Society + Technology at UW’s community of affiliates expands with a new community partner, the Seattle University Technology Ethics Initiative.
Directed by Professor Onur Bakiner (SU, Political Science), whose research and teaching focus on technology and society, the Seattle University Technology Ethics initiative seeks to bring together students, faculty, practitioners, and community members to explore how technologies shape power, accountability, and the public good.
This cross-institutional partnership indexes a shared commitment to cross-disciplinary collaboration and to creating spaces where open conversations about technology, society, and justice can flourish across institutions and communities.
Society + Technology at UW welcomes interest from community organizations, nonprofits, and industry groups who see value in what we’re building and would like to be part of it. To learn more about joining the Society + Technology at UW affiliate circle, email mmjones@uw.edu.
On Monday, December 1, 2025, at 5:30 PM, head to Figurehead Brewing in Fremont (3513 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103) for a pint and a conversation with Hansi Singh, CEO of Planette.ai, on technology, power, water, and carbon math.
Signals & Society is an independent, public-facing, traveling series devoted to exploring how technology shapes—and is shaped by—society.
The event is public; no registration required.
Please share widely with colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested.
Online dating is nothing new, but in 2025, the promise and peril of finding love online—and the work of designing technologies to facilitate amore—now include artificial intelligence writers in the mix.
Consider this, and more, over a pint at the next event in Signals & Society, a new public-facing traveling series co-organized by Ryan Calo (Law, UW Seattle), on Mon., Nov. 10, 2025, at 5:30 PM at the Old Stove Brewery Gardens in Ballard (1550 NW 49th Street, Seattle, WA 98107).
This conversation features Jevan Hutson (Law, UW Seattle) to discuss how digital intimacies are shaped by commercial, legal, and interpersonal forces.
On Friday, Sept. 5, the UW Social at 4S will be held in the Garden Terrace at the Summit, a pollinator garden. Photo credit: Garden Terrace (Night), Summit (2025)
SEATTLE — More than 100 University of Washington faculty and students will present their research this September at Reverberations, the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), a leading interdisciplinary conference for scholars engaged in social studies of science, technology, and medicine (a field often referred to as STS).
To mark the occasion, Society + Technology at UW is inviting all 4S attendees to register to attend the UW Social, to celebrate UW’s contributions to the field of STS and to foster connections and stoke curiosity.
The party will be on Friday, September 5, from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. on the Garden Terrace (third floor) of the Summit at the Seattle Convention Center. Reverberations will take place at the Sheraton Grand Hotel and the Summit at the Seattle Convention Center from September 3-6, 2025.
“This is an exciting opportunity to acknowledge the tremendous and ongoing work in this interdisciplinary field happening at UW across all three campuses,” said Monika Sengul-Jones, co-host of the UW Social with Daniela Rosner, a professor in Human Centered Design and Engineering and Co-chair of Reverberations.
“And it’s in a pollinator garden, which is a gesture to our intention with the party: to be a space to pollinate and to strengthen the assemblages that animate STS as a field of creation and critique.”
Who can attend?
The UW Social is free for registered 4S attendees, though separate registration for the party is required. Register online and pick up your paper UW Social ticket at the registration desk in the foyer of the Sheraton Hotel starting on Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
The first 150 guests to register and collect their paper ticket will receive a complimentary drinksticker they can redeem at the party; additional refreshments will be available for purchase.
