
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: https://t.co/JnyDyTzhca.
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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
https://t.co/p27qusXFAP
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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'
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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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๐ผBack to school is just around the corner! Have you considered incorporating Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (@TapuyaLASTS) articles into your course syllabus? [1/2]
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Call for Participants: Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas... edited by Edna Suรกrez Dรญaz, Gisela Mateos, Jesse Smith and myself. All info here...thanks for sharing widely! https://t.co/7ymWyyIUig
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Handbook of the History of Technology in the Americas
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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!
๐ขNow 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 โ๏ธHTeditors@drexel.edu
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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
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***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 embeddedconnections@sciencehistory.org
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FREE ACCESS to current issue!!! https://t.co/JXqUCcUOiE
New Issue online now! ๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ต๐ถ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐: ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ @RoutledgeHist #Technology #History #EastAsia
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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 Schรคfer 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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โWe 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.โ ~James Holly, Jr. + Brooke Coley
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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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If you're wondering what an institutional statement in support of gender rights & justice looks like when it takes the threat seriously, look no further. And yes, this is an Engineering org. If they can do it... (Thank you, Donna Riley & #ASEE DEI Cttee.): https://t.co/dv1pICC5bv
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