Amy E. Slaton
@A_Slaton
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Historian of science and technology; thinking about technical labor, education, and the false consolations of Diversity. Opinions own.
Philadelphia
Joined October 2011
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!.
Check out the latest @Lever_Press title on Fulcrum! "New Materials" by @A_Slaton is available to read here: #openaccess
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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.
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RT @stsucl: Please read and circulate this editorial, by editors of the journal History and Technology, @A_Slaton and Tiago Saraiva, which….
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Published in History and Technology: An International Journal (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2023)
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From @HistAndTech: Our Editorial (open access) on @jennybulstrode's vital historical contributions, and the stakes of writing histories of enslavement in 2023.
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Published in History and Technology: An International Journal (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2023)
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RT @TapuyaLASTS: 💼Back to school is just around the corner!. Have you considered incorporating Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology a….
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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!.
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Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas
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RT @mrentetz: Thrilled to announce that #gender of #things will be out soon by @routledgebooks preorder here
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The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question:...
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Huge thank you to @jennybulstrode for sharing this remarkable work through @HistAndTech ! . thrilled to see it going still wider . @guardian @hannahdev @NewScientist.
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
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Thank you for being there, @sepehrvakil! Huge pleasure to think with and learn from this amazing community @MaxeyKR @MeaganPollock.
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.@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!.
📢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.✉️HTeditors@drexel.edu
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RT @mrentetz: The #GenderofThings goes into production by @routledgebooks Thanks to Elizabeth Grosz and Lorraine Daston for their wonderful….
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RT @MicrobeHistory: ***CFP Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections***.Science History Institute, Philadelphia, U….
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.@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!!.
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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
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The commonplace way to tell the global history of the electric rice cooker is to begin with its invention in Japan, then trace its adaptation and localization as it spread through the Asian region....
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Maskless America. I am out of explanations. Evolutionary biologist friends, please assist: Has anyone observed ants running towards an anteater because. "freedom"?.
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RT @seekyoolz: “We will labor to disentangle that which is truly engineering from that which is intended to maintain a white supremacist cu….
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When we move from race reform to reparation, from ."Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" to truly transformative and redistributive change, these are the words; from @PlzSayTheJr & @ColeySPACE:
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