Sharad Pandian
@sharadpandian.bsky.social
Graduate student at Princeton's History of Science program. Interested in heat, standardization, & technology 🌈
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Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Happy Publication Day to those who celebrate...README is out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
My new book is a book about books about computing...enjoy!
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"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow"
Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋
"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."
🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi
🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd
#HistSci
Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋
"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."
🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi
🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd
#HistSci
Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction
Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow"
Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋
"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."
🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi
🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd
#HistSci
Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋
"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."
🗞️ bit.ly/3L72ddi
🎧 bit.ly/4huQXd
#HistSci
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Anniversary review alert! Suman Seth reviews Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's, "Leviathan and the Air-Pump" for Metascience. Check out the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
Symmetry unbound: Leviathan and the air-pump in methodological retrospect - Metascience
Metascience -
link.springer.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Anniversary review alert! Suman Seth reviews Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's, "Leviathan and the Air-Pump" for Metascience. Check out the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
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The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
www.sthvschool.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025
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Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Jiat-Hwee Chang and Sharad Pandian probe Qatar's thermopolitics through air-conditioned spaces.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/the-...
Jiat-Hwee Chang and Sharad Pandian probe Qatar's thermopolitics through air-conditioned spaces.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/the-...
July 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Jiat-Hwee Chang and Sharad Pandian probe Qatar's thermopolitics through air-conditioned spaces.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/the-...
Jiat-Hwee Chang and Sharad Pandian probe Qatar's thermopolitics through air-conditioned spaces.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors
Out now.
limn.press/article/the-...
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"For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston" has just been published in the British Journal for the History of Science. 📕
The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino.
🔗 rb.gy/t130hk
#HistSci
The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino.
🔗 rb.gy/t130hk
#HistSci
For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Cor...
For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science
rb.gy
July 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston" has just been published in the British Journal for the History of Science. 📕
The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino.
🔗 rb.gy/t130hk
#HistSci
The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino.
🔗 rb.gy/t130hk
#HistSci
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Over the next two issues of #HOPOS, Sander Verhaegh will contribute two papers on "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective". Part 1: "Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy" appears in our Spring 2025 issue.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Over the next two issues of #HOPOS, Sander Verhaegh will contribute two papers on "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective". Part 1: "Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy" appears in our Spring 2025 issue.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.
limn.press/issue/climat...
limn.press/issue/climat...
June 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.
limn.press/issue/climat...
limn.press/issue/climat...
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It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli.
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario Biagioli – ISHTIP.org
ishtip.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli.
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining the PhD program in History of Science at Princeton University this Fall!
April 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining the PhD program in History of Science at Princeton University this Fall!
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Really provoked by "colloquial science" as an analytic; a helpful tool to complicate the distinction between scientific discourse and public engagement. Great interview also @samaragreenwood.bsky.social @emilam.bsky.social
"These conversations are the focus of fierce debate, not because scientists lack authority, but because these are the intellectual battles worth fighting"
Today's guest is one of our favourite HPS scholars @emilam.bsky.social talking about how colloquial science matters
#hps #histSTM #philsci 🧪
Today's guest is one of our favourite HPS scholars @emilam.bsky.social talking about how colloquial science matters
#hps #histSTM #philsci 🧪
S4 Ep 10 - Erika Milam on 'Colloquial Science' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
"These conversations are the focus of fierce debate, not because scientists lack authority, but because these are the intellectual battles worth fighting. These are the stakes on which modern society ...
thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Really provoked by "colloquial science" as an analytic; a helpful tool to complicate the distinction between scientific discourse and public engagement. Great interview also @samaragreenwood.bsky.social @emilam.bsky.social
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A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
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New from the BJPS Review of Books:
The Pragmatist Challenge
– H K Andersen (@hkandersen.bsky.social) & Sandra D Mitchell
Reviewed by
Matthew J Brown (@thehangedman.com)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
The Pragmatist Challenge
– H K Andersen (@hkandersen.bsky.social) & Sandra D Mitchell
Reviewed by
Matthew J Brown (@thehangedman.com)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell, The Pragmatist Challenge | BJPS Review of Books
Matthew J. Brown reviews The Pragmatist Challenge, by H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell
www.thebsps.org
March 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New from the BJPS Review of Books:
The Pragmatist Challenge
– H K Andersen (@hkandersen.bsky.social) & Sandra D Mitchell
Reviewed by
Matthew J Brown (@thehangedman.com)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
The Pragmatist Challenge
– H K Andersen (@hkandersen.bsky.social) & Sandra D Mitchell
Reviewed by
Matthew J Brown (@thehangedman.com)
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
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Fascinating (for me) critique of 25 years of my manifestos on postcolonial technoscience - by Cameron Hu in Social Studies of Science. Reductive, but relates valorizing of agency and heterogeneity against colonial hegemony to 1990s post-cold war aversion to containment and praise of diversity
#STS
#STS
Postcolonial technoscience revisited - Cameron Hu, 2024
What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and techn...
journals.sagepub.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Fascinating (for me) critique of 25 years of my manifestos on postcolonial technoscience - by Cameron Hu in Social Studies of Science. Reductive, but relates valorizing of agency and heterogeneity against colonial hegemony to 1990s post-cold war aversion to containment and praise of diversity
#STS
#STS
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My book has been published on January 7, 2025. Below is a NEW 30% off discount code for readers with a US mailing address, via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo)
MITP30
The promotion code will last for a few more days! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh
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MITP30
The promotion code will last for a few more days! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh
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Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn: 9780262549387 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the...
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January 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My book has been published on January 7, 2025. Below is a NEW 30% off discount code for readers with a US mailing address, via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo)
MITP30
The promotion code will last for a few more days! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh
@mitpress.bsky.social
MITP30
The promotion code will last for a few more days! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh
@mitpress.bsky.social
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For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
December 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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One of the reasons this doesn’t yet have the stigma that it should is that overwhelmingly the question is being framed as “Wouldn’t it be interesting if a computer could make XYZ” instead of “Do you want XYZ to be made by a computer instead of a person”
December 26, 2024 at 2:30 AM
One of the reasons this doesn’t yet have the stigma that it should is that overwhelmingly the question is being framed as “Wouldn’t it be interesting if a computer could make XYZ” instead of “Do you want XYZ to be made by a computer instead of a person”
India's export ambitions for its pharmaceuticals depend on whether it can standardise private sector actors
More of the world’s medicines could get made in India, if it can cure its pharma ills
India wants a bigger slice of the world’s pharmaceutical pie amid US-China tensions. But with its patchy record on safety and a looming deadline to raise quality controls, the programme Insight explor...
www.channelnewsasia.com
December 25, 2024 at 12:53 AM
India's export ambitions for its pharmaceuticals depend on whether it can standardise private sector actors
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Jutta Schickore: Controlled Experiments
(Cambridge University Press: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
(FREE/open access until Jan 1st '25!!)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
(Cambridge University Press: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
(FREE/open access until Jan 1st '25!!)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Controlled Experiments
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Controlled Experiments
www.cambridge.org
December 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Jutta Schickore: Controlled Experiments
(Cambridge University Press: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
(FREE/open access until Jan 1st '25!!)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
(Cambridge University Press: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
(FREE/open access until Jan 1st '25!!)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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This is peak STS
A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
December 18, 2024 at 1:52 AM
This is peak STS
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New paper out! Here we analyse the political discourse of Singapore's Covid response to examine the co-production of the country's political compact and its notions of expertise, focusing on its fascinating deployment of the language of "trust"
#STS #PhilSci #HPS
#STS #PhilSci #HPS
Engineering Trust in Singapore’s Covid-19 Response
Scholars of trust and misinformation typically assume that the only two poles of legitimacy are democratic pluralism and scientific technocracy. This paper examines Singapore’s response to Covid-19...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM
New paper out! Here we analyse the political discourse of Singapore's Covid response to examine the co-production of the country's political compact and its notions of expertise, focusing on its fascinating deployment of the language of "trust"
#STS #PhilSci #HPS
#STS #PhilSci #HPS
Engineering Trust in Singapore’s Covid-19 Response
Scholars of trust and misinformation typically assume that the only two poles of legitimacy are democratic pluralism and scientific technocracy. This paper examines Singapore’s response to Covid-19...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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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
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...