Amy E. Slaton

Historian of science and technology; thinking about technical labor, education, and the false consolations of Diversity. Opinions own.

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

So excited!! Huge thanks to authors @USofDisaster @tiagofsaraiva1 @KASenaga, Rafico Ruiz, Darin Hayton, Projit Mukharji, Patryk Wasiak, Sharon Ku, & Jose Torero ...Bland catfish, kind asylum locks, fragile skyscrapers, frozen missionaries, sturdy oranges...it's all here, & more!

[Fulcrum @fulcrumpub]

Check out the latest @Lever_Press title on Fulcrum! "New Materials" by @A_Slaton is available to read here: https://t.co/JnyDyTzhca. #openaccess

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Please read & share: New statement from the British Society for the History of Science, supporting @jennybulstrode and @HistAndTech in the face of unfounded criticism and associated media campaign @BSHSNews
https://t.co/p27qusXFAP

[UCL Science and Technology Studies @stsucl]

Please read and circulate this editorial, by editors of the journal History and Technology, @A_Slaton and Tiago Saraiva, which fully vindicates our colleague Jenny Bulstrode and her paper 'Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution' https://t.co/gKsibTA6MO

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

From @HistAndTech: Our Editorial (open access) on @jennybulstrode's vital historical contributions, and the stakes of writing histories of enslavement in 2023. https://t.co/yhe40vazH2

[Tapuya STS Journal @TapuyaLASTS]

💼Back to school is just around the corner!

Have you considered incorporating Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (@TapuyaLASTS) articles into your course syllabus?

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[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Call for Participants: Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas... edited by Edna Suárez Díaz, Gisela Mateos, Jesse Smith and myself. All info here...thanks for sharing widely!
https://t.co/7ymWyyIUig

[Maria Rentetzi @mrentetz]

Thrilled to announce that #gender of #things will be out soon by @routledgebooks preorder here https://t.co/N0gAB7SDrP

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Huge thank you to @jennybulstrode for sharing this remarkable work through @HistAndTech ! ...thrilled to see it going still wider .... @guardian @hannahdev @NewScientist

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Fascinating research by historian of technology @jennybulstrode demonstrates that enslaved Black metallurgists in Jamaica invented one of most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution.
Original article https://t.co/w36cu3vp5O

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Thank you for being there, @sepehrvakil! Huge pleasure to think with and learn from this amazing community @MaxeyKR @MeaganPollock

[Sepehr Vakil @sepehrvakil]

just got back from #ASEE23 in Baltimore. @ASEE_DC sharing text of my short remarks at the plenary panel organized by the great Dr. @A_Slaton

"What does it mean to truly care about equity and inclusion in engineering?" https://t.co/skS6ABlqRi

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

.@HistAndTech couldn't be more excited to be planning this gathering of early-career scholars along with @TapuyaLASTS @UofT_IHPST @SocHistTech, and more! Please share widely!

[Vivette Garcia Deister @VivaVivette]

📢Now receiving applications from early-career scholars to attend a four-day seminar at Drexel University, PA. Due May 1st.

The conversation will produce 10-12 essays to be published as a joint special issue between @HistAndTech and @TapuyaLASTS

More info
✉️[email protected]

[Maria Rentetzi @mrentetz]

The #GenderofThings goes into production by @routledgebooks Thanks to Elizabeth Grosz and Lorraine Daston for their wonderful endorsements!

@hssonline @UniFAU @HRP_IAEA @STGS_FAU @EllieTheElement

[Victoria Lee @MicrobeHistory]

***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***
Science History Institute, Philadelphia, USA, 4-6 October 2023
A fantastic event I'm co-organizing w/ @jgreene2 @DollyJorgensen @A_Slaton
Abstracts due April 1 to
[email protected]

[History + Technology @HistAndTech]

FREE ACCESS to current issue!!!

https://t.co/JXqUCcUOiE

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

.@HistAndTech is very excited to share this fabulous double issue confronting familiar historiographies, comfortable geographies, and customary narrative approaches to technological change. ...With many thanks to our guest editors and all authors!!

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Thanks to our fabulous guest editors Victor Seow & Dagmar Schäfer and all authors for a remarkable special issue of @HistAndTech on "Technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia"...articles now coming online! @EastAsiaSciTech https://t.co/54ZuWUj54Q

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

@WalterLeePhD @drqinzhu haha! Careful: You could *easily* get me started on this! :) And @seekyoolz too, I bet!

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

@WalterLeePhD There are a few discipline-specific histories, but a great starting place is this 2015 overview, and its refs., from Atsushi Akera and Bruce Seely:
https://t.co/ABEeBfvTeJ

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Maskless America. I am out of explanations. Evolutionary biologist friends, please assist: Has anyone observed ants running towards an anteater because..."freedom"?

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

Fast-track to virtue? ...Some historical thoughts on how predominantly white Engineering institutions see minority serving institutions, and themselves, in the struggle for racial equity. #ASEE #HBCUs https://t.co/CbVAYfA816

[Amy E. Slaton @A_Slaton]

@histoftech I wish it was because so many people asked on Twitter, "Why is Hegel trending?"

[stephen secules @seekyoolz]

“We will labor to disentangle that which is truly engineering from that which is intended to maintain a white supremacist culture yet continues to be called engineering.”
~James Holly, Jr. + Brooke Coley