Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social
History Prof @ Durham University | STS | HPS | Book: Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines (Chicago: 2023) | Current Projects: Science, Race and Statistics in the British Empire; The Enlightenment and Its Informatic Afterlives
Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci
Today's Find: First certified, practicing female physician in #Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at #Tuskegee Institute in the 1890s #histmed tinyurl.com/yyn5cwxy #medicalhistory
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci
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International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
HOPOS 2026
Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea
hopos2026.dryfta.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026
NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️
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36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM
www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
Jobs
www.sts.sot.tum.de
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM
www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...
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#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
employment.ku.dk
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci
Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS
July 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS
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Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
2025 HSS Annual Meeting - History of Science Society
The 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The conference theme will be Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.
hssonline.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...
MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated
Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.
theconversation.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...
For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation...
#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend
Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation...
#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
#bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.
Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.
#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪
Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event.
#hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪
Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December.
Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website:
aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...
2025 Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…
aahpsss.net.au
June 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
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Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
June 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society
Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’
Deadline: 30 June 2025
#HPS
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Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
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Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
yalebooks.yale.edu
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci
Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social
#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
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 9:44 PM
In the lead up to the launch of Season 5, we have re-released some of the most popular episodes from our collection for your listening pleasure. Make sure you've had a listen! Or a re-listen, like @schizosemia.bsky.social
#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
#hps #histsci #philsci #sts 🧪
I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation:
#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
May 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation:
#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
#histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
Manuscript submitted to the publisher for review! #histsci #histmed #sts #hps #gender #literature #manuscripts #diaries #bookhistory #britishhistory
May 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Manuscript submitted to the publisher for review! #histsci #histmed #sts #hps #gender #literature #manuscripts #diaries #bookhistory #britishhistory
Coming to a London conference near you .... #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
May 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Coming to a London conference near you .... #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth
Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book:
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th...
#EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts
Wonderful to see John Christie and Robert Fox (my external PhD examiner many moons ago) when I was in Oxford this weekend.
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wonderful to see John Christie and Robert Fox (my external PhD examiner many moons ago) when I was in Oxford this weekend.
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Data, Race and Empire:
African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)
Durham University
National Museum of Scotland
Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA)
Further information:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
#histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory
African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)
Durham University
National Museum of Scotland
Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA)
Further information:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
#histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory
November 28, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Data, Race and Empire:
African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)
Durham University
National Museum of Scotland
Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA)
Further information:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
#histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory
African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883)
Durham University
National Museum of Scotland
Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA)
Further information:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
#histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory
LIBRARIES OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE. 12 MAR 2025. I'll be speaking about the library habits of Dr Archibald Hewan, a black missionary physician who lived during the mid 19th century => royalsociety.org/science-even... #hstm #bookhistory #hps #sts #Africa
Libraries of science | Royal Society
A conference celebrating the role of libraries as key locations of scientific knowledge, from the seventeenth century to the present day.
royalsociety.org
January 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
LIBRARIES OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE. 12 MAR 2025. I'll be speaking about the library habits of Dr Archibald Hewan, a black missionary physician who lived during the mid 19th century => royalsociety.org/science-even... #hstm #bookhistory #hps #sts #Africa
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#AmRel, American history, history of science, and science and religion folks: Mark your calendars for this extremely exciting event we're hosting at Penn in March! More details soon.
And finally, our annual Boardman symposium will be on "The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education." This 1.5-day workshop will take place at Penn from March 20-21. More information available here--and watch for registration details soon!
www.library.upenn.edu/events/scope...
www.library.upenn.edu/events/scope...
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
#AmRel, American history, history of science, and science and religion folks: Mark your calendars for this extremely exciting event we're hosting at Penn in March! More details soon.