we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

European colleagues-friends, my book #TransformingNight will easily be available thanks to this UW LUP partnership in July 🌌🎉

Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

Working on an overview of medicine and race in the 19th C. Finding my way to some articles that are new to me. In case it’s useful, will write about the ones that I’m appreciating the most.

I tend to think I stay up to date on Warwick Anderson’s publications. But just came across his 2017 paper on ‘Coolie Therapeutics.’ A lovely short paper, one that touches on lots of themes from earlier publications while also exploring new terrain. Final para on Ackerknecht’s sig today is great.

Hey Bluesky academics, I want to reproduce some tables from early 19th C journals. Does one need to get any sort of permissions for such things? Is there a general rule?

Trump: Don’t ask me who is in charge because I’ll give you an answer and it will be very controversial. Reporter: What does that mean? Trump: We’re in charge.

You misunderstood. When I said “Let’s circle back to that in the new year” I meant never contact me again.

Appeasement won’t work this time, either.

We’re not going to make it out of this.

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

Damn. This is Cold War US geopolitics without bothering with a Red Scare. One year into a four year term. Absolutely hellish.

wordle fan AND early modern enthusiast? check this out: prattle.folger.edu?seed=2025123...

Very irritated to be going from a cool number in 2025 (9 squared x 5 squared) to this ugly-ass 2026. 2 x 1013? GTFOH.

ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court— BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.

If you're in the Palo Alto area on January 20, I'll be having a conversation about my new book et al. with @dcbrock.bsky.social computerhistory.org/events/read-...

How I’m leaving 2025.

I look forward to this all year. The real spirit of the season. defector.com/the-2025-hat...

In some good news, my book has started to arrive for people who pre ordered. Be like Adam and get your copy here, curently 30% off uncpress.org/978146968920...

This entire weekend

Sending love and solidarity to all our colleagues at Brown. Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?

In the 1960s, a group of New Jersey teenagers helped make computing personal... (An excerpt from my new book in IEEE Spectrum) spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hack... #HistSci #computing #History 🗃️

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Page proofs of Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science. Holy crap, I did it!

If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.

Anyone in history of science/history of medicine recently use an indexer they can recommend? I really don’t want to have to index my own book.

Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!

We have a cover

This Tuesday, December 2, you can buy my book about books about computing... Treat yourself...😀 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... 🗃️ #HistSci

Just made an awesome vegetarian gravy. Soy sauce and nutritional yeast making up for the lack of umami from meat. Really rich and complex and lovely.

Cut 7000 words from my book manuscript over the last few months. Getting close to the point that this will be off my desk.

Now I don’t believe in an interventionist God But I know darling, that you do.

Just call it the scab special and have done with it.

Pffft. Every academic knows what a faculty meeting is.

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain.

Absolutely correct

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Santa, I would like a completely New Democratic Party for Christmas.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Mississippi Masala is happening.

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

The Mayor’s Mamdani, M A M D A N I

A good day.

Two new polls out today for NYC mayor (including a Fox News poll) and both polls show Mamdani up 16 points. He is ahead on every major issue including crime. And in two way race with just Cuomo he beats him soundly. Let's do this NYC voters.

Every day, I discover people having talents I did not know were a thing. Please enjoy this performance!

I’m giving a talk at UPenn on Monday. Philly folks want to come say hi?

No Kings is also true of your workplace.