Raymond June
@rjune.bsky.social
Social and Behavioral Researcher & Ethnographer▪️social aspects of knowledge and information systems | technology use | health care | museums & heritage sites | documentary films
https://raymondjune.com
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This week we talk about containment (Wardian cases, card catalogs, archival boxes, storage architectures, 📦-based pubs like Aspen, kiribako, etc), and materials + ideas that defy it — and we take part in a box-making workshop @ the Ctr for Book Arts!
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November 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This week we talk about containment (Wardian cases, card catalogs, archival boxes, storage architectures, 📦-based pubs like Aspen, kiribako, etc), and materials + ideas that defy it — and we take part in a box-making workshop @ the Ctr for Book Arts!
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There's "no easy throughline to draw from the lab to our everyday lives. Often that line is a culmination of expertise that outweighs the contributions of one or a few scientists; it is an idea here, a breakthrough there + many failed experiments in between, sometimes over the course of decades"...
Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 AM
There's "no easy throughline to draw from the lab to our everyday lives. Often that line is a culmination of expertise that outweighs the contributions of one or a few scientists; it is an idea here, a breakthrough there + many failed experiments in between, sometimes over the course of decades"...
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Reframing the Ethnographic Museum: Histories, politics and futures edited by Michael Rowlands, Nick Stanley, Graeme Were.
Download it free: bit.ly/4iId8Wp
Download it free: bit.ly/4iId8Wp
Reframing the Ethnographic Museum
Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so oft...
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March 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Reframing the Ethnographic Museum: Histories, politics and futures edited by Michael Rowlands, Nick Stanley, Graeme Were.
Download it free: bit.ly/4iId8Wp
Download it free: bit.ly/4iId8Wp
Anthropologist James Ferguson has died. His first book, “The Anti-Politics Machine,” had a profound impact on my earlier research in global development and knowledge production.
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James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65
James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department and will be remembered for his character and kindness.
stanforddaily.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Anthropologist James Ferguson has died. His first book, “The Anti-Politics Machine,” had a profound impact on my earlier research in global development and knowledge production.
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
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Parting shots from Bénin. The new international museum complex being built to celebrate Vodun and Orisha in Porto Novo. A big cultural statement.
January 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Parting shots from Bénin. The new international museum complex being built to celebrate Vodun and Orisha in Porto Novo. A big cultural statement.
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We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
January 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
We now have a cover for Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine (CUP 2025), eds. @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me. Many brilliant contributors give alternative genealogies and futures for social medicine - never so necessary, so urgent as now
#histstm #histsci #STS
#histstm #histsci #STS
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'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
The academics who helped breathe new life into Notre-Dame
Five years after a devastating fire, the Paris cathedral has finally reopened, with the help of a vast team of researchers
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:06 AM
'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2
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Nella Larsen’s library career “was a catalyst in her rethinking of social issues, particularly her concerns abt how systms of classification wrk to inhibit the creation of new categories of thinking.” She grew “increasingly skeptical of any institutions that produce comprehensive systems of knwldg”
Nella Larsen’s Lessons in Library School - JSTOR Daily
Larsen’s novels were influenced by her training in the New York Public Library system, where she faced rigid ideas about the racial classification of knowledge.
daily.jstor.org
August 21, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Nella Larsen’s library career “was a catalyst in her rethinking of social issues, particularly her concerns abt how systms of classification wrk to inhibit the creation of new categories of thinking.” She grew “increasingly skeptical of any institutions that produce comprehensive systems of knwldg”
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I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social about cardboard boxes 📦 as logistical media and designed objects, as pandemic emblems, as capitalist equipment and detritus, as modules for all kinds of modernist imaginings, and as shapers of landscapes!
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global anatomy of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse.
placesjournal.org
May 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social about cardboard boxes 📦 as logistical media and designed objects, as pandemic emblems, as capitalist equipment and detritus, as modules for all kinds of modernist imaginings, and as shapers of landscapes!
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My revised Bernal lecture is now online, open access, in @sthv.bsky.social. I reflect on what historians and STS scholars may learn methodologically from Pacific anthropologies, and the vagaries of the postcolonial...
#STS #histSTM
doi.org/10.1177/0162...
#STS #histSTM
doi.org/10.1177/0162...
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies - Warwick Anderson, 2024
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contribution...
doi.org
March 19, 2024 at 11:52 PM
My revised Bernal lecture is now online, open access, in @sthv.bsky.social. I reflect on what historians and STS scholars may learn methodologically from Pacific anthropologies, and the vagaries of the postcolonial...
#STS #histSTM
doi.org/10.1177/0162...
#STS #histSTM
doi.org/10.1177/0162...
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I've enjoyed interacting with this enterprise software system over the past year. The uni provides no instructions, so I submit my reports based on best guesses, which are always wrong, so then a finance officer gets to itemize each of my mistakes. This is a great way to learn.
March 8, 2024 at 2:22 PM
I've enjoyed interacting with this enterprise software system over the past year. The uni provides no instructions, so I submit my reports based on best guesses, which are always wrong, so then a finance officer gets to itemize each of my mistakes. This is a great way to learn.
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The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
Brilliant and inspiring reflections by Nicole Starosielski at Stanford yesterday on her research on fiber-optics cables supply chains and sustainability, and her increasing academic entanglement with industry.
February 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Brilliant and inspiring reflections by Nicole Starosielski at Stanford yesterday on her research on fiber-optics cables supply chains and sustainability, and her increasing academic entanglement with industry.
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Wrote this short piece about the recent AI Environmental Impacts Act for Tech Policy Press. I argue that AI’s contributions to climate change are its real existential risk t.co/3wKgEHYvGt
Measuring AI’s Environmental Impacts Requires Empirical Research and Standards | TechPolicy.Press
Data & Society's Tamara Kneese explains her organization's support for the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2024.
t.co
February 14, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Wrote this short piece about the recent AI Environmental Impacts Act for Tech Policy Press. I argue that AI’s contributions to climate change are its real existential risk t.co/3wKgEHYvGt
The imminent closure of the University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, if true, is short-sighted and shocking.
IFK Director Announces Shutdown, University Fails to Confirm
Faculty and staff at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge are operating under the assumption that they will be shut down.
chicagomaroon.com
February 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM
The imminent closure of the University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, if true, is short-sighted and shocking.
Mark your calendars: April 23, 4pm PT, Mary Beard lecture, “Unlocking the Cases: Museums and the Anxiety of History,” at Stanford!
Mary Beard | Unlocking the Cases: Museums and the Anxiety of History | Stanford Humanities Center
Presidential Lecture
shc.stanford.edu
February 8, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Mark your calendars: April 23, 4pm PT, Mary Beard lecture, “Unlocking the Cases: Museums and the Anxiety of History,” at Stanford!
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"The small independent businesses that we’re losing sold goods, but they also gave away for free all sorts of things that are less tangible. There might be cheaper ways to buy shampoo or a better selection of envelopes online, but at an in-person store you can have a social interaction..."
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco
I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 7, 2024 at 4:18 PM
"The small independent businesses that we’re losing sold goods, but they also gave away for free all sorts of things that are less tangible. There might be cheaper ways to buy shampoo or a better selection of envelopes online, but at an in-person store you can have a social interaction..."
A tremendous loss to the fields of sociology, STS, history of medicine, qualitative research methods, and women’s health. Obit written by Adele Clarke’s former doctoral student Monica Casper.
Remembering Dr Adele Clarke
Adele E. Clarke Dies at 78; Leader in Sociology and Women’s Health by Monica J. Casper Dr. Adele E. Clarke, an internationally known sociologist and women’s health scholar, died on January 19, 202...
sociology.ucsf.edu
February 8, 2024 at 4:47 AM
A tremendous loss to the fields of sociology, STS, history of medicine, qualitative research methods, and women’s health. Obit written by Adele Clarke’s former doctoral student Monica Casper.