Page in the bulletin from the Scientific Instrument Society showing the article "Gerard Turner Memorial Lecture. Back to the Future: New Approaches to the Astrolabe" by Stephen Johnston. A photograph of the front and reverse of an astrolabe is included in the upper right corner of the article.

I recently joined the Scientific Instrument Society and they sent me one of their recent bulletins as a welcoming gift. I am so pleased to open it and to see @stephenaj.bsky.social's article on Astrolabes on the first page ❤️ #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistSci #HistTech #HisSTM 🗃️

I'll be examining various 15th-18thc objects (clocks, locks, astrolabes, sundials, astronomical compendia & microscopes) through hands-on engagement, various kinds of analyses, as well as historical reconstruction. In other words: I'll be making screws! 🔩 #EarlyModern #MedievalSky #HistSci #HisSTM 🗃️

On my way to #ESEH2025 in Uppsala. Happy to chair two sessions and present on history of German weather & climate science. Took the train via Hamburg/Copenhagen, and very happy that I had time to do slow travel. A bit sad because the train before us hit an elk.😭 #envhis #hisstm

Oh, interesting! The Ordnance is a fascinating site, or set of sites, for #hisSTM (has a chapter in my book, but that only touches on parts of it)

Dutch probe of colonial science ‘about present as much as past’ Researchers hope examining history of scientific academy can help create a more ‘just’ organisation in the modern day

Our colonial history project of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts @knaw-nl.bsky.social made it into the @timeshighered.bsky.social l! #highered #academicsky #hisstm #colonialhistory
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dutch-p...

KNAW laat eigen koloniale verleden onderzoeken door breed consortium - KNAW Het interdisciplinair team van onderzoekers 'Koloniale macht en kennis' start in september 2025 een groot onderzoek naar het koloniale verleden van de KNAW.

Goed wetenschapshistorisch zomernieuws! Ons onderzoeksconsortium mag het koloniale verleden van de Akademie onderzoeken! #hisstm #historici www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

#Skystorians, esp. historians of science, astrology & astronomy: This may be revealing of my ignorance, but were zodiac signs "standardized" in #EarlyModern Europe? I.e. were the symbols for, for instance, gemini, aries, libra, the same across place & time? Or were there variations? #HistSci #HisSTM

A collection of tools for measuring, analyzing and documenting screws.

Getting geared up for my trip to Berlin tomorrow to look at some #EarlyModern screws 🔩 😍 🗃️ #HistSci #HistTech #HisSTM

Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany Sebastian Münster’s “Cosmographia”, first published in 1544, became the most influential cosmography of the 16th century, making complex geographical knowledge accessible to a broad audience.

🚨 Interesting upcoming lecture by Zsolt G. Török, with Petra Svatek as a discussant:

"Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany"

📍Berlin and on Zoom
🗓️ 6 March, 2025
🕒 6:00PM CET
🔗 www.bbaw.de/veranstaltun...

#HistSci #EarlyModern #HisSTM 🗃️

Earlier this week we shared the news that digitization of physicist John Wheeler's notebooks had been completed. This also included some of his student report cards. As you can see, he was doing "excellent" work even in second grade! #hisSTM #historyofscience #physics

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…

AusSTS conference, Melbourne, July 9-11, 2025 - call for papers open now till March 14. Intriguing theme of signals and noise, carefully framed but surprisingly leaving out Michel Serres ... & John Cage for that matter
#STS #hisstm @4sonline.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
@aussts.bsky.social

Black and white photo of two men in suits and the LEO II computer which began development in 1954 and was first installed in London by J Lyons & Co in 1957.

What does a British teashop have to do with the history of computing? In 1884, Joseph Lyons founded a teashop in Piccadilly, London. By 1939, Lyons had 250 locations around the UK and employed 30,000 people, including 1,500 in accounting to support the supply chains & logistics.. 🧵 #Histtech #HisSTM

Publication pertinente pour celleux qui s'intéresse à la construction du corps. #hisSTM

Call for Proposals: Experimental History of Science Workshop, UCL, 25 April 2025 | H-Net (please share and circulate. cheers, JA) Experimental History of Science Workshop 25 April 2025, University College London

🚨 Call for proposals for "Experimental History of Science Workshop" at University College London (25 April, 2025)
#histsci #STS #hisSTM 🗃️

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Hurrah! Tagging @themerl.bsky.social into the #envhums #envhist #hisSTM feeds; 📜🗃️ for #museums and #historians; also some opportunistic #agriculture #rural hashtags for good measure

🚨 The Making & Knowing Project🦎 released an open-access "Research & Teaching Companion" for instructors & students seeking to use hands-on activities in their teaching, incl. syllabi, lesson plans, student projects, & more:
shorturl.at/8AJYP
#earlymodern #histsci #arthistory #medievalsky #hisSTM 🗃️

#skystorians - can anyone recommend publications on problem pages/agony aunts in early/mid 20thC? pref in the UK/for adults but elsewhere and teens also helpful. (I already know about Hannah J. Elizabeth's #hisSTM #histmed work in this area).

Looks good for #hisSTM too

Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.

Daniel Kahneman has died.

“We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.”

#PhilSci #econsky #HisSTM 🦋🦫🧪