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Robin Wolfe Scheffler

@biohistorian.bsky.social
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Historian of biology, medicine, and beyond at MIT

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
famous genetics/mol bio people/institutions & their start-up companies were swimming in oil $: Salk Institute, Carl Djerassi, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (latter I learned ab/ thx to @biohistorian.bsky.social). and yet, oil firms didn't get much from those deals & quit them in the late '80s. why? 13/x
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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
many thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social & Michael Gordin for editing, & @mxmcadam.bsky.social @ JHUP for publishing Greedy Science, an edited volume on science in the go-go '80s 1/x www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Greedy Science
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Out a bit late for the 50th Anniversary of #Asilomar-- my #openaccess article on its local resonances in the Greater Boston Area and its impact on the development of #biotechnology. Come for the orange eyed monsters, stay for the financial engineering. #histSTM #STS link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry - Journal of the History of Biology
In 1975, a meeting on the potential hazards of recently invented recombinant DNA techniques was held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California. This meeting gave rise to a global debate over the...
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
logged in here for the first time in a while, will be posting on an occasional basis on the #STS and #history of #biology, #biotechnology, #cancer, and #biomedicine, but I am happy to be listening into more #histSTM conversations!
black and white photo of person standing in a field between two very large cones, each connected to their head by a tube. this was a style of acoustic device generally used between the first and second world wars for airplane detection
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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#Histmed, are you out there?! AAHM is now on Bluesky 💙 We will no longer use our Twitter account, so follow along here for announcements, updates on our centennial meeting, and an ✨occasional✨ plea for donations.
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Happy laboratory day #histSTM and #STS ers! What are the lab studies books enjoy thinking with? To kick things off, an OBG whose references to the logistics and infrastructure of supplies opened up new questions for me regarding how to fit laboratories into their host communities.
Book cover for "Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts"
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
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A chronicler of the biotech boom
MIT historian of science Robin Scheffler studies the progress of biomedical research in the U.S., including in Kendall Square and greater Boston.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum seeks applicants for a one-year, residential fellowship for graduate students specializing in the history of science, working toward the completion of their dissertation. Deadline: January 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM #histsci 🗃️
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John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This yearlong fellowship is offered to advanced Ph.D. students working on topics related to the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Urban planning meets oncology meets health economics www.bostonglobe.com/2023/12/14/b...
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
First of our THREE-JOURNAL joint publication of on labor history and history of science, including a historiographical essay I co-authored with Lissa Roberts @historyofscience.bsky.social @sethrockman.bsky.social. Look for the Isis and Labor issues soon! #histsci journals.sagepub.com/toc/HOS/curr...
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Looking forward to getting my copy of this book! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @ #histmed #histSTM #cancer #vaccines
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Sexualizing Cancer
The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks.   Starting in 2005, people in the US and Europe were inundated wi...
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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The ‘bump factor’ returns to Kendall Square - The Boston Globe
Random meetings in the compact hub help to fuel the local biotech cluster — at least on Tuesdays through Thursdays.
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
We don't have a cover yet - although this is a cool image - but we do have a publisher. Johns Hopkins University Press will publish "Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s" More than a dozen great authors and edited by myself and Michael Gordin #HistSTM
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
We are just making the transit and Bsky -- so delighted to be here!! Thanks, Alisa, for helping to spread the word.
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Robin Wolfe Scheffler @biohistorian.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I now have tenure at MIT (!) help me celebrate by finding people to follow in the worlds of #histSTM, #STS, #histmed, #urbanhistory adjacent to biology and biomedicine as I migrate onto this site--thanks!
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Meet the 2023 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
In 2023, Isaiah Andrews, Joshua Bennett, Megan Black, William Deringer, E.J. Green, Nathaniel Hendren, Caley Horan, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Frank Schilbach, Caitlin Talmadge, and Leslie Tilley were gra...
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