Please join us for a timely discussion on intellectual property and democracy (and other IP theory and history matters) in June in Brazil! Details on CfP:

"Being an editor was intensely sociable as well as stimulating ... I loved being a History Workshop editor and the intellectual excitement that came with it." Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.

“Verwaltete Umwelt” mit Nils Güttler nächsten Dienstag in Konstanz:

nice piece, "social science and political action were inextricably linked“, „technological progressivism but also social conservativism, praise of entrepreneurship combined with paeans to the idyllic life of the countryside"

👀 www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536056...

Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

New issue of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies is out and, as always, fully available online #openaccess: "Women's Movements and Knowledge Formations". journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...

++NEUERSCHEINUNG++ Die Neue Frauenbewegung skandalisierte seit den 1970er Jahren männliche Gewalt gegen Frauen in der BRD. @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy rekonstruiert in »Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat« die jahrzehntelangen feministischen Kämpfe: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...

'We need a more participatory model for question formation'. Indeed, we do.

Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

#Reminder: Heute am KWI – „Die Moral von der Geschicht‘? Über Biopolitik, Bioethik & den Wert des Lebens in Deutschland“, Vorträge und Gespräch mit Petra Gehring, Dagmar Herzog und Jonas Schmidt ⏰ 18 Uhr 📍 KWI Essen & Zoom 🔗 tinyurl.com/45hhddmj

new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?

#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment. @mellon.org 📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund ⏱️15 Nov 25 🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb

Auf das Buch freue ich mich schon sehr! Gratulation, @christianjacobs.bsky.social!

Zum Vormerken: Im November erscheint das so wichtige Buch „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat. Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der BRD 1973-1997“ von Hannah Catherine Davies. Absolutes Muss! www.hamburger-edition.de/fileadmin/us...

am 7.11. / anlässlich des 50jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte an der TU Berlin

new & online💥 cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen ″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″ cache.ch/verwalteteum...

Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24” You know what to do.

Jonas Stähelin über den offenen Brief der Zürcher Historiker:innen. tsri.ch/a/nach-angri...

Nächster Donnerstag ist die Abschiedsvorlesung von Michael Hagner. ethz.ch/de/news-und-...

“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.

Excited to share this year's program for the Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques! The colloquium is co-organized with @brunostrasser.bsky.social (Geneva), Simona Boscani Leoni (Lausanne), & Gianenrico Bernasconi (Neuchâtel) #histSTM #histsci www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/la...

Das alles erklärt dieser Artikel von The Conversation sehr gut: theconversation.com/why-openais-...

The Sorbonne's justification of its decision to leave the Times Higher Education league table game raises key issues for universities in an era of attacks on science and for UK science (SHAPE & STEM) & the escalating growth of proprietary bibliometrics. 1/4

Huge profits from scientific publishing are good, says commercial scientific publisher.

The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #PlasticTreaty

AI prompt injection for manipulating peer review: Are we really that screwed by the mere allure of #LLM s as a stress relief? If I try to imagine this as a humanities practice, we'll end up in a mess. Let's call all of this machine unlearning in the meantime. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist. zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

Weiterleiten! Oder lesen! Oder beides!

WeTransfer verlangt uneingeschränkte Rechte an allen übermittelten Inhalten, um KI zu trainieren.

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc themaintainers.org/study-guide/

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”

Berlin, fyi: heute/morgen/übermorgen kommt vorbei bei unserem intercom/gta Verlag Kombi-Stand

Kolleg:innen aus Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Technikgeschichte aller Länder, bewerbt Euch! ethz.ch/de/die-eth-z...

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

Die Abwertung von Redaktionsarbeit im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren war damals einer der Gründe, wieso wir den intercomverlag gegründet haben… — letzte Woche war ich zusammen mit Nils Güttler zu Gast im Redaktionspodcast von @hsozkult.bsky.social: www.hsozkult.de/podcast/staf...

Along with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett I have co-organised an Experimental Histories of Science workshop at UCL on 25 April 2025 Attendance is free, but you do need to register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment... A description, programme and appreciation of support follow

At the beginning of the semester, if questions of AI in academia are stressing you out, could I suggest reading through our most recent set of essays? online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) was among the scholars who were forced to emigrate in the 1930s. In a new article Donata Romizi argues for Zilsel's deep political engagement, including his connection to Red Vienna. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Recht hat sie, unsere Dekanin. "Wenn man ein Narrativ belegen will, findet man immer irgendwelche Statistiken, die sich dafür heranziehen lassen. Da merkt man, wie wichtig es ist, Statistiken richtig lesen zu können." www.zsonline.ch/2025/02/27/i...

We have a piece out today explaining why even those ‘considering’ probably wont migrate anyway (‘Switzerland is boring’, apparently) academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Für mein @blnreview.bsky.social debüt habe ich Aspekte einer Affekttheorie des Faschismus skizziert. Jetzt online: blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

Erst seit 1997 ist Vergewaltigung in der Ehe strafbar. Eine kleine Gruppe aus CDU, CSU und FDP, darunter Friedrich Merz, stimmte auch damals noch dagegen. Die Historikerin Catherine Davies über die lange Geschichte der Verhinderung dieses Gesetzes. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-ende-ein...