Sharad Pandian

Symmetry unbound: Leviathan and the air-pump in methodological retrospect - Metascience Metascience -

Anniversary review alert! Suman Seth reviews Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's, "Leviathan and the Air-Pump" for Metascience. Check out the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@alltoosuman.bsky.social

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

Limn 12 Spotlight Series

Jiat-Hwee Chang and Sharad Pandian probe Qatar's thermopolitics through air-conditioned spaces.

Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors

Out now.

limn.press/article/the-...

"For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston" has just been published in the British Journal for the History of Science. 📕

The 2024 Balzan Prize laureate for History of Modern and Contemporary Science discusses her research with Luca Sciortino.

🔗 rb.gy/t130hk

#HistSci

Blue and black journal logo plus readable text available at link in post.

Over the next two issues of #HOPOS, Sander Verhaegh will contribute two papers on "The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective". Part 1: "Scientific versus Humanistic Philosophy" appears in our Spring 2025 issue.

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.

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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

I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining the PhD program in History of Science at Princeton University this Fall!

Really provoked by "colloquial science" as an analytic; a helpful tool to complicate the distinction between scientific discourse and public engagement. Great interview also @samaragreenwood.bsky.social @emilam.bsky.social

Oral history interview with Sandra Harding Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell, The Pragmatist Challenge | BJPS Review of Books Matthew J. Brown reviews The Pragmatist Challenge, by H. K. Andersen and Sandra D. Mitchell

New from the BJPS Review of Books:

The Pragmatist Challenge
– H K Andersen (@hkandersen.bsky.social) & Sandra D Mitchell

Reviewed by
Matthew J Brown (@thehangedman.com)

Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky

Postcolonial technoscience revisited - Cameron Hu, 2024 What does a postcolonial inquiry into technoscience do? And what is it for? I develop these questions by reconsidering one powerful idea: that science and techn...

Fascinating (for me) critique of 25 years of my manifestos on postcolonial technoscience - by Cameron Hu in Social Studies of Science. Reductive, but relates valorizing of agency and heterogeneity against colonial hegemony to 1990s post-cold war aversion to containment and praise of diversity
#STS

Island Tinkerers by Honghong Tinn: 9780262549387 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world’s leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the...

My book has been published on January 7, 2025. Below is a NEW 30% off discount code for readers with a US mailing address, via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo)

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@mitpress.bsky.social

Cover of the january 2025 issue of Harper's magazine. A black background with the words GHOST MUSIC written largely in green, tangled with wired headphones. underneath in small text it says "INSIDE SPOTIFY'S FAKE-ARTIST SCHEME"

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...

One of the reasons this doesn’t yet have the stigma that it should is that overwhelmingly the question is being framed as “Wouldn’t it be interesting if a computer could make XYZ” instead of “Do you want XYZ to be made by a computer instead of a person”

More of the world’s medicines could get made in India, if it can cure its pharma ills India wants a bigger slice of the world’s pharmaceutical pie amid US-China tensions. But with its patchy record on safety and a looming deadline to raise quality controls, the programme Insight explor...

India's export ambitions for its pharmaceuticals depend on whether it can standardise private sector actors

Controlled Experiments Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Controlled Experiments

Jutta Schickore: Controlled Experiments
(Cambridge University Press: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)

(FREE/open access until Jan 1st '25!!)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This is peak STS

Engineering Trust in Singapore’s Covid-19 Response Scholars of trust and misinformation typically assume that the only two poles of legitimacy are democratic pluralism and scientific technocracy. This paper examines Singapore’s response to Covid-19...

New paper out! Here we analyse the political discourse of Singapore's Covid response to examine the co-production of the country's political compact and its notions of expertise, focusing on its fascinating deployment of the language of "trust"

#STS #PhilSci #HPS

Engineering Trust in Singapore’s Covid-19 Response Scholars of trust and misinformation typically assume that the only two poles of legitimacy are democratic pluralism and scientific technocracy. This paper examines Singapore’s response to Covid-19...

New paper out! Here we analyse the political discourse of Singapore's Covid response to examine the co-production of the country's political compact and its notions of expertise, focusing on its fascinating deployment of the language of "trust"

#STS #PhilSci #HPS

For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...

Picture of the Great Comet of 1577, seen over Prague on November 12. Engraving made by Jiri Daschitzky

Aristotle's crystalline spheres, their destruction and the consequences for the development of celestial mechanics #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/f...

The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core The British Journal for the History of Science - Dr Amanda Rees

Great news! In 2025, the British Journal for the History of Science will move to a Research Open publication model. From 13 August 2025, all research articles will be open-access - reaching more readers and free access to the newest research in HistSTEAM!

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

This is brilliant:

Fara Dabhoiwala, "A Man of Parts and Learning"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The metaphors of artificial intelligence A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence".

The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them.

Hope you will check it out!

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

The Politics of Pigmentation | Los Angeles Review of Books In the sixth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Suman Seth explores the anti-history of the evolution of whiteness.

Hello All, I have an essay out in the LA Review of Books, on ‘The Politics of Pigmentation.’

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Huge thanks to @emilam.bsky.social, John Jackson Jr, Bill Jordan, and the Cornell STS group for comments.

What is STS? "A bold observation we begin with is that “STS does not exist" ...the interdisciplinary space of STS is maintained by open-ended and sustained encounters between people with varied expertise, especially the expertise of those who are often categorized as lay."

Doing STS Now: Of Hackers and Angels in Technoscience - Zeynel Gül, Jenna Imad Harb, Misria Shaik Ali, Sharad Pandian, 2025

New OnlineFirst (OA) editorial: "Doing STS Now: Of Hackers and Angels in Technoscience" by Zeynel Gül, Jenna Imad Harb, Misria Shaik Ali, and Sharad Pandian @sharadpandian.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...