Transformational HPS and the BEC seminars 2021
Hello to my blog followers, I am writing with two distinct updates. 1 – Please take a look at the new Transformational HPS network: https://www.transformationalhps.org/ As you will learn, Transformational HPS exists to support and promote work at three specific intersections with the History and Philosophy of Science: research queering HPS research decolonising or making…
A Ghost Map of Medical Device Companies in the UK and Ireland (c.1970-2021)
I don’t tend to do this, but seeing as this was a big chunk of work, I am here sharing a post that I wrote on the Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project site.
Your help needed! Journals in biomedical/biological engineering?
Hello! As the historical work on Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 continues to develop, I am rounding on one of my next important questions. If you were interested in making medical devices, or understanding how the body reacts to given materials, etc. what were you reading and where were you publishing? As ever, my period of interest…
Seeking scrutiny! – Validating results from the British Newspaper Archive (1948-2009)
Hello!! This post concerns some results emerging from an in-depth study of the British Newspaper Archive (BNA). In an earlier post over on the Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project website, I explained some of my initial work, dedicated to layering up a history of the medical devices marketplace. At the outset this has meant searching the…
Announcement: Table of contents for Narrative Science book now available
Hello! For those few people following this blog but not on the Narrative Science mailing list, let me please share this brief announcement: https://www.narrative-science.org/blog-narrative-science-project/now-available-table-of-contents-for-our-book Thanking you!
The seven types of biological engineering – BEC seminar
Hello! Just a short one to share my latest research presentation. You can learn more about the seminar series it featured in here: https://www.bioengcoll.org/ Abstract: The historiography of biological engineering remains under-developed. In part, this situation persists because the variety of ways in which biology and engineering have been (and can be) implicated in one…
What is Epistemic Decolonization? – Online Seminar Series (Jan-March 2021)
We are pleased to share details of a forthcoming online seminar series, to take place between January and March 2021. ‘What is Epistemic Decolonization?’ has a number of motivations. The most important is to stimulate direct discussion and reflection amongst philosophers of science concerning the whiteness of their field, the legacies and influences of colonial…
Journal entry 5- Decolonisation in philosophy of science
I will start with some short connections to resources that philosophers of science might choose to think with. Previously I promised that if I found episodes of the Cite Black Women Podcast which I thought could inform this particular blog series, I would share them here. While I have not listened to them all yet,…
Journal entry 4- Decolonisation in philosophy of science
Hello! As before, I will open with some resources that I found since writing my last post: This 2017 blog post from Liam Kofi Bright is not only helpful in its own right, but has links to other important sources. His final sentences can create the backdrop for my own post: “The only people I…
About Me
Hello, I am Dr Dominic J. Berry, and I have been a historian and philosopher of science, technology, and engineering! At the end of May 2022 I decided to cease pursuing an academic career. After 8 years of temporary contracts I could not see any job security on the horizon, so I decided to go do something else. As a historian, I had particular expertise in biology from roughly 1800 to the present, and research interests in biological engineering, agriculture, integrated history and philosophy of science, and narrative. If you fancy reading more then you can have a look at my publications and the postdoc projects that I have contributed to.
I am proud to have been involved with:
- Everyday Cyborgs 2.0
- Narrative Science
- Biological Engineering Collaboratory
- Engineering Life
- Cultivating Innovation
- Transformational HPS
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Dominic, I have sent you an email, I think to your B’ham account. If it hasn’t reached you let me know please. I want to talk to you about a new writing project. Lawrence Weaver