C'est aujourd'hui que paraît l'ouvrage 'Expérimenter, conserver, transmettre. La collection d'instruments scientifiques de Lausanne, du XVIIIe à nos jours', par Jérôme Baudry et Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social, avec la collaboration de Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu ! www.epflpress.org/produit/1621...

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...

The 5th meeting of the Media History | CH network will take place at EPFL on 13 and 14 November 2025, organized by the Laboratory for History and Theory of Architecture, Technology and Media. Deadline for submissions: 15 september, see full CfP 👇

www.epfl.ch/labs/hitam/p...

Two highlights from today at the Geneva Summer school on the history of intellectual property: a talk by Clara Giménez Delgado and Colin Wells on the past, present and future of the WIPO archives, and a keynote by @jamielove.bsky.social on IP and access to medicines

Fantastic 1st day of our summer school on the history of intellectual property yesterday in Geneva! Great presentations by ECRs, thought-provoking keynote by @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social. We ended the day with a guided tour & aperitif dinner at the History of Science Museum @mhngeneve.bsky.social

Wonderful symposium 100 Years of Quantum Physics at the joint conference of the Austrian & Swiss Physical Societies in Vienna, with contributions by historians & philosophers of science Christoph Lehner (IQOQI), David Kaiser (MIT), Allissa Ney (LMU Munich), and Beatrix Hiesmayr (U Vienna). #histsci

We're delighted to be co-organizing this conference with Rossella Baldi (Uni Neuchâtel) and Samuel Gessner (Uni Lisboa). Join us on January 14-15, 2026 at the beautiful villa of the Geneva Musée d'histoire des sciences! #histsci #histSTM #scientificinstruments @mhngeneve.bsky.social

(3/3) Si vous connaissez des sources (archives, imprimés, presse) inexploitées, faites-nous signe ! (ci-dessous, Gazette de Lausanne, 1er mai 1982)

Dans le cadre du festival Scientastic à l'EPFL ce weekend (9-10 nov.), nous exposons une sélection d'objets de la Collection d'instruments scientifiques UNIL-EPFL. Venez découvrir ces instruments de démonstration datant du 18e au 20e s. dans le bâtiment CM!
Lien: scientastic.epfl.ch/programme-20...

Alina Volynskaya masterfully combined DH, history, STS, & media studies to investigate what happens to scientific archives when they go digital. She's now a postdoc at the University of Luxemburg, working on the history of the CD-ROM.
Link to diss.: infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.50...

Yohann Guffroy (left - @yguffr.bsky.social) worked on the history of technical drawings in England c. 1750-1850. He's now a postdoc at the University of Geneva, researching the history of the industrial face mask in the 19th century.
Link to diss.: infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.50...

De lundi à aujourd'hui, nous avons reçu à l' #EPFL près de 60 historiens, archéologues & anthropologues pour une école d'été d'histoire des techniques, organisée avec le GDR TPH du #CNRS ! Un beau moment d'échanges, de formation & de recherche. Merci aux participant.e.s! #histtech

Paraît aujourd'hui aux Éditions du Collège de France : Jérôme Baudry, Jean Dalibard (dir.), À bras-le-corps ! Savants et instruments au Collège de France au XIXe siècle. Merci aux auteurs & autrices, et à l'équipe des Éditions, tout particulièrement Fanny Pauthier ! #histsci #histSTM

We're delighted and proud to have contributed to this exhibition at the Collège de France, opening on April 25! Ion Mihailescu & Jérôme Baudry have worked hard on the scientific content, and JB is co-curating the exhibition with physicist Jean Dalibard @collegedefrance.bsky.social. #histsci #histSTM

Vient de paraître aux Presses des Mines : Jérôme Baudry, Valérie Nègre (dir.), Dessiner la technique. Pensée et discours visuels (XVIe-XXe siècles). Merci aux collègues qui ont contribué à cet ouvrage ! #histSTM #histtech #histsci
www.pressesdesmines.com/produit/dess...

After many, many years of research, excited to see this article published in PLOS ONE: "Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science." We studied the online activity of over 14 millions participants! #sts #histstm
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Last talk/provocation of the "National historiographies of techniques" conference in Paris: "Global History of Technology: A Requiem" by Jonas Van der Straeten from TUEindhoven's History Lab. 😱 #histtech #globalhistory

Second day of the "National historiographies of techiques" conference(tph.hypotheses.org/1244), at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Great keynote by David Pretel on "Tropical Forest Commodities in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production."#histtech #globalhistory

The 2023-24 program for the Séminaire romand d'histoire des sciences et des techniques #histsci #histtech, organized jointly by EPFL and the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel, is out! More details here: www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/la...