May 2025

Welcome to the 23rd edition of the AsSIST-UK Newsletter, reporting on news, research and community activities across the Winter of 2024-25.

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AsSIST-UK 2025: Reflexions -Registration Now Open

The 2025 AsSIST-UK Biennial Conference on the theme Reflexions will be held at The University […]

Travel Support Available for AsSIST UK 2025 Conference

Limited travel support is now available to unfunded contributors to the AsSIST-UK 2025 Conference, courtesy […]


AsSIST-UK ECR update!

AsSIST-UK ECR The AsSIST ECR (Early Career Researchers) group brings together PhD students and post-doctoral […]

Owen Abbott’s book ‘Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency’

Owen Abbott’s book ‘Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency’ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-75181-3 From the back […]

Professor Webb Keane forthcoming book ‘Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination’

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454066/animals-robots-gods-by-keane-webb/9780241613207 From the back page: We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they […]

Portable Cow

Just two month ago, Portable Cow crossed the Atlantic for the very first time. Photographer […]

Why microbes matter to social science

The 2025 Andrew J Webster lecture Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University Date: 17 June […]

Author: Matjaz Vidmar

Researcher in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Science Communicator, (Not So Amateur) Astronomer and Blogger?