Presentation delivered to the AsSIST-UK Biennial Conference on 2 June 2025 as part of the STIS session hosted by Robert Evans. AsSIST-UK 2025: Reflexions (2-3 June 2025) was held at The University of Edinburgh with a special gala event on 4th June. The full programme is available online. The session also included presentations from: Trees All the Way Down: Reflecting on Temporal Scales in STIS (Ningxiang Sun) Reflexivity in action: 'unsettling' stories for unsettling technologies (Arnab Chakraborty, R Braun, J Starkbaum) Boundary workers: facilitating dialogue between Science and Technology Studies and scholarship on interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity (Isabel Fletcher,Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Catherine Lyall)

The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI). Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world. Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) is a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business.