I was just informed we have won the 4S Infrastructure Prize for our digitalSTS project!

This is an honor that is much appreciated, as many people invested a great deal of effort and intellectual sweat to make it happen.

Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) is an NSF Funded Research Community Development (RCD) project that seeks to form scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Spring 2025 we held our second workshop, focused on Expertise. It was a great event during what is a very difficult time for HIV/AIDS.

ASCE: Empowering Academic Research Security, February 25-27, 2025, Texas A&M, College Station, Tx

AAAI 2025 Workshop on ‘A Translational Institute for Knowledge Axiomatization’ March 3-4, 2025 University of Philadelphia

KOA - Knowledge of AIDS Annual Workshop II —‘Expertise’ — March 26th-28th, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) will be in Seattle next year, Sept.3-7, 2025

I will be program chair in collaboration with Anissa Tanweer and Wes King.

My book is under contract with MIT Press! They are targeting an early 2026 publication.

The book tracks the social history of three AIDS research infrastructures, that over three decades have ‘interoperated’, that is, sought to make their resources combinable and comparable.

In sum, the book is about all the work and technique demanded across years, decades and continents to support scientific studies of HIV/AIDS when next to nothing has stayed the same : not the disease, but also not the science or technology, not those who die from it or live with it, and certainly not its politics. And yet still, these research infrastructures go on supporting research.

Last fall I was promoted to full professor. It’s nice.