Jeffrey Yost

Sad to hear Jimmy Cliff has died. Feel fortunate I was able to see his concerts at Minneapolis' First Avenue & other venues over the years.

Prof. Lisa Messeri at podium giving a talk at UMN.

Very grateful to Yale's (& CBI Research Fellow) @lmesseri.bsky.social for her brilliant talk today (a CBI & UMN Anthro event) on the history & ethnography of VR in LA & more broadly, social imagineries for good in tech! Also, I am grateful for the terrific audience, Qs & coversation. #histsci

Flyer with elements from her book design and portrait photo of Lisa Messeri.

CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research Fellow @lmesseri.bsky.social Lisa Messeri!!

"IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL"

Free talk & lunch, reg. req.

Registration:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#HISTSCI

For the Minnesotans out there, see post below for upcoming book talk! My host, @justcode.bsky.social, wrote a lovely review of my book right when it came out. Also it's the final days of the @dukepress.bsky.social Fall book sale (thru Nov 9). Use FALL25 code on the press website to get 50% off!

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Flyer with elements from her book design and portrait photo of Lisa Messeri.

CBI & UMN Anthro are delighted to host Nov. 14th lecture (noon to 1pm, Andersen Lib. 120) by Yale U. Prof. of Anthropology & CBI Research Fellow @lmesseri.bsky.social Lisa Messeri!!

"IN THE LAND OF THE UNREAL"

Free talk & lunch, reg. req.

Registration:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#HISTSCI

Guests (including the author, left) at the black-tie cocktail reception following the European OS Awards Ceremony. Photo courtesy of the European Open Source Academy, https://europeanopensource.academy/.

Latest Interfaces... Dr. Lea Beiermann's "From the Backroom to the Ballroom: (Re)framing Open Source for the Public Sector" offers a fascinating & insightful essay looking back & looking forward with Open Source Software (OSS) in Europe. #histsci

Essay article:

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

Rice U.'s Liz Petrick delivering a lecture holding a tablet.

So enjoyed Rice U.'s. Liz Petrick's engaging, insightful lecture at UMN HSTM yesterday!! "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets." #histsci

Woman at EIES terminal (circa 1979), b & w photo, she is seated with her right hand on the keyboard looking at the screen. EIES was a pioneering bulletin board and conferencing networked system.

Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci

Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE!

Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠

Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...

Woman at EIES terminal (circa 1979), b & w photo, she is seated with her right hand on the keyboard looking at the screen. EIES was a pioneering bulletin board and conferencing networked system.

Delighted that Rice University's Elizabeth Petrick will be joining us at University of Minnesota for the HSTM Colloquium Talk: "Embodiment and Mobility in Online Technologies: From Computerized Conferencing to Tablets" October 24th
216 Pillsbury Drive, Room 125 (3:35 pm), Minneapolis, MN #histsci

CBI Names Anita Say Chan and Rachel Plotnick as the Institute’s New Research Fellows MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/09/2025)—The Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information and Culture (CBI) is delighted to announce the addition of University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana’s Anita...

CBI is absolutely delighted to announce that thought-leading scholars University of Illinois' @anitachan.bsky.social & Indiana University's @rachelplotnick.bsky.social have just joined us as new CBI Research Fellows. Below is the link to the article. #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/cbi...

1960 Lucky Strike ad with woman smiling as she holds a lit cigarette--Wikimedia Commons

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

I’m pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, _Deadly Divide_, will be out in spring 2026 with @uncpress.bsky.social with the help of my fabulous editor Cate Hodorowicz (@catehodorowicz.bsky.social).

1960 Lucky Strike ad with woman smiling as she holds a lit cigarette--Wikimedia Commons

Just published in Interfaces-- tremendously insightful & timely essay by U. of Toronto's @hopelatta.bsky.social "People-in-Progress: 'Debate Escrow,' and the Language of Delay in Tech Research on Adolescent Digital Health." #histsci

cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces

UMN HSTM group photo from the Pavek Museum today!

Grateful to Pavek Museum Curator @pelithehistorian.bsky.social for inviting me to speak on AI history today at The Pavek Museum & UMN HSTM colleagues & family making the trip to the burbs for it-- @honghongtinn.bsky.social, @waynesoon.bsky.social, & Jennifer Alexander !! #histsci

Flyer of talk w headshot

Talk tomorrow on history, power, & ironies & paradoxes of rhetorical & infrastructural appropriations of AI. #histsci

Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI - New York, United States job with Stony Brook University | 37879289 Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and AI Location: Stony Brook, NY Open Date: Aug 28, 2025 Deadline: Oct 06, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern...

jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879289...

This is a good job for a critical scholar of ai! please apply and send around your networks

I am giving a public lecture at the Pavek Museum on the 20th. Connecting Conversations – "Artificial Intelligence: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility."

Pavek Museum 3517 Raleigh Ave, St. Louis Park, Minnesota. September 20 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. #Histsci

Listeners Like Who? How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves

Many congratulations to Laura Garbes (University of Minnesota) on the publication of her pathbreaking sociology of the culture, idealism, and contradictions of public media. Out today on Princeton University Press.

Front cover of Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT. Black lettering in bold with trailing pastel colors.

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link below, made possible by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! #histtech

cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-cod...

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.

Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.

RIP, Margaret.

Cover of Island Tinkerers, which is an illustration of Taiwan on a map with cartoonish images of digital tech and people using digital tech.

Esteemed colleague in HSTM & CBI Asst. Prof. of HST & ECE, UMN @honghongtinn.bsky.social is giving ECE's Colloquium talk from her tremendous book Island Tinkerers on Sept. 4th 4 to 5:15 pm C. in 3-230 Keller Hall, U of MN MPLS. #Histsci

This is... just... very bad on so many levels. And the worst thing is that I bet this guy thinks he's been super progressive and enlightened in making his servile avatar appear as a young, Black woman.

Book cover of treed, hilly geography washed in pink-orange-purple tones. Title: “Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey by Julianne Warren part of Cambridge Elements series in Indigenous Environmental Research.

Grateful to so many in announcing today’s launch of *”Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey* (@universitypress.cambridge). Free downloads now til 9/11/25+for print order here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... (I recommend checking out the whole series, starting with Gahman, et al!)

Pynchon, In His Absence In a footnote to “Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin,” Luc Herman and John Krafft note that the letters Corlies (Cork) Smith graciously provided them for...

Nice brief textual and archival work here from @albertrolls.bsky.social on Pynchon's V., which at the end explains why my editions persists with errors fixed elsewhere orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

One thing that really burns me: ‘learning’ tech/algorithms were showing how they could be a tool for good… aiding translators, supporting disabled folk, hell, matching paint colors. But #AI techbros wanted to replace humans and worship an (unobtainable!) artificial brain.

Out now! Summary Report: Workshop on the Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

The report highlights how AI’s expansion is tied to critical minerals, energy, water, land, and labor—and why interdisciplinary approaches are essential for AI governance.🧵

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