As a scholar, thinker, and writer, I owe a debt to James Burke's masterful and enthusiastic display of interdisciplinary #sts connectivity and consilience. Anyone else have core memories of the BBC series? #historyoftechnology

Visual WORLDBUILDING endnotes, continued: interdisciplinary histories, #STS analyses, and introspective essays on our engineered world -- [here's hoping] there simply can't be enough of these.

More visual footnotes for WORLDBUILDING: inspiring #sts texts by scholars who've demonstrated the way "neutral" tech upholds unjust status quos, and designed systems to dismantle them.

Relatedly, highly recommended: two books that reframe engineering values of "power" and "efficiency," historicize their capitalist underpinnings, and ask how things might be otherwise. #sts #engineeringed #imagination

What stories do our technologies tell about us, and what other stories and tech are possible? In my new book from @politybooks.bsky.social I'm all about chasing down WHAT IFs and THEN WHATs, interrogating the history of technology in order to envision many possible futures.

Just a wonderful point, made plain by a caller to @wnyc.org this morning -- the reason "women's sports" exist is because of male gatekeeping. Without men policing borderlines, we could simply have "sports" for all, with divisions based on skill level or age, but not gender.

Great conversation with Stacey Abrams, and a reminder to read & share Kenji Yoshino's SAY THE RIGHT THING. A lot of attacks on "DEIJ" are coming from folks who don't know what it is; let's not let them define it.

You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. From Pirkei Avot, for us today. FYI if you need a beautiful reminder: www.countrycounterculture.com/product-page... [25% off with code SOLSTICE24]

OTD in 1989, we lost 14 prospective women engineers to an act of misogynistic terror at Montreal's École Polytechnique. May their memory be a revolution. Engineering can only serve society when engineers are both representative and respectful of diverse identities & perspectives. #inclusiveSTEM

Always charmed by this reminder to individuals that we're part of an infrastructural system. #boston