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niki rhyner
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history of science @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Berlin scholar-led publishing @intercomverlag.bsky.social, Zurich-Berlin-Vienna
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 12d
“Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24”

You know what to do.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12d
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 15d
Jonas Stähelin über den offenen Brief der Zürcher Historiker:innen.
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Zürcher Historiker:innen schreiben Brief an die NZZ
Die NZZ wirft dem Autor des ETH-Berichts zu rassistischen Inschriften im Niederdorf wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten vor – gestützt auf ein unveröffentlichtes Gutachten. Kolleg:innen kontern: Das sei ...
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 19d
Nächster Donnerstag ist die Abschiedsvorlesung von Michael Hagner.

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«Die Wissenschaft ist kein Lieferdienst»
Über 20 Jahre lang war Michael Hagner Professor für Wissenschaftsforschung an der ETH Zürich. Er hielt der Wissenschaft den Spiegel vor und setzte sich für ihre Freiheit ein. Was er zu seinem Abschied...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21d
“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.
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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 22d
Company News: Elsevier Announces Development of a "Next-Generation 'End-To-End' AI-Powered Solution For Academic and Corporate Researchers"; Closed Beta Launching Today, Available For Purchase During Q1 2026 www.elsevier.com/about/press-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #AI #scholcomm
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History of science & technology @EPFL @lhst-epfl.bsky.social · 22d
Excited to share this year's program for the Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques! The colloquium is co-organized with @brunostrasser.bsky.social (Geneva), Simona Boscani Leoni (Lausanne), & Gianenrico Bernasconi (Neuchâtel) #histSTM #histsci

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13 October 2025, Université de Genève Laurence Talairach (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès): “Women, Algology, and Science Popularisation in Nineteenth-Century Britain” 3 November 2025, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Dania Achermann (Universität St. Gallen): “Travelling with Isotopes: Radiocarbon Dating and the Interdisciplinarisation of Climate Science” 15 December 2025, Université de Lausanne Sabrina Minuzzi (Università degli Studi di Udine): “From Early Modern materia medica to Modern Pharmacology: Framing a Research Hypothesis” 16 February 2026, Université de Genève Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): “Radical Medicine: Medical Activism in the Long 1960s” 16 March 2026, Université de Lausanne Barbara di Gennaro (CREA Padova): “The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy” 20 April 2026, Université de Neuchâtel Elisabeth Davin-Mortier (Sorbonne Université): “Les utopies hydro-politiques sionistes durant le Mandat en Palestine britannique (1922-1948) : une stratégie d’accaparement des ressources en eau ?” 11 May 2026, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Marco Storni (Université Libre de Bruxelles): “Provincializing Natural Philosophy: Or, Being Cartesian in Newtonian France” 15 June 2026, Université de Neuchâtel Guillaume Carnino (Université de Technologie de Compiègne): “Automatisation : faux enjeux de substitution et vraies évolutions du travail”
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Theresa Bäuerlein @bojerlanski.bsky.social · 23d
Das alles erklärt dieser Artikel von The Conversation sehr gut: theconversation.com/why-openais-...
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
https://theconversation.com/why-openais-solution-to-ai-hallucinations-would-kill-chatgpt-tomorrow-265107?utm_medium
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 22d
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22d
The Sorbonne's justification of its decision to leave the Times Higher Education league table game raises key issues for universities in an era of attacks on science and for UK science (SHAPE & STEM) & the escalating growth of proprietary bibliometrics. 1/4
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...
www.sorbonne-universite.fr
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 5
Huge profits from scientific publishing are good, says commercial scientific publisher.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4
Transformative deals accelerating open access, says publisher.

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Bruno J. Strasser @brunostrasser.bsky.social · Aug 4
The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability
Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production, circulation, and dispos...
www.thelancet.com
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Jul 21
AI prompt injection for manipulating peer review: Are we really that screwed by the mere allure of #LLM s as a stress relief? If I try to imagine this as a humanities practice, we'll end up in a mess. Let's call all of this machine unlearning in the meantime.

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System
It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.
www.insidehighered.com
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27
Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist.
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025
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Sven Reichardt @sven-reichardt.bsky.social · Jul 6
Weiterleiten! Oder lesen! Oder beides!
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · Jul 15
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Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing
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TILLREDA @tillraether.bsky.social · Jul 15
WeTransfer verlangt uneingeschränkte Rechte an allen übermittelten Inhalten, um KI zu trainieren.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · Jul 15
Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies)
All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts
Jobs
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 10
The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc

themaintainers.org/study-guide/
The study guide cover — white background, photo of a garage packed with tools, and the title
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Jul 9
An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 9
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 25
“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”
The Dance Typewriter: IBM, the Labanotation Element, and “Women’s Work” in 1973 | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 2
Abstract A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording move...
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · Jun 13
Berlin, fyi: heute/morgen/übermorgen

kommt vorbei bei unserem intercom/gta Verlag Kombi-Stand
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Apr 10
Kolleg:innen aus Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Technikgeschichte aller Länder, bewerbt Euch!

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Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Technikgeschichte und Professur / Assistenzprofessur (Tenure Track) für Wissenschaftsphilosophie
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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · Apr 9
PhD Opportunity in Global History

Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.

More details:
PhD Position in Global History
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niki rhyner @nikir.bsky.social · Apr 7
Die Abwertung von Redaktionsarbeit im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren war damals einer der Gründe, wieso wir den intercomverlag gegründet haben…
— letzte Woche war ich zusammen mit Nils Güttler zu Gast im Redaktionspodcast von @hsozkult.bsky.social:

www.hsozkult.de/podcast/staf...
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Mar 13
Along with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett I have co-organised an Experimental Histories of Science workshop at UCL on 25 April 2025

Attendance is free, but you do need to register here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...

A description, programme and appreciation of support follow
A strange shape like a donut made of gum, suggesting experiment, with the title and date of the workshop
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · Jan 14
At the beginning of the semester, if questions of AI in academia are stressing you out, could I suggest reading through our most recent set of essays? online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
Volume 54 Issue 5 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press
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