Joe Biden has announced that Professor Alondra Nelson will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for science and society: see ‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist Alondra Nelson to top science post (nature.com). She is the president-elect for 4S, the Society for the Social Studies of Science. See the report on the 4S website: President’s Message, January 2021 – Society for Social Studies of Science (4sonline.org)