How does your life sound? Which soundscapes shape the spaces around you? Let’s enter the STS spaceship and listen in on what Harry, Robbie, Costa and Nora would send out to space to portray their lockdown routines in 2021 Vienna. Join them in discussing the soundtracks of their lives and learn more about how STS concepts can help to make sense of space - be it at a physical, sociocultural or cognitive level. Feel free to share the soundscapes that portray your life with us in your Instagram...

💖 Fooooooood 💖 🍎 In this episode, Robbie, Nora, and Costa take a closer look at food 🍌 How can we look at food? And how can we look at food through an STS (Science and Technology Studies) lens? We discuss various aspects of food, including food production, our relations to food, food waste, and many more! What can we learn about societies and humans when looking at our relation to food ❓ Also, we try to discover some recent trends within the topics of food production and consumption 🌟 In...

In this episode, the Science Slot Machine team discusses the interview with professor Ulrike Felt further and explores pathways to think about science, different practices, and scientific misconduct 👀 But first, we are happy to announce that we are bringing on a new team member! In this episode, fellow STS master’s student Nora joins Robbie, Costa, and Harry for the first time 👯👯 Get to know more about her in the episode 👋 Here, the four of us discuss various aspects of scientific...

In this special feature, Harry and Costa have an interview on scientific practice with professor Ulrike Felt from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Vienna. 🎓 Together with Harry and Costa, our guest discusses a variety of questions: What is good science? Where does the responsibility for good and bad science lie? How can we look at science and scientific misconduct through an STS lens? 😎 How can we research scientific practices and the values...

In part II of our discussion of sustainability ♻️ the Science Slot Machine team turns to topics like fashion 💃, new and holistic approaches ♻️, and the usual STS (Science and Technology Studies) spin 🔱. Therefore, scholars like Sheila Jasanoff or Ulrich Brand and their concepts are discussed and put into relation. HUGE shoutout to Ivana Dimitrova 👧🧠 who shared her opinion on and experience with slow fashion. 👗👖  If you are living in Bulgaria and willing to try out the concept of a more...

“New year, new me” 🎉 strikes again and as we would like to live more mindfully in 2021, we are happy to kick off the first episode of the year with the topic of Sustainability. ♻️ Sustainability… a buzzword of our time! How can we think about it? And how can we define it? In Part 1 Robbie, Harry & Costa scratch the surface of the endless elements of sustainable living. 🍀 Generally speaking, sustainability includes three main aspects - environment 🌍, society 👭, and economy 📈, as the...

Sooo, how would you describe 2020 in one word? 🧐 A challenge, a resilience, an Oaschloch? What would you remember this year with? Lockdown, Zoom, home-office?😷 2020 certainly was a very different year one which surprised us with a variety of events, natural disasters, and humanitarian crises. In this episode, the Science Slot Machine Team - Harry, Robbie, and Costa, elaborate on some of the highlights of 2020 such as the Australian wildfires, the COVID-19 outbreak, the Black Lives Matter...

Did you prepare Christmas presents for friends and family already? 🎁 Be honest—how many presents did you purchase on Black Friday? In this episode, Harry, Robbie, and Costa discuss the wide topic of consumerism with the coming holidays in mind. We reflect on e-shopping, monitoring consumer behavior, planned obsolescence, reasserting the activist component back into Science and Technology Studies. 🛒 If you’re worried about being judged on this episode for your online shopping, don’t worry!...

Vienna, our favorite city! ❤️ A city with a rich history, beautiful architecture, and established traditions in art and science. A place that has always been ahead of its time, and which some of the greatest minds from various fields have called home - Mozart, Beethoven, Freud, Klimt, Schrödinger, and many others. 🧠🏡 Austria's capital, as you may know, has been ranked among the top 3 cities to live in worldwide 10 years in a row, which is quite an achievement. Therefore, in this episode, we...

Within the second part of our episode dedicated to the US Presidential elections between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, we would like to pay special attention to revisioning this complex topic from the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS), 👨‍🎓 Politics, society, science, and technology are inseparable entities of our lives and are the core aspects that construct our past, present, and future. 🤯 We managed to apply the STS approach to the case of the US presidential elections by...

Presidential elections are the main trait of modern democracies. 🗳️ And with the USA representing the oldest continuous democracy we know, the current presidential elections between Donald Trump and Joe Biden created an intense debate both within and beyond the geographical borders of the United States. 🇺🇸 Huge thanks to Hugh Schmidt 👨‍🎓 who took part in this episode and provided us with valuable insights on the structure of the voting system in the USA. Get to learn more about the history...

Soo, it is uni time again! 🏛️ And with the beginning of the new semester, we get to experience new challenges with e-learning, in terms of technology, organization, and peer communication. 🎓💻 For this episode, we created a short questionnaire as we aimed to explore further the satisfaction among students in various universities and FHs in Vienna regarding digital education practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. And we were quite surprised by the results! 🤯 What do you think, how would...

Have you ever wondered when the end of the universe would arrive and how it would look like? 🌌 Have you even thought about how old the universe might be? Future-making is a big deal in Science and Technology Studies. Therefore, Team Cherry 🍒 and Team Banana 🍌 debate over the possible scenarios that might cause the end of the World as we know it. Considering the popular misconception that the end of the universe and the end of the civilization are synonyms, the two teams aim to provide some...

We like our podcast as we like our coffee – Viennese/local and thought-provoking. 😎 Have you ever wondered why coffee houses are such a major part of the Viennese traditions? ☕ Café Central, Café Ritter, Café Landtmann are just a few of the most popular names that you might be familiar with. Let’s dive into the Viennese coffee house culture with the Science Slot Machine Podcast and get to learn more about the history of coffee houses in Austria and the vital role such social places play in...

With two new members, Patrick and Costa, the first official battle between Team Cherry 🍒 and Team Banana 🍌 revolves around the topic of (*drums*) Tracking Pigeons in Vienna! 🕊️ Quite a challenge but both teams managed to dig in the most interesting and relevant scientific findings and wrap them up in a great podcast episode! No doubt the flying rats have a terrible reputation... Hit the play button ▶️ and learn more about the fascinating nature of pigeons and how the urban areas have shaped...

Hi you all and welcome to the Science Slot Machine podcast! This is a special pod-trailer we have prepared for you in order to tell you what the Science Slot Machine is all about. In this exclusive episode, we introduce the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and explain how we use an STS perspective to make science more fun, exciting, and interactive! 🧠 Get to know better the team behind the podcast - Kat, Harry, Borni, Robi, Patrick, and Julia 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 as in the next episode Team...