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History of science & technology @EPFL
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Laboratory for the history of science and technology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 🇨🇭
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/
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JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Apply now for the Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Nouvel épisode !
Aujourd'hui, Patricia Subirade, professeure agrégée à Paris 1, nous présente François Cuénot, un ingénieur savoyard du XVIIe siècle. Ce sera l'occasion de revenir sur le parcours des ingénieurs et sur les circulations des savoirs techniques à cette période.
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Cuénot : circulation d'un ingénieur du XVIIe siècle - Patricia Subirade - OpCit !
Cuénot : circulation d'un ingénieur du XVIIe siècle - Patricia Subirade Aujourd’hui, Patricia Subirade, professeure agrégée à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, vient nous présenter ses reche...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Our newest issue culminates #HOPOS's 15th year in publication.
Don't miss the special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Against Method.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hopos/20...
#philsky #histsci
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Noël avant l'heure! Sortie de ce bel ouvrage collectif d'une histoire de la mer par le fond que j'ai eu le plaisir de codiriger! @champvallon.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Un article co-rédigé par notre ancien doctorant et compagnon de route Yohann Guffroy @yguffr.bsky.social. Avec Charles-Antoine Wanecq 👇
😷 Pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, le masque est devenu un objet du quotidien.
Mais à l’origine, il est surtout lié au monde du travail, bien plus qu’à celui des épidémies !
🖊️ Explications 👇
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🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Histoire du masque de protection respiratoire au travail, 19e siècle-21e siècle
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November 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM
New job:

Professor of History

University of Wisconsin - Madison

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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📍Les chemins de Daniel Roche. Vies matérielles et vies de l’esprit📍
📅Du 27-29 novembre 2025
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Les chemins de Daniel Roche
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November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The first photo of my new book, courtesy of my editor... "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" comes out in early December! Feel free to pre-order it today! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Article vraiment passionnant sur un réseau téléphonique anonyme actif dans les années 1970, dont l'histoire peut être retracée au moyen d'archives orales. L'espace "pirate" est utilisé par des personnes exclues, marginalisées et réprimées.

Je le redis : passionnant

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Le Réseau, ou lorsque nous étions intraçables
Créé par des résistants des PTT, un réseau téléphonique parallèle a survécu après la Libération. Espace de communication et de rencontre dans les années 1970, il constitue le chaînon manquant entre le...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Avec notre ex-postdoc @elisabethdmt.bsky.social, désormais maîtresse de conférences en histoire environnementale à Sorbonne Université, mais toujours associée au laboratoire ! 👇
#Histoire #MoyenOrient
🇵🇸🇪🇺 "La #Palestine et l’#Europe : poids du passé et dynamiques contemporaines"
📌 Colloque organisé par le Pr Henry Laurens, titulaire de la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe, et le @carepparis.bsky.social.
⏰ Les 13 et 14 novembre 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/396t3rft
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch etSimon Werrett (eds.) - Working Knowledge

A Simon Schaffer Reader

À paraître en février aux UCP
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Rappel: Conférence «Open Science in History», 21 novembre 2025.

La conférence croisera des perspectives internationales sur l'Open Science dans les sciences humaines et sociales à l'ère de la #bigtech et des #LLms.

www.infoclio.ch/fr/programme...
#opendata #openaccess #openscience
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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À voir jusqu'au 14 février au musée de Bourgoin-Jallieu ! Un parcours qui fait la part belle aux artistes locaux et permet de sortir des images les plus attendues et convenues. Content d'avoir pu contribuer à ce beau catalogue pour y parler un peu de pollution
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Le numéro 23 vient de sortir !
Au menu : un dossier "L'architecte et l'usine", de la culture matérielle et visuelle, des positions de thèse et des CR d'ouvrages récents.
#histtech #histSTM #archhist

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23 | 2025 L’architecte et l’usine
Ce numéro interroge la relation entre un lieu (l’usine) et une figure (l’architecte) dans les multiples dimensions de leurs interactions. La journée d’études dont cette publication est issue invit...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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📣 Le colloque #Humanistica2026 aura lieu à Paris en mai prochain : nous venons tout juste de publier l'appel à communications !

Une excellente occasion de présenter et discuter vos recherches en #humanitésnumériques dans un cadre francophone.

> humanistica2026.sciencesconf.org
Colloque Humanistica 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
Le 7ème colloque de l'association francophone des humanités numériques
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October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣

International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop

Intellectual Property and Democracy

25 & 26 June 2026,

hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Call for papers will be circulated in November.
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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cache 04: Radical Health
Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge, die unkonventionelle, widerständige & solidarische Praktiken der Gesundheitsversorgung erforschen & neue Formen kollektiver Fürsorge & Gerechtigkeit erproben.

Open access oder als Buch im @intercomverlag.bsky.social : cache.ch/radicalhealth
Radical Health
Health and healthcare provision are an utterly complicated affair. In current times of proliferating socioeconomic inequalities, anthropogenic climate change, and environmental degradation, people acr...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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"For scholars everywhere, [her] research laid the bedrock for comprehensive, gendered studies of the history of women scientists within national contexts."

Today's #histSTM & #WomenInSTEM lunch read: @donluke.bsky.social reflects on Margaret Rossiter's contributions to #histsci for @aip.bsky.social
In memoriam: Margaret Walsh Rossiter, pathbreaker in “writing women into science”
AIP History Weekly Edition: October 24, 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The annual meeting of historians of science and technology working in Switzerland will be held this year in Lucerne on December 5 👇.

It’s a friendly and informal gathering that offers great opportunities for early-career researchers to share their work. If you’re around, come join us!
HSSuisse Meeting 2025 #infoclioevent
HSSuisse Meeting 2025
HSSuisse Meeting 2025 The sixth meeting of HSSuisse will take place on 5 December 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 19:30 p.m. at the University of Lucerne.  If you would like to participate and catch up with colleagues, please complete the following registration form by 7 November 2025. This will help us plan for lunch and coffee  breaks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflTW7LxBSQgs9fvJuZNCbDIqz4vUUsF9M2gfIlqpnEqYp6kw/viewform   Program Venue: University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002 Luzern, Room 3.B58 9:45 Welcome Christoph Hoffmann, Sarine Waltenspül (Universität Luzern) and Mario Schulze (Universität Basel) 10:00–11:30 Panel 1 Chair: Dania Achermann (Universität St. Gallen) Simon Lindner (Universität Basel) The Romantic Appropriation of Police Science Elena Schaa (Universität Basel) A Stroke of Genius? The Cultural Roots of Heisenberg’s “Breakthrough” on Helgoland Julien Gressot (Université de Neuchatel) Sydney de Coulon (1889-1976): industrie horlogère, politiques d’innovation et développement technoscientifique   12:00–13:30 Panel 2 Chair: Kris Decker (Universität Luzern) David Bucheli (Universität Basel) Inkblots in the High Alps. Roland Kuhn’s Rorschach Experiments at Jungfraujoch 1942/43 Mirjam Mayer (ETH Zürich) High-Tech Trace Search: Archaeology and the Technoscientific Configuration of the Past in the Second Half of the 20th Century Magnus Rust (Universität Basel) When Computers Were Antihistorians   13:30–14:30 Lunch at the University of Lucerne 14:30–16:00 Panel 3: Epistemologies of Peace in the Cold War: Scientific Perspectives on Aggression, Education, and Social Coexistence Chair: Susanne Schmidt (Universität Basel)   Carla Seemann (HU Berlin/Universität des Saarlandes) Epistemologies of Peace in the Cold War: Scientific Perspectives on Aggression, Education, and Social Coexistence Cécile Hauser (LMU München) Peace Despite Aggression? Peace Researchers in Germany Debating the “Aggressive Drive” Around 1970 Hannah Kressig (MPIWG Berlin/HU Berlin) “Make Love, Not War”-Apes: Bonobos as a Model for Peaceful Coexistence in Late Twentieth Century   16:30–18:00 Panel 4 Chair: Jérôme Baudry (EPFL)   Simon Lobach (Universität Wien/Université de Genève) Humans and Microbes Mining Together: Biomining from Secret Alchemy to New Common Anna Lytvynova (ETH Zürich) Reflecting Controversies: Epistemologies of Studying Blockchain and Other Politically Charged Technologies Ulrike Kiessling and Raffaele Perniola (Universität Basel)Discussion: Who Speaks, Who Listens? Colonial Sound Archives, Gnosis, and the Making of Knowledge about Africa 18:15–19:30 Keynote Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré Paris) What is a scientific conference, why study it and how? 20:00 Dinner (at own expense) Parterre Luzern, Mythenstrasse 7    Funding:  SNSF project Visualpedia, Chair for Science Studies and Forschungskommission Kultur- und Sozial­­wissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Luzern   Organisiert von Mario Schulze (Basel) and Sarine Waltenspül (Luzern) EN 27. Oktober 2025 sarine.waltenspuel@unilu.ch University of Lucerne, Room 3.B58 Frohburgstrasse 3 6002  Luzern Anmeldeschluss 07.11.2025 - 12:00 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflTW7LxBSQgs9fvJuZNCbDIqz4vUUsF9M2gfI…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
About ten days ago, another new PhD student joined the team – welcome to Jules Calage! 🎉
Jules's research explores petrocultures and the modernisation of French agriculture in the 20th century, working at the intersection of environmental history, rural history, and the history of technology.
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics

The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.”

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Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Metho...
Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy invites submission of articles that present, discuss, or make innovative use of data and quantitative methods in the study of the history, philosophy, ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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(Appel à communications) L’objectif des savants. Photographies et fabrique des sciences modernes (XIXe-XXe siècle) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/10/phot... #histSTM
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Stip: 2x "Heinrich Winkelmann Stipendien" (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum)

https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-158269

Bochum, , Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen, Bewerbungsschluss: 04.01.2026
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October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is on later today, online. Feel free to join (zoom sign up below).

I thought I was going to talk about the end of the idea of patent republic in year 2025, but now I wonder if there ever has been a patent republic... let's see where we arrive later today.
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 | Time: 3.00pm (London – BST)

After Patent Republic

Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
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October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM