While waiting for Artemis, I've been watching coverage of Apollo 8, paying close attention to the role of science and lunar robotics. Here's a thread compiling what I found. 🧵(1/14)
#histSTM 🗃️🔭
Opening from Cronkite: "The countdown for Apollo 8 is on."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBsq...
100th speaker! 🥳
Come join the S&T in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard for this talk by Michitake Aso on Agent Orange and dioxin knowledge in postwar Vietnam.
🗓 Tue (4/14)
🕥 10:30 am ET
📍 Over Zoom
Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia%E2%...
#histstm #envhist #histmed #histsci
Given the low uptake of botany among students in the UK, this is an really interesting find and welcome development #HistSTM #botany
Were he alive today my co-author Ian Mackay would be demanding a new edition of Intolerant Bodies, the one and only history of autoimmunity!
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
@hopkinspress.bsky.social @mxmcadam.bsky.social
#histmed #histstm #sts
"I have been happier since I made this change than I ever have in my life, and I will continue this way as long as I live."
Today's #histSTM, #histmed & #TransDayOfVisibility lunch read: @kcur.org tells the story of Alan Hart, who popularized the use of chest X-rays to screen for tuberculosis 🗃️📜🏳️⚧️
Forgot to include the project & application website 🙄, it's here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 #HistSTM
Announcement text: "The Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project ‘WILDHIST – Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production’, led by Dr. David Pretel. Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest. Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin. For details, see the project description and objectives below. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. Starting date: 1 September 2026 (flexible). Requirements: • PhD in history, history of science, economic history or associated fields (Latin American studies, African studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, digital humanities), and a strong interest in the project. • Good command of written and spoken English and, depending on research specialisation, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French. • Be based in Madrid for the duration of the project. • Expected to publish articles, book chapters, and/or a book manuscript / edited volume. • Ability to collaborate within a team and to work independently. Benefits: • A three-year contract (full-time). • A gross salary of 43,827 EUR. • A fully equipped workspace at the Institute of History. • Funding for research-related purposes, participation in international conferences, and organisation of events. • Mentorship in applying for tenure-track and tenure positions at CSIC."
Project description text: "The Project WILDHIST aims to offer a comprehensive, multi-sited and multi-scale global history of wild rubber production during the industrial age. It investigates the hypothesis that wild rubber industries in the tropical rainforests of Africa and Latin America were key sites in the broader dynamics of industrialisation and scientific research from the early 19th century to the Second World War, forming an integral part of the era’s expanding global networks of knowledge exchange. The project moves beyond plantations to focus on wild production and smallholders’ cultivation in rainforests, emphasizing production processes rather than consumption or trade, and placing much stronger emphasis on the study of exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, experimentation, and manufacturing than has been typical of historical research on rainforest commodities. WILDHIST combines an analysis of contrasting non-plantation histories of rubber production in the Amazon, Congo Basin and so-called Maya Forest with broader histories of transnational interaction. The project rethinks and rewrites the global history of wild rubber by systematically and critically exploring a rich array of written, visual and oral sources located throughout the world. Its trans-local, interdisciplinary, comparative, digital and visual methodology will provide a comprehensive historical account of how rubber was transformed into commodities and then final goods for local, regional or global markets. Beyond academia, WILDHIST contributes to discussions about bioprospecting, sustainability and labour in rainforests. To address the challenge of writing more inclusive histories of science, technology, and industrialisation, the project also considers collective memory as represented in museums, material culture, and industrial heritage.
Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM
Two weeks ago, Taomo Zhou gave an amazing talk on her forthcoming Shenzhen book in the S&T in Asia @ Harvard series, showing how military engineers, converted military industries, and smuggled components helped make Shenzhen the world's hardware capital!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
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"At every level, concepts and technologies codevelop. Yet this extensive interpenetration of concepts and technical objects has not corresponded to sustained engagement between intellectual history and the history of technology..."
[Boosting this #CFP for #histSTM, #histtech & #STS friends!]
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Can confirm that at least two members of my cohort (including me) had no idea that Rob Kohler and his late wife Frances are/were major American art collectors (gift link) #histstm share.inquirer.com/CBS6mX
During World War I, Nobel laureate scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie had a Renault car converted into a medical radiology unit, which she would drive from hospital to hospital and treat wounded soldiers (Getty Images)
#histSTM #Science #Curie
(Call for applications) PhD position History of Science, History of Technology, Environmental History (70%) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/bour... #histSTM
Sadly can't get beamed into Oxford for launch of this collection on antecedents of public health, edited by Guy Geltner et al. Perhaps another launch back in Melbourne, Guy?
#histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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(Edinburgh folk might be interested to know you can do a range of certificate, introductory and online botany courses at the Botanics www.rbge.org.uk/learn/)
☎️ PhD position in History of Ideas with a specialization in psychiatry at the University of Uppsala, Sweden
#histmed #histstm
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
JOB: Researcher with expertise in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), applied ethics, or Science and technology studies (STS) to join the Gene Technology, Environment and Society research group (GEMS) of NORCE, Tromsø, Norway
karriere.norceresearch.no/en/jobs/7388...
#sts #histSTM
I note this refers to @williamthomas.bsky.social on operational research #histSTM
'AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying'. Without a doubt, a smart decision by the Guardian to publish this brilliantly-written #HistSTM piece. #HistTech #MilHist #HistWar 🗃️
Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"!
Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia
Program: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F...
Registration: forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQj...
#histmed #histstm
🛎️ Postdoc opportunity 🛎️
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Deadline April 5th.
#histmed #histstm
hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j...
Passing of Dr. Maria Remenyi, historian of mathematics.
@uni-wuppertal.bsky.social
I don't know how many of you here were familiar with her work or even met her. I'm pretty sure there are a few.
www.mfo.de/about-the-in...
#histstm #histsci #mathematics #MathSky 🧮
Someone pinch me! 🤯 I got to unscrew, fasten, hold & examine several, original 16th century screws today!! ❤️ It was heaven! Anyone who still thinks or claims #EarlyModern artisans weren‘t capable of precision work because they did things by hand: come look at their screws! #HistSci #HistSTM 🗃️🏛️🔩
Photo of T from Wikipedia.
Stephen Toulmin was born OTD 1922.
If we get to Heaven and are offered eternal residence with Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Montaigne, few of us will ask instead to join Descartes, Newton, and “the exact-thinking but darker-souled geniuses of the 17th century.”
#Philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫 #Booksky
To all my #envhist friends en route to @aseh.bsky.social's annual meeting, I hope you have a great time in Kansas City!
(Sightseeing and dining recommendations are available upon request...)
#histsci #histSTM
TODAY! To close this term's seminar series, we will have PhD researcher Jieluan Huang to discuss her paper 'Medical Diasporas: Chinese Medicine in London and a Family Case Study.'
#histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
Detail of the interior mechanism of an early modern clock from 1550
On today's schedule: Analyzing an #EarlyModern clock from 1550! ❤️ #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM 🏛️ 🗃️ 🔩
"In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking, threatening the very freedom of inquiry and open expression it claims to promote."
A must-read editorial from the Daily Pennsylvanian!
#histSTM #STS #AI
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social brings us threads many times each week, telling stories of figures in the history of science.
Artist Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social accompanies her fascinating art with threads, also frequently about scientists.
#HistoryOfScience #HistSTM
View of an open plaza area with classical and gothic buildings to the right and on the skyline behind. There are three visible arrangements of illustrated information panels.
Outdoor exhibition celebrating the tercentenary of the Edinburgh Medical School outside the Royal Scottish Academy #histmed #histSTM 📜 #ESHS-HSS
