So excited to teach our intro to History of Science with the brilliant Eli Nelson this fall. Alchemy! Medieval magical beasts! Five phases (wuxing)! Phlogiston theory! Balancing your humors! And more… For MIT undergrads looking for a CI-H / HASS-H MIT STS Program MIT SHASS for Students

There is still time to apply for the 2025 Datini-Ester seminar on "Finance in History"! All PhD students working on these topics are welcome to apply! Join us in beautiful #Prato (#Tuscany) for this fully-funded experience! #EconHist (deadline October 25) istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/call…

🚨This is a really awesome position for HSTM / STS / PhilSci! (Which I feel like hasn't been well advertised at all...)

Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Sciences Po, starting on 1 September 2025, in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. histecon.fr/en/fellowships…

How many honest, hard-working chicken salad sandwiches have to die before we get tough on the crime of adding fruit?

Anyone want like 4k words on that new Nate Silver book, the history of poker theory, and the evolution of rationality and masculinity in modern capitalism?

Space still available!

Publication day is here. Thrilled to announce that my new book, *Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique*, is now available! amazon.com/Against-Consti…

Come to NYU Law next week to catch Jonathan Gienapp *twice* on this fantastic new book — at the ConLaw Colloquium Monday and the Legal History Colloquium Wednesday!!

Say what you will about the pernicious social effects of algorithms but I clicked on one video about darts and now I get to watch a ton of sweet videos about darts

Posted Today: Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine | Rice University, Department of History dlvr.it/TD8GXF

Today at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School/Penn History #LegalHistory workshop: we're excited to host Stanford University's Jonathan Gienapp (Jonathan Gienapp)! He'll be talking with us about the importance of the Constitution's Preamble in the Founding Era and "The Lost Constitution of National Popular Sovereignty."

🚨 🎉 👏 I love to see this kind of investment in history of premodern sci-tech-med!

Whoever is responsible for asking for this amount of material for a first round job application should feel a kind of deep, nightmarish embarrassment.

"Maybe this is a window of opportunity to use technology for social good.” news.mit.edu/2024/mariel-ga… History Section at MIT MIT Anthropology MIT STS Program #thisismit #mitshass #mit

It's academic job season again, and I feel it's time to say this: WE SHOULD ABOLISH REFERENCE LETTERS. I know I'm not the first person to say this. But it's not about simplifying the review process. It's about the academic power structure. Now hear me out: 1/

Pretty niche inquiry but… Is it really the case that the lead barristers for the Premier League (Pannick) and Man City (Lewis) are from the same “chambers” (Blackstone)? How is that possible?

Umm pretty weird that “political economy” means like eight different things and it takes a decoder ring to figure out how it’s being used in any specific context

And very grateful to HASTS and especially STS for being the intellectual home of my dreams 💕

Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: Cornell Information Science is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405