Journal

NWO Report on Dutch national digital infrastructure published

Interview about US Big Tech abandoning fact checking

In early January, I was interviewed by Studio Europa Maastricht regarding the implications of recent moves by Meta, X and others to remove fact-checking. I very much enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation with Anna Mikhailova, and you can read the interview here. Next month, Studio Europa Maastricht will publish a series of policy briefings about the […]

2024 STS Creative Writing Competition

Michela Cozza, Nina Klimburg-Witjes and I organised a second STS creative writing competition. The winners were announced during the EASST/4S conference held in Amsterdam from 16-19 July. The winning entries have now been published in the EASST Review, together with a short introduction by Michela, Nina and myself. There was a winner in each of […]

New article in ‘International Migration’

Cecilia Schenetti, Valentina Mazzucato, Djamila Schans and I have a new article in International Migration. It is called ‘Navigating Contradictions: Justifications and Imaginaries of the Initiators of European Migration Information Campaigns’. It is based on Cecilia’s PhD fieldwork about how policy makers make sense of information campaigns designed to deter undocumented migration, from Senegal to […]

Lectures and Presentations in 2025

19 February, Maastricht (tbc) – launch of Special Policy Brief about the Digital Services Act, Studio Europa 20 February, Maastricht – annual meeting of the Mental Health and Neuroscience PhD school at Maastricht University, workshop about mental health and gender bias on Wikipedia. 5-7 May, Graz, Austria – taking part in panel about responsible innovation […]

Call for contributions: Hostility by Design

Call for contributions to workshop about hostility by design, to be held in Maastricht on 12-13 June 2025.

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Call for Papers: Special issue about Citational Politics

CfP: special issue about citational politics. Full papers due on 28 February 2025. To be published in KULA.

Digital transformations Encyclopedia entry

new publication about digital transformations in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin

FASoS Story Slam

Colleagues shared stories about working at FASoS. I shared my recollections of cold calling Wiebe Bijker in 1992. You can listen to the story here.

Columns in Observant, Maastricht University newspaper

Columns in university newspaper

I’ve been invited to write regular columns again for Observant, Maastricht University’s independent newspaper. I did this from 2017-2020, but stopped when I joined the Faculty Board. Now I’m back, with five columns to write for this academic year. You can find both new and old columns here. I’ve addressed everything from lawnmowing robots to […]