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Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte @gtg-histtech.bsky.social · 8d

Ein Rückblick:

~ 30 #EarlyCareer Forscher*innen
👉 Täglich 9-17 Uhr gemeinsam geschrieben
👍 Schreibtrainerin Claudia Macho hat uns spannende Techniken nähergebracht!

✨Dank geht an: INSIST, das Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der @univie.ac.at und @c2dh.uni.lu

🥳 Planungen für 2026 laufen!

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jul 19

👀 Looking for colleagues doing research on the #history of #neurophysiology especially physiology of the sensory system in the #20th century.

Anyone out here? 🙃

#histsci #histtech #sts

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Susanne Schregel @sschregel.bsky.social · Jun 26

Jahrestagung @gwmt.bsky.social "ANIMAL-BASED. Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik", 24.-26.9.2025
Ich freue mich auf Tentakel und Transistoren 🐙👍
Programm und Anmeldung jetzt unter www.gwmt.de
#gwmt2025 #histsci #histmed #histtech #animalhistory

Screenshot aus dem Programm der GWMT-Jahrestagung 2025 "Animal-Based" Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik. Sektion 6: Von Tentakeln und Transistoren. Historische Wissenspraktiken der Mustererkennung.

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”.

⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m.
🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich
👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de)

#HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS
@vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social

Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“
18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1
„Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital
Transformation”

09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening
1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering
09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern
Recognition in the 1950s
11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break
2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation
12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment
12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision
14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual
Practice of Colonoscopy
14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies.
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets
16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization
4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook
16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jul 4

Und weil Kontext wichtig ist: www.der-postillon.com/2025/07/wels...

Zur Welsbekämpfung: Behörden setzen fünf Haie im Brombachsee aus

Gunzenhausen (dpo) - Genug ist genug! Nach wiederholten Angriffen durch Welse auf Badegäste sahen sich die Behörden im mittelfränkischen Landkreis Wei

www.der-postillon.com

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jul 4

Meines Wissens hat das seinen Anfang im Jahr 2013 am #Müggelsee genommen als das #Städtemarketing den #Hai-Alarm ausgerufen hat. Aus aktuellem Anlass möchte ich auf dieses dokumentarische Werk und deutsche Kleinod hinweisen: www.imdb.com/de/title/tt2...

Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (2013) ⭐ 5.9 | Komödie

1h 43m | 12

www.imdb.com

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 20

Hey #histtech, can we dig up some suggestions here?

Margy Avery @mavery.bsky.social · Jun 19

@shothisttech.bsky.social Seeking a history of technology scholar on the history of shovels - any suggestions and/or recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you!

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Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte @gtg-histtech.bsky.social · Jun 17

🖋️3. Online Schreibwoche von INSIST und gtg

✨ Denn: Gemeinsam schreibt es sich leichter!

Wer? Early Career Forscher*innen
Wann? 8.-12.9.25
Kosten? 45€
Anmeldung? Bis 15.7.

Dank für die Unterstützung geh an das Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Uni Wien und das @c2dh.uni.lu!

gtg-histtech.info

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · May 21

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · May 21

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist

Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · Apr 28

Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology

jobs.univie.ac.at

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STS-CH @sts-ch.bsky.social · Apr 15

Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗

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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · Apr 15

#Job: The @erc.europa.eu project “Cultures on the Cryosphere” is looking for a PostDoc (100%, 4 years) in Cultural Anthropology, Critical Urban Studies and/or Science & Technology Studies. Info: tinyurl.com/3sksvhtx
Application deadline: 19 May 2025
#cryocultures #STS #UrbanStudies #Anthropology

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 15

E.g. in science or even education in Germany, ChatGPT and others are increasingly being introduced by institutions, and students are given accounts and encouraged to "try it out." This, and the naive use by so many other users... 🤯

We need more #SciCom about the #environmental risks of #AI!

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 15

👉 "According to the Washington Post in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside, writing a single 100-word email in Open AI's ChatGPT is the equivalent of consuming just over one bottle of water."

✉️ 100-word email in ChatGPT
🚰 over one bottle of water!

#AI #environment

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 15

Wie sieht's denn aus? Lösungsansätze zum Thema #Ressourcenverbrauch und #Nachhaltigkeit in Sachen #KI gefunden?

#environment #AI #sustainability

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Jan 22

Super wichtig! Danke für's Teilen! Was ich hier nicht sehe, ist die Erwägung von Umweltaspekten in der Verwendung von #KI. Mich interessiert, ob die Richtlinien ggf. an anderer Stelle den vergleichsweise hohen #Ressourcenverbrauch der Tools reflektieren u. wie damit umgegangen wird(?).

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 13

Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 13

I wanted to tell a joke about Athena but it gave me a headache.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · Apr 13

I had a joke about Sisyphus but you’d have to get over the hump

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Apr 13

I had a joke about Eris, but it's a bit all over the place.

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 13

youtu.be/SKY5pOcEn4U?... Immernoch aktuell, würd ich sagen. "Wer ist Peter Thiel?" | @zdfmagaz.in

Wer ist Peter Thiel? | ZDF Magazin Royale

YouTube video by ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE

youtu.be

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Apr 13

Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

LinkedIn promoted post about Universities UK's partnership with a firm called Studiosity, who are offering universities a free trial of their "AI for learning (not corrections), for formative feedback at scale)".

Text from the announcement which says the AI technology "means all students can benefit from personalised formative feedback in minutes, including guidance on how they can demonstrably improve their own work and critical thinking skills. Actionable insight is accessible to faculty and leaders, revealing the scale of engagement with support, cohorts requiring intervention, and measurable learning progress."

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Dinah Pfau @dinp.bsky.social · Apr 13

Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Apr 13

Someone grab the A1!

The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

www.theregister.com

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Collection Ecologies @collecol.bsky.social · Apr 10

Our own @arnoldke.bsky.social will host a workshop at this event on how to work with + read natural history specimens with colleagues at the Liverpool World Museum! 🪲

Information on schedule, bursaries, & sign-up available in the link below ⬇️🌿

Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · Apr 10

We are excited to announce that @liverpooluni.bsky.social will host the next big @ihr.bsky.social workshop - IHR@Liverpool! The topic is 'Difficult Histories' ✨

This is geared toward PGRs + early career folks & there are bursaries available!

Sign-up + more info ➡️ www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories

www.history.ac.uk

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Feng Schöneweiß @fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social · Apr 8

#IchBinHanna Looking for an apartment. Many housing ads prefer tenants with a stable (unbefristete) work contracts. Some say this explicitly. Now look at us, people with a PhD in late 30s, with only 1- or 2-year contracts or fellowships or shorter. Even harder when you’re foreigners.

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