We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni
“Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.
Y’all look like you a need a break from the news cycle. Why not read our new Bulletin on the how the financing of the AI boom is shifting from cash flow to debt financing!?
www.bis.org/publ/bisbull...
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Interested in conducting original research with our internationally significant collections? ✍️📚
Applications for Library Visiting Research Fellowships at @glasgow.ac.uk are open!
Apply here: gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
Closing date: 5/01/2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
30 minutes into the first episode of Stranger Things season 5 and it feels like a roll call of fizzy drinks: gatorade, coke, dr pepper, coke with caffeine...Hope they go for dandelion and burdock next.
Simply repeating every industry line is not a theory of historical change, even if that line has the word “future” in it
“When robots.txt was born, the internet was a place of hope and collaboration. It died in a world where billion-dollar companies systematically steal the work of content creators while claiming to democratize knowledge.”
Thanks very much for participating ladies and gentlemen, the Event of Noticing has now come to an end. Please do not continue to notice things about the British establishment, they will not be Noticed and your mobile provider may still charge you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
"The current approach to AI cannot sustain itself indefinitely. The question becomes not whether current AI slop economies will destroy themselves, but when."
By @katecrawford.bsky.social
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Really grateful to @justcode.bsky.social and the editorial team at Interfaces. My latest linking Bill Phillips with canals and computation:
"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci #EconSky #computation #labour
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Really grateful to @justcode.bsky.social and the editorial team at Interfaces. My latest linking Bill Phillips with canals and computation:
"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci #econhist #computation #labour
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Rochdale Canal Lock 91, industrial setting with lock and water flowing. David Dixon Wikimedia Commons
New Interfaces Essay, Aug. 2025. A super creative & insightful essay by Eóin Phillips, a Prof. of History and Sociology of Sci/Tech/Econ at La Salle-Ramon Llull Univ.
"Computational Schemes and Technological Routines: A Wet History of the Phillips Machine." #histsci
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Expression of Interest:
Next editorial team for our diamond open access journal—
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)
More on the call here: www.4sonline.org/engaging_sci...
And for enquiries contact our Editor-in-Chief: estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
A mesmerizing map of lighthouses around Europe, showing their colours and character (pattern of flashing), developed by Geodienst, University of Groningen, Netherlands - geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/
Really think this article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social is so off the mark. People trust Stevenson (and Rashford etc) because they don't pretend to do 'pure work'. Putting pressure on trustifarians, not salaries, is surely where we need to be. jacobin.com/2025/03/gary...
#CallforPapers for upcoming conference @tlrhub.bsky.social in Dublin in July 2025. Of interest to anyone studying #frontiers #boundaries and #Borders in disciplines such as geography, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and law. #CfP deadline 31 March 2025.
This week, we are launching a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis".
We are inviting articles on:
🎓 the history & origins of this crisis
🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching
✊ building solidarities & collective action
www.historyworkshop....
The Wizard of Pretoria
My brief attempt to place Musk, Bezos etc in the context of the decimation of local news and local governments.
www.quantumtechobservatory.com/tec-review-2...
#Musk #technology #politics #democracy
Attacking to their left is the only thing they know how to do.
The destruction of Welsh public institutions continues: nation.cymru/news/huge-jo...
Genuinely hope everyone is ok, but can we agree that Éowyn is a great name for a storm...?
Just watched an interview with the founder of Gaza Great Minds: an NGO created to teach and provide psychological support for children in war zones.
“To ensure every child in Gaza has access to education and the chance to rebuild their lives, amidst the genocide & beyond”
gazagreatminds.org/donate/
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
Appalled at reports that nearly ONE THIRD of LA firefighters being deployed are inmates, being paid a maximum of $10 a day, under US' 'slavery clause' (13th amendment).
www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
#california #climate #labor
Brilliant review of Petra Molnar's important survey of the AI-military-market nexus. How hype produced by private sector masks inefficiency and older forces required to make them appear as though they are innovative
#histstm #hist #technology #AI #histsci
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Follow the money: our first publication mapping the public funding underpinning quantum technological development that 'revolutionary' hype and neoliberal discourse obfuscates.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
#histstm #science #quantum #europe
Exciting two-year ERC post-doc position advertised in Barcelona on Gemma Cirac-Claveras' fascinating satellite, data and climate project.
tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do...
Great project, team and institute!
projectclimasat.eu
#STS #histSTM #histsci #histtech #historyofscience
Very cool cfp! #envhist #histmed #animalhistory
#humanities #histSTM #history
Combines deep empathy with structural analysis of the world system: Citroen, Brazilian rainforests, rubber stock markets, Fordism, mass European strikes, alienation, petrol trading, Javanese plantations, and much more.
A whirlwind. Can’t recommend more highly.
