Matthew L. Jones

Nothing short of disgraceful. I’m horrified to hear this.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I am not there yet two years into move

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered
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you don't cast someone from the board game group because they favor low taxes and more carefully targeted regulations on industry

you cast someone from the board game group because they don't accept the humanity of other members of the board game group

For students interested in Émilie du Châtelet and/or early modern philosophy and science: please consider participating in the 2025 Libori Summer School (a hybrid event)! historyofwomenphilosophers.org/libori-summe... #philsky #earlymodern #academicsky

The university leadership talking point condescendingly repeated last spring to explain why we weren’t fighting back was “we just aren’t popular with voters.” People may not report feeling affection elite institutions but they don’t support these specific attacks!

In the Corporation Rim, everything has to be owned by someone.

RIP the great Tom Lehrer. From transubstantiation to non-proliferation, from Gropius and von Braun & Lobachevsky, from the AEC to the MLF, from the Elements to Fight Fiercely, his works opened worlds of sardonic humor, yes, but equally of learning, of culture, and history.

SIGCIS 2025 deadline extended to Monday! Theme is POWER with keynote Lily Geismer. Going to be an epic year. Submit! And feel free to ask me any questions about it!

True just in case they say IFF

Try @chrishwiggins.bsky.social and my “How Data Happened” from Norton, chapters 7 onward.

Huge congratulations! Truly a brilliant move by UVa!

Listen, don't mention innovation! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright.

Even introducing them to the *idea* of a hidden curriculum that some of their peers already inhabit can be profoundly liberating for them. Have done more with grads but have often done in conjunction with texts explicit about the bases of inequality...

Heartly congratulations, Alondra!

And trade security and global technopolitics!

Loss of a great scholar, mentor, human being

It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli.
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2

Looks like “intuition” is due for a return.

Paging Baudrillard

Definitely need to make this happen!

If there’s any silver lining to this whole debacle, it may be that it’s such a clear cut case abusing national security powers based on pretextual bad-faith nonsense that the courts may be less inclinded to automatically genuflect whenever the goverment utters the word “security”

A really interesting oral history of the relationship of #NLP and #LLMs, part of a very strong series that Quanta magazine is running on the state of AI...

Been a wasteland since the poststructuralist turn they took before the rest of the profession back in ‘81

This essential and often lost point by the most excellent of Scotts.

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Is it just me or wasn’t Cartman supposed to be parody not an instructional manual.

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

Amazing group!