Adam Quinn
@adamquinnphd.com
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a book on labor & environment in the history of the computer industry. Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's. To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
Looking for one more paper and/or a commentator! Actual deadline is 7/20
Adam Quinn@adamquinnphd.com · 2mo agoOpen call for contributions to a panel at SHOT (remote, 10/22-25) on automation and environment in historical perspective. Abstracts for contributions due by 7/18. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
Open call for contributions to a panel at SHOT (remote, 10/22-25) on automation and environment in historical perspective. Abstracts for contributions due by 7/18. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
Excited to share that I've accepted a tenure-track position in the History of Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas! Now to find out if I can pull off a cowboy hat...
Open call for contributions to a panel at SHOT (remote, 10/22-25) on automation and environment in historical perspective. Abstracts for contributions due by 7/18. www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeti...
Excited to share that I've accepted a tenure-track position in the History of Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas! Now to find out if I can pull off a cowboy hat...
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I had a dream last night where I was workshopping the article I'm working on and... the dream feedback was actually really helpful.
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The first recorded use of "May the Fourth Be With You" is from a pro-Thatcher ad in the London Evening Standard when she was elected on May 4th, 1979. I am pro Star Wars and take no pleasure in reporting this.
Alternate headline: U of F adding every discipline to one major, recreating Hampshire College and New College of Florida from first principles www.thecollegefix.com/u-florida-st...
U. Florida students flock to new ‘philosophy, politics, economics, and law’ major | The College Fix
Hamilton School to roll out new degree in ‘war, statecraft, and strategy.’…
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When thinking historically about UFOs, it seems most salient to focus not on whether aliens are real but on what the government's rhetoric and public's beliefs tell us about our society. This is coming up in a period of the US exercising and escalating its chip, missile, and space dominance.
The Apple TV exec who greenlighted For All Mankind with the knowledge that by season 4 they could do constant product placement with retro iPods on Mars
Hey, look at this great honor that my former student Adam Quinn Adam Quinn received! THIS is what a Hampshire College education, under the best of circumstances and with the best of students, can achieve. The College may die, but its lessons live on and are passed on
Excited and honored to share that my dissertation was awarded the Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation from @lawcha.bsky.social. It was incredibly fulfilling and validating to receive this recognition in a room full of the historians who inspired my research.
Congratulations to @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! 🎉 Her book Unmentionables won the 2026 David Montgomery Award, sponsored by @oah.org with co-sponsorship by @lawcha.bsky.social.
Excited and honored to share that my dissertation was awarded the Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation from @lawcha.bsky.social. It was incredibly fulfilling and validating to receive this recognition in a room full of the historians who inspired my research.
Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters
Hampshire College, my alma mater, just announced they are closing at the end of this year. Unfortunate for students and workers, of course, and for higher ed in general. Their distinctive interdisciplinary, student-driven, and project-based approach has so much to offer, especially in the age of AI.
Grand opening of the history of fireworks special exhibit at the Science History Institute in Philly, fitting for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
When the obsolescence wasn't planned well enough to maximize profits so they enforce artificial, unplanned obsolescence
WIRED@wired.com · 5mo agoIn an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Off the top of my head, I can't think of another book that is so widely criticized by historians yet still so embraced by other fields (to its credit, this is because it does some compelling conceptual work on gender and capitalism that doesn't hinge on the accuracy of its witchcraft narrative).
Dr Jo Edge 🏴@hagenilda.bsky.social · 5mo agoSilvia Federici is one hundred percent wrong about the witch trials (not even a weak argument: her work is based on utter fantasy) and Caliban and the Witch has done incalculable damage to the discourse around this topic, especially in left-wing circles.
From Reid Wiseman/NASA: new image of our planet, with the aurora borealis visible at the edge
Coming later this year: a transdisciplinary collection of work on ecology, industry, and technology in Oregon's Silicon Forest. My piece is on the history of the transition from a timber economy to an (unexpectedly still extractive/polluting) digital economy. www.sternberg-press.com/product/sili...
Silicon Forest
Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.
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I've seen some people arguing that learning objectives are just a formality for admin, so I just want to throw it out there that telling students learning objectives is an evidence-based teaching practice that informs them about what they're learning and helps them more consciously practice skills
Yeah that’s cool
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 5mo agoAstronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII
I was skeptical at first but I asked it a couple of questions and I think it answered them well
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)@organizeworkers.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe're proud to announce AIWOC, our new AI-powered organizing chatbot! AIWOC isn't just an assistant—it's the future of organizing. It's here to help you take care of the messy parts of your workplace. Check it out on our website! 🤖 workerorganizing.org