This is the fourth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.”  By Heather N. Jahrling White police in white helmets. Jimmy Breslin spotted them in Harlem in July 1964, as protests over the fatal police shooting of fifteen-year-old James Powell spiraled into six days of fiery disorder: “The cops were everywhere, four and five of them on a street corner,” he wrote for the…

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

Anke te Heesen erhält den Sigmund-Freud-Preis 2026 Die Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung zeichnet die Wissenschaftshistorikerin Anke te Heesen mit dem Sigmund-Freud-Preis für wissenschaftlich...

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Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

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Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...

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Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

2013 Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences, 29 June -- 6 July 2013: "Creating Life --- From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology"

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If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...

If science studies and religious studies were convened absent a narrative of secularity, what knowledge would emerge from their encounter?

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Human societies often come to know the natural world by examining animals, even as animals, frequently both willful and animate, elude human grasps and challenge human aims. Animals and their movement...

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

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Postdoctoral Fellow: History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health Position Requirements: PhD in history of modern (19th century-present) medicine or public health or closely rela...

I am often asked how long I have worked at Princeton University Press. When I respond, “37 years,” the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the “same pl...

Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...

It's Your Turn! Some great episodes have been released lately, in case you've missed them, with Prithi Kanakamedala, Robin Bernstein, James Chappel, and Seth...