Sputnik was 66 years ago today. I curated a set of about a dozen original Soviet archival sources (translated!) on the origins of the world's first satellite, hosted by The Wilson Center in Washington, DC: www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/ne... #histsci #histtech

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

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"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

It was such a pleasure to have you among the contributors, Asif. Here is the special issue 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age,' a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

R.I.P. Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, longtime Flipper vocalist and bassist. Calderwood fronted the San Francisco punks on all four of their studio albums beginning with 1980’s ‘Album – Generic Flipper,’ an LP with a heavy, plodding sound hugely influential to bands like Nirvana. Bruce Loose was 66.

I'm on the job market! I'm seeking interesting places, projects and opportunities at the intersection of STS, political ecology, and environmental humanities. My areas of interest and research so far span these areas and as well as arts-based research and sound studies!

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN