We're looking forward to our annual Tomash lecture today at 2 p.m. with this year's Fellow Alex Reis-Sorokin of HASTS / brb! She will be presenting her paper 'From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994.'

A key theme in MIT STS Program professor William Deringer’s work is that when quantitative reasoning gains more ground, the question is why, and to whose benefit. news.mit.edu/2024/william-d… #thisismit #MITSHASS #history #data #MITSTS #humanities #socialsciences

I'll be back in Cambridge, MA next Monday to talk at MIT. I'll get into how 'ancient trepanation' or cranial surgery was given an existence via 19th and 20th century 'ancient Peruvian' and 'Inca' examples, and the political stakes of it becoming 'Andean.' history.mit.edu/.../trepanning…

Please join us April 30th 2pm Central/3pm E. for the Tomash Fellow Lecture w/ 2023-24 Tomash Fellow HASTS / brb Alex Reiss-Sorokin's 'From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994.' The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Special Int. Group for History of Computing #sts Register now! (free, required)
z.umn.edu/Reiss-Sorokin

Learn more about the history of mainframe computing and monopolies at “Pan-American Computing,” a discussion led by CU Boulder 🦬 professor Colette Perold 4/8 at 4 pm in Hayden Library. bit.ly/4a7Vbww #IBM #history #MIT MIT STS Program

No show today.

We're back Thursday

Our guest will be MIT STS Program's Steven Gonzalez Monserrate on, 'The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage.'

Live at 10AM CDT and podcast shortly after at thisishell.com

mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-…

Learn more about the history of mainframe computing and monopolies at “Pan-American Computing,” a discussion led by CU Boulder 🦬 professor Colette Perold 4/8 at 4 pm in Hayden Library. bit.ly/4a7Vbww #IBM #history #MIT MIT STS Program

Learn more about the history of mainframe computing and monopolies at “Pan-American Computing,” a discussion led by CU Boulder 🦬 professor Colette Perold 4/8 at 4 pm in Hayden Library. bit.ly/4a7Vbww #IBM #history #MIT MIT STS Program

Very excited to be sharing some research on the idea of Pan-American Computing in a couple weeks MIT STS Program!

sts-program.mit.edu/event/spring-s…

Congratulations to MIT STS Program Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize winner Alex Nicholas Rewegan, who received the award for his essay 'Carceral Pharmacology: Historicizing the Sciences of Cannabis and Pregnancy.'

MIT's MIT STS Program program is hosting a free screening of the film 'Hollow Tree' Friday, April 5 at 2:30 pm in The Nexus, Hayden Library (14S-130). A panel discussion will follow the screening. See you there! hollowtreefilm.com

Thrilled to share an interview with heraldousa, celebrating the contributions of women in science. Thanks Consulado General de México en Boston

HASTS student Alona Bach spent this past winter break teaching Yiddish @OberlinCollege! 👩‍🏫

Professor Sherry Turkle (Sherry Turkle) discusses the psychological implications of receiving and sending voice memos as a method of communication:
nytimes.com/2024/02/23/sty…

We were thrilled to host Ken Manning of MIT STS Program, author of the definitive biography of biologist E.E. Just, hear about how he researched this award-winning book, and give him a tour of #CZBiohubSF .

Check out this piece of analysis from current HASTS student Zachary La Rock writing from the field!

Meet the authors and watch the Chilean revolution design video! design.mit.edu/events/how-to-…

How is lithium mined?

PhD candidate Caroline White-Nockleby (MIT STS Program) breaks down the extraction process, considers the social and political implications of the lithium industry, and discusses ways to extract lithium more responsibly in the future.

climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-li…