Yep. Forward this to those who haven't yet made the move www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

On Friday, I asked a question at LinkedIn about what everyone is doing with their writing assignments to respond to the crisis of AI in education. By yesterday afternoon, it was a fully worked-out invitation to share anchored in my own experiences. What say you? mindwise-groningen.nl/inviting-tho...

Germany's far-right "remigration" movement is probably giving a preview of future Republican rhetoric in the US. For those with an interest in such things, this report is worth watching. It's from the German public state-owned international broadcaster: Deutsche Welle (DW). youtu.be/MOrTIB8JVe8?...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I am not ready for it to be September. I am, however, ready for it to be July. Who do I speak to about this inconsistency?

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

The archive where I'm working for the next two weeks has the largest single collection I've ever heard of: 15 shelf-kms! That's almost 50,000 linear feet!! (It's the complete property records going back to the 1820s for the entire province of Noord-Holland, which includes Amsterdam.)

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

The meaning of "presidential" has been so debased from what Jed Bartett preached that this now sounds like folksy charm

When I lived in the middle of nowhere, and the electricity would fail regularly and often (sometimes for many hours), I just went and got a back-up power supply. But how do you do the equivalent with these pseudo-cognitive tools that people are starting to rely on? www.forbes.com/sites/callum...

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝟭𝟬 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 More info: bit.ly/3Gcfe3b #History #Psychology #Science #Medicine #Historysky #Psychologsky

The first ever "Three Societies Meeting" has ended. It was wonderful to bring together so many scholars and friends to discuss the history of psychology, the history of the behavioral and social sciences, and the history of the human sciences. Let's not wait another sixty years to do it again!

Look, this is really getting serious: I need you all to stop publishing such interesting books. I simply can't afford to buy them all. And anyway, I've run out of shelf space. Both at home and at the office. So, please: stop being so clever! (Take a vacation without bringing your laptop!!)

Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente...

🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay) #histmed #histstm jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Can someone who knows Husserl please explain how this index entry refers to a page that isn't contained within the book? This is from the English translation of Husserl's (1948/1973) "Experience and Judgment." The book ends on page 443. What I want is on page 521. (How?)

The readings for my Monday lecture talk extensively about mirror neurons. But the book I'm using was written during the period of hype. Does anyone have a favorite "critical" text that could help me bring the students back to earth? (I want them to be excited, but not *too* excited.)

Yes. Please do this. It improves a bad day, and can even make up for a frustrating week

The piece I linked to in the thread is the sequel, using archival history, to an earlier quantitative (digital) history. That's linked here. My broader idea is that there are invisible influences which inform our thinking: the water we swim in that we can't see. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is p. 111 of "Rewriting the soul." From chapter 7: "measure." Hacking, I. (1998). Rewriting the soul: Multiple personality and the sciences of memory. Princeton University Press. Hacking also wrote several important articles and books about statistics and probability directly.

Why are there no Starter Packs for the History and Philosophy of Maths or Logic? That would make my life so much easier. (Does anyone study the Dutch intuitionists in Brouwer's tradition? Or that same school after Mannoury took over? Y'know: the originators of Synthese and the Synthese Library?)

"Norway... will axe a controversial law that requires PhD students... to undertake mandatory Norwegian language training. The move follows a backlash from scientists, who argued that the language stipulation... would create substantial barriers to recruiting... talent" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In case you were wondering, Twitter seems to be down more often than it's up these days

We updated our 2023 story given the announcement today of new evidence and new peer reviews regarding purposeful burial in H. naledi. 🧪🏺

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

Want to learn how to craft a compelling op-ed? Watch “Op-Ed Writing for Historians" with @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social, @jelaniya.bsky.social, @mauracunningham.bsky.social, @franhirsch.bsky.social, @brianros1.bsky.social, & moderator @lmansley.bsky.social . #AHAOnline 🗃️

If this is what the market will bear for PhD-level work, then we're all owed a raise

Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online. www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

UK #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social! In 6 #podcast episodes I talk about how monsters and monster-making shaped the origins of the modern world. H/t @sebfalk.bsky.social for photo! 1/🧵 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

Just noticed that there's a 2.5-year STS postdoc position available at @edinburghuni.bsky.social, to work in the excellent Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Closing date very soon: March 7! #STS #histstm #medanthro

English is the second language of Europe. But although fluency has increased since 2012 among 55+, it's spoken mainly—and increasingly—by young people (under 35). This enhances the EU's "freedom of movement" (Art 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU). www.brusselstimes.com/1464390/euro...

I would have spelled it with a K. But otherwise, no notes.

"Section 31" is the worst of Star Trek. The producers seem only to have watched "Wrath of Khan" and a couple of episodes of Discovery as prep. As a result, it felt disconnected from Canon. New aliens with levels of technology surpassing both the Borg and Species 8472? Before TNG! (Do some research!)

Really looking forward to giving a paper on 'Mapping criminal justice in 18th century London', tomorrow @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome either in person or online, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi...

What are these things that they're deleting? Let's put together a reading list. Rutherford, A. & Davidson, T. (2019). #Intersectionality and the history of psychology. In W. Pickren (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology. Oxford University Press. doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Excited to introduce Thoughtcrime Checker! This simple text editor highlights any words on the Trump administration's "banned" list. Remove these words from your NSF/NIH grants and see if you can avoid the Thought Police! brad7280.github.io/thoughtcrime... @theo.io @xkcd.com @byscottdance.com

📉 Why does this matter? Even as COVID-19 cases decline, excess mortality remains at crisis levels. Our findings suggest that the pandemic exacerbated pre-existing health risks—but the drivers of this crisis were in motion long before 2020. (4/6)

Isn't Vance's version basically an oversimplification of The Selfish Gene?

Our new paper on MIRROR NEURONS is coming out！🪞🔮 This article responds to the question “What happened to mirror neurons” since 2022, from the perspective of the history of science (Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts).😎 Check and read it：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101145

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Google Maps, in Europe, still says it's the Gulf of Mexico www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The EuroPsy alternative to APA accreditation is interesting: it offers a new take on "academic freedom," where this means delivering on shared norms and expectations and then going beyond them in ways consistent with local expertise to offer additional certification psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Putting together a new set of readings for our senior bachelor course called "Brain, Consciousness, and Society" (@unigroningen.bsky.social). It's tricky: very interdisciplinary. So great to have some guidance about what related texts from outside Psychology have had an outsized impact. And when.

What do you think of using AI to help scientists communicate with the public? Not to generate texts from scratch, but starting with peer-reviewed articles that were written for a specialist audience to generate drafts of various simpler texts on those same topics meant for generalist audiences?

There are so many trashy videos that are like "you might be #autistic if..." or "you might have #adhd if...." And I think they're unprofessional; even unethical. But if you are indeed the sort of person who is bothered about the ambiguity of which sock goes on which foot, just get labeled socks.

Digital History Klaxon: Looking for collaborators to submit a session to @historians.org on digital history projects for broad audiences. My team is looking to present on Searchablemuseum.com and are looking for other projects, theme/region/period agnostic!

Faith in humanity restored 🥰

Coming soon: "Translating science in the 18th and 19th centuries," edited by Alison Martin and Susan Pickford (@libripotens.bsky.social). H The discounted Routledge link is below. Their pre-order isn't live yet. But Amazon's is: set it and forget it! #translation www.routledge.com/Translating-...