{"id":4996,"date":"2009-10-01T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:22:26","slug":"blog-watch-sts-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/10\/01\/blog-watch-sts-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Watch: STS Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note to direct attention to Jon Agar&#8217;s rapid-fire series on science in 2008-2009 over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sts\/sts-observatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCL&#8217;s STS Observatory<\/a>.\u00a0 The blog was extremely quiet over the summer, so if you&#8217;re not a regular visitor, it&#8217;s worth checking back in.\u00a0 Essentially, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sts\/agar\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agar<\/a> (who just took over editing the <em>British Journal for the History of Science<\/em>, by the way) is testing out material for the end of his new book on <em>Science in the Twentieth Century <\/em>(see his intro post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sts\/sts-observatory\/?p=236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a useful exercise to see what one might imagine constitutes a snapshot of &#8220;science&#8221; at a point in time at this point in history.\u00a0 Early posts focused on headline-grabbers, but the last couple of posts are taking a bit more of a systematic or nuts-and-bolts approach to the subject matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note to direct attention to Jon Agar&#8217;s rapid-fire series on science in 2008-2009 over at UCL&#8217;s STS Observatory.\u00a0 The blog was extremely quiet over the summer, so if you&#8217;re not a regular visitor, it&#8217;s worth checking back in.\u00a0 Essentially, Agar (who just took over editing the British Journal for the History of Science,<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Blog Watch: STS Observatory<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/10\/01\/blog-watch-sts-observatory\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}