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• Bretton Woods Project: Advancing a feminist approach to women’s economic inequality November 15, 2019
  Panellists: Jenny Ricks (moderator), Global Convenor of Fight Inequality Alliance (FIA) Kalpana Kochar, Director, Human Resources Department Crystal Simeoni, Head of Advocacy and Economic Justice Lead, Femnet Wangari Kinoti, International Policy Advisor at ActionAid International Bilquis Tahira, Shirakat Jan Hochadel, co-chair the inter-American regional executive committee of Public Services International (PSI) and American Federation of […]
• n-gate.com. we can't both be right.: webshit weekly November 15, 2019
  An annotated digest of the top "Hacker" "News" posts for the second week of November, 2019. System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server November 08, 2019 (comments) Some webshits only have a hammer. Hackernews embraces the World as Nails theory, pointing out all the other ways you can use a relational […]
• The Society for Social Studies of Science: Post-truth and the Search for Objectivity: Political Polarization and the Remaking of Knowledge Production November 15, 2019
  The United States has entered an era of “post-truth” as even seemingly proven facts seem open to contestation. The contests over facts range from the existential (when conservatives deny climate change) to the trivial (when the Trump administration questions the audience figures of its own inauguration ceremony). This essay combines two literatures on post-truth that […]
• The Society for Social Studies of Science: Rethinking Scientific Habitus: Toward a Theory of Embodiment, Institutions, and Stratification of Science November 15, 2019
  Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has been largely absent in Science and Technology Studies (STS) despite its potential usefulness. In this essay, I develop the concept of scientific habitus as a useful way to think about scientific practices. I argue that scientific habitus may offer three contributions that illuminate scientists’ own micro-practices in relation to […]
• The Society for Social Studies of Science: What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation November 15, 2019
  There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states such as mind wandering and daydreaming have been made visible in experiments […]
• The Society for Social Studies of Science: Translators Producing Knowledge: Where There Is No Doctor in Tamil November 15, 2019
  Where There Is No Doctor is one of the most widely used community health books in the world and has been translated into over 80 languages. This paper traces four aspects of translation in Tamil-language editions of the text, including Doctor Illaadha Idaththil and related books. First, translators choose and create language to produce a […]