Congratulations to my friend and colleague Max Ehrenfreund, defending his extraordinary dissertation on calculation and interwar political economy today!!

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.'

We're not much on Twitter anymore, but we are hiring for a professor in in #Anthropology and/or Science and Technology Studies #sts with a focus on the value and ethics of data and digital technologies. Deadline 1 June candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

We still really need that deep dive history/STS/anthro study of “technical analysis”

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

Wonderful write up on my esteemed colleague ⁦Will Deringer⁩ ! I’ve never looked at spreadsheets or coal mines the same after talking with him—a sign of his immense scholarly breadth—and his conventional conviviality! news.mit.edu/2024/william-d…

also, every wall speaks to the history of discounting and modeling in economics, which made discussing the history and relevance of the Ramsey equation especially relevant ;)

Ooh Sauer mentions Gouverneur Morris. Appreciate Jonathan Gienapp making Gouv one of my fav founders.

The HES is delighted to announce that, from next July, the JHET will begin its transition to a new editorial team. Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Harro Maas, Alexandre Mendes Cunha will become the journal’s co-editors. Christina Laskaridis will be the new book review editor

Congratulations to MIT Anthropology Program Head Heather Paxson, named Associate Dean for Faculty of MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, effective July 1.
news.mit.edu/2024/heather-p…

Why am I reading the Annual Report of the Vermont Inspector of Finance for 1889? I have a problem

Sounds 🔥

Here is the title of one of the papers a student wrote as part of the assessment for this course: 'The comparative derivations of Maclaurin series of trigonometric functions in 17th–18th century Europe and Japan and 14th–16th century Kerala.'

Sounds cool!

Half my timeline is random people I don’t know announcing what economics PhD program they are going to and that’s not even my field exactly.

Let me tell you I AM HERE FOR IT. You are all awesome. Congrats. Go do it.

But hey now I know something about the history of savings banks...

There's a certain feeling when doing historical research where a bunch of hazy pieces that you've been holding in your head for months click together...

...and that feeling is for me always followed by the crushing realization that explaining it will take 10x the available space

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

People who send a nice email when they like an article are the backbone of academia

That my research was “old fashioned intellectual history”

Will Deringer L’il Data Set is your DJ name IIRC.