Victor Seow
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
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Science and Technology in China
Folks who research and write about issues relating to science and technology in China's past and present. Please let me know if you have suggestions to add to this list or want to be a part of it, too.
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
@murphyslaw1987.bsky.social
Philosopher w/ focus on disease causation (esp. clusters). I completed Mark Purdey’s research project by identifying the true environmental causes (oil pollution, pesticides, mercury, & mycotoxins) of “Huntington’s Disease” at Lake Maracaibo.
@rfernos.bsky.social
historiador, surfista, aficionado a computadoras; historian, surfer, prouser (computers). https://ahscipr.org | https://ictal.org | https://rodrigofernos.org | https://archivo.ictal.org | gonzalofernosmaldonado.com | https://gonzalofernoslopez.com
@harvardhistsci.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
Lover of justice. Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives Builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
@timmclellan.bsky.social
Lecturer in Anthropology at ANU. Author of Science Interrupted: Rethinking research practice with bureaucracy, agroforestry, and ethnography.
@jamiejyoo.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Yonsei univ. | Korean/Comparative Lit., 18th century, Book History & Digital Humanities | studied @ Korea univ. @Harvard @ CASS in China
@kargiropolis.bsky.social
Writer, chaplain, and nonprofit communicator. Membership Election Coordinator at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. External Director for AK Rice. Involved with CPEI. Passionate about systems, storytelling, and the occasional cat interruption.
@rchops7.bsky.social
imagining the postcolonial researching decolonial, non national futures at harvard; previously, oxford words in the scroll, newslaundry, the print, e-ir, pari
@michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social
Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia. MichaelLeroyOberg.com
@karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social
# Wanders through history of science, knowledge, and archives. # Leaping between early modern and Victorian worlds. # Marginalia, haunted papers, and scholarly personae. # Secretly tracing a wild Warburgian current—don’t tell the cataloguers. 🤫 @SOAS
@jessedjenkins.com
Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Assistant professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
@nathanielmsmith.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Japan @ Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. 立命館大学国際関係学部准教授。Writing/research on rightwing movements/politics/culture, US-Japan relations, and urban studies.
@hptsociety.bsky.social
The Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) is dedicated to the study of how we think about technology in all its facets. #philtech #histtech
@lgcardoso.medsky.social
Curious by nature. Physician. 🇧🇷 Research at BIDMC/MEEI (Harvard Medical School). 🇺🇸 Med rotations at BIDMC and Stanford. Curious. Interested in med, neuro, ophto, AI, data, code, design, and arts.
@jggd.bsky.social
PhD researcher, NINE DTP - UK ESRC Political Geography at Durham University, UK Scottish Arctic GeoPolitics Scottishness & Arctic politics, Northern & oceanic imaginaries, archipelagic turn, liminal geopolitics.
@moerrx.bsky.social
Chicago 📍 PhD Candidate (Comp Lit) Thinking about energy, borders, and extraction in North Asia/Siberia. Also interested in polar histories and the Siberian Arctic 🧊 EN/ES/RU/中文/FR
@zhengyuan-ling.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History @UConn Cultural History of Capitalism
@malikaltaf.bsky.social
On the 2024-25 Job Market | Economics PhD @GeorgeMasonU | Public Choice Fellow Researching historical political economy, colonial India & health policy Trust, culture & vaccine hesitancy through time Based in Fairfax, VA | malikahussain.github.io
@mbrescius.bsky.social
Incoming SNF Research Professor @unibas.ch, Consolidator Grant Global Social and Economic History, Resources, History of Science, Environmental History and Imperialism, Euro-Asian Entanglements
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@annbirdgenaw.bsky.social
Aurora nominated author of The Black Hole Radio book series for middle grade readers. Retired librarian, curler, sea glass treasures artist. 💙 Instagram.com/annbirdbooks
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@epopppp.bsky.social
Professor @ a large Midwestern univ. Wrote a book about economists + policy, one about academic science + policy. Temporarily on the "government is breaking" beat, but I'd rather be posting about public utility debates from 1906. I support 🏳️⚧️ rights.
@emmacayley.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
@adammarkham.bsky.social
Climate change science, impacts & solutions. Biodiversity, cultural heritage, zooarchaeology & human-bird history. Part-time PhD student at UHI researching Viking/Norse birds. #climateheritage #archaeobirds. ArsenalFC. www.climateheritageadvisors.com
@sjangtenhagen.bsky.social
Historian of the sciences and humanities — Assistant Professor Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Utrecht University https://www.uu.nl/staff/SLtenHagen
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@arthursmid.bsky.social
Collaborate to advance progressive causes. Community, story, strategy: arthursmid.com Portland, Oregon
@joanncyw.bsky.social
Political and Environmental Anthropologist of Malaysia and Chinese Diaspora. Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pitzer College in SoCal.
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@h-diplo.bsky.social
H-Diplo: diplomatic & international history, and international relations.
@bodyang.bsky.social
@lorenoheer.bsky.social
Scientist: PhD in mathematics. Working in hyperbolic geometry, analysis in metric spaces and mathematical physics (gravitational waves and general relativity), broad range of other scientific interests. Here mostly to connect with researchers. he/him
@ryanenos.bsky.social
Social Scientist, Harvard University https://www.ryandenos.com/ https://ryandenos.substack.com/
@emiledirks.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate at The Citizen Lab. Researching digital authoritarianism in China and beyond.
@nickhack.bsky.social
Lecturer, Urban Planning & Development, Cardiff University | Circular Economy | Community Science Lab | Science, Technology & Society | Sustainable Transitions | Energy | Waste https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/hackingn https://nickhacking.co.uk/
@donluke.bsky.social
historian, editor, educator | scholar of cannabis, gender, queerness, sexuality, and technosciences