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Reminder 📢

Join us tomorrow for Kavita Philip's S&T in Asia talk on post-colonial technologies of caste and tribe!

Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histtech #sts
eastasiascitech.bsky.social Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social · 7d
How has data collection helped produce categories of caste and tribe?

Join us for this upcoming S&T in Asia talk by Kavita Philip (UBC)!

🗓️ Tuesday, November 3
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom

Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histtech #sts
November 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
gpetrick.bsky.social
If you are writing about #food #foodsystem and the #environment I'm editing a series for @academic.oup.com DM me and let's chat about your work #foodstudies #envhist #aghist #sts #histsci #histtech
October 29, 2026 at 8:57 AM
patternsinthechaos.bsky.social
#ODT Nov. 2, 2000, Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station beginning continuous human presence off-world. William Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev & Yuri Gidzenko arrived in a Soyuz for a 4 month mission aboard the 3 module station consisting of Zarya, Zvezda and Unity.
#histtech #space
November 2, 2026 at 5:33 AM
eastasiascitech.bsky.social
How has data collection helped produce categories of caste and tribe?

Join us for this upcoming S&T in Asia talk by Kavita Philip (UBC)!

🗓️ Tuesday, November 3
🕥 10:30–11:45 am Eastern Time
📍 Over Zoom

Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #histtech #sts
October 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
kingschostm.bsky.social
💡 Next in our Seminar Series:

🗓️Wed 11 Nov | 15.00-16.30
📍Room STR807, Strand building

Jason Ng (KCL-Kew Gardens)
Naming Names: Nomenclatural stability, decolonisation, and the ‘missing’ Singapore Herbarium type specimens

@kingshistory.bsky.social

#histsci #histtech #histstm
October 30, 2026 at 9:35 AM
patternsinthechaos.bsky.social
#OTD October 28, 1971 The United Kingdom became the sixth country to launch a satellite on it's own rocket. The Prospero satellite launched from Woomera, Australia atop an Arrow rocket with 3 stages, 42ft/13m tall, 6.5ft/2m wide and powered by Hydrogen Peroxide and Kerosene.
#histtech #space
October 28, 2026 at 4:41 PM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Reskeeting for #SHOT2026 though I think I'm shouting into the void... #histtech
sarabpritchard.bsky.social Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 12d
🌌💡🌃🛰️ #TransformingNight is one month old! (lol) 🥳🎂

30% OFF from @uwapress.uw.edu w/code WST30
(YAY university presses!)
uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

{mumbles you can read Intro+Ch 1 if you go to the Evil Online Empire site}

#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Darkness #Night #LightJustice
Cover of the new(ish) book, Transforming Night, which shows Hong Kong at night ("night").
October 23, 2026 at 5:54 PM
kingschostm.bsky.social
💡 Coming up in our Seminar Series:

🗓️Wed 28 Oct | 15.00-16.30
📍Room STR807, Strand building

Riccardo Ferrigato (USI)
Maintaining Victorian submarine telegraphy. Cables’ repair at Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, 1864-1914

@riccardoferrigato.bsky.social
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
October 26, 2026 at 1:26 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Did you attend #SHOT2026?

Tomorrow (10/27), CHSTM's History of Tech Working Group will host our annual SHOT Redux session. Join us at 1 PM, EDT (noon, CDT) to discuss your favorite panels, standout speakers & the virtual conference experience!

www.chstm.org/group/histor...

#histSTM #histtech 🗃️⚙️
We’ll Do A Debrief Dr Michael Robinavitch
ALT: We’ll Do A Debrief Dr Michael Robinavitch
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October 26, 2026 at 3:49 PM
hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social
Our annual #HSTM conference will be hosted by Armagh Observatory on Friday 16 April 2027. #SaveTheDate for this small, collegial, and welcoming event, if you are interested in #Science #Technology #Medicine #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #HistHealth #HistMidwifery #HistNursing #ReproHist #CFP end Nov
October 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
jameslonghurst.bsky.social
Are you attending the virtual #SHOT2026? Join me and Sarah Frohardt-Lane and @kamoskowitz.bsky.social and @zacharyschrag.bsky.social at our panel, 11:15AM CST:
F30: The Technology of Automobility: Developing Systems of the Private Car in Early 20th Century America
#automobiity #histtech #transport
October 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
patternsinthechaos.bsky.social
#OTD October 22, 1975 the Venera 9 lander touched down on Venus and was the first spacecraft to return images from the surface of another planet.
#histtech #space
October 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
We've been discussing technopolitics in my #histtech survey.

I can see the wheels turning and light bulbs going off in my students' heads as they wrestle with the current moment.
October 22, 2026 at 10:09 AM
kingschostm.bsky.social
🔔 Coming up in our Seminar Series:

🗓️Wed 28 Oct | 15.00-16.30
📍Room STR807, Strand building, KCL
Riccardo Ferrigato (USI)
Maintaining Victorian submarine telegraphy. Cables’ repair at Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, 1864-1914

#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
October 20, 2026 at 5:59 PM
rmathematicus.bsky.social
Renaissance Metallurgist, Vannoccio Biringuccio, was born 20 October 1480 #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/r...
Revealing the secrets of the fire-using arts
During the Middle Ages it was common practice for those working in the crafts to keep the knowledge of their trades secret, masters passing on those secrets orally to new apprentices. This protecti…
thonyc.wordpress.com
October 20, 2026 at 4:48 AM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Wrapped up our unit on roads today in my #histtech survey

PSA:
Steve Jackson "Rethinking Repair,"
Kate Brown "Gridded Lives," and
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social "What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot"
teach *really* well together

Bonus: Jackson Brown... 😀
October 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
lhst-epfl.bsky.social
Congratulations to Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.eurosky.social, who has been awarded ICOHTEC’s Turriano Prize for his book published by Presses des Mines & based on his PhD thesis completed at #EPFL.

A richly deserved recognition!

www.pressesdesmines.com/produit/les-...

#histtech #histsci #histSTM
Image showing the prize-winning book "Les traits de l'invention. Production du dessin d'objet technique en Angleterre au tournant du XIXe siècle," by Yohann Guffroy
October 20, 2026 at 8:28 AM
patternsinthechaos.bsky.social
#OTD October 20, 1970 Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for research & initiatives worldwide increasing grain production with new strains of high-yield, disease-resistant crops. He is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. The "Green Revolution."
#histtech #space
Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug holding stalks of wheat. He is one of the Fathers of the Green Revolution, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, and is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.
October 20, 2026 at 2:21 PM
lignedescience.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy
Bronze plaques adorning the door of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, by sculptor Leonard Crunelle
#histsci #histtech #museum
https://www.gettyimages.fr/search/more-like-this/176973846?family=editorial&assettype=image&phrase=leonard%20crunelle&sort=best
Graphic arts (printing pressà, transportation (plane, boat, train), power (Fv=P=EI), chemistry (retort for distillation, alchemy symbols), physics ( W=JH, h nu = E = mc²) communication (semaphore) Mathematics (o theos geometrei) Measurement of space (telescope) , Achitecture, civil engineering (cityscape) Measurement of time (pendulum clock, hourglass ) Mathematics probability ( bell curve and its equation) Medicine hygiene (microscope, caduceum, pharmaceutical mortal, Xray bulb)
October 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Speaking of @shothisttech.bsky.social, the #SHOT2026 conference program is now online!

We're all virtual this year, and there are lots of great panels, including a session I'm moderating w/Jennifer Alexander on the future of #histtech publishing.

www.historyoftechnology.org/wp-content/u...

🗃️📜⚙️
bhgross144.bsky.social Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 18d
Hey, #histtech & #histSTM friends! Have you voted in this year's @shothisttech.bsky.social elections?

The deadline to submit your ballot is this Sunday, October 18 at 11:59 PM, CET. ⚙️🗃️

shotsecretariat.wufoo.com/forms/m1acrd...
October 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Hey, #histtech & #histSTM friends! Have you voted in this year's @shothisttech.bsky.social elections?

The deadline to submit your ballot is this Sunday, October 18 at 11:59 PM, CET. ⚙️🗃️

shotsecretariat.wufoo.com/forms/m1acrd...
October 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
rmathematicus.bsky.social
Evangelista Torricelli, mathematician, physicist, inventor of the barometer, was born 15 October 1608 #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/f...
From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLV
Today we look at the life and work of the physicist and mathematician, Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who is the second member of what I have termed the Galilei-Castelli school of mathema…
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-xlv/
October 15, 2026 at 5:17 AM
patternsinthechaos.bsky.social
#OTD October 15, 2003 China became the third nation to send a human into space. Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei was launched in the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft atop a Long March CZ-2F rocket. He orbited the Earth 14 times 209mi/336km high during a 21-hour flight. #histtech #space
October 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
As Weird Al once observed, a television like this was like having a drive-in movie in your own living room!

#TVHistory #histSTM #histtech 📺
theoldinternet.bsky.social The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 22d
When having giant TVs like this was a flex
October 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
kingschostm.bsky.social
🔔 Coming up in our Seminar Series:

🗓️Wed 14 Oct | 15.00-16.30
📍Room STR807, Strand building, KCL
"The construction and maintenance of landline telegraphy in South America: A comparative analysis"
Dr Francisca Valenzuela Villaseca

#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
October 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM