This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ramsha Usman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/injury-and-fitness-responsibility-through-biomedicine/. About the post: This is a reading of Ramsha Usman's post Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine.

In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corporeal life in toxic environments.  Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/platypod-episode-three-disability-toxicity-and-the-environment/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/all-these-worlds-are-yours-except-europa-building-colonies-without-colonization/. About the post: In her post, Savannah Mandel explores whether space colonies can be built without extending imperialist legacies.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lakshita Malik can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/photoshopping-desire-gender-caste-and-the-authentic-self/. About the post: Lakshita Malik looks at the serious stakes of using “silly” filters on social media.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by alejandra ruiz-leon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/interactive-science-museums-replicating-science-without-a-context/. About the post: Alejandra Ruiz-Leon explores the popularization of interactive science museums, the version of science they claim to present, and the lessons of studying Latin America's first interactive science museum that opened in Peru in 1979.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Benjamin Hegarty can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/prep-on-trial-the-future-of-hiv-in-indonesian-policy-worlds/. About the post: Benjamin Hegarty reflects on an unfolding PrEP trial in Indonesia, asking what queer theories might emerge from engagement within such postcolonial contexts, where dynamic relations exist between social subjects and scientific objects framed through ongoing inequalities.

In this episode, Laura Heath-Stout (Brandeis University) and Rebecca-Eli Long (Purdue University) discuss their research and experiences of ableism in academia, anthropology, and higher ed, in general. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/platypod-episode-two-ableism-in-academia-and-higher-ed/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ángela Castillo-Ardila can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/counting-on-montane-birds-biologists-verticality-and-territorial-defense-in-colombia/. About the post: Ángela Castillo-Ardilla's piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s high tropical Andes, (ii) local biologists supporting an anti-mining coalition by conducting an alternative baseline study, and (iii) the undertheorized production of upward. vertical territories.

In this episode, Cassandra Hartblay and Zihao Lin are discussing the politics, research methodologies, and technologies around accessibility.

This episode was created with the participation of Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto, speaker) and Zihao Lin (University of Chicago, speaker), Kim Fernandes (University of Pennsylvania, host), Svetlana Borodina (Columbia University, host), Gebby Keny (Rice University, sound editor), and Angela VandenBroek (Texas State University, CASTAC web producer). Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/platypod-ep-1-technologies-and-politics-of-accessibility/ (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aishani Khurana can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/mismanaging-algorithms-of-hate-the-nexus-of-big-tech-and-the-state-in-india/. About the post: The authoritarian regimes, in compliance with big tech, set discursive boundaries for the minorities who not only suffer the brunt of online hate speech as victims in real life but also run the risk of being punished for dissent. The big tech social media platforms can be easily controlled by right-wing ideologies, thereby rendering minorities and civil society policed, trolled, disciplined, and terrorized on the digital platforms.