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Hein Brookhuis
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History & Philosophy of Science | postdoc UvA | researching public-private collaboration in Dutch physics
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How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key.

Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.

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October 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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At the beginning of this month, my book 'ASML and Dutch Physics' was officially launched with a panel discussion on the perks and challenges of public-private collaboration in science.

The book is now available through the website of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social (see links below)
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Afgelopen zomer overleed de natuurkundige Frans Saris. Voordat dit nieuws bekend was, mocht ik over zijn laatste boekje wat gedachten op papier zetten voor @nlboekengids.bsky.social . Sinds deze week vrij te lezen: www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20250831-hei...
Hein Brookhuis | Nostalgie naar dat ene Lab
‘Waarom ging ik graag terug naar het lab in Amsterdam?’ is de vraag die fysicus Frans W. Saris zichzelf stelde af in zijn laatste boek Als de koffie maar goed is. Ter gelegenheid van het 75e jarig bes...
www.nederlandseboekengids.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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De technologie van ASML heeft inmiddels alle internationale kranten en journaals gehaald. Maar wat betekent de groei van het bedrijf voor de Nederlandse wetenschap?

Het antwoord daarop is te vinden in dit boek. Vanaf nu te bestellen, begin september beschikbaar!
www.walburgpers.nl/nl/book/9789...
ASML en de Nederlandse natuurkunde
ASML, marktleider in geavanceerde chipmachines, initieerde in 2014 samen met NWO, AMOLF, de Universiteit van Amsterdam en de Vrije Universiteit een nieuw onderzoeksinstituut: het Advanced Research Cen...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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I've written an op-ed on innovation and economic growth for Research Fortnight (open access) arguing we need radical innovation in innovation policy centred on evidence-based policy. Shouldn't need saying but ... www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
UKRI’s economic mission is built on a delusion - Research Professional News
If British innovation could drive British growth, it would have already happened, says David Edgerton
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In the upcoming Fred Jevons Lecture, John Krige will explore the geopolitics of knowledge circulation, focusing on the US-China tech war and its global implications www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-lies-...
What lies beneath the 'Chip War'? Knowledge flows, technology & geopolitics
The Fred Jevons Lecture will explore the geopolitics of knowledge circulation, focusing on the US-China tech war and its global implications
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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ewinsberg.bsky.social

Katherine Dormandy and I are officially editing a special issue of *Synthese* on Gatekeeping in Science. The call for papers is attached. It should be a fun issue.

link.springer.com/collections/...
Gatekeeping in Science
Science, which we may understand broadly as the natural, social and human sciences, depends on gatekeeping to maintain its epistemic credentials. It must keep ...
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December 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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stsucl.bsky.social
For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
December 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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This History of Science workshop will be excellent. An invitation to early career scholars to get involved. @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Leviathan and after – a celebration of the history of science, the field, and its future.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 9:51 AM
heinbrookhuis.bsky.social
A bit windswept by the stormy weather last friday, but the tour behind the scenes at ASML was certainly a highlight this year!
December 10, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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ccmmody.bsky.social
CfP: How Sciences End
Oxford, 11-13 July 2025
Deadline: 31 January 2025
Submit 250-word abstracts to howsciencesend@gmail.com

[I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]
CALL FOR PAPERS: How Sciences End Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively how sciences begin—but how do they end? This is a crucial question for understanding how the labour of knowledge-making evolves. Previous attention to the founding, disciplining, and professionalisation of individual sciences has provided robust frameworks for thinking through the birth and growth of knowledge-making communities. Far less attention has been directed toward how those same communities decay, dissipate, or evolve beyond the contemporary boundaries of science. This conference seeks to cultivate case studies of the ends of sciences, and thereby to motivate a new approach to thinking about the developmental trajectories of scientific disciplines, communities, institutions, and the ordering of expert knowledge. A further aim is to strengthen the community of scholars with a shared interest in studying the ends of sciences. Submission Process Submissions should be sent to howsciencesend@gmail.com. Please title the email “SciEnds Abstract Submission” and include the following information in the body: - Full name as you would like it to appear on the programme - Email address - Affiliation, or how you would like to be identified on the programme - Presentation title - An abstract of no more than 250 words describing your proposed talk and how it fits the conference theme and goals. - An indication of whether you would like to be considered for travel support. (Limited funds are available to defray travel costs, with priority given to early career and insecurely employed scholars.) The submission deadline is 31 January 2025. We plan to circulate a draft program by the end of February 2025. Programme Committee Michelle Aroney (Oxford), Alex Aylward (Oxford), Joseph D. Martin (Durham)
November 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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December 2, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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Veel belangstelling voor de openingslezing voor het 111-jarige jubileum van Gewina op de dag van de wetenschap! Lezing door prof. Steven vanden Broecke
November 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Vers van de pers: 'De rector: Academicus in bestuur, bestuurder in de academie'. Met twee voorgaande delen over de campus en de universiteitskrant, een drieluik over recente universiteitsgeschiedenis wat betreft ruimtelijkheid, (academische en pers-)vrijheid en bestuur. verloren.nl/Webshop/Deta...
November 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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📣Great opportunity for students in #HistSci & #PhilSci: Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social next April! 🤓 Find all information here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma...
Deadline for application: 13/12/24
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Screenshot from the website for Utrecht Summer Schools with a short discription of the Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society. The describing text is "This Spring School addresses differences between scientific and other forms of knowledge, the relation between science, pseudoscience, and non-science, and challenges of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production from philosophical and historical perspectives."
November 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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stanvanpelt.bsky.social
Namaakcongressen zijn de nieuwste manier waarop malafide bedrijven geld uit de zakken van (ook Nederlandse) wetenschappers willen kloppen. Ik bezocht er een in Boedapest en schreef een reportage voor verschillende universiteitsbladen. dub.uu.nl/nl/achtergro...
Malafide bedrijven willen met nepcongres geld uit zakken wetenschappers kloppen
Willekeurige onderwerpen, slechte presentaties – copycat-congressen zijn de nieuwste manier waarop malafide bedrijven geld uit de zakken van wetenschappers willen kloppen. We bezochten er een in Boeda...
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November 8, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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historicaljnl.bsky.social
📣From our latest issue, 'Global Social History: Class and Social Transformation in World History'

Stefanie Gänger (University of Heidelberg) on 'Non-Western Scholars, Bourgeois Virtues, and the International Scientific Community in the Age of Empire, 1870–1920'

🗃️ 19thc 20thc

👉 shorturl.at/umPpD
November 5, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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patrickmccray.bsky.social
It's official...

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

#HistSci #HistSTM
October 3, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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williamthomas.bsky.social
The Spring-Summer issue of the AIP History Newsletter is posted! The cover story, "Last Collider Standing" (by me), collates reflections on the cancellation of the Isabelle collider, the rise of the ill-fated Superconducting Super Collider, and the origins of RHIC... www.aip.org/sites/defaul...
June 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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On Thursday the 14th of March (15.30), I will defend my PhD-dissertation: "The Politics of Big Science in a Small Country - The Moral Economy of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (1980 - 2020)."

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February 28, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Transformed my @hsnatsci.bsky.social article on the Belgian MYRRHA reactor into a poster for the Nuclear Science Contest of the Belgian Nuclear Society. Happy to bring the HPS-perspective to a science contest!
November 22, 2023 at 9:25 AM
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Exploring a bit of #nuclearculture around the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol
November 21, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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On 21-22 Juni 2024 Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, will organize its biannual conference. The theme is "Ecology & Economy: History of Knowledge during the Unequal Anthropocene". The call for papers is open until January 15 www.gewina.nl/woudschoten2...
Call for Papers: 10th Gewina Woudschoten Conference 2024
www.gewina.nl
November 15, 2023 at 4:09 PM
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Het is 1955, en een Nederlandse krant suggereert dat het logisch was dat België een trage start had in nucleair onderzoek, want "Belgen zijn van nature geen pure wetenschapsmensen."
November 15, 2023 at 2:41 PM