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Immodestly, I'm quoted in an NYT article on the resonances of the recombinant DNA regulation/AI regulation moment. Thanks for talking with me @kzernike and for highlighting the @JHistoryBiology special issue on Asilomar!
nytimes.com/2026/09/23/us/as…
My review of An Ungovernable Foe: "a textured, lucid, and cogent study of how the single largest biomedical research organization of the twentieth century adapted to the intellectual and political challenges of translational research."
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it was a pleasure to work with @pkhardy and the @HSciMedTech editorial team!
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So excited to teach our intro to History of Science with the brilliant Eli Nelson this fall.
Alchemy! Medieval magical beasts! Five phases (wuxing)! Phlogiston theory! Balancing your humors! And more…
For MIT undergrads looking for a CI-H / HASS-H
@MITPSTS @SHASS4Students
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My research on discounting calculations, the church, and social conflict in the early modern countryside is featured today @mit news!
news.mit.edu/2024/unexpected…
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For the latest in The History of Technology:
Past, Present, and Future A symposium held June 7-8, 2024 in E51-115. Free to the public. Organized by MIT’s STS. To attend, email [email protected]. For more info, go to sts-program.mit.edu/event/sy…
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"I really enjoyed peeling back the many layers of interaction between [those] redefining the cutting edge of science and technology and [those] that should've benefitted." - MIT senior Arbri Kopliku #thisismit #mitshass #mitcommencement @MITEECS @MITPSTS @MITdeptofBE #thisismit
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MIT senior and @MITPSTS and @MITdeptofBE double major Abigail Dzordzorme favors an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and practice. "Understanding different societal structures will help me design solutions that are sensitive to varied contexts." #thisismit #mitshass
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I am deeply disappointed with how the @MIT administration has treated its students-- using a disciplinary channel only invoked for grave crimes to collectively punish protesters with no due process will have a corrosive impact on our community.
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Wonderful write up on my esteemed colleague @WilliamDeringer ! 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-de…
Starting now (130pm EST)!
Tomorrow! Looking forward to discussing some of the amazing material I found in the @CSHLLibrary collections for #genetown
Tomorrow! Looking forward to discussing some of the amazing material I found in the @CSHLLibrary collections for #genetown
🧬Join us this Friday (3/22) at 1:30 pm EDT for the 2024 Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship Symposium. 🧬 Our past research fellowship recipients will give exciting talks on the history of modern biology. Event will be on Zoom. For details visit: cshl.edu/library-news/sydney…
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🧬Join us this Friday (3/22) at 1:30 pm EDT for the 2024 Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship Symposium. 🧬 Our past research fellowship recipients will give exciting talks on the history of modern biology. Event will be on Zoom. For details visit: cshl.edu/library-news/sydney…
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Beyond excited to share this article, ten years in the making. I think it’s the best work I’ve done.
“Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” Jnl of Modern History @ChicagoJournals
Open Access!
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Happy #WomensHistoryMonth! Dr. Janet Hartley spent her career @NIAIDNews identifying how certain viruses cause cancer. Check out her 1995 interview with former @theNCI Director Dr. Carl Baker: bit.ly/48r4JB1.
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Head of life sciences markets in the Americas for JLL: “On the one hand, we are the most over our skis of any other major market in the US. But on the other side, what is the reason you still see cranes in the air? The value proposition for Boston remains” washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Coming soon!! With @zooanthrosmia
Bites, Blood, Boundaries: Rats, Mosquitoes, and
Domestication across Disciplines
ALT Bites, Blood, Boundaries: Rats, Mosquitoes, and Domestication across Disciplines Luísa Reis Castro and Jia Hui Lee Animals, especially domesticated ones, breach boundaries. Or, to put it another way, they help expose some of the assumptions that underlie the stories that we tell, in particular stories about the extent to which we are part of or separate from our environmental subject. —Harriet Ritvo, “Animal Planet
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“A defining characteristic of Kendall Square’s ascendancy in biotechnology is its sheer density.” @MITPSTS professor Robin Scheffler describes his work and its value: news.mit.edu/2024/robin-sche… #science #tech #society #journalism
