Social Studies of Outer Space @ssosnetwork
A research network joining social scientists working on topics related to Outer Space ssosnetwork.org Joined January 2019-
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Nasa 'Earthrise' astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash bbc.com/news/articles/…
Looking for an online space to get your writing on outer space done? Check out the Outer Space Coworking Cafe, organised by Anton Nikolotov @winter_noumenon. More info can be found on our website: ssosnetwork.org/coworking-cafe/
SYMPOSIUM: Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age 18 and 19 September 2023 In-person at @UCLanthropology, London Co-hosted by @ETHNOISS and @ssosnetwork Register and find further info below 🛰️ @UCLOuterSpace @UCLSpaceDomain ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…
'Space in Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space', 12–13 October 2023 at the Warburg Institute @Warburg_News More info here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-spa…
🚨Fully funded Ph.D.&Post-Doc vacancies in my #ERC project #FutureSpace @STSvienna! Join us to explore the relations btw. infrastructures, Europ. integration & envisioned space futures🚀Apply: June 15! #STS #SocialStudiesOfOuterSpace #Ariane6. More info:sts.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht-…
Third and penultimate NYU Space Talk of the spring 2023 season coming up on Wednesday, 19 April 2023: anthropologist Denis Sivkov on amateurs and children in space. To register 📷space-talks.com
CALL FOR PAPERS Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age 18 and 19 Sept 2023 Symposium hosted by ETHNO-ISS at @UCLanthropology in conjunction with @ssosnetwork 250-word abstracts due 23 June to Giles Bunch ethnoiss.space/cfp-sept-sympo…
A photo direct from the historic #SpaceportCornwall @SpaceCornwall #launch, taken by Dr Alexander R. E. Taylor @alexretaylor from @ExeterComms, who has been conducting fieldwork on the transformation of the South West into a space hub #StartMeUp #launchUK #launchCornwall
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Greetings from the #SpaceportCornwall #Launch 🛫 at Newquay Airport in Cornwall! @SpaceCornwall @Newquay_Airport @VirginOrbit #StartMeUp #LaunchUK #LaunchCornwall
🎉 Congratulations @WitjesNina - excited to see this timely and important project develop!
Time for champagne & lift-off! My project FutureSpace has been selected for an ERC Starting Grant! I am beyond grateful, super excited, and still a bit speechless #ERCStG @ERC_Research
On 9th November 2022, 12:30 – 14:00 GMT, I will be chairing this talk which takes a theological perspective on space law and technology. Register @spaceinafrica1 @officialesss @SANSA7 @ssosnetwork @SpaceAgencyKE @SpaceX @spacegovuk @S_D_O_S @IntDev_OU @OU_EEE
🎥 @OpenUniversity Webinar 🗓️ 9 November 2022 🕕 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT) Speaker: Jessica Giles from @OU_Law Chair: @fchemura from @OU_FASS This fascinating webinar will explore how space exploration, theology and human rights law intersect. Everyone welcome eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-theologica…
📢 New article could be of interest to the social studies / geographies of outer space community! 👇 🔭
Happy to announce that my chapter on space weather infrastructure in the arctic is out now (open access) in "More than 'Nature'", edited by @DorisFriedrich, Markus Hirnsperger and Stefan Bauer. lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643…
📡Transceiver - Oct 2022📡 How do post-Soviet nations use space tech to cultivate their identity, and what effects are Russia's recent aggressions having on those efforts? Join @nbekus (@UniofExeter) at 12pm ET on Oct 13 to learn more: yesterdaystomorrows.splashthat.com
Great line up of speakers for the fall 2022 NYU Space Talks: History, Politics and Astroculture lecture series from @actgeppert @ArtsandScience @nyuniversity! For further details and to RSVP, please consult space-talks.com
If you're interested in contributing to the #SSOSNetwork blog check out the 'Write for Us' page on our website! ssosnetwork.org/the-ssos-blog/…
Check out the latest post on the #SSOSNetwork blog - 'Turkish – Emirati Partnership Goes Extra-Terrestrial'. Yasin Yildirim from @karatekinUni and @ASBUedu discusses recent efforts from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to advance their space activity. ssosnetwork.org/2022/08/22/tur…
Co-authored by @juanbatfran and @PCastano - Framing the Futures of Australia in Space: Insights from Key Stakeholders Stakeholders is the core output of the project Australia a Space faring Nation: Imaginaries and Practices of Space Futures. westernsydney.edu.au/__data/assets/…
... @inga_pop, @jstpwalsh from @ISSarchaeology, @EllieTheElement, @MarijaIsailov11, @inga_pop, @Spidernautics, @V_Marcheselli and Makar Tereshin from @ETHNOISS @UCLOuterSpace!
We've got a great line-up of talks for #SSOSmeetsESA from space studies scholars, including @vidmarmatjaz, @NinaWitjes, @TuttonRichard, @alexretaylor, @MichaelClormann, @jstpwalsh, @EllieTheElement, @MarijaIsailov11...
🚀 We're excited about the #SSOSmeetsESA workshop today! ☄️ It is taking place at #ESTEC @esa_nl, with generous funding from @esa and @STSeasst. Thanks to @alexretaylor and @markmccaughrean for organising!
Alice Gorman @drspacejunk
14K Followers 4K Following Space archaeologist: orbital debris, planetary landing sites, terrestrial infrastructure, popular culture. @issarchaeology Avi: Jens Notroff. Agent: Jane Novak
Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive
14K Followers 7K Following Consulting: @BrickMoonSpace | Teaching: @morgansap | Space Forces: @VersoBooks | he/him | opinions own
Nina Klimburg-Witjes @WitjesNina
738 Followers 498 Following Assist. Professor in STS @univienna, PI ERC funded research project FutureSpace
p timko @oort_crowd
270 Followers 1K Following space anthropology, like regular anthropology but with more rockets | part of @ARIESanthro | i don't post here anymore
osnat katz moon @astrosnat
2K Followers 1K Following infrequently here. building better decision making.
UCL Centre for Outer ... @UCLOuterSpace
506 Followers 97 Following Promoting research and teaching related to the social study of Outer Space and our relationship to the cosmos and the planet.
Richard Tutton @TuttonRichard
692 Followers 790 Following No longer posting here. Professor @uoysociology @NewGenSoc editor, @STSeasst Council member, #futures #STS #outerspace #anthropocene
Dr Ellie Armstrong (s... @EllieTheElement
3K Followers 3K Following Space Fellow @UniofLeicester | Prev @stockholm_uni @udelaware (PD), @AvSpaceMuseum @cambridgehps (visit.) @ucl (PhD) | Co-runs @SSiC_Tweets, @femini_sts
Jack Stilgoe @Jackstilgoe
10K Followers 4K Following Professor @stsucl; @responsibleAIUK; https://t.co/Klyk2uOVgb
James Aitcheson @JamesAitcheson
2K Followers 739 Following Researcher in space humanities @uniofleicester @SpaceParkLeics. Novelist, editor, literary consultant. #TheHarrowing is published by @QuercusBooks.
Andrea Núñez Casal @A_NunezCasal
297 Followers 1K Following RyC STS Department @IFS_CSIC | microbes, embodiment & inequalities | more-than-biomedical healing & spiritituality | feminist biologies
Deden ᮓᮦᮓᮦᮔ... @dehaf18
447 Followers 883 Following Studying @AstropoliticsWG @HyPIRUoL 🇬🇧🎓⚽ Nurturing spacefaring @lapan_ri @brin_indonesia 🇮🇩👨🏾💻🚀
Abhishek Singh Gehlot @Abhishe61094205
8 Followers 432 Following #वसुधैव_कुटुम्बकम #ASTRONOMY_LOVER Physics is simply the search for truth. Nothing is more rigorous.
lhasan cat @tibet_space
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Global Space Group @globalspacegrp
0 Followers 102 Following
Thomas G. Chevalier @ThomasG_Ch
191 Followers 816 Following Currently completing a PhD thesis on the history of Western discourses about war in space @UniKent and ex-@KentBsis | Alumnus @sciencepoulb; @SciencesPo_Tlse
M. @omanreagan
28 Followers 258 Following Space, futures, the search for life in SETI and astrobiology. Interdisciplinary social scientist. Social, environmental, and economic justice. Vanier Scholar.
Meg Davis @saralmdavis
3K Followers 5K Following Professor, Digital Health & Rights @CIMethods @uniofwarwick @DigHealthRights. New report: Paying the Cost of Connection coming May 12!
geko @geko1129858
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Andreas Löwenstein @AndreasLwe91213
0 Followers 635 Following
ahd @Ahd954082Ahd
67 Followers 7K Following
c.s lewisham by day j... @theskyeatnight
2K Followers 1K Following skye. 25 | historian of black british collections @ cambridge | arts researcher of science (astronomy, medicine) + afrofuturism | adhd+apd | miniaturist painter
Roresseet @Roresseet6zQy9
18 Followers 919 Following
Niklas Uhl @03_wheels
4 Followers 77 Following
audrey like the plant @AudreyPScott
719 Followers 743 Following the weight of the world all falls away in time | | @owensfellowship, ex-seds usa, fmr actress
shannon kneis @shannonkneis
854 Followers 2K Following @shannonkneis.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Sociology at Polity Press (from Jan 2026) @thebookseller and @printingcharity #RisingStar
cheng chao-ting @ChengChao_Ting
3 Followers 96 Following
J. Ignacio Pérez K. @JIPerezK
1K Followers 5K Following Research Associate @urbanbigdata - PhD @oxfordgeography. Navigating through and with the sociotechnical, data and cities.
Sidali Sid @Questing_Sid
4 Followers 86 Following Social and Cultural Anthropologist - I make nice buildings for dinosaurs 🦖. Co-founder of WYRDNOISES
CIEE @CIEEArg
182 Followers 234 Following Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Espaciales (CIEE). Centro de doble dependencia @CONAE_oficial y @UNLP. - Studying space law, policy & economy in Latam -SJ @Cymraes24
260 Followers 123 Following Space policy, Science, Cymraeg, Books, AFOL, Travel. Opinions are my own/Barnau fy hun yn unig.
Universum Media @UniversumPress
22 Followers 153 Following
🤠 @tarabastal
265 Followers 1K Following Biens communs, souveraineté populaire et Toulouse Football Club. Trop dispersé pour être spécialiste 🤷
Aaron J. French, PhD @AJFrench
577 Followers 2K Following Author and editor of supernatural and science fiction. Scholar of religions, esotericism, and science and technology. Explorer of all things real or imagined.
Dan Bater @Production_DanB
502 Followers 489 Following Producing and amusing @BBCCornwall @BBCSpotlight 🤩 Multimedia journalist 📹📻🎞️
J. Walton @ludopolitics
1K Followers 2K Following Critical maker/scholar. Asst Teaching Prof @cmuetc. ABD @UCSDComm. Biopolitics of play, STS, foxes in panopticons. Formerly: Chinese politics. He/they. ENG/中文.
ileniap @ileniap
214 Followers 865 Following
Miao Lu @lumiao1026
172 Followers 916 Following Assistant Professor at @lingnanuni | alumni @cuhkofficial | Digital culture, STS, China and Africa
Dr. Sarica Robyn @SaricaRobyn
100 Followers 414 Following Visual anthropologist. Researcher on images, AI and social movements in contexts of crisis and change.
FutureSpace @FutureSpaceERC
6 Followers 36 Following FutureSpace is a 5-year research project at the University of Vienna and is supported by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
UCL European R&I Offi... @UCL_ERIO
959 Followers 707 Following University College London's European Research and Innovation Office works to keep @UCL at the forefront of European collaboration. Part of @UCLAwardService
Yaninna Aliaga R @RojasYaninna
150 Followers 503 Following Mamá de Julieta y Emilia, compañera de Eduardo. PhD in Law Student, University of Kent. Space Law and Dark Skies from the Global South.
Tony Milligan @tonymilligan3
298 Followers 216 Following Teaching Associate, School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield,
Matthew Hallex @mhallex
418 Followers 2K Following DC-based defense researcher. Work includes space, nukes, strategy & Asia Views are my own & other standard disclaimers.
Tito @titoescrito
57 Followers 2K Following Independent researcher. Interested in cognitive science, economics, and politics. [email protected]
Spitty Space @SpittySpace
2K Followers 2K Following Atmosphere Space Converter.Takes air from the atmosphere and converts to Unlimited Water, Oxygen, Liquid Co2.
Grisha Vinokurov @grishavinok
47 Followers 276 Following anthropology of science, astrophysics, eastern siberia
This Anthro Life Podc... @thisanthrolife
7K Followers 5K Following Convos with humanity’s top makers, minds and storytellers on our creative potential through design, culture, and technology. Crafted/Hosted by @gamwell
Eve @evil5lyn
2 Followers 112 Following
Alice Gorman @drspacejunk
14K Followers 4K Following Space archaeologist: orbital debris, planetary landing sites, terrestrial infrastructure, popular culture. @issarchaeology Avi: Jens Notroff. Agent: Jane Novak
Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive
14K Followers 7K Following Consulting: @BrickMoonSpace | Teaching: @morgansap | Space Forces: @VersoBooks | he/him | opinions own
Nina Klimburg-Witjes @WitjesNina
738 Followers 498 Following Assist. Professor in STS @univienna, PI ERC funded research project FutureSpace
p timko @oort_crowd
270 Followers 1K Following space anthropology, like regular anthropology but with more rockets | part of @ARIESanthro | i don't post here anymore
ACID HORIZON @acidhorizonpod
35K Followers 2K Following Welcome to Acid Horizon, the theory podcast. Home of the Acid Horizon Research Commons. Enroll in 2026 classes: https://t.co/6IyR2iiOxQ
osnat katz moon @astrosnat
2K Followers 1K Following infrequently here. building better decision making.
UCL Centre for Outer ... @UCLOuterSpace
506 Followers 97 Following Promoting research and teaching related to the social study of Outer Space and our relationship to the cosmos and the planet.
Richard Tutton @TuttonRichard
692 Followers 790 Following No longer posting here. Professor @uoysociology @NewGenSoc editor, @STSeasst Council member, #futures #STS #outerspace #anthropocene
UK Space Agency @spacegovuk
226K Followers 2K Following We set the national direction on space. Part of @scitechgovuk.
Dr Ellie Armstrong (s... @EllieTheElement
3K Followers 3K Following Space Fellow @UniofLeicester | Prev @stockholm_uni @udelaware (PD), @AvSpaceMuseum @cambridgehps (visit.) @ucl (PhD) | Co-runs @SSiC_Tweets, @femini_sts
Jack Stilgoe @Jackstilgoe
10K Followers 4K Following Professor @stsucl; @responsibleAIUK; https://t.co/Klyk2uOVgb
Des Fitzgerald @Des_Fitzgerald
5K Followers 921 Following Radical Humanities Laboratory @UCC // The City of Today is a Dying Thing @FaberBooks 2024 // The Living City @BasicBooks 2023.
Sebastian Pfotenhauer @smpfotenhauer
1K Followers 612 Following What is good innovation? What do we want from it? Why does it create so many problems? | STS+Innovation Policy Scholar | Prof @TU_Muenchen | Dept Head @TUM_STS
Dr. Divya 🍉 (offli... @Divya_M_P
9K Followers 2K Following 🇬🇾♿️🌈 she/her • dr of space/materialism • free 🇵🇸 https://t.co/Bn5eQkwUlW 🌵 typos = arthritis
Alexandros K. Kolovos @CSDP_Space
248 Followers 1K Following Professor Emeritus @HellenicAirForce Academy. Brigadier-General, HAF (Ret). Former Head of National Centre for Space Applications (1992-2006). Space Security.
David Würflinger @davidwr80
24 Followers 170 Following 💼 IT-Project Management | 🎓 STS, CompSci & PolSci @univienna
A Citizen @acitizenco
972 Followers 4K Following
Alex Graszk @AlexGraszk
71 Followers 992 Following
Enrique Of Malacca @CircumNavgating
6K Followers 4K Following 1521: First circumnavigator by language—Malacca, Kochi, Malindi, Cape, Lisbon, Seville, Rio, Patagonia, Strait, Pacific, Guam, Philippines … Threads.
William Donal @WilliamDon9438
168 Followers 3K Following free day of our lives is opportunity to thank the Lord for another beautiful day like this, forever his name shall be worship and be honor for his marvelous🌹🌹
Paul Naish @PaulNaish78
22K Followers 23K Following Executive Publisher @ Taylor & Francis #PhysicalSciences #Maths #Stats #DataScience #HistSci #STS #scicomm. Also: https://t.co/Qtu96BMcOc
Daniel Loiola @dan_loiola
76 Followers 592 Following Software developer, PhD candidate @ufmg, visiting @polimi
Dr Clemens Jarnach @ClemensJarnach
287 Followers 1K Following Data Scientist & Political Sociologist | PhD @UniofOxford 🔬📈📊 Read more on → https://t.co/D0Ndbkjld9
Jana @jmfey
391 Followers 450 Following
harry law (hopfield n... @lawhsw
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STS-b (UAB) @STS_barcelona
441 Followers 378 Following Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @UABBarcelona
MeST @MeST_CPH_UNI
505 Followers 757 Following MeST The Copenhagen Center for Medical science and technology studies. Head of Center: Anja Marie Bornø Jensen @AnjaMBJensen Co-Director Iben Gjødsbøl
Dr Vassilis Galanos, ... @FractaloidConvo
4K Followers 3K Following Lecturer in Digital Work @StirUni.🦚 AI/internet expectations/expertise. Friends: @aies_edinburgh @UoE_STIS @UoE_EFI_Civics @BRAID_UK @newrealcc It/ve/vem.🐙
Andrea Schikowitz @ASchikowitz
238 Followers 438 Following Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna @stsvienna STS / urban planning / movements / alternatives / infrastructuring / knowledge practices
Andrea Ballestero @aballes2
5K Followers 4K Following Anthropologist / A Future History of Water (Duke 2019)/ @ethnostudio / No more groundwater, more aquifers!/ property & finance, underground worlds, science
Pouya Sepehr @PouyaSep
415 Followers 2K Following STS researcher exploring technology and the city | AI's impact on everyday life | and recently fascinated by urban fashion
Nils Matzner @motoko42
541 Followers 602 Following 🧑🎓STS scholar 📚carbon removal, climate stuff, digitization, politics 📝postdoc @TU_Muenchen + @unihh + @UFZ_de 💡views my own (he/him)
Claudia G. Schwarz @PsychedelicSTS
2K Followers 1K Following mental wellbeing and society /// Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences /// working in @ASPbelong
Ingrid Metzler @ingridmetzler
674 Followers 943 Following social scientist interested in biomedical technologies & society, #ELSI in #genomics #prenatalcare and #precision m. senior scientist @klkrems. privately here.
STSpedagogy @STSpedagogy
1K Followers 1K Following Tag us so we can share the neat stuff you are doing in class centered around STS, ethics, and Pedagogy. Sassy and subversive tweets by @shannonconley33.
Markus Schwarz @mrksmoreau
390 Followers 2K Following PhD @PLUS_1622 // thinking about black and indigenous speculations, outer space, climate change, and the (im)possibility of utopia. he/him.
Salem Elzway @salem_elzway
1K Followers 4K Following Incoming Assistant Professor of History at Florida State | Current Postdoc at Vanderbilt | Research and write about AI and robots | Yella habibis!
Junior Laboratory Spa... @spaceageslab
19 Followers 55 Following Laboratoire junior Space Ages - l’exploration spatiale au prisme des sciences humaines et sociales. French Social Sciences Junior Laboratory on Space Studies.
Lady Monika Wiśniews... @AuthorMonika
13K Followers 12K Following Author of a bestselling memoir 'Polish Girl In Pursuit of the English Dream' -get signed copies on website 👇Movie/theatre directors welcome to turn my 📚into🎬
Ilona Jurkonytė @IJurkonyte
221 Followers 1K Following Film and Environmental Media Researcher, Film Curator PhD in Film and Moving Image Arts&Science Postdoctoral Fellow Cinema Studies Institute @UofT
Guilherme @doutorandarilho
186 Followers 3K Following
Europolitikus 🇪�... @Europolitikus
2K Followers 4K Following Bürger der Europäischen Union, citoyen de l'Union Européenne, citizen of the European Union. 65 years european experiences. Polemik und Ironie, keine Hetze
Martin Schulze Wessel @MSchulzewessel
5K Followers 981 Following Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas der LMU München, Mitglied der Deutsch-Ukrainischen Historischen Kommission
EmpireSpace @EmpireSpaceNY
366 Followers 641 Following Home of EmpireSpace, New York's hub for #space development. Visit us at https://t.co/HM3DDwloCv to learn more, get involved, and make #NewYork a New Space Hub!
Victor Buchli @VictorBuchli
5 Followers 11 Following
Frankie @frankrtavares
646 Followers 2K Following
Theo Christov @TheoChristov
599 Followers 601 Following Political theorist interested in empire/history of IR/self-determination @GWtweets, Author of 'Before Anarchy' (Cambridge 2016), Vis Fellow @SNFAgoraJHU
Vincent August @VinAugust
703 Followers 307 Following Prof (interim) + head of Ecological Conflicts @HumboldtUni | only rare crossposts from https://t.co/lP5riKliEW ⚠️
ISIE_Global @isie_global
271 Followers 3K Following The ISIE is a global network of researchers interested in the design, promotion, reception, and consequence of the world’s fairs and expositions since 1851.
Armand Jammot @ArmandJammot1
42 Followers 4K Following
Javier Contreras Alc�... @JContrerasAlc
430 Followers 2K Following Profesor investigador en @elcolsan, transito los laberintos del tiempo y la política, me pregunto cómo es que configuramos la sociedad que somos...
Xiao-Shan Yap @XSYAP
286 Followers 351 Following Lead Senior Researcher @eSpace_EPFL; Assist Prof (guest) @UUCopernicus; Founder https://t.co/wuPW9oYEdr; Commons in Space @iasc_commons; @STRN_Network;@ESG_Project
Yi-Ting Chang @chang_yiting_
112 Followers 461 Following DPhil candidate @uniofoxford | geopolitics, astropolitics, outer space, vertical, infrastructure, Taiwan | #humangeography @oxfordgeography @Clarendon_OU
Thomas G. Chevalier @ThomasG_Ch
191 Followers 816 Following Currently completing a PhD thesis on the history of Western discourses about war in space @UniKent and ex-@KentBsis | Alumnus @sciencepoulb; @SciencesPo_Tlse
Marcos Brisson @marcos_brisson
98 Followers 433 Following
Malte Thießen @malte... @malte_thiessen
3K Followers 2K Following Historian at @lwlaktuell; account inactive; active at Instagram and Bluesky / pix (c) Felix Kleymann / Stephan Günther




















