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Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Patricia Owens, how do we prevent historical erasure?

Really enjoyed discussing Erased with Selma Sondern on the "Roots and Branches" podcast @standrewsiih.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

Science writer @philipcball.bsky.social calls nanotech an ‘oneiric technology’: a technology that quite probably cannot exist, but fulfils a deep-rooted dream, or a nightmare, or both. Read his Essay here:

Our research associate Luke Kemp on societal collapse in human history, with insights from his book Goliath’s Curse 👇

Our research associate Luke Kemp on societal collapse in human history, with insights from his book Goliath’s Curse 👇

Anthropologists (and others! 🙏): If SAPIENS Magazine has mattered to you—as a reader, writer, teacher, or student—now is the time to speak up. Write to Wenner-Gren today. Tell them why public anthropology matters. #SaveSAPIENS #AnthroSky

Link to petition: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

A good thread from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social on the issues with critiquing science and expertise as simply “political”; as with his reference to Epstein’s excellent work, we can see that there are ways to rigorously study and critique the production of knowledge without defaulting to a simple

Three abstract paintings in black and turquoise on a wall and a screen on a low table showing video work.

An installation of very small photos lined up on a shelf along with walkman cassette players and headphones.

📣 Exhibit at the ARB in 2026!

The @artatarb.bsky.social art committee is looking to support innovative curatorial ideas for group exhibition projects that will foster discussion and engage members of the University and the public alike

The deadline has been extended to 31 July
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Three ghosts of British higher education [These are the more-or-less unedited notes for my speech at the event Multiple Crises of Higher Education, held on 20 May 2025 at Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute, and organised by the fantast…

Must read on the crisis of the (UK) university from @unsocialtheory.bsky.social

janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...

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A near-encounter with Mario Biagioli when I was a student was big for me. He heard I had given a talk at Harvard and asked me to send it to him; he then sent it on to Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and it became my first publication. Such generosity, from a scholar I had never met.

(Exposition) Histoire(s) de la médecine histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/05/hist... #histmed

Les humains font-ils la guerre au vivant ? Entretien avec l’anthropologue Charles Stépanoff Les désastres écologiques contemporains donnent l’impression que l’homme amène la dévastation partout où il s’installe. Sommes-nous condamnés à rendre nos milieux de vie inhabitables ? Avons-nous décl...

A very interesting interview with anthropologist Charles Stépanoff on his new book about human-nonhuman relations Attachements. Enquête sur nos liens au-delà de l’humain @philomag.com www.philomag.com/articles/les...

Nikola Tesla: life of the week Iwan Morus revisits the life – and myth – of the enigmatic pioneer of electrical power

Tesla is @historyextra.bsky.social's Life of the Week. So here I am talking about why it's never been so important to understand the origins of his myth.

Social Theory and the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge - gloknos

Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege

Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social

Social Theory and the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge - gloknos

Join us (online/in person) on 16 April to discuss Social Theory & the Promises of Post-Hegemonic Knowledge w/ the authors/eds of 3 fantastic new books in our Global Epistemics series w/ Rowman & Littlefield (Bloomsbury) edited by @berytia.bsky.social. Info & registration here: tinyurl.com/nonhege

JOB:

Assistant Professor in South Asian Political/ Intellectual History (3-year post) @Cambridge_Uni

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50694/

Front cover of the summer semester 2025 History of Knowledge course list (KVV)

The Berlin History of Knowledge Course List (KVV) for summer semester 2025 is now available online! This list conveniently compiles all history of knowledge and science courses @humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

🔗 bit.ly/438eouS

#HistSci

The two volumes of the French Vocabularie, and the new English edition of the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society

"The Territory of the Vocabulary and the Vocabulary of Territory: Emile Benveniste" - a short piece exploring the spatial aspects of this book. progressivegeographies.com/2025/03/30/t...

Want to learn about values in the Anthropocene? Check out this open web resource: rethinkingvalue.github.io/anthropocene/ With entries on Lake Titicaca, the Carribean, Georgia, India, and Marseille! It was a pleasure to work on this with Simone Schleper, Paul Merchant, Dan Finch-Race and Leo Steeds

YouTube video by Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development Video Recording | Launch of RAS Sustainable Technology Research Group

If you missed the launch of the Sustainability Technology (SusTech) Group our CIRR colleague Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn recently launched at the Rudolph Agricola School for Sustainable Development, watch it here!

Congrats to Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler & their authors for this superb Encyclopedia of IR. Delighted to see CIRR members @jcostalopez.bsky.social (Benchmark dates); Filipe dos Reis (State), @berytia.bsky.social (Behaviouralism) & many CIRR collaborators 👏 | www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value How have socio-technical practices in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) communities shaped one another and society more widely? This article…

🎉 Out now (open access) in Progress in Economic Geography: CIRR member Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Ludovico Rella's paper on AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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👏 Out in the journal Politics in open access: CIRR member Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social with Katharine Millar's @drkmillar.bsky.social paper on Conspiratorial Medievalism: History & Hyperagency in the Far-Right Knights Templar Security Imaginary 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Front cover of 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England' by Hannah Jeans, which shows a line drawing of a woman reading

On 10 April we publish 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy

Hannah's is the next (and 22nd) title in the RHS New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social

#Skystorians 1/2

Graduate symposium – Doing International Political Sociology International Political Sociology (IPS) has now established itself as an interdisciplinary approach to International Relations that problematizes the...

📣 Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium - Doing International Political Sociology @doingips.bsky.social organised by our PhD students @kawezel.bsky.social & Federico Petris in Groningen 4-5 June 2025. A fantastic opportunity to present your work! Deadline 4 April 👇 www.rug.nl/research/ico...

Congrats to our research associate Lukas Linsi of @cirr-ug.bsky.social! Check out Lukas’ research 👇

Since joining BlueSky we've been building a Starter Pack to highlight the work of fellow historical societies and associations.

We've now reached our 150 limit, so have divided the list into 2 packs: the first covers societies in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd ...

#skystorians

What a great workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' with @nfgaeckle.bsky.social at @apbtutzing.bsky.social. Big thanks to the participants, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social @hannahrichter.bsky.social as well as @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @gloknos.bsky.social for sponsoring!