Congratulations to #HPS scholar Lorraine Daston (PhD History of Science '79) on receiving 2025 Centennial Medal (award given by Harvard Grad School to its alums for their contributions to society.) Her work crosses disciplinary divides & opens new fields of inquiry.
gsas.harvard.edu/news/lorrain...
gsas.harvard.edu/news/lorrain...
Lorraine Daston: 2025 Centennial Medal Citation
Lorraine Daston, PhD ’79, was awarded the 2025 Centennial Medal on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
gsas.harvard.edu
June 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Congratulations to #HPS scholar Lorraine Daston (PhD History of Science '79) on receiving 2025 Centennial Medal (award given by Harvard Grad School to its alums for their contributions to society.) Her work crosses disciplinary divides & opens new fields of inquiry.
gsas.harvard.edu/news/lorrain...
gsas.harvard.edu/news/lorrain...
Audrey Daston 1959 by Lawrence Schiller
July 15, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Audrey Daston 1959 by Lawrence Schiller
Audrey Daston 1959 by Lawrence Schiller
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Audrey Daston 1959 by Lawrence Schiller
Rules: A short history of what we live by, by Lorraine Daston, 2022 Princeton U Press
I have got so much use out of it in organizing my thinking.
I have grad degrees in law and philosophy which I am trying to combine (for a dissertation on belonging) in Cultural Studies.
I have got so much use out of it in organizing my thinking.
I have grad degrees in law and philosophy which I am trying to combine (for a dissertation on belonging) in Cultural Studies.
September 28, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Rules: A short history of what we live by, by Lorraine Daston, 2022 Princeton U Press
I have got so much use out of it in organizing my thinking.
I have grad degrees in law and philosophy which I am trying to combine (for a dissertation on belonging) in Cultural Studies.
I have got so much use out of it in organizing my thinking.
I have grad degrees in law and philosophy which I am trying to combine (for a dissertation on belonging) in Cultural Studies.
good on The Maroon to give Lorraine Daston the last word on this nonsense
chicagomaroon.com/53011/news/a...
chicagomaroon.com/53011/news/a...
June 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
good on The Maroon to give Lorraine Daston the last word on this nonsense
chicagomaroon.com/53011/news/a...
chicagomaroon.com/53011/news/a...
‘We badly need a grown-up way of talking about scientific uncertainty, uncontaminated by a long philosophical and theological tradition in which truths worthy of the name must be certain and eternal.’
Lorraine Daston on climatology.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on climatology.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Everywhere and Nowhere: Climate Proxies
What’s the use of reconstructing past climates if climate change has ‘ruptured’ the connection between past,...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
‘We badly need a grown-up way of talking about scientific uncertainty, uncontaminated by a long philosophical and theological tradition in which truths worthy of the name must be certain and eternal.’
Lorraine Daston on climatology.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on climatology.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers?
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
Hello There. Here is the Itch Chibi of Daston. Daston is the God of Darkness in my game universe. This is the first art piece I have made where I would say that Daston doesnt look wierd or out of place
#Gamedev #Pixel #Art #Pixelart #Indiegame #IndieGameDev #Indiegames #LordLaxy
#Gamedev #Pixel #Art #Pixelart #Indiegame #IndieGameDev #Indiegames #LordLaxy
March 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hello There. Here is the Itch Chibi of Daston. Daston is the God of Darkness in my game universe. This is the first art piece I have made where I would say that Daston doesnt look wierd or out of place
#Gamedev #Pixel #Art #Pixelart #Indiegame #IndieGameDev #Indiegames #LordLaxy
#Gamedev #Pixel #Art #Pixelart #Indiegame #IndieGameDev #Indiegames #LordLaxy
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?
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
August 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
3/öffnende Buch von Daston und Galison über die Frage der "Objektivität" und was dahinter steckt. Triggerwarnung: Nichts für Flachdenker und Leute, die Ihre Vorurteile bestätigt sehen wollen.
December 7, 2024 at 8:15 AM
3/öffnende Buch von Daston und Galison über die Frage der "Objektivität" und was dahinter steckt. Triggerwarnung: Nichts für Flachdenker und Leute, die Ihre Vorurteile bestätigt sehen wollen.
Vient de sortir! Excellent livre de Lorraine Daston que j'ai eu grand plaisir à traduire (et regardez-moi cette belle couverture🤩!).
February 6, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Vient de sortir! Excellent livre de Lorraine Daston que j'ai eu grand plaisir à traduire (et regardez-moi cette belle couverture🤩!).
Luca Sciortino's interview with Lorraine Daston was just published in The British Journal for the History of Science.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core
For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science
www.cambridge.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Luca Sciortino's interview with Lorraine Daston was just published in The British Journal for the History of Science.
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Daston fans can also hear her on this episode from the #HoPWaG podcast, talking about wonders and monsters in Renaissance science:
www.historyofphilosophy.net/renaissance-...
www.historyofphilosophy.net/renaissance-...
March 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Daston fans can also hear her on this episode from the #HoPWaG podcast, talking about wonders and monsters in Renaissance science:
www.historyofphilosophy.net/renaissance-...
www.historyofphilosophy.net/renaissance-...
There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it)
(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
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(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
🗃️
There is no such thing as the history of science
People on the internet are arguing about what ‘science’ means and what properly belongs to the ‘history of science’. (Aparna Nair’s thread on Bluesky is a good introdu…
williamgpooley.wordpress.com
March 25, 2026 at 5:42 AM
There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it)
(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
🗃️
(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
🗃️
‘Every extinction has its own story, and it is usually a lot more complicated than vaporisation by an asteroid.’
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘Every extinction has its own story, and it is usually a lot more complicated than vaporisation by an asteroid.’
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s
What isn't the History of Knowledge
YouTube video by TAUVOD
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A clever talk by Daston on the history of the history of science. youtu.be/SDzVaBj492s
“We badly need a grown-up way of talking about scientific uncertainty, uncontaminated by a long philosophical & theological tradition in which truths worthy of the name must be certain & eternal.” - Lorraine Daston in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Everywhere and Nowhere: Climate Proxies
What’s the use of reconstructing past climates if climate change has ‘ruptured’ the connection between past,...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
“We badly need a grown-up way of talking about scientific uncertainty, uncontaminated by a long philosophical & theological tradition in which truths worthy of the name must be certain & eternal.” - Lorraine Daston in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
brilliant lecture from Lorraine Daston on the development of rules/paradigms — from ancient measures, to medieval rulebooks, to logarithmic tables and Babbage's algorithms youtu.be/pqoSMWnWTwA?... (it's a precursor to her 2022 book which I must read)
Lorraine Daston: "Algorithms Before Computers: Patterns, Recipes, and Rules"
YouTube video by Simpson Center
youtu.be
May 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
brilliant lecture from Lorraine Daston on the development of rules/paradigms — from ancient measures, to medieval rulebooks, to logarithmic tables and Babbage's algorithms youtu.be/pqoSMWnWTwA?... (it's a precursor to her 2022 book which I must read)
Revisiting this excellent episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social with the Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Audience Faves: Daston & Harrison on 'Scientists and History'
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · S4 E16 · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Revisiting this excellent episode of @hpspodcast.bsky.social with the Lorraine Daston & Peter Harrison. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
🎊Congratulations 💐
Director emerita Lorraine Daston has been awarded the Centennial Medal by @gsas.harvard.edu. Along with 3 fellow researchers, she is honored for her lasting contributions to knowledge, the broader research community, and society.
🔗 bit.ly/3FKKIwW
#HistSci
Director emerita Lorraine Daston has been awarded the Centennial Medal by @gsas.harvard.edu. Along with 3 fellow researchers, she is honored for her lasting contributions to knowledge, the broader research community, and society.
🔗 bit.ly/3FKKIwW
#HistSci
June 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🎊Congratulations 💐
Director emerita Lorraine Daston has been awarded the Centennial Medal by @gsas.harvard.edu. Along with 3 fellow researchers, she is honored for her lasting contributions to knowledge, the broader research community, and society.
🔗 bit.ly/3FKKIwW
#HistSci
Director emerita Lorraine Daston has been awarded the Centennial Medal by @gsas.harvard.edu. Along with 3 fellow researchers, she is honored for her lasting contributions to knowledge, the broader research community, and society.
🔗 bit.ly/3FKKIwW
#HistSci
Anyway the book that comes to mind with respect to all of this is the Daston and Galison classic on objectivity and the technologies of objectivity
It is a thick book and worth a complete read press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
It is a thick book and worth a complete read press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Objectivity
press.princeton.edu
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Anyway the book that comes to mind with respect to all of this is the Daston and Galison classic on objectivity and the technologies of objectivity
It is a thick book and worth a complete read press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
It is a thick book and worth a complete read press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
‘Every extinction has its own story, and it is usually a lot more complicated than vaporisation by an asteroid.’
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
‘Every extinction has its own story, and it is usually a lot more complicated than vaporisation by an asteroid.’
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston on extinction fast and slow.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe.’
Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
‘Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe.’
Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Lorraine Daston reads 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯by Sadiah Qureshi.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Traffic jam on the Pont-Neuf, Paris (Nicolas Guérard, L’Embarras de Paris (Pont-Neuf) [Paris Congestion, c. 1715]), Musée du Louvre.
Reprinted in Lorraine Daston, Rules.
Reprinted in Lorraine Daston, Rules.
January 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Traffic jam on the Pont-Neuf, Paris (Nicolas Guérard, L’Embarras de Paris (Pont-Neuf) [Paris Congestion, c. 1715]), Musée du Louvre.
Reprinted in Lorraine Daston, Rules.
Reprinted in Lorraine Daston, Rules.
Lorraine Daston, "Les origines de la communauté scientifique" (43e Conférence Marc Bloch, @ehess-fr.bsky.social; #skystorians, #historyofscience) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-N...
"Les origines de la communauté scientifique" - 43e Conférence Marc Bloch avec Lorraine Daston [FR]
YouTube video by EHESS
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lorraine Daston, "Les origines de la communauté scientifique" (43e Conférence Marc Bloch, @ehess-fr.bsky.social; #skystorians, #historyofscience) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-N...