, Information as Environment 3
1:30 to 3:20 PM 
2nd Floor Dufferin 

“Archaeologies of Wave Forecasting: Contextual Frictions and the Cultural Techniques of Environmental Data Monitoring” 

by Rob Arcand, McGill University; and James Hodges, San José State University
@thaophan.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:26 PM

#4S #4SToronto #4S2026

@sebgiessmann.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 4:14 PM

Wow! There are 31 parallel panels at tomorrow's start of #4S in Toronto. That guarantees quite a bit of FOMO! See you out there somewhere ... #4S2026 #4SToronto #parallelprocessing

Also, do you happen to know the right hashtag? @4sweb.bsky.social

Conference logo 4S 2026 Toronto Technopower - Technoscientific Futures
@sarabpritchard.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 8:25 PM

Looking forward to 2 conferences this week!

Th, Oct 8: International Conf on #NightStudies (virtual)
“Seeing Like a Turtle”: Rethinking #LightPollution and #Night 🐱

Sat, Oct 10: #4S2026 #4SToronto (IRL)
“Night as Frontier”: Technological frontierism in night, sky, and space since the late 19th [
]

@igraywill.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 3:53 PM

Mixing critical & conceptual reflections at #4S2026 #4S26 w/ learning, skill development, & experimentation in public, creative, & not-academic contexts is my ideal version of a conference. Sometimes one can get both, like at many #DH & #CivicTech conferences. #HASTAC2023 was like. #DIW26

@nickseaver.websiteOct 5, 2026, 3:40 PM

folks coming to #4S2026, I'm organizing not one, not two, not three, but *four* panels on the social study of contraptions. come by my new home, the Wentworth room on the second floor of the venue this Thursday, to say hi

160. Contraptions 1

Panel
8:00 to 10:00 AM
2nd Floor
Wentworth

Participants:
The Operation of Failure: Amazon Go and its Lessons for Automated Life Zoe Horn, Western Sydney University

Contraptions of Glucose Testing and the Gimmickry of Non-Diabetic Attachments Carrie Rentschler, McGill University

Riding into the Millennium: The Fixed-Gear Bicycle as Contraption Bernhard Isopp, Technical University of Munich

5G as compromised form: From technical standard to visceral abstraction Rory Sharp, York University

Panel Organizer:
Nick Seaver, Tufts University195. Contraptions 2

Panel
10:20 to 12:20 PM
2nd Floor
Wentworth

259

4S 2026

THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 8

Participants:
Contraptions of Cognition: Shannon’s Theseus, Minsky’s SNARC, and the Liminal Machines of Early AI Asaf Hazan, Bar-Ilan University
On (non)Interconnection or, the Story of the Beeper-Phone Sadie Couture, Smithsonian Insitution's National Museum of American History/Northwestern University
Contraptions: Toward an Ingenious Theory of Technology Ted Striphas, University of Colorado Boulder
Lost and Found in Translation: AI Translators as Contraptions Heewon Kim, Jeonbuk National University
Noisy Contraptions: Towards Materialist Identification of Algorithmic Harms Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh, University of Michigan
Panel Organizer:
Nick Seaver, Tufts University259. Contraptions 3

Panel
1:30 to 3:20 PM
2nd Floor
Wentworth

Participants:
“Dude just work”: Mouse Jigglers and the Perception of Technical Complexity Nick Seaver, Tufts University

Approximation and its Discontents: toward a history of machine intelligence as language contraption Xiaochang Li, Stanford University

Making Up Chatbots: Hacking Together jeffrey lockhart, University of California, Berkeley

'It's all smoke and mirrors till it's not': Thinking with the contraption Sarah Yems, Concordia University

A Good Enough Mousetrap: LLMs as Professional Contraptions Gabriel Alcaras, Sciences Po; Donato Ricci, Sciences Po

Panel Organizer:
Nick Seaver, Tufts University293. Contraptions 4

Panel
3:40 to 5:30 PM
2nd Floor
Wentworth

Participants:
Modded Minecraft as Contraption in the University Classroom Darren Wershler, Concordia University; Bart Simon, Concordia University

From Control to Floods of Useless Data: The Life of PLATO Ekaterina Babintseva, Carnegie Mellon University

Cat Got Your Timbre: Contraptions, Interface Aesthetics, and Memetic Vocal Play Kate Galloway, Wilfrid Laurier University

The metro and the share-auto, or captivity and contraptivity as two modes of socializing technology Deepak Prince, IIIT-Delhi

Panel Organizer:
Nick Seaver, Tufts University
@igraywill.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 3:30 PM

Fellow #4S2026 attendees & presenters: who else is going to check out some of the very interesting sounding panels on digital literacy, media literacy, and AI literacy?

It's also #DigitalInclusionWeek, & TPL is hosting a ton of events & workshops: tpl.ca/programs-and...

@4sweb.bsky.social

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