Trevor Owens
@tjowens.bsky.social
Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
They already came up with the answer in 1991.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
They already came up with the answer in 1991.
I had the privilege of serving on the Bit List Council, working alongside an incredible group of colleagues from across the globe — all committed to protecting our shared digital heritage. #WDPD2025
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I had the privilege of serving on the Bit List Council, working alongside an incredible group of colleagues from across the globe — all committed to protecting our shared digital heritage. #WDPD2025
This year’s Bit List introduces sector-specific guidance, including new sections for Research and Academic Institutions. This can help each field understand and address its unique preservation challenges. #WDPD2025
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This year’s Bit List introduces sector-specific guidance, including new sections for Research and Academic Institutions. This can help each field understand and address its unique preservation challenges. #WDPD2025
Learn more about the work of AIP's librarians & archivists to build a more contemporary and inclusive visual record of the physical sciences community in this new @physicstoday.bsky.social article -> "Archivists seek photos of today’s physical scientists" physicstoday.aip.org/news/archivi...
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Learn more about the work of AIP's librarians & archivists to build a more contemporary and inclusive visual record of the physical sciences community in this new @physicstoday.bsky.social article -> "Archivists seek photos of today’s physical scientists" physicstoday.aip.org/news/archivi...
Had a great time exploring @hornbakelibrary.bsky.social’s new exhibition. Letterpress, labor unions, archivists, and Zip disks. What more could you want! Kudos to the whole team on a great exhibit.
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Had a great time exploring @hornbakelibrary.bsky.social’s new exhibition. Letterpress, labor unions, archivists, and Zip disks. What more could you want! Kudos to the whole team on a great exhibit.
Fun to wake up to this thoughtful & positive review of my book, After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory in the journal College and Research Libraries.
Read the review here -> crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Open access copy of the book here -> www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Read the review here -> crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Open access copy of the book here -> www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Fun to wake up to this thoughtful & positive review of my book, After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory in the journal College and Research Libraries.
Read the review here -> crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Open access copy of the book here -> www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Read the review here -> crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
Open access copy of the book here -> www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Blown away by Tatiana Erukhimova, Jonathan Perry, and Isabella Oaks's talks on the Impact of Outreach on Physics Students at the AAPT summer meeting. Their in depth research shows how valuable informal outreach experiences are for motivation, belonging, competence, and a growth mindset.
August 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Blown away by Tatiana Erukhimova, Jonathan Perry, and Isabella Oaks's talks on the Impact of Outreach on Physics Students at the AAPT summer meeting. Their in depth research shows how valuable informal outreach experiences are for motivation, belonging, competence, and a growth mindset.
Great weekly AIP History Update today from @williamthomas.bsky.social on a new book on The Board of Longitude. It's a great example of how discussions of science and technology policy can/should engage more with historical scholarship -> www.aip.org/history/book...
July 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Great weekly AIP History Update today from @williamthomas.bsky.social on a new book on The Board of Longitude. It's a great example of how discussions of science and technology policy can/should engage more with historical scholarship -> www.aip.org/history/book...
Federal investment has been the backbone of college and university research and development activities for 70+ years. Data from NCSES show that the federal funding has represented more than half of all R&D at colleges and universities every single year since 1953. 🔗 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25345
July 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Federal investment has been the backbone of college and university research and development activities for 70+ years. Data from NCSES show that the federal funding has represented more than half of all R&D at colleges and universities every single year since 1953. 🔗 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25345
🔭 Last month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory wowed the world with its first ultra-high-resolution images. Ahead of Rubin’s 97th on July 23rd, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social spotlights Rubin's 1989 oral history with Alan Lightman in this week’s AIP History Weekly. -> www.aip.org/history/oral...
July 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔭 Last month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory wowed the world with its first ultra-high-resolution images. Ahead of Rubin’s 97th on July 23rd, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social spotlights Rubin's 1989 oral history with Alan Lightman in this week’s AIP History Weekly. -> www.aip.org/history/oral...
Just read Mathematics for Ladies by @jessyrandall.bsky.social — a brilliant collection of poems on women in science.
AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.
AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.
June 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just read Mathematics for Ladies by @jessyrandall.bsky.social — a brilliant collection of poems on women in science.
AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.
AIP has oral histories with several of the women featured in the poems. Thread incoming with links.
I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)
June 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)
@jessyrandall.bsky.social thanks for following me back! As luck would have it, I just got my copy of “The Path of Mose Resistance” in the mail. Loved learning about your work from your @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social conversations episode!
June 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@jessyrandall.bsky.social thanks for following me back! As luck would have it, I just got my copy of “The Path of Mose Resistance” in the mail. Loved learning about your work from your @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social conversations episode!
Yeah, I got into this dynamic a bit in the second chapter of After Disruption. Broadly, I think the cultural heritage community is increasingly going to be more and more aligned again with media/content creators and publishers. (pages 40-42) www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
June 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Yeah, I got into this dynamic a bit in the second chapter of After Disruption. Broadly, I think the cultural heritage community is increasingly going to be more and more aligned again with media/content creators and publishers. (pages 40-42) www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Excited to be virtually presenting this morning as part of the University of Aveiro's International Archives Week Seminar. If you want to join in, you can still register for free here. The talk starts at 10:00 AM Eastern Time -> videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Excited to be virtually presenting this morning as part of the University of Aveiro's International Archives Week Seminar. If you want to join in, you can still register for free here. The talk starts at 10:00 AM Eastern Time -> videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Today's weekly edition of AIP's history newsletter celebrates physicist and historian of science Gerald Holton's 103rd birthday and explores the key role he, and NSF, played in establishing and shaping AIP's history programs -> www.aip.org/history/gera...
May 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Today's weekly edition of AIP's history newsletter celebrates physicist and historian of science Gerald Holton's 103rd birthday and explores the key role he, and NSF, played in establishing and shaping AIP's history programs -> www.aip.org/history/gera...
A few telegrams from 1935 open a window into the human side of physics: a network of colleagues and mentors congratulating J.H. Van Vleck on his election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Follow some of these archival traces in this new post -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
Follow some of these archival traces in this new post -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
May 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A few telegrams from 1935 open a window into the human side of physics: a network of colleagues and mentors congratulating J.H. Van Vleck on his election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Follow some of these archival traces in this new post -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
Follow some of these archival traces in this new post -> www.aip.org/library/ex-l...
In "Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities" Allison Marsh shares out some of the research she has been engaged in as a fellow at Linda Hall Library on the history of women's involvement in the development of electrical engineering as a field. Read more here -> spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-...
May 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In "Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities" Allison Marsh shares out some of the research she has been engaged in as a fellow at Linda Hall Library on the history of women's involvement in the development of electrical engineering as a field. Read more here -> spectrum.ieee.org/engineering-...
It’s worth noting that for software, it is my understanding that folks submit an identifying portion of the source code not all of it. copyright.gov/comp3/chap15...
May 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It’s worth noting that for software, it is my understanding that folks submit an identifying portion of the source code not all of it. copyright.gov/comp3/chap15...
Very much enjoyed the @politicsprose.bsky.social tour of Oak Hill Cemetery on the Lincoln in the Bardo tour.
May 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Very much enjoyed the @politicsprose.bsky.social tour of Oak Hill Cemetery on the Lincoln in the Bardo tour.
In 2016 my colleagues and I at IMLS gathered together to watch and cheer on Dr. Hayden’s swearing-in ceremony. I then had the honor of supporting her efforts to modernize the Library of Congress. She has been an outstanding transformational leader. This is a deeply challenging time for libraries.
May 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In 2016 my colleagues and I at IMLS gathered together to watch and cheer on Dr. Hayden’s swearing-in ceremony. I then had the honor of supporting her efforts to modernize the Library of Congress. She has been an outstanding transformational leader. This is a deeply challenging time for libraries.
Big thanks to @tiffanynichols.bsky.social for giving a great talk at AIP, “An Eclectic Array of Expertise: The Federal-Level Site Selection History of LIGO.” Great illustration of how history of science research relates to science policy. For those who couldn’t make it, the video should be up soon.
May 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Big thanks to @tiffanynichols.bsky.social for giving a great talk at AIP, “An Eclectic Array of Expertise: The Federal-Level Site Selection History of LIGO.” Great illustration of how history of science research relates to science policy. For those who couldn’t make it, the video should be up soon.
Excited to be diving into @oliviacampbell.bsky.social’s new book 📕”Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History." Thrilled to see how much the book makes use of AIP’s oral histories and visual archives.
April 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to be diving into @oliviacampbell.bsky.social’s new book 📕”Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History." Thrilled to see how much the book makes use of AIP’s oral histories and visual archives.
Started reading @justcode.bsky.social & Thomas Misa’s book Fastlane: Managing Science in the Internet World. I’m already hooked. NSF was instrumental in creating the web so it makes sense that the e-gov system it launched for proposals would play a key role in shaping the scientific enterprise.
April 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Started reading @justcode.bsky.social & Thomas Misa’s book Fastlane: Managing Science in the Internet World. I’m already hooked. NSF was instrumental in creating the web so it makes sense that the e-gov system it launched for proposals would play a key role in shaping the scientific enterprise.
New AIP report shows how federal funding & policy changes are impacting physics & astronomy departments. -> ww2.aip.org/statistics/i...
April 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New AIP report shows how federal funding & policy changes are impacting physics & astronomy departments. -> ww2.aip.org/statistics/i...