Jamie Cohen-Cole
@jcohencole.bsky.social
Hist Sci/Med/Tech. Views are personal and not on behalf of any university #histsci
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Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - Closing the Domestic Intelligence Gap: Walter Mondale’s Proposal for a National Council of Social Advisers and the Uneasy Partnership between Social Science and the Federal Government
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October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky
The Organism-Environment Pairing
In this first systematic book-length examination of the organism-environment relationship in the life sciences, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda addresses a crucia...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky
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Silicon Valley is a creature of the Cold War, nourished for decades at the trough of funding provided by the DoD.
August 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Silicon Valley is a creature of the Cold War, nourished for decades at the trough of funding provided by the DoD.
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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Public Policy Research Fellow position ('25-'27) at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds! Come work with me on my Wellcome Research Project on 'Moral Babies' and the 'Science' of Infancy in 19th-century America and Britain.
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow
Constructing Moral Babies: The Science of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century America and Britain explores the dynamic interface between philosophy, theology, science, and medicine that gave rise to a cultu...
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June 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Public Policy Research Fellow position ('25-'27) at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds! Come work with me on my Wellcome Research Project on 'Moral Babies' and the 'Science' of Infancy in 19th-century America and Britain.
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
A fluff piece for Mechanical Turk “robots” “the technician spoke for Neo and remotely guided its hands via a virtual reality headset and two wireless joysticks. Robots are still learning to navigate the world on their own. And they need a lot of help doing it” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/t...
Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots (Gift Article)
Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.
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April 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A fluff piece for Mechanical Turk “robots” “the technician spoke for Neo and remotely guided its hands via a virtual reality headset and two wireless joysticks. Robots are still learning to navigate the world on their own. And they need a lot of help doing it” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/t...
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Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
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Out a bit late for the 50th Anniversary of #Asilomar-- my #openaccess article on its local resonances in the Greater Boston Area and its impact on the development of #biotechnology. Come for the orange eyed monsters, stay for the financial engineering. #histSTM #STS
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry - Journal of the History of Biology
In 1975, a meeting on the potential hazards of recently invented recombinant DNA techniques was held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California. This meeting gave rise to a global debate over the...
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March 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Out a bit late for the 50th Anniversary of #Asilomar-- my #openaccess article on its local resonances in the Greater Boston Area and its impact on the development of #biotechnology. Come for the orange eyed monsters, stay for the financial engineering. #histSTM #STS
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109
Project MUSE - History of Social Science-Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2025
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March 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109
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First issue of the brand-new journal History of Social Science. Decompartmentalising the history of social science is a really good thing. Lots of great-looking articles! Long live this new journal : muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109
February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
First issue of the brand-new journal History of Social Science. Decompartmentalising the history of social science is a really good thing. Lots of great-looking articles! Long live this new journal : muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109
For some reason the Chicago author of this “heterodox” doesn’t mention economics in the list of fields that used their specialized knowledge and overreach
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February 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
For some reason the Chicago author of this “heterodox” doesn’t mention economics in the list of fields that used their specialized knowledge and overreach
inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...
inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...
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McKnight Foundation stands up for core values - this is how its done!
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We Remain Focused on Mission, Values & Partners
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February 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
McKnight Foundation stands up for core values - this is how its done!
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Don't forget to register for the Yale Gilder Lehman Center's conference next week on Universities + the Histories of Race, Science + Medicine. I'm speaking, along with @ayahnerd.bsky.social, @jowiph.bsky.social, Carolyn Roberts, David Blight + more!
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February 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Don't forget to register for the Yale Gilder Lehman Center's conference next week on Universities + the Histories of Race, Science + Medicine. I'm speaking, along with @ayahnerd.bsky.social, @jowiph.bsky.social, Carolyn Roberts, David Blight + more!
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
The National Academies have scrubbed their action plan for
diversity equity and inclusion. For archival purposes, does anyone have a pdf?, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2691...
diversity equity and inclusion. For archival purposes, does anyone have a pdf?, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2691...
February 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The National Academies have scrubbed their action plan for
diversity equity and inclusion. For archival purposes, does anyone have a pdf?, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2691...
diversity equity and inclusion. For archival purposes, does anyone have a pdf?, nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2691...
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
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Look, I'm hardly one to defend DEI, but this is an incredibly poorly-reasoned article that bases its prescriptive argument on *incredibly* flimsy grounds. www.vox.com/politics/399...
February 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Look, I'm hardly one to defend DEI, but this is an incredibly poorly-reasoned article that bases its prescriptive argument on *incredibly* flimsy grounds. www.vox.com/politics/399...
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BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH indirect costs rate cap issued Friday as applied to states that sued over the act this morning.
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES’ EX PARTE
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
ANGEL KELLEY, D.J.
Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4]
is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and
successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate
Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this
Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the
entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and
obligation of federal financial assistance funds and reporting all steps that NIH, HHS and their
officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors have taken to comply with the
Court’s temporary restraining order.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihvi3vmbg3ktgcxnic4m27q4outa3mtxm6v37rgstm45wvuk565pu@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH indirect costs rate cap issued Friday as applied to states that sued over the act this morning.
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
Operationism in Psychology
Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined. Psychology has seen an intense debate about the lack of replicability of results ...
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January 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
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Hello All, I have an essay out in the LA Review of Books, on ‘The Politics of Pigmentation.’
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.
The Politics of Pigmentation | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Hello All, I have an essay out in the LA Review of Books, on ‘The Politics of Pigmentation.’
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.