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A new review of 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺! By the one and only Ken Pomeranz in 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘥'𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦 & 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦. Many thanks to Ken for his close engagement with and generous assessment of my book! shs.cairn.info/revue-d-hist... #carbontechnocracy #histstm #envhist 🧪

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The scale of what's happening with Chinese solar abroad is undercovered. Great piece by @davidfickling.bsky.social Take Pakistan: it imported 16.6 GW (!) of Chinese panels in 2024. At 15% capacity factor, that's 21 TWh for the year on a grid that totaled 150 TWh! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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What might a "failed" rubber crop reveal about the "recalcitrance" of plant life in interspecies entanglements? Please join the Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series for this upcoming talk by Aparajita Majumdar! Zoom registration 👇 #histstm #histsci #envhist #envhum 🧪

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for Monamie Haines's terrific S&T in Asia @ Harvard talk on anti-nuclear activism in India! This was a nuanced and conceptually rich take on the various interest groups and their ideas of and appeals to credibility across this nuclear landscape. #sts #histsci 🧪

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Congratulations to Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social -- an amazing scholar and author of the fantastic 'Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia' (U Chicago, 2021)...

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Congrats! Well-deserves. I did a column based in part on Victor’s work (and Shellen Wu’s as well)and learned a lot in the process. www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

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I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the American Academy for Arts and Sciences' Sarton Prize for the History of Science! Many thanks to the countless people whose support helped make this possible. www.amacad.org/news/victor-...

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Reminder 📢 Come join us next Tuesday (2/25) for this Harvard S&T in Asia talk by Monamie Bhadra Haines. Zoom registration here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #histstm #histtech #enlist 🧪

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My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

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A partial list of lucky charms carried by B-29 crewmembers during missions against Japan: a scarf fashioned from the parachute of a fallen comrade; a piece of shrapnel; a copy of the bible; rosary beads; a copy of the Bhagavad Gita; dark blue baseball caps; lucky pants (unwashed over 70 missions)

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So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.

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It was Chicago's coldest week this winter (colder than Boston 🥶), but I enjoyed the warm hospitality of colleagues at UChicago. A big thank you again to Yuting Dong and everyone at UChicago's Center for East Asian Studies for this opportunity to share my work. #thehumanfactor

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Excited to be talking about my new book at Harvard University in two weeks! Many thanks to the Korea Institute for the invitation, and @eastasiascitech.bsky.social for being discussant.

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Revisiting our translations of survivor testimonies of the March 10, 1945 firebombing, and struck by this passage from the account of Morikawa Tadashi. Nicely encapsulates one argument of our book: that you can't understand the firestorm of 1945 without tracing the long shadows cast by 1923.

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Glad to be back at the University of Chicago. The last time I was here, Carbon Technocracy had just come out. This time, I get to speak about the book that I am currently writing. With many thanks to Yuting Dong and the UChicago Center for East Asian Studies for the kind invitation.

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What might antinuclear activism in India reveal about how knowledge relates to power in more autocratic spaces? Please join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this upcoming Zoom talk by Monamie Bhadra Haines. 📅 Tue, Feb 25 🕙 10:30 am ET scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #histstm #envhum #sts 🧪

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I learned a ton about automated vehicles 🚗 and related tensions between safety, environmental, and privacy concerns from Dasom Lee's excellent #STinAsia talk earlier this week. A great start to the series for the term. scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #histstm 🧪

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🔵 For our first post on Bluesky, we are delighted to announce that the call for applications for our 2025/2026 Fellowship Scheme is now open: 👥 15 spots are available! ⏳Deadline: Monday 31 March 2025 Find out how to apply 👇 philsci.eu/fellowships/...

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Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Reminder 📢 Please join us over Zoom next Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 am ET for this Harvard S&T in Asia talk by Dasom Lee on privacy in automated vehicles 🚗 Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #histstm #histtech #sociology

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Next #envhum book talk on Monday 10 Feb 👇

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Reminder 📢 Please join us over Zoom next Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 am ET for this Harvard S&T in Asia talk by Dasom Lee on privacy in automated vehicles 🚗 Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #histstm #histtech #sociology

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The Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series is back for the spring term! Join us next Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Dasom Lee on embedding social goals into the privacy of automated vehicles. Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #sociology

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The Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series is back for the spring term! Join us next Tuesday, February 11, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Dasom Lee on embedding social goals into the privacy of automated vehicles. Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #sts #sociology

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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looking forward to the conversation tmr morning on tiktok refugee and Grassroots Sino-American dialogue! 9 am.EST

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It's a bye week for This Week in China's History over at the Sinica substack; back next week. But in the meantime, the new pandas go on display at DC's National Zoo for the first time today! Here's a callback to my column on the start of panda diplomacy: thechinaproject.com/2020/12/02/a...

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Worth reposting I think. history.stanford.edu/news/one-too...

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When I was an undergrad a long time ago, I took a history course with a famous (now dead) Russian studies professor. He was that kind of brilliant, rambly lecturer whose asides eventually became the whole subject of the lecture. He bounced around the stage gleeful and chaotic.

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Right before the Christmas break, I had the chance to take a trip to Beijing and Hangzhou for research and talks. Many thanks to colleagues for hosting me and inviting me to share my work. I left China exhausted but energized. Now back to writing this industrial psychology book! #thehumanfactor

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Anthropogenic Global Warming: Fossil Fuel Pollution, Severe Weather, CO2, Plants, Food, Nutrients, Food Chains, & Supply Chains 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/corr...

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