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Earlier today, @STS_News asked about researchers studying the history of #standardization.

That reminded me that I haven't had a chance to share some of the highlights from @LindaHall_org's latest exhibition: The #Standards That Built America!

Time for a 🧵! (1/8) #histSTM #STS
Curated by reference assistant David Crawford, this exhibition showcases a few of the 100,000+ industrial #standards in LHL's stacks.

Many of these standards were once part of the Engineering Societies Library & are hard to find anywhere else! (2/8)

libguides.lindahall.org/standards_spec…
LHL's #standards are often overlooked compared to our #RareBooks & #Journals, but they tell an important #engineering story. Groups like @ansidotorg, @IEEESA & @isostandards have helped promote interoperability, safety & accessibility in a variety of technological contexts. (3/8)
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Officially finished the second semester @TUM_STS!

Was asked recently: "What would you say are the most impactful pieces you've read so far?"

To mark this accomplishment of completing the first year of graduate school - here is an #STS inspired reading list (12 total)

📚 🧵
They are broken up into two broad themes:

- Most impactful to me personally (First 6)

- Most impactful and now foundational to #STS as a discipline (after the person graduated from the field) (Second 6)

*Just my opinion, so eager to hear what others might choose*
'A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War' by #STS icons the late Trevor Pinch @STSCornell & Harry Collins of @cardiffuni

"but to see that this fog was just a dense version of the fog through which #golemscience always has to strain to see."

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We are proud to present the next issue (Number 3, July 2022) of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers and specialists. Let's review! July 2022 cover of Technology and Culture, Viktor Bulla's 19
In following weeks and months we'll highlight each article more specifically and connect authors and communities on twitter when possible but this thread will be a general roundup of it all for the general #histSTM #STS #envhist #history #digitalsts #computing #mediastudies crowd
Kirill Chunikhin opens with a reflection on the cover of the July 2022 issue in "Establishing Eye Contact with One Historical Photograph"

muse.jhu.edu/article/859717 Viktor Bulla's 1937 photograph Pioneers Defense, taken outsi
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This is a thoughtful little essay that asks if gender is unique to humans and if so why. She discusses an extensive array of misconceptions by biologists and evolutionary psychologists. sapiens.org/culture/gender… 1/3
Especially those who fail to recognize the socially conservative ideas that Victorian-age scientists injected into their epistemologies and understanding of the natural world. Their often young and overly positivist heirs thus tend to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about… 2/3
… humans and animals. One example for this amalgamation of (regressive) human values and value lead observation is the title of @Frollein_VogelV|s talk “Geschlecht ist nicht (Ge)schlecht,
Sex, Gender und warum es in der Bio-
logie zwei Geschlechter gibt” (3/3).
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🎞️ Our fourth #STSshorts episode is live! 🎙️

We talk with @ashleyshoo about #STS, Technology & Disability, #DisabilityStudies, #technoableism, philosophy of tech, #cripsinspace, amongst other topics.

Watch & subscribe:
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@ashleyshoo This is the 4th episode of #STSshorts, a new video series in which we dialogue with a researcher, lecturer, writer, and eclectic human in the #STS discipline or related fields.

~30 mins in length.

The goal is to highlight and hopefully introduce a new audience to their work.
@ashleyshoo Ashley is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. (@sts_vt)

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If you are interested in #genomeediting, #biotech, #bioethics and society, check out the lineup for the #4S2021 panel series, co-organized with @biotechgeog 🧬Emergent Orders in the Governance, Institutions and Knowledge Economies of Genome-Editing Technologies🔬 @4sWeb
🧫 🧪 First is our panel on the social, regulatory and ideological dimensions of biotechnology. With talks from @gaby_arguedas, Koen Beumer, @zarate_vasquez, @larryau, @meg_mukherjee, and @KonradPosch #STS #STSFutures Image
🔬🌾Then we'll be learning about the politics and use of genetic engineering tech in #environment and agriculture. With @barnhilldilling, Adam Kokotovich and Dalton George from @GESCenterNCSU, Shashank Shekhar Tiwari and @kalina_kamenova from @Genomics4S, and @christianhross ImageImage
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Today, on #InternationalWomensDay I'd like to celebrate 10 amazing academics who've changed the fields of #STS #STEM and social sciences, and made significant impact on my own research. Follow them, come work with them, read and cite their work! #WomensDay #AcademicTwitter
Alondra Nelson @alondra is the first #STS scholar to have become a science advisor to the President of the United States. Prof. Nelson is recognized for her pioneering studies of #genetics #race and #technology and for years she's worked to support social sciences in the US.
Shoshana Zuboff @shoshanazuboff. Everyone's read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It is in Prof. Zuboff's terms that we all discuss #BigTech and the privacy crisis that challenges our democratic institutions. #SurveillanceCapitalism
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A thread on the life of Rohith Vemula, Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad, who was born this day in 1989. Follow the thread to know more about this beacon of hope for all of us who dare to imagine and hope for an anti-caste future.
Rohith was born to Radhika Vemula in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Radhika is a Dalit woman who herself faced casteist treatment from her adoptive family. Rohith's experiences of he and his mother being treated differently due to their Dalit identities informed his later politics.
Rohith was doing a PhD in #science, #technology and #society (#STS) studies. In 2015, things took a turn for the worst. The then-president of UoH's ABVP unit, N. Susheel Kumar, complained to the univ. against alleged physical assault by Rohith and 4 other Ambedkarite students.
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I´m looking at how the #6sworkshop in @EASST4S_2020 is being prepared in PECE by @Honoluluskye @ThylacineReport and @katiemulrich with 7 wonderful activities to reflect, share and prepare master and dissertation work.Loving the focus on Open Access that they are bringing it. #STS
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Voici une petite sélection (non exhaustive) de livres sur le #nucléaire français et son #histoire.

Liste des références plus bas.

🔽🔽🔽

#nuclear #énergie #environnement #shs #STS Image
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Bulidon, Louis. Les irradiés de Béryl. Thaddée. Paris, 2011.

Dänzer-Kantof, Boris, and Félix Torres. L'energie de la France : De Zoé aux EPR, L'histoire du programme nucléaire. François Bourin. Paris, 2013.
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Foasso, Cyrille. Atomes Sous Surveillance - Une histoire de la sûreté nucléaire en France. European Interuniversity Press. Paris, 2012.

Fournier, Pierre. Travailler Dans Le Nucléaire : Enquête au cœur d'un site à risque. Armand Colin. Paris, 2012.
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Took their time getting to this one. @histoftech pointed it out four and a half years ago () and it's been used as a teaching example by #sts folk (). A natural outcome of Google's "launch, quietly stop development, forget" mentality.
FWIW, today's urgent priority fix (as trumpeted, absurdly, by Oliver Dowden) relates to the missing image only. The timeline is still completely unable to handle non-consecutive terms in office.

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I suppose it's a mercy they stopped at Bonar Law, because this would make a right mess in the C19. Gladstone on this reading was an old buffer who somehow out of nowhere ended up as PM of a shaky minority administration for a year and a bit in the 1890s.
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I am #resident of #JammuAndKashmir .
I myself, my family, my ancestors & other citizens of #JammuAndKashmir had to #Tolerate the #Article370 & #Article35A !

Since constitutional bench of Supreme Court will take up #Article370 tomorrow , here is #VideoThread on
#HorrorsOf370 !
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How could we TOLERATE strange provision like #Article370 for about 70 long years ?
How #bizarre was the decision to introduce provision like #Article370 in the Indian Constitution that compromised the SUPREMACY of #IndianParliament & #IndianConstitution !
#HorrorsOf370
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#AntiWomenArticle370nArticle35A
I explained to @dograjournalist how #Article370 and #Article35A DISCRIMINATED against #FEMALE PERMANENT RESIDENTS of #JammuAndKashmir for 70 long years that was done away on August 5, 2019 by their abrogation.
@KhajuriaManu
#HorrorsOf370
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A fantastic thread on specific examples of breeding applicable interdisciplinarity.

In fact, I think we can go further, and designers can help.
There's a trend here.

In a lot of different environments, designers are realizing there's useful and powerful theories, insights, and communities from disciplines they never considered; and there happens to be a reactionary clash from the communities who live in that space.
We have an opportunity here.

Sometimes that clash is valuable, because it offers space for people to acknowledge, voice, and catalyze a community to make their knowledge known.

But sometimes, we can connect without friction, and towards a collective goal.
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🧬 In order to combat GMO pseudoscience we must be empathetic towards the people with a valid fear of what biotech science can bring. Folks like @GMWatch, @USRightToKnow, @biobeef, @foe_us, @beef, @yesmaam74 etc...
🍔 The @ImpossibleFoods GMO burger is tearing up the scene waking people up to the gustatory possibilities tech can bring to the plate. Dozens of companies with similar innovations have sprung up. Too many to list here.
🤝 There's an opportunity here giving human tastebuds less influence in the cognitive dissonance clash that otherwise pits humans against others.
#humanSupremacy #speciesism
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VS ambassadeur @petehoekstra stelde zondag in @Buitenhoftv terecht vast dat Trump en @groenlinks dezelfde mening zijn toegedaan over 5G.

Hopelijk noopt dit tot een herziening van de positie van @groenlinks vwbt de voorwaarden van de infrastructuur van de informatie samenleving.
In plaats van protectionisme en geopolitiek zouden de mogelijkheid tot begrijpen en onderzoeken van de technologie en haar impact op burgers en hun mensenrechten als voorwaarde moeten worden gesteld.
Concreet betekent dit als eisen voor de infrastructuur: open hardware, open source software, reproducible builds, proof of work en human rights impact assessments.
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Generally debates our problems with the Internet concentrate on application layer issues, such as platforms and algorithms, while the Internet architecture is still perceived as engine of innovation. This is WRONG.
The Internet architecture is where the privatization and commercialization of the Internet has started.

Up to the early 90s commercial traffic was actually forbidden on the Internet.

Also innovation has been made very hard in the architecture, especially on core protocols.
Initially all computers connected to the Internet were equal.

Also this was undermined through Internet architecture (with the introduction of NAT directionality).
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transcatheter mitral valve replacement #TMVR for failed valve & ⬆️ #STS risk

#VHD 2017 update reoperation➡️ reintervention bit.ly/2P9bX4G

🎈expandable SAPIEN S3 only @FDA bioprosthesis for implant
2/#Transeptal developed @MayoClinicCV 48 pts

After 🇨🇦 initial experience with #transapical 2009

sick patients with ⬇️ EF #transeptal preserves EF better avoids apical purse string suture

Currently #TMVR registry
>50 % are transeptal & in house mortality 7%
3/#EchoFirst #TTE
#PLAX & off-axis( inflow can be II to septum not apex/posteriorly & eccentric/coanda
👀 origin MR➡️#TMVR may 🚫resolve severe paravalvular MR
#Apical
#CWD #MV proximal flow convergence location: on ventricular side in regurgitation & on atrial side in stenosis
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