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#histSTM is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 29 people shared 96 posts with it β€” around 3 a day. Activity is up 9% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 16 with 7 posts.

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Monica H Green
@monicamedhist.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/2…. #histSTM πŸ§ͺπŸ—ƒοΈ
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

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Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

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The HPS Podcast
@hpspodcast.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci πŸ§ͺ) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)
History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) Starter Pack
The HPS Podcast

History & Philosophy of Science (HPS) Starter Pack

Starter pack by The HPS Podcast

A starter pack focussing on HPS, History of Science and Philosophy of Science, along with relevant STS (science & technology studies), metascience and HistSTM (history of science, technology and medicine) accounts
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Rebekah Higgitt
@rhiggitt.bsky.social
about 14 hours ago
For Edinburgh folk - free this Wednesday 1pm. Guided tour of the exhibition 'For the Safety of All: Scotland's Lighthouses' followed by Wikipedia edit-a-thon to improve articles on Scottish lighthouses www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fo…. #histSTM πŸ—ƒοΈ πŸ“œ
For those in peril on the sea: Mapping Scotland's Lighthouses on Wikipedia

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For those in peril on the sea: Mapping Scotland's Lighthouses on Wikipedia

An engaging exhibition tour, Wikipedia editing tutorial and a writing workshop in a social and supportive environment
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Greg Priest
@gregpriest.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
At long last, my PhD dissertationβ€”Charles Darwin’s Science of Historyβ€”has been filed and approved. I graduate shortly. The abstract is below. πŸŒ±πŸ‹πŸ¦‹πŸ¦«πŸ—ƒοΈπŸ§ πŸ§ͺ #HistSTM #PhilSci
Abstract The natural sciences and history seem to represent alternative, even antithetical, ways of understanding the world. The natural sciences seek recurring patterns in nature and explain them using general laws. History concerns itself with unique events and explains them using narratives of how they happened as they did. This dichotomy has come to seem natural, even inevitable. But it is neither. Charles Darwin believed that it is possible to integrate the natural sciences and history into a unified program of inquiry that can explain stable and recurring patterns in nature using contingent historical processes rather than general laws. And he devoted his career to building such a unified program. In this dissertation, I examine the development and character of this science of history.Darwin did not begin his scientific career pursuing this project. When he first began to build a science of living nature, Darwin’s goal was to discover and characterize the necessary and invariant laws that govern and explain the living world. He had internalized a conception of science that had been formulated by John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Charles Babbage. They had seen scientific explanation as consisting in showing phenomena to be the necessary results of universal laws, taking as their model Isaac Newton’s laws of motion. Darwin in his turn consecrated himself to the ambition to do for the living world what Newton had done for the heavens: he would discover and characterize the laws of life. Within a decade, however, Darwin would come to abandon his ambition to subsume the living world under a regime of invariant laws. He came to reject the simple, linear conception of causation on which his Newtonian program had been founded in
favor of an understanding of evolutionary causation as ineluctably complex. He also came to realize that history has causal power in the living world, both constraining and creative. Darwin ultimately concluded that, to do justice to the profound complexity and historicity of the living world, he would have to integrate the natural sciences and history into a unified program of inquiry. This required him to rethink what laws of nature are and to reconceive the goals of scientific explanation. He came to understand explanation of living nature in more pragmatic terms, as making phenomena intelligible to working naturalists and providing them a conceptual framework to organize and drive their scientific work. Most fundamentally, he concluded that explanations in the sciences of life must take history seriously, not as a fixed stage on which evolution unfolds, but as a critical component of biological explanation. In order to create explanatory tools better adapted to his revised conception of science, Darwin returned to several ideas he had encountered as a young man and reimagined them through a historicizing lens. These included the natural theological notion of contrivance, the biblical and literary image of the tree of life, and the imaginary demon that the mentors of his youth had created to define a regulative ideal for scientific knowledge. Darwin did not merely appropriate these older ideas. He reconceived them by viewing them through a historicizing lens to make tools for making sense of the phenomena of living nature. Darwin’s science of history did not long survive him. His vision of a unified program of inquiry fell into an eclipse after his death, even among scientists who have considered themselves to be his greatest champions. And that eclipse has not yet ended.
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Greg Priest
@gregpriest.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Each year, Stanford’s History Department awards a dissertation prize. The Best Written Dissertation Prize goes to a student whose work β€œis honorable not simply for originality in research, but also for clarity and elegance in writing.” I just found out that I won. Yea! πŸ‹πŸŒ±πŸ¦‹πŸ¦«πŸ—ƒοΈπŸ§ πŸ§ͺ #HistSTM #PhilSci

At long last, my PhD dissertationβ€”Charles Darwin’s Science of Historyβ€”has been filed and approved. I graduate shortly. The abstract is below. πŸŒ±πŸ‹πŸ¦‹πŸ¦«πŸ—ƒοΈπŸ§ πŸ§ͺ #HistSTM #PhilSci
Abstract The natural sciences and history seem to represent alternative, even antithetical, ways of understanding the world. The natural sciences seek recurring patterns in nature and explain them using general laws. History concerns itself with unique events and explains them using narratives of how they happened as they did. This dichotomy has come to seem natural, even inevitable. But it is neither. Charles Darwin believed that it is possible to integrate the natural sciences and history into a unified program of inquiry that can explain stable and recurring patterns in nature using contingent historical processes rather than general laws. And he devoted his career to building such a unified program. In this dissertation, I examine the development and character of this science of history.Darwin did not begin his scientific career pursuing this project. When he first began to build a science of living nature, Darwin’s goal was to discover and characterize the necessary and invariant laws that govern and explain the living world. He had internalized a conception of science that had been formulated by John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Charles Babbage. They had seen scientific explanation as consisting in showing phenomena to be the necessary results of universal laws, taking as their model Isaac Newton’s laws of motion. Darwin in his turn consecrated himself to the ambition to do for the living world what Newton had done for the heavens: he would discover and characterize the laws of life. Within a decade, however, Darwin would come to abandon his ambition to subsume the living world under a regime of invariant laws. He came to reject the simple, linear conception of causation on which his Newtonian program had been founded in
favor of an understanding of evolutionary causation as ineluctably complex. He also came to realize that history has causal power in the living world, both constraining and creative. Darwin ultimately concluded that, to do justice to the profound complexity and historicity of the living world, he would have to integrate the natural sciences and history into a unified program of inquiry. This required him to rethink what laws of nature are and to reconceive the goals of scientific explanation. He came to understand explanation of living nature in more pragmatic terms, as making phenomena intelligible to working naturalists and providing them a conceptual framework to organize and drive their scientific work. Most fundamentally, he concluded that explanations in the sciences of life must take history seriously, not as a fixed stage on which evolution unfolds, but as a critical component of biological explanation. In order to create explanatory tools better adapted to his revised conception of science, Darwin returned to several ideas he had encountered as a young man and reimagined them through a historicizing lens. These included the natural theological notion of contrivance, the biblical and literary image of the tree of life, and the imaginary demon that the mentors of his youth had created to define a regulative ideal for scientific knowledge. Darwin did not merely appropriate these older ideas. He reconceived them by viewing them through a historicizing lens to make tools for making sense of the phenomena of living nature. Darwin’s science of history did not long survive him. His vision of a unified program of inquiry fell into an eclipse after his death, even among scientists who have considered themselves to be his greatest champions. And that eclipse has not yet ended.
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Samara Greenwood
@samaragreenwood.bsky.social
2 days ago
So, last Wednesday I gave my PhD completion seminar, getting so close now! Thanks to all for the support over the years xx #hps #histSTM #philsci #sts

This week, the UniMelb HPS Seminar was lucky to hear PhD candidate & founding podcast host Samara Greenwood deliver a wonderful completion seminar: 'Working through Context: A Study of Contextual Explanation in HPS' Join us in wishing Samara the best for her final push towards completing her PhD! πŸŽ‰
Samara Greenwood, 'Working through Context', HPS Seminar, University of Melbourne 16/09/2026
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