Will Deringer

Honored and delighted by this recognition from @thenacbs.bsky.social! Article is open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I'm looking for fellow scholars who are working on the history financial infrastructures from a history of technology and/or STS perspective. (Exploring potential conference panels etc etc.) If that sounds like you -- or someone you know -- let me know!

The Walter D. Love Prize is awarded to William Deringer, for “Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” published in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of Modern History. Congrats @calculatedvalues.bsky.social !! 👏

So happy to see KSJ in such good hands. And so happy to return to being a full-time writer, with yet another book about poison in the works.

Some personal news. I'll be leaving STAT to take up what is a dream job for me, and a critical position in a time when science journalism is threatened on so many fronts. I look forward to supporting my colleagues, and the field itself, as much as I can. ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/05...

Thrilled that Usha Lee McFarling (@usha.bsky.social) join MIT as the next Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program! Usha will succeed the inimitable Deborah Blum (@deborahb.bsky.social), who has elevated the KSJ in countless ways over the past decade. ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/05...

Pleased to announce the search for the next Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT! Housed within MIT's STS Program, the KSJ seeks to advance science journalism in the public interest. Job link: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Full ad: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qwvvn...

Beyond excited to share this article, ten years in the making. I think it’s the best work I’ve done. “Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” Jnl of Modern History Open Access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My excellent PhD student, Tola Ajao, was instrumental in putting this great resource together for @shothisttech.bsky.social www.historyoftechnology.org/doing-histor...

Made the trip to Shelburne Falls, MA this weekend to visit the new Raven Used Books location--stunning! No better place to browse University Press titles. Especially thrilled to have found @calculatedvalues.bsky.social's book CALCULATED VALUES!

Come work at Durham University! #histmed #histsci #hps #sts durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Congrats & Thanks to @calculatedvalues.bsky.social MIT's William Deringer who gave an amazingly insightful lecture for our U of Minnesota HSTM Colloquium yesterday on Irving Fisher & the wide & deep history of discounting from finance & psychology to understandings of the present & future. #histsci

Excited to present Friday at Minnesota in the Hist & Phil of Sci / Tech / Med Colloquium! I'll be talking discounting calculations, Irving Fisher, the economics of time, "New Thought," and the idealization of economics in the early 20c. Equal parts wonky and woo-woo. cse.umn.edu/hstm/fall-20...

Louis Gottschalk book prize for studies of the long 18th century: deadline is Dec. 1! Info here: asecs.org/resources/aw... Please share widely.

When and why did the standard epithet for someone who overindulges in gambling become “degenerate”? Are others who are overcome by different vices described as degens?

Dutch Book arguments lose most of their power once you’ve seen how a four year old can both absolutely refuse to get into the bathtub and absolutely refuse to get out of the bathtub

This is the kind of post I want to see more of on bluesky

The only good part of doing the dishes is finishing the last bites of salad with the big salad fork thing and pretending to be a giant

My book has just been published! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

To departments and institutions that explicitly do not accept generic recommendation letters or recs from a dossier service: Why? (More directly: this is a terrible practice and you should stop it.)

2023 British Society for History of Science Hughes Prize for accessible book in #histsci is awarded to Keith Wailoo for  Pushing Cool. Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, & the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette. Free online lecture on October 17, 10 am ET / 3 pm GMT www.bshs.org.uk/hughes-prize... 🗃️

First post is to say: If you or anyone you know is interested in a PhD program where they can explore the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of the technical worlds we inhabit, check out HASTS at MIT! We host a virtual visit day October 13. More info here! hasts.mit.edu/visiting/

The 2023-24 program for the Séminaire romand d'histoire des sciences et des techniques #histsci #histtech, organized jointly by EPFL and the universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel, is out! More details here: www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/la...

Technically done with coursework ... but how could I not take this one!! #blessed ccct.uchicago.edu/courses/coll...