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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Sep 8

The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology.

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Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · Mar 25

Congrats to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on becoming co-editor of the Inside Technology series by @mitpress.bsky.social! Check out our curated list of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts related to the series ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/profess...

Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep Joins Inside Technology as Co-Editor

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Mar 19

Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️

“Living Fossils”: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt

Abstract. This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Mar 18

This award-winning study examines how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. "The Unreliable Nation" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...

Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Unreliable Nation, out in paperback today.

U.S. threats to Canadian sovereignty, against the backdrop of Soviet expansionism … told as a history of nature and technology and in the early Cold War.

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The Unreliable Nation

Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technolog...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Unreliable Nation, out in paperback today.

U.S. threats to Canadian sovereignty, against the backdrop of Soviet expansionism … told as a history of nature and technology and in the early Cold War.

@mitpress.bsky.social

mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...

The Unreliable Nation

Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technolog...

mitpress.mit.edu

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Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me · Mar 11

Bay Area! I'll be giving work at both Berkeley and Stanford this week. @Stanford: "Computing, Intimately," which will be a hands-on demo of my programming language, Ludus, with a pre-circulated paper of mine about "computational transitional objects." shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

Scott Richmond | Computing, Intimately: On Computational Transitional Objects | Stanford Humanities Center

Digital Aesthetics Workshop

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Feb 14

I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press

Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Jan 9

So saddened to hear about the passing of Nicolas Nova @nicolasnova.bsky.social. I never met him in person, but was lucky enough to contribute to his wonderful special edition on failure in Techniques & Culture, "En cas de panne."
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So brilliant and so kind.

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François Saltiel @francoissaltiel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Ma contribution sur @franceculture.fr pour rendre hommage à Nicolas Nova. Un chercheur brillant, connaisseur curieux de nos mondes connectés.
Il avait 47 ans et venait d’achever son ouvrage « Persistance du merveilleux », un essai qui éclaire le petit peuple fabuleux de nos machines ✨Tristesse👇

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · Jan 7

I wrote about what the current fascination with the icy far north means in this moment back in 2016; it seems relevant again.
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What lies beneath the ice of our fascination with the North? | Aeon Essays

The top of the globe has always meant fantasy, myth, adventure. What explains the icy northern grip on our imagination?

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · Jan 7

"The only AI I want to discuss is ancestral intelligence—the insights, experiences, and wisdom that grow under the rubble of progress." An incredible essay from @ruha9.bsky.social on the insidious philosophies that power AI evangelism. Must read 👇🏾
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books

In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · Jan 3

Gross as this is, this feels like an effort to replace the labor of influencers crucial to the social media economy. Automating content creation through AI bots and another episode in the long sordid history of Black automata Edward Jones-Imhotep is studying. (His forthcoming book is so necessary).

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 3

why do we need AI-generated profiles. why

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Jan 3

Thanks for the shout-out! For anyone interested, this piece in @wired.com gives a fuller picture. From the amazing @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social .

www.wired.com/story/histor...

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · Jan 2

Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Elegant woman seated with a book in her lap gazing at the viewer.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Dec 20

Enjoy James! And all the very best for the holidays.

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Tiffany Nichols, JD, PhD @tiffanynichols.bsky.social · Dec 13

Really enjoyed the lively conversation tonight at the Yale Hist & Phil of Physics Working Group about my latest article in @hsnatsci.bsky.social on the blurring of field and laboratory with precision instruments like LIGO's interferometers! Article available here: online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

Hidden in Plain Sight: Discerning Signal from Noise in the Expanded Laboratory Environment

What happens when disturbances in precision measurement instruments are indecipherable to physicists despite extensive review of the instruments and their outputs? How do physicists parse instrument o...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thank you so much for this! Could you add me, please?

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Dec 8

Recordings of talks from the conference Pragmatism & the Philosophy of Science held at Rotman Institute at Western U Sept 2024 are now on Youtube!
Here's my talk on "The Geodetic & Metrological Roots of C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatism" if you're interested...
#HPS #pragmatism #Peirce #geodesy #metrology

Pragmatism & The Philosophy of Science: Fall 2024 Conference - Alisa Bokulich

YouTube video by Rotman Institute of Philosophy

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · Dec 4

Outstanding thread on the little-known origins of African studies in Europe.

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · Dec 4

The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire and the German Reich ca. 1652-1918.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-hidden...

The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire and the German Reich ca. 1652-1918.

In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later gene...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Nov 23

Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...

A graphic with a purple background that is an image of a grey sphere landing in a net. Beneath this is a chartreuse bar with black lettering: Five Theses on the Gravity of Platforms

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Dec 1

Welcome to bsky the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Uni of Toronto! #HPS
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · Nov 30

Fantastic open access article on the history & historiography of technology in modern South Asia by @amandazillo.bsky.social (which I had a small part in bringing to publication). She invites us to rethink hierarchies of technical authority and the notion of “vernacular” technical knowledge.

Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social · Nov 30

For History Compass, I wrote about new directions in the study of the history of technology in modern South Asia. I explored the potential of these historiographic trends through poetic laments of an early 20th-century railway carpenter named ‘Abdul ‘Aziz in Lahore...

A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology?: New Opportunities From Modern South Asia

This article examines interconnected questions that are central to new scholarship on the history of technology in modern South Asia. Which communities, groups and individuals have formed and sustain...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · Nov 30

Absolutely brilliant piece by Fara Dabhoiwala in @londonreview.bsky.social on the polymath Francis Williams. You'll never see this portrait, or the history of 18th-century science, the same way again.

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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Nov 28

"There is little distinction between our world and that of nonhumans. We all share the same breath. I am the mint tea, the bawena, that Grandma used to offer to soothe my ailing."

Grandma’s ‘Bawena’: On the Kinship of Plants and People

My family introduced me not only to plant knowledge but also to a frame through which I place myself into my environment and universe.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Nov 20

Yes-the awesome philosopher Luvell Anderson is on Bsky! @luke-rage.bsky.social
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Luvell Anderson
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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Podcaster: sn|101.info, Co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language|andersonluvell.weebly.com

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