Scientific objects! What are they good for?
I’m going to try to articulate why studying scientific objects matters. I’m going to talk about why we study objects in the first place, how this started out, and how we study scientific objects today.
Tag: history of science
Scientific Objects and Emotion
Scientific objects are different enough from the things you might find in your house and home that academics treat them differently. But is that the right approach?
What Goes Unsaid
The important parts of an oral history, I think, are as much about what people don’t say as anything else.
What can we learn from printed circuit boards?
This is a post that mainly exists because my research has thrown me a curveball and I need to think out loud about what I’m doing. I research the history of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, a space lab housed in a Victorian mansion in the middle of nowhere. (Yes, really.) Part of my research […]
Views from above and epistemic injustice
As some of you may know, I have started a Science and Disability reading group. I thought it might be useful, too, to record some of what goes on in a reading group, so that people who couldn’t make it or people who don’t know what to expect can see what goes on. This session, […]
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