Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

Venture Capital’s Due Diligence, or Ethnography’s Adversarial Twin?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Al Lim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/venture-capitals-due-diligence-or-e

Silt, Sea and Coastal Engineering

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sridhar Raghavan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/silt-sea-and-coastal-engi

A Horse in the Archive: Notes on Incompleteness in Biometric Infrastructures

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by kayah can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/a-horse-in-the-archive-notes-on-inco

“Can You Hear Me Now?”: Listening in China’s Romance Simulation Games

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Naijia Liu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/can-you-hear-me-now-listening-i

The Kids Are AI-right

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Manar Naser can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/the-kids-are-ai-right/. About

Dispatch from Seoul: Reflections on the Science, Technology & Human Values Science and Technology Studies School, June 2026

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lachlan Hensey can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/dispatch-from-seoul-reflect

In the Pensive Pause of Supervision: A Footnote on Citing Santos

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tanu Biswas can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/in-the-pensive-pause-of-superv

From Candle to Dilator: Treating Vaginismus in Turkey

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Neslihan Sen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/from-candle-to-dilator-treati

Networks of Knowledge Sharing: Becoming-With Mushrooms in Academia

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jennifer Foley can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/networks-of-knowledge-shari

Microbiome Monitoring: Smart Toilets, Precision Medicine, and the Post-Genomic Bowel

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Megan MacGregor can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/microbiome-monitoring-smar

Can a Data Center Sweat?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Miriam Fahimi can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/can-a-data-center-sweat/. Ab

Fragile Followings: Leaving and Returning to the Ecological Field

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mayline Strouk can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/fragile-followings-leaving-

Platform Workers’ Organizing Diaries: Messages from Union Organizers to Researchers

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Javed Siddiqui, Abdul Nayeem, Ambika Tandon, Anushree Gupta, Eesha Kunduri, Isha Bhallamu

Automating Language, Losing Relationality: Feminist Reflections on African Language AI

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mpho Primus and Siri Lamoureaux can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/automating

The Hotspot as a Sociotechnical and Political Object: Frontline Healthcare Professionals and Public Conversation alongside the Intensification of a U.S. Measles Outbreak

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Katharina Rynkiewich can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/the-hotspot-as-a-soci

Stuck Among the Trees

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sumin Myung can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/stuck-among-the-trees/. About

Charting the (Dis)course of Nature Restoration: The EU Nature Restoration Law in the Public Sphere in Czechia

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Abhigya can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/charting-the-discourse-of-nature-r

Digital Porosity and Value in Suspension: Informal Economies and Video Games

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Iván Flores can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/digital-porosity-and-value-in-

The Monsters We Buried: Plastics, Swamp Men, and the Unquiet Ground of Deonar

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adwaita Banerjee can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/the-monsters-we-buried-pl

Is Edtech’s Stuckness a Kind of Fixation?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martin Oliver and Jade Vu Henry can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/07/is-edtechs