Mittagessen in 10 Sekunden!
Imagination eines "Hauscomputers", 1981
Quelle: Programmbuch zur #volksuni Pfingsten 1981 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , S. 47 (Veranstaltung zu "Arbeits- und Lebensweise von Programmierern")
#histsci #histtech #sts
Imagination eines "Hauscomputers", 1981
Quelle: Programmbuch zur #volksuni Pfingsten 1981 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , S. 47 (Veranstaltung zu "Arbeits- und Lebensweise von Programmierern")
#histsci #histtech #sts
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Mittagessen in 10 Sekunden!
Imagination eines "Hauscomputers", 1981
Quelle: Programmbuch zur #volksuni Pfingsten 1981 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , S. 47 (Veranstaltung zu "Arbeits- und Lebensweise von Programmierern")
#histsci #histtech #sts
Imagination eines "Hauscomputers", 1981
Quelle: Programmbuch zur #volksuni Pfingsten 1981 an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , S. 47 (Veranstaltung zu "Arbeits- und Lebensweise von Programmierern")
#histsci #histtech #sts
#ICYMI: Tonight at 7 PM, ET (6 PM, CT), @zephoria.bsky.social & Cory Doctorow discuss the #enshittification 💩 of the Internet on a special live edition of @leev.bsky.social's Peoples & Things podcast!
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #STS 🗃️📜
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #STS 🗃️📜
Join us on Monday November 3 at 7pm ET for a Peoples & Things livestream featuring Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy on his book, _Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It_, with special guest host @zephoria.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjFv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjFv...
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#ICYMI: Tonight at 7 PM, ET (6 PM, CT), @zephoria.bsky.social & Cory Doctorow discuss the #enshittification 💩 of the Internet on a special live edition of @leev.bsky.social's Peoples & Things podcast!
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #STS 🗃️📜
#histSTM #histsci #histtech #STS 🗃️📜
I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared
1/n
And and Endowed Chair in History of Technology (nice salary) at UC Irvine, due Dec 1.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
History Of Technology
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
October 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Welcoming the technology on the left with open arms after having spent 4 hours looking at the one on the right (and having aged 50 years in the process). 📜 #HistTech
The view from my hotel room the night before #SHOT2025. This is one of the Belval blast furnaces, a reminder of Luxembourg’s industrial past that looks particularly striking beneath the light of a full moon.
www.visitluxembourg.com/place/blast-...
#histSTM #histtech #Luxembourg
www.visitluxembourg.com/place/blast-...
#histSTM #histtech #Luxembourg
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The view from my hotel room the night before #SHOT2025. This is one of the Belval blast furnaces, a reminder of Luxembourg’s industrial past that looks particularly striking beneath the light of a full moon.
www.visitluxembourg.com/place/blast-...
#histSTM #histtech #Luxembourg
www.visitluxembourg.com/place/blast-...
#histSTM #histtech #Luxembourg
I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️
2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
Deadline: 30 November
#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
🎶You're either talking or yawning. You didn't listen to a thing you heard. Don't start your morning moaning, or you might end up at the 2025 @shothisttech.bsky.social conference!🎶
(See you in Esch-sur-Alzette, SHOT friends!)
www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
#SHOT2025 #histSTM #histtech
(See you in Esch-sur-Alzette, SHOT friends!)
www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
#SHOT2025 #histSTM #histtech
Luxembourg
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🎶You're either talking or yawning. You didn't listen to a thing you heard. Don't start your morning moaning, or you might end up at the 2025 @shothisttech.bsky.social conference!🎶
(See you in Esch-sur-Alzette, SHOT friends!)
www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
#SHOT2025 #histSTM #histtech
(See you in Esch-sur-Alzette, SHOT friends!)
www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
#SHOT2025 #histSTM #histtech
How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
October 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
Blaise Pascal, Torricellian tubes, the vacuum & air pressure #histsci #histtech
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Blaise Pascal, Torricellian tubes, the vacuum & air pressure #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/f...
Charles Whitwell ‘probably the most skilled and versatile instrument maker of the Elizabethan period’ #histsci #histtech
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/c...
September 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Charles Whitwell ‘probably the most skilled and versatile instrument maker of the Elizabethan period’ #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/c...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/c...
📚 I cannot keep up with all the interesting books being published lately. Here's another one:
"Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science."
By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner.
tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn
#HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️
"Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science."
By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner.
tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn
#HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️
Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800
This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and of scientific apparatus around 1800. It takes readers across continental Europe...
www.aup.nl
September 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📚 I cannot keep up with all the interesting books being published lately. Here's another one:
"Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science."
By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner.
tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn
#HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️
"Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science."
By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner.
tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn
#HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️
18th-century, natural historian and inventor, Stephen Hales, was born 17 September 1677 #histsci #histtech
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/a...
A breath of fresh air
I’m supposed to be preparing a lecture on the eighteenth-century pneumatic chemists and I noticed this morning that today is the birthday of Stephen Hales who was responsible for a small invention …
thonyc.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
18th-century, natural historian and inventor, Stephen Hales, was born 17 September 1677 #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/a...
thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/a...
Question: What was a moral machine? Nature has run several articles on the 'im/moral machine' concept in recent years that focus on current digital data. Is there literature about predigital data and moral machines? #histsci #histtech #STS #philsci #histstm #histmed #bookhistory #manuscripts
March 20, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Question: What was a moral machine? Nature has run several articles on the 'im/moral machine' concept in recent years that focus on current digital data. Is there literature about predigital data and moral machines? #histsci #histtech #STS #philsci #histstm #histmed #bookhistory #manuscripts
@ethzurich.bsky.social has advertised TWO positions
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science
Deadline: 15 June
#histstm #histtech #envhist
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science
Deadline: 15 June
#histstm #histtech #envhist
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology and Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science
ethz.ch
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@ethzurich.bsky.social has advertised TWO positions
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science
Deadline: 15 June
#histstm #histtech #envhist
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology
Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science
Deadline: 15 June
#histstm #histtech #envhist
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
GWU research colloquium for the summer term 2025 is about to begin – with lots of great intellectual encounters! We’re excited to kick things off with a talk by Simone Müller (Augsburg) #envhist #histtech #histsci #EconomicHistory #energistories #colloquium #UniBielefeld
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
GWU research colloquium for the summer term 2025 is about to begin – with lots of great intellectual encounters! We’re excited to kick things off with a talk by Simone Müller (Augsburg) #envhist #histtech #histsci #EconomicHistory #energistories #colloquium #UniBielefeld
Super wichtig, gängige Narrative als solche zu kennzeichnen+untersuchen! 👍 Bitte aber auch die historischen!
Dein historischer Überblick ist ein Sammelsurium von Narrativen der KI-ler(weniger *innen). Es gibt mittlerweile ausreichend Literatur, die genau das dekonstruiert. #histtech #histsci #STS
Dein historischer Überblick ist ein Sammelsurium von Narrativen der KI-ler(weniger *innen). Es gibt mittlerweile ausreichend Literatur, die genau das dekonstruiert. #histtech #histsci #STS
January 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
#HolidayReading
Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on a visit to her family's Christmas tree farm and a look at how baler technology impacted the industry.
niche-canada.org/2019/12/20/o...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist
Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on a visit to her family's Christmas tree farm and a look at how baler technology impacted the industry.
niche-canada.org/2019/12/20/o...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist
Ode to a Christmas Tree Baler
This is my family’s Christmas tree baler. It is used to wrap
our newly cut balsam fir Christmas trees in twine for transportation.
Even before they are brought indoors and decorated, Christma...
niche-canada.org
December 20, 2024 at 3:44 PM
#HolidayReading
Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on a visit to her family's Christmas tree farm and a look at how baler technology impacted the industry.
niche-canada.org/2019/12/20/o...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist
Join our editor @saraspike.bsky.social on a visit to her family's Christmas tree farm and a look at how baler technology impacted the industry.
niche-canada.org/2019/12/20/o...
#envhist #histtech #cdnhist
Le numéro 21 vient de sortir ! Au menu : un dossier "Les savoirs sur la Chine, entre terrain et bibliothèques", un dossier "Temporalités techniques", un varia et des CR d'expositions et de publications récentes. #histtech #histSTM
journals.openedition.org/artefact/
journals.openedition.org/artefact/
Artefact - Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines
Revue de recherches sur la technique et la matérialité des pratiques dans les sociétés humaines — Journal dedicated to the techniques and the materiality of practices in human societies
journals.openedition.org
November 15, 2024 at 7:46 AM
Le numéro 21 vient de sortir ! Au menu : un dossier "Les savoirs sur la Chine, entre terrain et bibliothèques", un dossier "Temporalités techniques", un varia et des CR d'expositions et de publications récentes. #histtech #histSTM
journals.openedition.org/artefact/
journals.openedition.org/artefact/
Yesterday, after a ridiculous bureaucratic odyssey, I returned my keys+ID card to the Deutsches Museum. Starting in January, I'm going to the C2DH (Uni Luxembourg) for 6 months to enter the final phase of my project on the history of image processing and #AI with new inspiration! #histtech #histsci
December 23, 2023 at 1:30 PM
