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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 story by tagging us @science_slotmachine. You can also always send us your topic suggestions and STS related questions to scienceslotmachine@gmail.com

Thanks to Free Sound user FiveBrosStopMosYT for “Spaceship Flyby 3” (uploaded on April 2nd, 2021 - Creative Commons licensed). Additional sounds from NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Golden Record.


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💖 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 order to gain more insights, we explore different angles, theories, and concepts from STS and beyond. We discuss Langdon Winner’s article “Do Artefacts Have Politics?”, a chapter from the STS Handbook, and Sheila Jasanoff’s notion of “co-production”.

Tune in to get to know more about how we can look at food through an STS lens 🔊

Sources:

Iles, A., Graddy-Lovelace, G., Montenegro, M. & Galt, Ryan. (2016). Agricultural systems: Co-producing knowledge and food. In U. Felt, R. Fouche, C. Miller, L. Smith-Doerr (Eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (4 th edition) (pp. 943-972). Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Jasanoff, S. (2004). The Idiom of Co-production. In States of Knowledge. The Co-Production of Science and Social Order (pp. 1-12) . London: Routledge.

Winner, L. (1986). Do Artifacts Have Politics? In The Whale and the Reactor. A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (pp. 19-39) . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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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 misconduct including plagiarism, false data fabrication, and issues of (co)authorship ☝

While we also touch upon famous cases of plagiarism like the recent case of minister Aschbacher in Austria, we ask ourselves how scientific practice can actually be improved and how good scientific practice can actually be achieved❓

Tune in to get to know more about misconduct, responsibility, and trust in science 🔊

References:

Shapin, Steven, & Schaffer, Simon. (1985). Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Merton, Robert K. (1973) [1942]. The Normative Structure of Science. In Robert K. Merton Robert (ed.), The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (pp. 267-278). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Weber, Stefan. (2009). Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrom: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden (2., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl.. ed., Telepolis). Hannover: Heise.

Weber, Stefan. (n.d.). Doz. Dr. Stefan Weber. Sachverständiger für Plagiatsprüfung. Accessed March 6, 2021. https://plagiatsgutachten.com/.


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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 embedded in them?

👭 In STS we look at science as a collective enterprise.👭 While we often assume that scientists do their very best to expand the knowledge that societies can build upon, this assumption has been challenged and discussed critically by STS scholars since the 1980s.

Recently in Austria, we have been talking a lot about plagiarism, but professor Ulrike Felt nicely points out that there is more to discuss when thinking about science and scientific misconduct.💬

She also explains to us what her own research is about and how she investigates scientific practices. Thanks a lot to Ulrike Felt who shared her thoughts and ideas with us.🎇

Tune in to get to know more! 👋

Ulrike Felt’s university webpage: https://sts.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/ulrike-felt/


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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 sustainable fashion, check out the “Exchange Collective, Майна” community Ivana created.

We are also ultra thankful to Katharina Buiten 👩🧠who reminded us about the different approaches towards sustainability and the holistic perspective we could apply to it. 🍀 Don’t forget to look up the digital magazine she represents ➡️ Tech & Nature, dedicated entirely to sustainable news, solutions, and ideas. 

Some local sustainability startups 🚀we mention in the episode that you might want to know more about are ➡️ TooGoodToGo, Refurbed, Rebel Meat, ZIRP Insects, and Damn Plastic. In the sources, you can find a link to a list of all zero waste shops in Vienna. :)

And if you are in the corporate world 👔 make sure you get more familiar with the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 🧐


Drop us your comments and opinions on our social media channels: 🤳🏽

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🗓️ This episode was recorded on January 7th, 2021. 🗓️

Last but not least: Let’s spin the science slot machine reels again and see which topic hits the jackpot! 🎰 Drop us your suggestions at scienceslotmachine@gmail.com


Sources:

Music & Sounds https://icons8.com/ & https://freesound.org/ 

Literature:


Bourdieu, P. (2020). Habitus and Field: General Sociology, Volume 2 (1982-1983)
Brand, U. & Wissen M. (2017). Imperiale Lebensweise.
Jasanoff, S. (2003). In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium.
Jasanoff, S. (2010). A New Climate for Society.
Pörksen, U. (1995). Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language
Österreichischer Verkehr erreicht Klimaziel für 2020 - www.techandnature.com
Zero Waste Shops: Hier kannst du in Wien plastikfrei einkaufen - www.tecandnature.com 
Claus Lamm: Der Wiener Psychologe, der eine Klimaschutz-Diät empfiehlt -www.techandnature.com
Stadt Wien - Urban Farming 
TU-Honig: Reiche erste Ernte 














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“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 three main pillars are long term environmental practices, a better quality of life for all members of society, and sustainable economic development.

In this episode, we discuss a variety of topics related to sustainability, climate change, and environmentally friendly projects such as the sustainable development goals (SDGs), reducing greenwashing inequality, innovative solutions, frugal innovation. What it’s all about, and who is responsible? The individual or societies as a whole? ❓❗️

We are extremely thankful to Dimitar (Dino) Kirov who shared some of his knowledge on sustainable mobility. 🚗☢️ His comment is a great example of how less we actually know about sustainable solutions and that sustainability often serves as a marketing strategy rather than a way of changing the world. If you are interested in learning more about “full and plug-in hybrids or battery electric vehicles”, check out this essay by Dino Kirov. ⬅️

Sustainability is such a broad and important topic that we barely managed to talk about all the different angles you can look at it from. Therefore, we continue our philosophical debates on sustainability in Part II, where we explore further the concept of slow and fast fashion as well as different STS approaches towards sustainability. ⏯

🔔 Let us know what are your thoughts on sustainability! 🔔

Drop us your comments and opinions on our social media channels: 🤳🏽

Instagram @science_slotmachine
Facebook @TheScienceSlotMachine
Twitter @SciSlotMachine 

🗓️ This episode was recorded on January 7th, 2021. 🗓️

Last but not least: Let’s spin the science slot machine reels again and see which topic hits the jackpot! 🎰 Drop us your suggestions at scienceslotmachine@gmail.com

Sources:

Sounds www.bensound.com

Literature:


Jasanoff, S. (2003). In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium.
Jasanoff, S. (2010). A New Climate for Society.
Heede, R. (2013). Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers
Pörksen, U. (1995). Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language
Österreichische Haushalte produzieren jährlich 43,2 Kilogramm E-Waste - www.techandnature.com
Worst Plastic Polluters in 2020 - Statista.com 


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