Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Interested in interviews & oral history in #HistSTM #HistMed #HPS? Then this special issue is for you! Research Interviews in the History of Science & Medicine–Reflections and New Directions, eds. @hworliczek.bsky.social & @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15222365... 1/7

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

New essay in this exhibition catalogue (Vienna/ in German) - the exhibition looks great!

ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS ishpssb.org/meetings

Out now: "Christentum und Ökologie" in der "Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte" U.a. zu dunkelgrüner Religion, katholischer Resonanz, grünen Hähnen, christlichem Umweltprotest, Rechten der Natur, Schöpfungsverantwortung in der Ökumene und Naturerfahrungen des Pilgerns. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/kize/38/1

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

Very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kelly Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow. journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for @emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social #SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins

What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits? This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation. Listen now! 🎧

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

RIP Margaret Rossiter. She took "Science & History" at Harvard in the e.1960s. Her instructor commented “your powers of analysis are far superior to your powers of articulation." Oof, we all start somewhere & I appreciated her willingness to share! watermark.silverchair.com/hsns_2012_42...

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

The "Animal Mobilities" special issue will also be discussed at this year's History of Science Society conference in New Orleans, USA. 🐫🐠🐛 The roundtable is organized by @lisaonaga.bsky.social, co-editor of the volume. 🗓️ November 14, 2025, 11:00 (CST) 📍Sheraton NOLA 🔗 bit.ly/hssam25 #HistSci #HSS

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline. It's this week's episode of The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧 @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #histsci #experiments

New theme for 2026-27 fellowships @ Davis Center for Historical Studies “Property and Poverty.” history.princeton.edu/news-events/...

2-yr postdoctoral fellowship at Wisconsin in the History of Medicine and/or Public Health (19th century to the present) mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p... Review of applications to start 1 April 2025. #histSTM

This is officially my horizontally longest image to date, depicting some of the earliest complex animals on the planet from 565 to 505 million years ago and how they changed over time. Thank you to @egmitchell.bsky.social and Steve Pates for trusting me with this gargantuan task! #Art #SciArt

Fellow #histSTM scholars! The "Essays and Reviews" section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (@hsnatsci.bsky.social) is looking for contributors to a February 2026 special section on "Historical Practices." More information in this Call for Proposals + in this thread. (1/?)

For my first post here, I'm sharing a little collage of my work: three natural science illustrations and one coin design. I've been a self-employed illustrator for nearly 25 years now, so this is a small sampling. Many more examples here: emilydamstra.com #sciart #paleoart #coindesign #fishart

"Earthrise" Photo taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders (1933-2024) on Christmas Eve in 1968.

Brigitta van Rheinberg has worked at Princeton University Press since the late 1980s, which makes her personal essay a fascinating glimpse into the ways university presses generally (and PUP in particular) have transformed academic publishing in recent decades. press.princeton.edu/ideas/pup-li...

New "First Research Article” fellowships 🤩 Graduate students based at Asian, African, or Latin American institutions are invited to apply to Dept. "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge" or "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life." 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 16, 2024 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #HistSci #ResearchOpportunities

Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship? Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁 #HistNatHist Please share.

Winter solstice on Princeton's campus: the shortest day and longest night of 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere.

From my dear friend andrew hui… and @princetonupress.bsky.social a marvelous study of studies to read in your study

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

Workshop on Large Language Models in the history, philosphy, and social studies of science (Berlin, April 2-3, 2025) www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/... #HPS, #philsci, #STS

The illustrations are amazing! All I need now are the words...

A smattering of news here, including a reminder to send me a voicemail with your favorite history book of the year by Thursday! (I pushed back the deadline because I...lost track of time.) buttondown.com/draftingthep...

CfP: How Sciences End Oxford, 11-13 July 2025 Deadline: 31 January 2025 Submit 250-word abstracts to [email protected] [I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]

This is a super essay by Alessandro Antonello on the cinema of ice in the 1920s: insidestory.org.au/the-flickeri...

“But to my knowledge no one, before now, has written a history of the comic strip as a technological artifact—not, at least, in such depth + on such a sound foundation of research. It took long years, a detective’s persistence, a scientist’s curiosity, + a fan’s obsessiveness to carry out the work”

Take advantage of this opportunity for a free one-year membership to AAAS Section-L (History & Philosophy of Science Section) for grads & postdocs in #HPS (Students & Postdocs only & must apply within next 3 weeks) ⤵️

Welche #Artenverluste gibt es? Warum sind #Schutzgebiete oder #Moore so wichtig? Wie sollte sich #Ernährung ändern? Im digitalen Dossier gibt die Leopoldina mit anschaulichen Grafiken und verständlichen Texten „15 Antworten auf 15 Fragen zur #Biodiversität" interaktiv.leopoldina.org/biodiversita...

These photos are taken only two hours apart. On my way to campus, the ginko was gently raining bright yellow. By the time I returned, none were left hanging. Tree magic. ✨

You can read an excerpt from one of the essays in my new edited book, Lunar on LitHub.

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" is hiring a Postdoc! 🎓 Proposed projects should be related to the topic "From Trust in Science to Knowledge in Relation." 🗓️ Deadline: January 3, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #AcademicFreedom #STS #PoliticalEpistemology

As always @alltoosuman.bsky.social being brilliant: "It has become common to belittle the humanities for their irrelevance to the modern world… Yet perhaps the most important part of our method is not only to argue for better answers but also to ask whether our questions are in fact the right ones."

“The inextricable relationship between science and technology and society is intensifying,” Press wrote—a reality that still underpins ISSUES’ work. As @alondra.bsky.social told us in 2021, “science and technology now sit in the center of every policy & social issue.”⁠ 3/ issues.org/science-tech...

⏰ Reminder! The Call for Papers for #BSHSPostgrads 2025 closes on 13 December 2024 at 23:59 GMT. Don’t miss your chance to present at the University of Leeds on April 25-26, 2025! https://buff.ly/3TMcDza #HistoryOfScience #HistSci #PGConference #PGCfP #PGhistSTEM

I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild!

Our film on the making of Africa's blank spaces, produced in partnership with the National Museums of World Cultures, is now available in the official Youtube channel of Uppsala University.

Delighted to see this available! Thank you @samaragreenwood.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation. #histSTM

Came by this beauty looking for illustrations for a new article. "Posture Dos and Don'ts,:Barnard College, commencement 1935. Loving the shoes, skirt, shirt & attitude of the left. #skystorians #academicsky #histstm #disability