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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unboxing day! Over a decade in the making, NECESSARY INVENTIONS: ROGER BACON, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE (PENN Press) is a material object. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. For sale on October 20. @pennpress.bsky.social

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Professor @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social ’s The Broken Machine explores how technological breakdown, from railway accidents to Cold War malfunctions, shaped ideas about social order, responsibility, and the modern self. An open-access book from @mitpress.bsky.social 📚 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now also a paid part-time *graduate student* internship @ Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics working on American Women's History Museum project to make scientific work of 19th-& early 20th-century women more findable & accessible Deadline: October 5, 2026 #HPS www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a...

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Graduate Student Research Intern | History of Women in Science - Cambridge, MA 02138 - Indeed.com

Apply for the Graduate Student Research Intern | History of Women in Science job in Cambridge, MA! Learn more about the job description, salary, and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians

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A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World

The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm very lucky to have had my book included in @mitpress.bsky.social's 2026 Direct to Open initiative, which helps make research openly available worldwide. So glad to see the new cycle just announced and hope to see more libraries join. mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...

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The MIT Press thanks its library partners for a successful 2026 with Direct to Open (D2O) and looks ahead to the next funding cycle image

Direct to Open is the MIT Press's bold, innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thanks so much, Sean! And, of course, you'll find your name in the acknowledgements...

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Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is a brilliant new book by @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thanks so much, Stephen! This means an enormous amount coming from you.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New PSA @philsci.bsky.social newsletter is out: *International Syllabus Award 🌎 *PSA Philosophy of Science & Race Prize (due June 15‼️) *PSA26 UPSS Session *PSA26 Outreach & Engagement Award *PSA Election 🗳️ *PSA Travel Grants for graduate students ✈️ & more... #philsci mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open platform. You can access it here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... #sts #histtech #histsci

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IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Congratulations to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on the publication of his new book with @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉 Even better: the book is available open access! We invite you all to explore this exciting research. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thanks so much for this, Ben! Hope you're well.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Riddle me this, #histSTM friends: How is a guillotine like a Gantt chart? A: They are both case studies featured in @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social's new examination of technological breakdowns & the politics of the self, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social! #histsci #histtech #STS #booksky 🗃️⚙️📜

Execution of Louis XVI of Franceon 21 January 1793, from an English engraving of 1798.

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Gantt chart showing activities planned to be undertaken at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at Marshall Space Flight Center. (Feb. 1967)

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self - @mitpress.bsky.social, May 2026 (print and open access) mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

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The Broken Machine

The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep rev...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That's very kind, Mike! Thanks so much for the kind words, and hope you enjoy it!

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This looks *fantastic*! Can’t wait to dig in, big congrats @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Sounds like a fun but thoughtful read for my business history colleagues.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self reveals how machines breaking down shaped modern identity and values in the Atlantic World: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Holy heck the way we just got excited about the blurb alone here at ye olde Mark Twain House.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is so kind, Paul! Thanks so much. Hope you're very well well and that we'll see each other soon.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Thanks so much, David! Hope you enjoy it.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The book ends by suggesting a different understanding of the history of modern technology: one where questions of social order, power, and the self were worked out around failing machines as well as working ones. And one that can point us to other, more hopeful ways of living with our technologies.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And Chapter 5 turns to the Cold War. Focusing on a forgotten episode in the history of electronics—The Reliability Crisis—it shows how military planners understood failing electronics as a problem of the self, and specifically a problem of making Western democratic citizens *think* in reliable ways.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Chapter 4 turns to the history of a famous graph—the Gantt Chart. Introduced at the turn of the 20th century, the graph was designed to make factory workers *feel* the breakdowns of their machines, linking two types of failure: failure as a mechanical event, and failure as a kind of person.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Chapter 3 pauses to tell an alternative history. Before “breakdowns” were either mechanical events or psychic crises, they were celebratory dances performed by enslaved Americans during a pause in harvest labor, linking subversive dance to labor suspensions, material disruption, and Black freedom.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Chapter 2 turns to Victorian railway accidents. It explores how a group of British railway inspectors in the 1840s created a new category of accident—the system accident—as a way of protecting notions of Victorian responsibility, helping to create a modern understanding of "systems" in the process.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Chapter 1 looks at how anxieties about the real and potential breakdown of the guillotine were not concerns about criminal suffering, like we previously thought. They were anxieties about the effects of a failing machine on the sentimental selves that underpinned the French Revolution.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It argues that, rather than interrupting social order, technological breakdowns have historically been used to *extend* it by defining the kinds of people at the center of powerful social visions.

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thanks so much, Jess! And hope to see you soon.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you're not yet a mentee in the Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Mentoring Program & interested in developing talk to submit for UPSS Session at PSA Meeting, please request a mentor by June 1st, so time to be paired & work with a mentor: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HPS

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Sadly, no dirigibles.... But lots of historical material on technologies that relate to them. For airship history, though, you maybe saw this recent post? bsky.app/profile/inve...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Deeply grateful for the amazing colleagues who wrote blurbs for the book—Steve Jackson, Tiago Saraiva, and Dagmar Schäfer, who called it "Elegant, essential, and profoundly disruptive: a truly innovative insight on how technology actually happens."

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Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Author copies have arrived! In The Broken Machine, I explore what happens when our technologies break. Drawing on five episodes from the modern Atlantic World, I argue that breakdowns have historically helped define who belongs to the social order and who's outside it. #histtech #histsci #HistSTM

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

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UNCORRECTED PROOF
NOT For SALE

SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF
BLACK MEDIAMAKERS
PUSH AMERICA
TOWARD FREEDOM

SARAH J. JACKSON

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 275 (5/10/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.

Book cover with aerial photograph showing an oblique aerial view of the city of Paris, picturing the avanue du Bois du Boulogne and the Arc de Triomphe. The surface of the photograph is annotated in red and black ink. The book title and author appear in white serif font: Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts, by Emily Doucet .

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