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A belated thank you to @bhgross144.bsky.social for creating and hosting such a great pub quiz at #HSS24 — much fun had by all! #teamgalensfavoritehumor
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Back from #HSS24 in Merida - brilliant event, and fantastic, stimulating conversations with colleagues. Many books to read, emails to write and chats to follow up on!
Till next time!
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Self-portrait of a quizmaster with three teams of trivia-loving historians of science smiling and cheering in the background. (Sorry to the our fourth team, the Cochroesches, who were seated just outside my phone’s field of view…) This photo was taken in the Celestún Room at the Fiesta Americana Hotel shortly before the conclusion of the HSS Centennial Pub Quiz.
Flying home to #KCMO after a memorable trip to Mérida. Thank you to everyone who made #HSS24 so successful. Special thanks to my fellow roundtable participants & everyone who attended last night’s pub quiz, esp. scorekeeper & judge @k8shep.bsky.social.
See you all in #NOLA for #HSS25! #histSTM🗃️📜
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On my way back from #HSS24 It's always great to see people but this year I really needed it since *gestures wildly at everything*
It was great to commiserate, to laugh, to comfort each other, and also to plot and hope for a better future. Feeling ready to get to work!
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I’ve gained something like 2000 followers over the past week or so, and it’s too much to keep track of everyone. If we chatted at #HSS24 (or if we know each other some other way) and I haven’t followed you back, please let me know!
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In response to a question on collaborative projects related to the #Anthropocene, Pineda de Avila describes how she coordinated a large-scale observation project inspired by a set of instructions to record a 16th c. lunar eclipse.
youtu.be/oCXdJhjA1p8?...
#HSS24 #histSTM #astronomy #histastro🗃️📜
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Coen: Underlying all these debates is a question: What kind of conversations do historians want to have w/scientists?
Rouphail warns against uncritically embracing"red herring" of the #Anthropocene (or sim. concepts); they may have some value in the classroom but their limits are clear. #HSS24
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In response to audience ? re: pedagogy, Coen describes field trip to a small island in New England where students' environmental impact is very apparent.
Howe rarely leverages #Anthropocene as core concept; its totalizing nature is appealing but it elides complexity of historical narratives. #HSS24
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Howe raises a interesting point: Historians' engagement w/the #Anthropocene emerged from conversations w/scientists arguing for an epochal break from the past. But the concept doesn't necessarily reflect experiences of people living through those changes (i.e., in the early modern period). #HSS24
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Sebastian Felten is a historian of mining: an activity that heavily contributed to the changes associated w/the #Anthropocene.
He wonders how the new mining boom will affect his work on the early modern period. (As it turns out, these histories have overlapping infrastructures & practices.) #HSS24
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"Is there an Indian Ocean without the monsoon?" -Robert Rouphail raises an interesting historiographic question about the relationship between history, geography, environment, and climate.
He also notes that discussions of the #Anthropocene should account for the history of colonialism. #HSS24
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Nydia Pineda de Ávila (2023-24 LHL fellow) describes how her work on astronomy/selenography informs discussions of celestial-terrestrial-human relationships in the early modern period. That story encompasses practices (e.g., mining, meteorology) that are related to the #Anthropocene. #HSS24
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Good morning, #histSTM friends! It's the final day of #HSS24, and I'm in Yucatan I for a roundtable session exploring efforts to historicize the #Anthropocene.
Key themes early on: The analytical value of that periodization; its applicability across cultures; the roles of materiality & human agency
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I had a wonderful time in Merida, Mexico this week at the History of Science Society #HSS24 annual meeting. Great to be a part of the #MakingAndKnowing panel and to talk about #EditionCrafter www.editioncrafter.org
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It’s trivia time, #HSS24…
Join @k8shep.bsky.social and me in Celestún for the @historyscience.bsky.social Centennial Pub Quiz!
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Want to learn more about the history of astronomical education in the early 20th century? The Sonnenborgh lantern slides have been digitized!
Browse the entire collection here: lucerna.exeter.ac.uk/set/index.ph...
#histSTM #histsci #HSS24
#astronomy #histastro #sciart #pedagogy
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Along w/epistemic & didactic images, Bush introduces a third category: affective images that help students connect scientific concepts to local, cultural & historical contexts.
(Individual slides functioned in different ways depending on different instructors…)
#histastro #astronomy #HSS24
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Bush contrasts epidemic & didactic images, which go beyond the objects themselves to show comparisons, progression, idealized forms, composites, etc.
Didactic images orient students to explicit & tacit skills in their profession. #HSS24
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Bush’s investigations builds upon work on the epistemic image (cf. Daston, Lüthy & Smets), which he defines as one that is capable of intervening in a dispute between scientists.
These images can appear in teaching collections, but they are only a small part of the Sonnenborgh collection. #HSS24
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Our final speaker is Martin Bush (2020-21 LHL fellow), who received a Descartes Centre fellowship to study the lantern slide collection at Utrecht’s Sonnenborgh Observatory.
This collection is not well-organized but we can gain insights into how it was built/used for teaching. #HSS24 #astronomy
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We are staying in Latin America for our next talk, as Cristina Siqueiros describes the international partnerships that underlay the establishment of the National Astronomical Observatory of San Pedro Mártir.
More info on the observatory’s history: www.astrossp.unam.mx/en/home/brie...
#HSS24
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McGrath notes that the Harvard glass plate collection was ostensibly open to all, but in reality it was sequestered & inaccessible to non-academics, including the Peruvians whose labor made their creation possible.
(The situation has improved today: dasch.cfa.harvard.edu)
#HSS24 #astronomy 🔭🗃️
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Our next speaker, Alex McGrath, is describing the imperialist practices of Harvard astronomers at the Arequipa Observatory.
Specifically, he’s interested in the way that data about the skies traveled to N. America and was not shared w/Peruvian people who sought to build upon their work. #HSS24
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Palmieri and her team have been reviewing archival collections around the country to show how women astronomers like Caroline Furness & Alice Farnsworth pursued their own research interests. (They weren’t just assistants…)
More on Furness:
www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/colle... #HSS24
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Our first presenter, Kristine Palmieri, is describing the diverse career trajectories of women astronomers @ Yerkes Observatory.
She shares a photo highlighting several of these women who posed alongside #Einstein during his 1921 visit.
More info: atthelakemagazine.com/einstein-yer... #HSS24
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Hello, #HSS24! Sorry for the radio silence. I spent the morning presenting in a pair of professional development roundtables.
Now I’m in the Maya Room at the Holiday Inn for a #histastro panel entitled “Observing the Observatory.” #astronomy
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VWiS started with five core collections, as well as one oral history collection held at the American Philosophical Society. That led to research into the other nodes that came out of a network analysis of the material in these 6 core collections.
#HSS24
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Final paper, Serenity S Sutherland, "Changing Approaches to the History of Science: Using Visual Methods to Address Women in Science," using the great APS project, Visualizing Women in Science
diglib-legacy.amphilsoc.org/womeninscien...
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