Susanne Bauer

• Bauer, Susanne (2026). ‘Children Got Slightly Smarter with Fish for Lunch’: The WPPSI Test, Randomized Trials, and Optimized Kindergartens. I Caspersen, Håkon Aamot & Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne (Red.), Historicizing IQ Testing: Intelligence Assessments and their Role in Norwegian Society from the 1900s to the Present. Open Book Publishers. ISSN 9781805116202. s. 243–268. doi: 10.11647/obp.0471.08. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter follows the travels of IQ testing to unexpected terrain and describes how a nutrition study in kindergartens used Wechsler tests in the 2010s. Researchers administered the WPPSI test to examine children’s cognitive capacities as part of a randomized intervention trial in Bergen. This chapter zooms in on the material micro-practices in this fish meal intervention to understand the role of IQ testing in the post-welfare state. Policymakers and industry have promoted the aquaculture industries not only as beneficial for health, but also as a resource poised to constitute Norway’s post-fossil bioeconomy. For the multidisciplinary intervention trial, researchers chose Wechsler tests as validated devices, readily available in Norwegian translation, to compare cognitive performance after the fish meal intervention. With increasingly routinized datafication and evidence-based governance, institutions like kindergartens are enrolled into largely unchallenged regimes of evaluation and optimization. Researchers use such plug-in modules as data-generating instruments in scientific studies, which has contributed to the persistence of the Wechsler tests.

• Knaus, Tanja & Bauer, Susanne (2026). From genome to voiceome: the quest for voice-based biomarker technologies in health research. BioSocieties. ISSN 1745-8552. doi: 10.1057/s41292-026-00394-5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  With the advent of datafication and AI-mediated analytics, computer scientists and health researchers have begun to target voice data as potential biomarkers. This paper follows the technoscientific and speculative strategies for deploying voice data as biomarkers in health research. Contributing to infrastructure studies, biomedical science studies, and social studies of AI, we describe and analyze emergent knowledge infrastructures involved in translating and enacting the human voice into a set of biomarker variables. This includes start-ups pursuing standardization of voice samples as referential ‘ground truth’ datasets and developing AI techniques as products for clinical trials. Conceptually and strategically, developers of vocal biomarkers have coined the notion of the ‘voiceome’ to draw on omics infrastructures. They use those existing omics platforms as available templates for how to proceed to study voice features as markers of health and disease. Adding machine listening to digital phenotyping and precision medicine, vocal biomarker research may transform psychiatric practices in specific ways under certain erasures and anticipated value, building on infrastructures that are not (entirely) new, but rather complemented and afforded by automation and predictive screening.

• Aalbu, Kjersti & Bauer, Susanne (2025). Data infrastructures, international organizations, and the politics of amendment. Big Data & Society (BD&S). 12(2), s. 1–14. doi: 10.1177/20539517251331951. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Data infrastructures are becoming increasingly central in “evidence-based” and “data-driven” policymaking at the international level, but the production and use of data in governance varies between different institutions and settings. This article examines closely the relations between data production and use over time in two international organizations and their efforts to deal with emissions to air—the International Maritime Organization and the World Health Organization. The article contributes to work in STS on infrastructures by proposing new lenses through which to analyze data infrastructures in international organizations over time. We first conceptualize data infrastructures in international organizations as political formations which are institutionally negotiated and contested, and that both carry and enact relations. We then develop amendment as a praxiographic lens through which to study such data formations, based on what we call data praxiography. We analyze the politics of amendment, capturing how these data formations are continuously worked on in response to changing scientific and political interests, and how data practices are intimately linked with institutional practices and politics. The article contributes to the growing literature on data governance and digital statecraft by showing the importance of studying the continuity of data work in international organizations and the layering of data formations through amendments for understanding new data-informed modes of governance.

• Bauer, Susanne; Güttler, Nils & Schlünder, Martina (2025). “Birds Have Procedures Too”: Avian Mobility, Airport Infrastructure, and Mixed Knowledges. Osiris. ISSN 0369-7827. 40, s. 260–280. doi: 10.1086/735526. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines how bird movements take part in shaping both local airport operations and global air traffic infrastructure. Drawing on archival sources, observations, and visual materials, we examine different layers and regimes of knowledge production on avian migration in and around the global air traffic hub Frankfurt Airport, especially in bird strike prevention. By inquiring into the airspace and ground procedures of both birds and human infrastructure (where they overlap in avian habitats and migration routes), we make visible the mixed knowledges at work in emergent fields such as airport ecology, bird strike science, and multilayered surveillance. In doing so, we consider a plurality of mappings and orderings at the airport, as well as ways in which birds have managed to map their own procedures back onto airport operations.

• Delgado, Ana & Bauer, Susanne (2024). Extractions: Data Infrastructures and the Public Good. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 49(3), s. 435–442. doi: 10.1177/01622439241242872. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This special issue invites reflection on digital forms of resource extractivism, through thinking-with microbes, fish, smart energy, and human bodies. We examine the confluence of infrastructure building, public good enactment, and nature datafication to account for novel forms of resource economies. The articles in this collection empirically investigate the various ways in which nature is turned into resource in laboratory and experimental sites including database retrievals and data mining. Our empirical cases, ranging from biodiversity prospecting, clinical biobanking to the digitalized electric grid and from digital fish to biodigital transformations in yeast technology, offer insights into the nexus of data, economy, nature, and information. Contributing to the literature on datafication of natural resources, these studies re-situate information infrastructures and biodigital extractions as part of emerging info-economies.

• Bauer, Susanne (2024). Seeing Like a Model Fish: How Digital Extractions Mediate Metabolic Relations. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 49(3), s. 524–554. doi: 10.1177/01622439241236520. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces the data configurations of feed, food, and health in Norway’s bioeconomy aspirations—from cell culture studies in the lab to an integrated digital repository and public health nutrition trials in schools. A response to policy calls for more sustainable aquaculture, digital models become lynchpins for intensified data sourcing. I describe how datafication and digital model integration enact a particular mode of management, focused on profitability and human preferences, when optimizing fish feed to sustainability goals. Integrating molecular biology and mathematical functions, digital modeling promotes the idea of a prediction machine for preemptive optimization of feed and food across settings. Yet, unforeseen disruptions to aquaculture, for instance, by algae and lice, expose the complexity of marine food webs and the limitations of digital models. Even while in the making, the digital fish model becomes performative and shapes knowledge practices much beyond the lab. As knowledge infrastructures, models participate in the remaking of metabolic relations, recalibrating decision-making, while feeding back into and co-shaping the very entities and environments they were crafted to investigate.

• Bauer, Susanne & Penter, Tanja (2022). Introduction: Tracing the Atom. Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia. I Bauer, Susanne & Penter, Tanja (Red.), Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia. Routledge. ISSN 9781032160504. s. 1–17. doi: 10.4324/9781003246893. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay particular attention to memory practices and memorialization concerning nuclear legacies. Tracing the Atom foregrounds historical and contemporary engagements with nuclear politics: how have institutions and governments responded to the legacies of the atomic era? How do communities and artists articulate concerns over radioactive matters? What was the role of radiation expertise in a broader Soviet and international context of the Cold War? Examining nuclear legacies together with past atomic futures and post-Soviet memorialization and nuclear heritage shines light on how modes of knowing intersect with livelihoods, compensation policies, and historiography. Bringing together a range of disciplines – history, science and technology studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and art history – this volume offers insights that broaden our understanding of twentieth-century atomic programs and their long aftermaths.

• Bauer, Susanne (2022). Fallout Memory Trajectories at Semipalatinsk: Reassembling the Post-Soviet Past. I Bauer, Susanne & Penter, Tanja (Red.), Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia. Routledge. ISSN 9781032160504. s. 196–216. doi: 10.4324/9781003246893-12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter examines post-Soviet efforts to address the legacies of nuclear testing near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, by tracing different modes of memorializing nuclear fallout. Similar to the construction of new monuments, memory work also takes place through scientific data labor aimed at the documentation of the impact of nuclear testing. In the early post-Soviet years of radical economic transition, nation building policies, and pressing environmental issues, a variety of scientific projects engaging in documenting health effects of fallout took shape. The analysis focuses on selected trajectories of Soviet nuclear legacies, especially concerning long-term, transgenerational effects of fallout exposure. It investigates scientific memory practices used to document radiation effects and shows how the post-Soviet nuclear condition is drawn upon for the building of the new state of Kazakhstan. Nation building becomes a multi-scale endeavor that, in a biopolitical sense, reaches from state governance to the politics of knowledge infrastructures and embodiment.

• Klaas, Franziska & Bauer, Susanne (2022). Endocrine Disrupting Substances: A Partial Inventory. I Veselá, Lenka (Red.), Synthetic Becoming. K. Verlag. ISSN 9783947858378. s. 252–275. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Tvedten, Irene Øvstebø & Bauer, Susanne (2022). Retrofitting towards a greener marine shipping future: Reassembling ship fuels and liquefied natural gas in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 86(4). doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102423. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has entered regulatory agendas in shipping. In Norway, a debate has been ongoing for over a decade about whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship fuel enables or impedes the transition to a greener future for shipping. This paper explores the assembling of ship fuel before and after the introduction of a controversial carbon tax on LNG. It reconstructs how changes in the regulatory apparatus prompted the reworking of natural gas into a ship fuel, yet later slowed down the development of LNG in a strategy to promote alternative zero-emission fuels such as hydrogen. Following ship fuel as socio-materiality in motion, we find that fossil fuels are reworked into new modes of application as part of transition policies. Natural gas continues to be enacted as an “enabler of transition” in the context of shipping, given that current government policies work to support the production of hydrogen from natural gas and carbon capture and storage (CCS). New modes of accounting for emissions reassemble existing fossil fuel materiality by means of CCS and fossil-based zero-emission fuels. We examine retrofit as a particular kind of reassembling and as a prism for studying the politics of fuel and the relation between transitions and existing infrastructures.

• Bauer, Susanne (2021). Pandemic Infrastructure: Epidemiology as Compartmentalization. Mefisto. Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia. 5(1), s. 79–104. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines modes of containment and compartmentalization in epidemiology and pandemic response. Modern epidemiology is positioned as the key method in public health science and source of information for pandemic response policies. The epidemiological apparatus of observation works with tracking and sense-making techniques at the intersection of demography and biometrics. With late 20 th century technoscientific developments, epidemiology has acquired a particular form of outcomes research. This includes a particular infrastructural enactment of the concept of ‘population’, prompting specific modes of data capture and containment that also feature in today’s coronavirus dashboards. Building on genomics data repositories, epidemiological study designs mediate data recombination that repurposes existing databases and promotes capture-all techniques for viral surveillance. Focusing on the orderings enacted by the epidemiological techniques in their formation, legacies, and actualizations, I discuss how data-intensive biosurveillance and efforts to foster openness are currently transforming the ‘epidemiologic gaze’. As ‘capture-all’ technologies operate across heterogeneous worlds, they fail to capture the implications of inequitably distributed risks and benefits in global health. Analyzing the apparatus of observation and capture in epidemiology can make room for engaging differently with numerous devices toward more equitable public health responses.

• Bauer, Susanne (2021). "Dette nummeret vil følge deg gjennom livet ditt" - registre, datakobling og digital selvråderett. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 38(1-2), s. 33–44. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2021-01-02-04. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2020). Biobank Boxes: Technologies of Population. I Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina & Rentetzi, Maria (Red.), Boxes: A Field Guide. Mattering Press. ISSN 9781912729012. s. 380–395. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2020). Navigation Tools for Studying Boxes: A User’s Manual. I Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina & Rentetzi, Maria (Red.), Boxes: A Field Guide. Mattering Press. ISSN 9781912729012. s. 44–51. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Güttler, Nils; Schlünder, Martina & Bauer, Susanne (2020). The Ur-Box. Multispecies Take-off from Noah´s Ark to Animal Air Cargo. I Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina & Rentetzi, Maria (Red.), Boxes: A Field Guide. Mattering Press. ISSN 9781912729012. s. 214–229. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2019). Beyond the Nuclear Epicenter. Health Research, Knowledge Infrastructures and Secrecy at Semipalatinsk. Cahiers du monde russe. ISSN 1252-6576. 60(2-3), s. 493–516. doi: 10.4000/monderusse.11271. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Amelang, Katrin & Bauer, Susanne (2019). Following the algorithm: How epidemiological risk-scores do accountability. Social Studies of Science. ISSN 0306-3127. 49(4), s. 476–502. doi: 10.1177/0306312719862049. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hoeyer, Klaus; Bauer, Susanne & Pickersgill, Martyn (2019). Datafication and accountability in public health: Introduction to a special issue. Social Studies of Science. ISSN 0306-3127. 49(4), s. 459–475. doi: 10.1177/0306312719860202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health, we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? And to whom, how and why does it count? Addressing such questions involves staying attentive to the technologies and infrastructures through which data come into being and are made available for multiple political agendas. Through a discussion of public health, accountability and datafication we present three key themes that unite the various papers as well as illustrate their diversity.

• Bauer, Susanne; Güttler, Nils & Schlünder, Martina (2019). Encounters in Borderlands: Borderlining Animals and Technology at Frankfurt Airport. Environmental Humanities. 11(2), s. 247–279. doi: 10.1215/22011919-7754445. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt Airport, this essay examines encounters between animals and technology in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments or even produce new ones, we draw on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands.” Extending this notion from human to nonhuman inhabitants and passengers of airports opens up for novel possibilities to apprehend the affective dimension in the life-technology intersections at airports. In this sense, the airport is a site of multiple borderlands, producing intersections that include material and imaginative, sometimes violent, boundary drawing. We examine a broad set of multispecies borders and “borderlining” practices, their material cultures, and affective economies. What kind of local, historical legacies do airports struggle with and how do they cope with the underlying tensions of partially connected sites, sectors, and spaces? Throughout the essay, we historicize three encounters of the aviation infrastructure and its living environments and their affective economies: borderlining the airfield, borderlining the animal passenger, and borderlining the animal intruder. These examples highlight different modes of encounters, like clashes, coexistence, and care.

• Bauer, Susanne (2019). Indexing, Coding, Scoring: The Engine Room of Epidemiology and its Routinized Techno-Digestions. Somatechnics. ISSN 2044-0138. 9(2-3), s. 223–243. doi: 10.3366/soma.2019.0281. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Markabayeva, Akbayan; Bauer, Susanne; Pivina, Lyudmila; Bjørklund, Geir; Chirumbolo, Salvatore & Kerimkulova, Aiman Saylaubekovna [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2018). Increased prevalence of essential hypertension in areas previously exposed to fallout due to nuclear weapons testing at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan. Environmental Research. ISSN 0013-9351. 167, s. 129–135. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.07.016. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2017). Radiation Science After the Cold War. The Politics of Measurement, Risk, and Compensation in Kazakhstan. I Zvonareva, Olga; Popova, Evgeniya & Horstman, Klasien (Red.), Health, Technologies and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings: Navigating Uncertainties. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783319641485. s. 225–249. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64149-2_9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the northeast of Kazakhstan more than 110 above ground nuclear explosions were carried out between 1949 and 1963. After the moratorium on atmospheric nuclear tests, underground nuclear testing was continued until 1989. This chapter follows the routes chosen by scientists and those responsible for public compensation programmes to navigate uncertainties of radiation-exposure in local communities around Semipalatinsk. It describes how, since the 1990s, research and compensation programmes have been negotiated and implemented in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, following decades of biomedical research during Soviet time. It shows how in the context of international collaborative projects, efforts to document long-term health effects stimulated innovations in epidemiological studies, exposure reconstruction, risk estimation, and radiation ecology. However, while negotiating compensation for local communities, most benefits of the innovative studies travelled to scientific practices in western countries, leaving global health disparities as they were. This chapter has been accepted and published. © 2016 Palgrave Macmillan

• Bauer, Susanne; Heinemann, Torsten & Lemke, Thomas (2017). Einleitung. Einführung in die Science and Technology Studies. I Bauer, Susanne; Heinemann, Torsten & Lemke, Thomas (Red.), Science and Technology Studies. Klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven. Suhrkamp. ISSN 9783518297933. s. 7–40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Kalmbach, Karena & Kasperski, Tatiana (2017). From Pripyat to Paris,from Grassroots Memories to Globalized Knowledge Production: The Politics of Chernobyl Fallout. I MacDowell, Laurel (Red.), Nuclear Portraits: Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy. University of Toronto Press. ISSN 9781442626294. s. 149–189. doi: 10.3138/9781442617339-009. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2017). Science Studies. I Sommer, Marianne; Müller-Wille, Staffan & Reinhardt, Carsten (Red.), Handbuch Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Verlag J. B. Metzler. ISSN 9783476024657. s. 55–67. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2016). 'Persönlichkeitsanalyse' als akademische Inwertsetzung. Zeitschrift für medienwissenschaft. ISSN 1869-1722. 2, s. 160–165. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pierre-Olivier, Méthot,; Miles, MacLeod,; Bauer, Susanne; Fridolin, Gross, & Antonine, Nicoglou, (2015). Meeting Disciplinary Boundaries: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of the Life Sciences | Biological Theory | Springer Nature Link. Biological Theory. ISSN 1555-5542. 5(3), s. 292–294. doi: 10.1162/BIOT_a_00053. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Kleiber-Bischof, Christine (2015). Risk Assessors and Bio-Participants: Homo Europaeus in Contemporary Nutrition and Health Research. Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. ISSN 0940-3566. 25(5/6), s. 191–210. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2015). Population Genetics, Cybernetics of Difference, and Pasts in the Present: Soviet and post-Soviet Maps on Human Variation. History of the Human Sciences. ISSN 0952-6951. 28(5), s. 146–167. doi: 10.1177/0952695115610570. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Vuković, Marija Brajdić; Dányi, Endre; Fabók, Márton & Tchalakov, Ivan (2014). Postsocialism and STS. A subplenary at EASST. EASST Review. ISSN 1384-5160. 33(4), s. 5–8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). Lenin spannt aus. Alexander Sinowjews „Homo sovieticus“ – eine mehrfache Provokation. Zeithistorische Forschungen. ISSN 1612-6033. 11, s. 485–492. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). Ernährung als epigenetische Schaltstelle. Wie die Nutrigenomik Körper, Nahrung und Sozialität neu zusammenfügt. I Lux, Vannessa & Richter, Jörg Thomas (Red.), Kulturen der Epigenetik. Vererbt, codiert, übertragen. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783110316032. s. 11–22. doi: 10.1515/9783110316032.11. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Fleming, Martha & Olsén, Jan Eric (2014). Im Zwischenraum von Labor und Museum: Eine Ausstellung zur Biomedizin. I Heesen, Anke te & Vöhringer, Margarete (Red.), Wissenschaft im Museum. Ausstellung im Labor. Kulturverlag Kadmos. ISSN 9783865992239. s. 174–195. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). Studying BRCA performativity: re-calibrations by and of the social sciences. I Gibbon, Sahra; Joseph, Galen; Mozersky, Jessica; Nieden, Andrea zur & Palfner, Sonja (Red.), Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices. Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA. Routledge. ISSN 9780415824064. s. 209–219. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). Bauer, Susanne: Mutations in Soviet public health science: Post-Lysenko medical genetics, 1969–1991. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. ISSN 1369-8486. 47(3), s. 163–172. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.05.016. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). Virtual Geographies of Belonging. The Case of Soviet and Post-Soviet Human Genetic Diversity Research. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 39(4), s. 511–537. doi: 10.1177/0162243914528739. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2014). From Administrative Infrastructure to Biomedical Resource: Danish Population Registries, the 'Scandinavian Laboratory', and the 'Epidemiologist’s Dream'. Science in Context. ISSN 0269-8897. 27(2), s. 187–213. doi: 10.1017/s0269889714000040. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2013). Modeling Population Health. Reflections on the Performativity of Epidemiological Techniques in the Age of Genomics. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. ISSN 0745-5194. 27(4), s. 510–530. doi: 10.1111/maq.12054. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Holmberg, Christine & Bischof, Christine (2013). Making Predictions: Computing Populations. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. 38(3), s. 398–420. doi: 10.1177/0162243912439610. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2013). Technoscience im Museum. Interventionen in Biomedizin und Museologie. I Binder, Beate; Bose, Friedrich von; Ebell, Katrin; Hess, Sabine & Keinz, Anika (Red.), Eingreifen, kritiseren, verändern!? Interventionen ethnographisch und gendertheoretisch. Westfälisches Dampfboot. ISSN 9783896919137. s. 228–241. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina; Reiß, Christian & Hüntelmann, Axel (2012). Cakes und Candies - Zur Geschichte der Ernährung von Versuchstieren. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. ISSN 0170-6233. 35, s. 275–285. doi: 10.1002/bewi.201201600. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2012). Verteilte Handlungsmacht im Experiment - Von der Epistemologie zu multiplen Ontologien. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. ISSN 0170-6233. 35, s. 341–350. doi: 10.1002/bewi.201201601. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2009). From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science. I Bauer, Susanne & Wahlberg, Ayo (Red.), Contested Categories. Life Sciences in Society. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754676188. s. 113–134. doi: 10.4324/9781315573977-7. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter takes a closer look at the 'production side' of scientific risk assessments and examine the relevant infrastructures to such knowledge generation

• Bauer, Susanne & Olsén, Jan Eric (2009). Observing the Others, Watching Over Oneself: Themes of medical surveillance in post-panoptic society. Surveillance & Society. 6(2), s. 116–127. doi: 10.24908/ss.v6i2.3252. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article explores two instances of medical surveillance that illustrate post-panoptic views of the body in biomedicine, from the patient to the population. Techniques of surveillance and monitoring are part of medical diagnostics, epidemiological studies, aetiologic research, health care management; they also co-shape individual engagements with illness. In medicine, surveillance data come as digital anatomies for educational purposes and clinical diagnostics that subject the body to imaging techniques, but also as databases of patient collectives that are established in large-scale, at times nationwide, epidemiological studies. We will show that techniques of medical surveillance now include more bottom-up and less-centralized modes as well: with web 2.0 applications, one encounters endoscopic clips uploaded and made public on the internet and tools to navigate through patterns of sickness in urban space. Surveillance techniques directed at individual patients and at population health reconfigure the constellation of the body, space and the gaze into a post-panoptic distributed mode.

• Bauer, Susanne (2008). Curating and Dis/playing the Biopolitics of Prevention. A Risk Assessment Software as a Museum Object? Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. ISSN 0008-1345. 105, s. 71-85.–85. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2008). Societal and ethical issues in human biomonitoring – a view from science studies | Environmental Health | Springer Nature Link. Environmental health. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-S1-S10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Human biomonitoring (HBM) has rapidly gained importance. In some epidemiological studies, the measurement and use of biomarkers of exposure, susceptibility and disease have replaced traditional environmental indicators. While in HBM, ethical issues have mostly been addressed in terms of informed consent and confidentiality, this paper maps out a larger array of societal issues from an epistemological perspective, i.e. bringing into focus the conditions of how and what is known in environmental health science. In order to analyse the effects of HBM and the shift towards biomarker research in the assessment of environmental pollution in a broader societal context, selected analytical frameworks of science studies are introduced. To develop the epistemological perspective, concepts from "biomedical platform sociology" and the notion of "epistemic cultures" and "thought styles" are applied to the research infrastructures of HBM. Further, concepts of "biocitizenship" and "civic epistemologies" are drawn upon as analytical tools to discuss the visions and promises of HBM as well as related ethical problematisations. In human biomonitoring, two different epistemological cultures meet; these are environmental science with for instance pollution surveys and toxicological assessments on the one hand, and analytical epidemiology investigating the association between exposure and disease in probabilistic risk estimation on the other hand. The surveillance of exposure and dose via biomarkers as envisioned in HBM is shifting the site of exposure monitoring to the human body. Establishing an HBM platform faces not only the need to consider individual decision autonomy as an ethics issue, but also larger epistemological and societal questions, such as the mode of evidence demanded in science, policy and regulation. The shift of exposure monitoring towards the biosurveillance of human populations involves fundamental changes in the ways environment, health and disease are conceptualised; this may lead to an individualisation of responsibilities for health risks and preventive action. Attention to the conditions of scientific knowledge generation and to their broader societal context is critical in order to make HBM contribute to environmental justice.

• Bauer, Susanne (2008). Mining data, gathering variables and recombining information: the flexible architecture of epidemiological studies. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. ISSN 1369-8486. 39(4), s. 428–428. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.09.008. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Bauer, Susanne & Penter, Tanja (2022). Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781032160504. 220 s. doi: 10.4324/9781003246893. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay particular attention to memory practices and memorialization concerning nuclear legacies. Tracing the Atom foregrounds historical and contemporary engagements with nuclear politics: how have institutions and governments responded to the legacies of the atomic era? How do communities and artists articulate concerns over radioactive matters? What was the role of radiation expertise in a broader Soviet and international context of the Cold War? Examining nuclear legacies together with past atomic futures and post-Soviet memorialization and nuclear heritage shines light on how modes of knowing intersect with livelihoods, compensation policies, and historiography. Bringing together a range of disciplines – history, science and technology studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and art history – this volume offers insights that broaden our understanding of twentieth-century atomic programs and their long aftermaths.

• Bauer, Susanne; Schlünder, Martina & Rentetzi, Maria (2020). Boxes: A Field Guide. Mattering Press. ISBN 9781912729012. 624 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Heinemann, Torsten & Lemke, Thomas (2017). Science and Technology Studies. Klassische Positionen und aktuelle Perspektiven. Suhrkamp. ISBN 9783518297933. 646 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Bischof, Christine; Haufe, Stephan Gabriel; Beck, Stefan & Scholze-Irrlitz, Leonore (2010). Essen in Europa. Kulturelle 'Rückstände' in Nahrung und Körper. Transcript Verlag. ISBN 9783837613940. 194 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Bergermann, Ulrike; Hanke, Christine; Oldenburg, Helene von; Reiche, Claudia & Sick, Andrea (2009). Prototypisieren. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst. thealit.FRAUEN.KULTUR.LABOR. ISBN 9783930924141. 272 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Wahlberg, Ayo (2009). Contested Categories. Life Sciences in Society. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754676188. 210 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2006). The Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing. Cancer Epidemiology in Areas Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISBN 9783631537305. 233 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Bauer, Susanne (2026). Beyond Chornobyl: The Many Layers of Fallout in Arctic Borderlands. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2026). Data Cargo and Anthropogenic Ecologies in Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Aftermath. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Hanke, Christine (2026). Troubled ancestry in more-than-human ruins. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2026). Uranium Materialities: From Cold War Technomodernity to Nuclear De-and Recommissioning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2025). Anthropogenic Ecologies: Human-Soil Relations in the Nuclear Aftermath. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Methi, Hilde; Vaage, Nora Sørensen; Klutsch, Cornelya; Bauer, Susanne; Münster, Ursula & Flo, Annike (2025). Jordsamtaler. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Jordsamtaler belyser jord fra flere ulike kunnskapsfelt: filosofi og kunsthistorie, vitenskapsog teknologistudier, miljøhumaniora, biologi og kunst. De som bidrar er forskerne Nora S. Vaage, Susanne Bauer, Ursula Münster og Cornelya Klutsch, i tillegg til kunstner Annike Flo og kurator Hilde Methi, som er ansvarlige for dette kunstverket og programmet.

• Bauer, Susanne (2025). Swimming with and against data streams: a digital fish and its unaccounted others. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This contribution takes the digital twin of a fish as a point of departure. It diffracts the digital salmon model, pursued by life scientists in Norway. A ghostly twin, epistemic thing, imaginary, platform, and tool, all at the same time, this digital doppelganger inhabits the intersection of current AI and bioeconomy aspirations. I examine how digital model fish join and swim with current streams of data and capital. For instance, digital fish thrive in pitches for research funding, carrying the promise of prediction machines and artificial marine intelligence. I show the ways in which the digital model reaches across and jumps scales and how it prompts simultaneous and isomorphic optimization of adjacent digital twins of the aquaculture plant, the human body, IQ testing, and salmon profitability. As digital twins, with their engineering and production goals, model design and refinement tend to leave out what lives next to them and their metabolic relations. Those omissions include other ocean critters, such as fish lice or algae, seemingly appearing out of nowhere as disruptors around and to industrial aquaculture. Turning into unforeseen atrevisados to industrial aquaculture, they expose the exclusions in model building and the complexity of marine food webs as well as their anthropogenic alterations.

• Bauer, Susanne (2025). Data and Methods Inside Out? Studying Epidemiology as Infrastructure. Invited Talk STS Seminar, Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2025). Book Review, William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer, and Hanna Notte. Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs. 230 pp. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. Isis. ISSN 0021-1753. 116(2), s. 406–408. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Delgado, Ana & Bauer, Susanne (2024). Extractions: Data Infrastructures and the Public Good. Science, Technology and Human Values. ISSN 0162-2439. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Smedsrud, Morten S. (2024). De atombombet seg til nytt jordbruksland. [Journal]. Appollon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Pallaev, Tokhir & Bauer, Susanne (2024). Soils as laboratories of science and politics during periods of transition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This contribution describes the changing role and position of soil science and soil practitioners during periods of political transition. It focuses on transformation of soil knowledges and remediation practices in Kazakhstan’s dryland ecosystems during Soviet and independent history.

• Bauer, Susanne (2024). From Kazakhstan to Hiroshima and back: Shipping and Calculating Radioactive Soils. Presentation at CERCEC, EHESS Paris, discussant: Cécile Asanuma-Brice (Mitate Lab. & Maison franco-japonaise). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Pallaev, Tokhir (2024). Soviet Soil Science in Central Asia: Laboratories for Remediation Research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Vaage, Nora Sørensen & Münster, Daniel (2024). Introduction to the Panel "Soil Repair". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2024). Epidemiology’s Data-Drive: Contested Difference Categories and AI Dreaming in the Nordics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Pileberg, Silje (2023). Jordsmonn har blitt ødelagt. Nå må vi bøte på skadene. [Internet]. https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Münster, Daniel & Vaage, Nora Sørensen (2023). Introduction to the Panel. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2023). AI in Society: Understanding the societal impact and the social shaping of AI technologies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2023). Soil knowledges in Central Asia: Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Knaus, Tanja & Bauer, Susanne (2023). Voice Diagnostics and Stress Monitoring: Infrastructuring and Automation of Health Data. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2023). Fallout and food webs from the ground up: examining multispecies legacies of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Aalbu, Kjersti & Bauer, Susanne (2023). Data reuse and the politics of repair. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Knaus, Tanja & Bauer, Susanne (2023). Voice Diagnostics and the Infrastructuring and Automation of Health Data. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2022). Accountability in AI development and innovation: social science approaches. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2021). The data heritage of the atomic era. A curatorial approach (Invited talk, Atomic Heritage Conference, Vilnius, 15-18 June 2021). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Schlünder, Martina (2021). Boxes as Method, Architectures of the Enclosed Sea: from Aquaria to Marine Protected Area, Exhibition "AQUARIA — ​​​​​​​Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea", MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2019). Soviet Radiation Biology: Navigating the Boundaries of Closed Worlds. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Talleraas, Tina & Bauer, Susanne (2018). Avsrekkingens pris. s. 20-21–20-21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne & Hanke, Christine (2018). Locating the data centre. Attending to place in the study of cloud computing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2018). Invited Commentary: Nuclear Technopolitics. Half-lives, short and long. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2018). Science and Technology Studies: Resources for Transdisciplinary Investigations. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2018). Extracting, Scaling, Re-Producing: How digital modelling re-aligns and valuates salmon and public health. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2018). Following the algorithm: time and synchronisation in an epidemiological risk score. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2017). Locating cybersecurity. Teknovatøren. s. 36–37. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne (2017). Following the Algorithm. The Social Life of Risk Scores. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bauer, Susanne; Blacker, Sarah; Güttler, Nils & Schlünder, Martina (2013). The Racehorse on the Runway. The hybrid ecologies of Frankfurt Airport show us how homes and borders intersect. nautilus science magazine. 8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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