Dinah Pfau

Ein Rückblick:

~ 30 #EarlyCareer Forscher*innen
👉 Täglich 9-17 Uhr gemeinsam geschrieben
👍 Schreibtrainerin Claudia Macho hat uns spannende Techniken nähergebracht!

✨Dank geht an: INSIST, das Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der @univie.ac.at und @c2dh.uni.lu

🥳 Planungen für 2026 laufen!

👀 Looking for colleagues doing research on the #history of #neurophysiology especially physiology of the sensory system in the #20th century.

Anyone out here? 🙃

#histsci #histtech #sts

Screenshot aus dem Programm der GWMT-Jahrestagung 2025 "Animal-Based" Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik. Sektion 6: Von Tentakeln und Transistoren. Historische Wissenspraktiken der Mustererkennung.

Jahrestagung @gwmt.bsky.social "ANIMAL-BASED. Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik", 24.-26.9.2025
Ich freue mich auf Tentakel und Transistoren 🐙👍
Programm und Anmeldung jetzt unter www.gwmt.de
#gwmt2025 #histsci #histmed #histtech #animalhistory

Workshop des DFG-Projektes „ArtViWo“ 18.7.2025 | Deutsches Museum München | Seminarraum Forschung 1 „Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the digital Transformation” 09:00 – 09:15 Ulf Hashagen (DM) Opening 1. Histories of the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 09:15 – 09:45 Dinah Pfau (DM) “ArtViWo” – Vision between Physiology and Communications Engineering 09:45 – 10:15 Aaron Gluck-Thaler (Harvard) Learning from Particulars: Mid-Twentieth Century Data Processing Ambitions at the National Security Agency 10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 – 11:15 Rudi Seising (DM) Perception and Perceptron – Pattern Recognition in the 1950s 11:15 – 11:45 Sebastian Kawanami-Breu (HU B) Retinas and Receivers: Modeling Vision at the NHK Labs, 1960-1980 11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break 2. Computing Landscapes: Environmental History of the digital Transformation 12:00 – 12:30 Tjark Nentwig (TU B) Computing Landscapes – Sketching an Information History of the Environment 12:30 – 13:00 Kathrin Tschida (TU B) Computerlandschaften: A Student-led Project on the Environmental History of Computing 13:00 – 14:15 Lunch 3. Sociological Perspectives the digital Transformation and the Automation of Vision 14:15 – 14:45 Judith Neumer und Michael Heinlein (ISF) “ArtViWo” – The Automation of the Clinical Gaze? Artificial Intelligence in the Visual Practice of Colonoscopy 14:45 – 15:15 Assia Wirth (CREST) Searching for facial recognition: uncovering the making of sensitive algorithmic technologies. 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:15 Valentin Goujon (Sciences Po) Scalability, temporality and (mis)alignment: governing Artificial (General) Intelligence through benchmark datasets 16:15 – 16:45 Liliia Zemnukhova (DM) Air in the Room: How Quality Assurance Moves Digitalization 4. Artificial Intelligence, Vision and digital Transformation: Summary and Outlook 16:45 – 17:15 Dinah Pfau (DM) Summary, Outlook and Discussion

Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”.

⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m.
🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich
👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de)

#HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS
@vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social

Zur Welsbekämpfung: Behörden setzen fünf Haie im Brombachsee aus Gunzenhausen (dpo) - Genug ist genug! Nach wiederholten Angriffen durch Welse auf Badegäste sahen sich die Behörden im mittelfränkischen Landkreis Wei

Und weil Kontext wichtig ist: www.der-postillon.com/2025/07/wels...

Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (2013) ⭐ 5.9 | Komödie 1h 43m | 12

Meines Wissens hat das seinen Anfang im Jahr 2013 am #Müggelsee genommen als das #Städtemarketing den #Hai-Alarm ausgerufen hat. Aus aktuellem Anlass möchte ich auf dieses dokumentarische Werk und deutsche Kleinod hinweisen: www.imdb.com/de/title/tt2...

Hey #histtech, can we dig up some suggestions here?

🖋️3. Online Schreibwoche von INSIST und gtg

✨ Denn: Gemeinsam schreibt es sich leichter!

Wer? Early Career Forscher*innen
Wann? 8.-12.9.25
Kosten? 45€
Anmeldung? Bis 15.7.

Dank für die Unterstützung geh an das Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Uni Wien und das @c2dh.uni.lu!

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us.
#histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Dear #STS friends,
Very happy to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming STS-CH 2025 Conference, taking place from September 10–12, 2025, in Zurich!
You can consult the list of panels, and much more, here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/
We look forward to seeing you soon! 🤗

#Job: The @erc.europa.eu project “Cultures on the Cryosphere” is looking for a PostDoc (100%, 4 years) in Cultural Anthropology, Critical Urban Studies and/or Science & Technology Studies. Info: tinyurl.com/3sksvhtx
Application deadline: 19 May 2025
#cryocultures #STS #UrbanStudies #Anthropology

E.g. in science or even education in Germany, ChatGPT and others are increasingly being introduced by institutions, and students are given accounts and encouraged to "try it out." This, and the naive use by so many other users... 🤯

We need more #SciCom about the #environmental risks of #AI!

👉 "According to the Washington Post in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside, writing a single 100-word email in Open AI's ChatGPT is the equivalent of consuming just over one bottle of water."

✉️ 100-word email in ChatGPT
🚰 over one bottle of water!

#AI #environment

Wie sieht's denn aus? Lösungsansätze zum Thema #Ressourcenverbrauch und #Nachhaltigkeit in Sachen #KI gefunden?

#environment #AI #sustainability

Super wichtig! Danke für's Teilen! Was ich hier nicht sehe, ist die Erwägung von Umweltaspekten in der Verwendung von #KI. Mich interessiert, ob die Richtlinien ggf. an anderer Stelle den vergleichsweise hohen #Ressourcenverbrauch der Tools reflektieren u. wie damit umgegangen wird(?).

Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

I wanted to tell a joke about Athena but it gave me a headache.

YouTube video by ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE Wer ist Peter Thiel? | ZDF Magazin Royale

youtu.be/SKY5pOcEn4U?... Immernoch aktuell, würd ich sagen. "Wer ist Peter Thiel?" | @zdfmagaz.in

LinkedIn promoted post about Universities UK's partnership with a firm called Studiosity, who are offering universities a free trial of their "AI for learning (not corrections), for formative feedback at scale)".

Text from the announcement which says the AI technology "means all students can benefit from personalised formative feedback in minutes, including guidance on how they can demonstrably improve their own work and critical thinking skills. Actionable insight is accessible to faculty and leaders, revealing the scale of engagement with support, cohorts requiring intervention, and measurable learning progress."

Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

Dear #AI community, I am looking for reliable sources, such as academic papers, reporting on environmental costs of AI. I'd like to be able to present these risks concisely in discussions and substantiate them with sources. So far I'm having trouble finding comprehensive reports. #sustainability

Someone grab the A1!

The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

Our own @arnoldke.bsky.social will host a workshop at this event on how to work with + read natural history specimens with colleagues at the Liverpool World Museum! 🪲

Information on schedule, bursaries, & sign-up available in the link below ⬇️🌿

#IchBinHanna Looking for an apartment. Many housing ads prefer tenants with a stable (unbefristete) work contracts. Some say this explicitly. Now look at us, people with a PhD in late 30s, with only 1- or 2-year contracts or fellowships or shorter. Even harder when you’re foreigners.

Publikum im historischen Hörsaal des Medizinhistorischen Museums Hamburg. Es läuft der Film Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Heute, Mo. 7.4. 18 Uhr
Das Medizinhistorische Museum Hamburg in bewegten Zeiten. Rückblick von der Corona-Ausstellung über die Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus und Antisemitismus bis hin zur aktuellen Sonderausstellung in deren Mittelpunkt die Eppendorfer Krankenakte Vladimir Lenins steht.

Man erkennt den Umstand, dass die Woken zuletzt die Republik übernommen hatten, daran, dass wir lauter BPOC als Bundesminister*innen haben, die großen Zeitungen feministische Chefredakteur*innen haben und in Talkshows immer der eine weiße Quotenmann sitzt, weil sonst keine angefragt wurden. ✨

This is a photo of a computer screen with a program for designing 3D objects open. The edited object looks like a coin labeled "GTG."

A 3D printer (Prusa MK4s) can be seen in the Fab Lab of the Berlin Museum of Technology.

The finished GTG coin is shown. It is dark gray.

✨Last day of the #gtg2025 annual conference at the #Technikmuseum Berlin.

During the #FabLab tour with curator NoraThorade, we got 👋hands-on and created real value! 💡🛠️

#histtech #histsci #history #sts

Eröffnung der Tagung im Technikmuseum Berlin durch Prof. Heike Weber

Heute startet die gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte und des IGTG des VDI im Technikmuseum Berlin

Zu sehen ist ein Tisch, auf dem erste Comicentwürfe und Zeichenübungen liegen, zudem einigen Utensilien und auch Beispielcomics.

Und *schwupps* haben wir die ersten Zeichnungen im #EarlyCareer Workshop! Morgen geht's dann weiter!

#Comic #WissKom #HistTech