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Professor @ UCSB => science + tech + environment Kluge Chair in Technology & Society @ LoC, 2025-26 New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/ Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗‍♂️⛷️🏄🏼‍♂️🏔 in Cali-rado. More = https://www.patrickmccray.com

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 11h

ON MY WAY...

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

I must be getting old because I wish I heard more historiography to help frame talks at #SHOT2025

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

Rowan is to higher ed as Dr. Nick is to medicine.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

Brevity = soul of wit.

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 16h

China has been installing enough solar panels every three weeks to match the power generation capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17h

If you are at #SHOT2025 and want to talk about a book project, feel free to reach out...I co-edit a history of technology book series for JHUP 🤠

www.press.jhu.edu/books/series...

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Among the most influential and longest-running series at the Press, Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology features books with a global scope that showcase diverse topics and approaches al...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 19h

What's the nature or scale of the insurance industry around A.I. accidents and malicious use?

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 21h

especially salient given the drought in the US West and the declining utility of hydropower in the changing climate

Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 21h

Oh ffs

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 22h

I assume we’re at war with Venezuela now.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 23h

Nobels, 2025

University of California faculty and alumni = 5
Donald Trump = STILL ZERO

#SUCKIT

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 23h

It's 1994 and the Internet is in a box...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have a new book coming out this autumn via @mitpress.bsky.social ...details at:

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...

#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what taxi hack told him this was a good idea

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

STFU

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

Nobels, 2025

University of California faculty and alumni = 5
Donald Trump = 0

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

No - this is stupid.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 1d

And four of the nine are associated with a public university, the University of California.

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Rebecca Charbonneau @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social · 1d

🚀 We’re hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellow in history of science/STS to join my team at the American Institute of Physics! If you're looking for a fellowship opportunity in the history of the physical sciences post-1850, please see our ad for more details: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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