"The topic of the summer academies will be how disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, & humanities have deliberated about how to invest their always scarce resources of time, talent, & money in projects that will shape research in an always uncertain future." #HPS #HistSTM #histsci

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Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.

S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

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As a big conference week opens tomorrow in the UK, with our session on the history of openness first up tomorrow at #HSS in Edinburgh and various sessions later in Cambridge for #SPSP, we opened the call for the 2027 ISHPSSB meeting in Buenos Aires - congressin.com/e/ishpssb202... #HPS #philsci

The HPS Podcast is back! 🎙️ Season 6 returns at the end of this month, and we've spent the past few months collecting and preparing some exciting new interviews that we can't wait to share with you. Stay tuned for more updates! In the meantime, why not revisit some episodes from Season 5? 🎧

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Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...

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Have just arrived at #ESHS-HSS conference in beautiful Edinburgh, going to attempt to do some regular posting so watch this space. Here with @carljoseph.bsky.social @martinjbush.bsky.social @emilam.bsky.social #HSS2026 #ESHS2026

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum

The Consortium for Science, Technology, and Medicine invites applications for fellowship opportunities in the history of science, technology or medicine. Including: -Research Fellowships -Dissertation Completion Fellowships -Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars #histmed #histstm

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Interested in interviews & oral history in #HistSTM #HistMed #HPS? Then this special issue is for you! Research Interviews in the History of Science & Medicine–Reflections and New Directions, eds. @hworliczek.bsky.social & @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15222365... 1/7

Great news to start off 2026: Audio versions of all episodes of the Greenhouse #envhum book talks -- that's 188 episodes! -- are now available for you to listen to. Audio feed you can subscribe to: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f... (also available via many standard podcast listening services)

The 19th Ischia Summer School in the History of the Life Sciences will take place 28 Jun - 5 July 2026. Interested graduate students should apply by 27 February. This year's theme? PROBLEMS of GROWTH! ischiasummerschool.org/theme #histSTM #histbio #histsci

New essay in this exhibition catalogue (Vienna/ in German) - the exhibition looks great!

ISHPSSB 2027 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3rd week July. #HPS ishpssb.org/meetings

Out now: "Christentum und Ökologie" in der "Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte" U.a. zu dunkelgrüner Religion, katholischer Resonanz, grünen Hähnen, christlichem Umweltprotest, Rechten der Natur, Schöpfungsverantwortung in der Ökumene und Naturerfahrungen des Pilgerns. www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/kize/38/1

Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

Sensing the Social

If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...

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Experiments in collaborative thought, between science studies and religious studies: tif.ssrc.org/category/sen... #ImmanentFrame #histSTM Edited by the wonderful Mona Oraby

Sensing the Social

If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

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Very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kelly Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow. journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for @emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social #SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins

What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits? This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation. Listen now! 🎧

S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract

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We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year. The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

RIP Margaret Rossiter. She took "Science & History" at Harvard in the e.1960s. Her instructor commented “your powers of analysis are far superior to your powers of articulation." Oof, we all start somewhere & I appreciated her willingness to share! watermark.silverchair.com/hsns_2012_42...

New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛 The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers." 🔗 bit.ly/amv4025 #HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology

The "Animal Mobilities" special issue will also be discussed at this year's History of Science Society conference in New Orleans, USA. 🐫🐠🐛 The roundtable is organized by @lisaonaga.bsky.social, co-editor of the volume. 🗓️ November 14, 2025, 11:00 (CST) 📍Sheraton NOLA 🔗 bit.ly/hssam25 #HistSci #HSS

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline. It's this week's episode of The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧 @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #histsci #experiments

S5 E3 - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on Epistemic Things

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New theme for 2026-27 fellowships @ Davis Center for Historical Studies “Property and Poverty.” history.princeton.edu/news-events/...

Apply Now: Davis Center Fellowship for Property and Poverty – 2026–27

The deadline for receipt of applications and letters of recommendation for fellowships is December 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET

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2-yr postdoctoral fellowship at Wisconsin in the History of Medicine and/or Public Health (19th century to the present) mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p... Review of applications to start 1 April 2025. #histSTM