Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
@tapuya.org
Welcome to Tapuya!📖 This is a peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, published by Taylor&Francis, and affiliated to ESOCITE and 4S. By publishing STS research about and from LatAm & other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current scholarship.
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💻 [Calls & Applications] | History of Computing in Latin America – @unicologne.bsky.social PhD Position: ERC WIRED project seeks a doctoral researcher on 1980s–90s chip manufacturing in Costa Rica. MA + Spanish required. 📅 Deadline: Nov 4, 2026 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
⚕️[Calls & Applications] | History of Science, Technology & Medicine – UT Austin Tenure-track Assistant Professor position, that works any scientific practice since 1600. Teach undergrad/grad, join interdisciplinary programs. 📅 Review begins Nov 6, 2026 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
🟨Just out! New Article ““Tero science”: producing evidence in the south for developing regulations in the north”. ⚙️ By Ezequiel Sosiuk 🐧Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2699470
⚖️Part of “Negotiating and Objectifying Scientific Knowledge to Establish Standards and Measures in Latin America” Cluster #RegulatoryScience #InternationalScientificCooperation #Conservation #MagellanicPenguin #ZoosAndAquariums #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
🖥️[Calls & Applications] | History of Computing in Brazil – @unicologne.bsky.social PhD Position: ERC WIRED project seeks a doctoral researcher on 1960s–70s computer science education. MA + Portuguese required. 📅 Deadline: Nov 4, 2026 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
☕︎ New in [LAT-STS Library]! “The Military Entertainment Complex” by Mhoze Chikowero explores Chimurenga music’s role in Zimbabwe’s liberation and state-making. Now part of our LAT-STS Library, and open access! 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ @mitpress.bsky.social
New Thematic Cluster Article “Decoding community participation: standardization and control in a Mexico’s cold war-era development program” 🏘️ By Joel Vargas Domínguez 📋Free read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
⚖️Part of “Negotiating and Objectifying Scientific Knowledge to Establish Standards and Measures in Latin America” Cluster #CommunityDevelopment #Standardization #ColdWar #Mexico #SocialControl #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
📰[NEWS] El Colegio de México invita a la conferencia “Otros mundos digitales desde pueblos indígenas” donde Fernanda Rosa (Virginia Tech) analizará las desigualdades digitales en México. 📅 13 oct, 16–18 h | Colmex y YouTube 🔗Más información en tapuya.org/news/
🎯[Editor’s Picks] Esta semana nuestras editoras recomiendan este texto por @elagusdekomodo.bsky.social, en el que hace una crítica urgente al sistema de publicación académica. 📑Descubre dónde leerlo en tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/ @letraslibres.com
🟡Just Out! New Article “Artificial intelligence, judicial archives, and transitional justice: analysis of the Quiñones Case in Chile”⚖️ By Hugo Rojas Corral, @antoniafonck.bsky.social, Darwin Sanhueza, @domingomery.bsky.social & Jocelyn Dunstan 📢 Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
⿻ Part of the “Tracing the Past, Mapping the Present: Digital Methods in Latin American Cultures” cluster #ArtificialIntelligence #TransitionalJustice #CourtRecords #HumanRightsArchives #GraphRAG #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
📣[Calls & Applications] LABETNO (Colmex) extiende el plazo para participar en el 2° Coloquio Estudiantil de Investigación Etnográfica. Invitación a estudiantes de ciencias sociales y humanidades para presentar ponencias o paneles. 📅07/oct/2026 🔗+info tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/
📚New in [LAT-STS]! “Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science” by Saul Justin Newman exposes fraud in longevity science—fake centenarians, debunked “Blue Zones”, and dubious research. 🔵 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS #AgingScience #ScienceFraud @mitpress.bsky.social
🟡Just Out New Article “STS needs deeper frames of participation: historicizing public dialogues with technoscience from Latin America”🗪 By Julian “Iñaki” Goñi @inakigoni.bsky.social 🗫Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2679331 #PublicParticipation #STS #LatinAmerica #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
📢[Calls & Applications] Les invitamos al Diplomado “Racismo y Xenofobia vistos desde México” en su 17ª promoción. Programa en línea con nuevos temas como: racismo ambiental, genómica, salud y antirracismo. 📅 Inscripciones hasta el 30/sept/26. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #Racismo
📖[Book Review] in Tapuya Vol. 9 Reinecke's “Digital Culture Shock” exposes Silicon Valley's WEIRD biases, but @jaguridi.bsky.social argues LatAm friction demands more: tech sovereignty, cognitive justice, & decolonial creativity beyond adaptive interfaces.🎮 👉 tapuya.org/resources-2/book-reviews/
🟨Just out! New Review Article “Speaking for nature? Irreduction and demo-genesis in Bruno Latour”.👣 By João Vasco Coelho 🗣️ Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2700799 #BrunoLatour #Irreduction #DemoGenesis #Gaia #Anthropocene #DistributedAgency #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
🎙️[Editor’s Picks] In this chapter @phieveigl.bsky.social discusses her co-ed vol. “Methods in the Philosophy of Science” (2025), challenging boundaries between scientific & lay knowledge, asking who counts as an expert & what constitutes a reliable source. 🦉 tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
✆➤ [Calls & Applications] Position in the History of Computing, Data Science, or Artificial Intelligence, @upenn.edu. PhD required; historical/ethnographic methods. ✦ Review begins Oct 5, 2026. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/calls-applications/ #AcademicJobs #HistoryOfComputing
⭐New in [LAT-STS Library] We just added “Dare to Invent the Future” by Clapperton Mavhunga: a manifesto for problem-solving knowledge from African realities. Suggested reading for rethinking science and technology in the Global South. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat... #GlobalSouth #STS #Decolonial
📌 [NEWS] Conferencia "Ciencia de la Liberación: estadística, tierra y revolución en Rusia, Estados Unidos y México", a cargo de Tiago Saraiva (Drexel U), donde explorará el papel de la estadística en la transformación agraria del siglo XX. 📅 24/09, 11h. En CEIICH-UNAM y YouTube. 🔗 tapuya.org/news/
🟡Just Out! New Article “Datafication infrastructures. Reference approaches and methodological discussions for studying digital records of serious human rights violations”🛡️ By Víctor Hugo Ábrego 🤜 Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
💨 [Editor’s Picks] Esta semana les recomendamos la conferencia que la Dra. Andra Chastain ofreció en el Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM. La sesión explora dimensiones históricas y culturales de la contaminación del aire en contextos urbanos. 🚗 tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/
[Article] Straight outta the tropics: pathological features of techno-scientific promises in neglected tropical disease research by Hugo Ferpozzi 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
[Article] Public participation and democratization: effects on the production and consumption of science and technology by Noela Invernizzi 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
[Article] Southern theories in Northern circulation: analyzing the translation of Latin American dependency theories into German by Clara Ruvituso 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
[Article] Researching public policy in the making: the Ecuadorian Law of Entrepreneurship and Innovation by María Belén Albornoz & Isarelis Pérez Ones 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
[Article] Appropriations, conflicts and subversions: the social construction of the Brazilian Forest Code by Raoni Rajão, Ely Bergo de Carvalho & Frank Merry 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
[Article] Not inconceivable: knowledge-production, the arts, and the pre-history of a Puerto Rican artist, 1934–1882 by Chon A. Noriega 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
Vol 3 also marked the beginning of a new space for opinion and timely interventions, recognizing that sometimes academic publishing needs to make room for what cannot wait. 🌎 Explore V3 and revisit the conversations that continue to shape STS www.tandfonline.com/toc/ttap20/3/1 #AcademicPublishing
[Article] Double-edged knife: practices and perceptions of technology and digital security among Mexican journalists in violent contexts by Rubén Arnoldo González & Frida V. Rodelo 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572...
🟡Just Out! New Article “Web platforms as repositories of audiovisual memory: the opportunities and pitfalls for accessing televisual heritage in Colombia”📂 By Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed & Carlos Gutiérrez-González 🗃️ at: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
⿻ Part of the “Tracing the Past, Mapping the Present: Digital Methods in Latin American Cultures" cluster #AudiovisualArchive #ColombianTelevision #DigitalMethods #YouTube #LLM
🚀New in[LAT-STS Library]! Check out the new edition of Jules Verne’s "From the Earth to the Moon" ( @mitpress.bsky.social), the classic reimagined with essays on spaceflight, ethics, and the human-technoscience relationship. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS #SpaceStudies #ScienceFiction
🟨Just out! New Review Article “The “Havana Syndrome”: atmospheres of anxiety and neurological states👁️ By Denielle Elliott & @alexandrinebf.bsky.social ✚Also available in Spanish as supplemental material. Read it at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2672234 #BrainInjuries #Havana #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
🛤[Editor’s Picks] El Seminario Permanente de Corporalidades presenta un conversatorio con Samuel Rivera Andrade, donde analiza el tren "La Bestia" y la migración desde la corporalidad y la necropolítica. ▶️Encuentra el video en tapuya.org/resources-2/editors-picks/ #Migración #Etnografía
📢 [NEWS] “Saberes”, la revista de Historiadores de las Ciencias y las Humanidades A.C., ingresa al Sistema Nacional de Publicaciones, reconocimiento otorgado por parte de la SECIHTI. Acceso abierto y arbitraje doble ciego. ¡Celebramos su misión! 🔗 tapuya.org/news/ #HistoriaDeLasCiencias
🟡Just Out New Thematic Cluster Article “What “counts” as reliable data? Nahua science and the tlapohualiztli (reading) of earth and sky” By Kelly S. McDonough 🐍 Free read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2026.2651573 #IndigenousScience #Nahuas #Omens #Comets #Animals #OpenAccess #Tapuya9
📊 Novo na [LAT-STS Library]! Números em ação examina como números produzem autoridade, afetos e políticas no Brasil. Coletânea que revela a vida social da quantificação. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #Quantificação #CiênciasSociais #OpenAccess