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the art of surveillance
a bird caught by a “camera trap” on bumpkin island In the summer of 2008 I was lucky enough to be able to collaborate on an artistic experiment on camouflage and surveillance on one of the islands in...
View Articlefloating baselines and affective ecologies
I’m looking forward to the upcoming meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in Copenhagen on Oct. 18-20,...
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the other side of urban life
In order to fend off any suspicion that my interest in the urban squirrel has blinded me to the darker, less cuddly side of urban life — though perhaps at risk of raising other concerns — I share this...
View ArticleDemarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large...
Demarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large Carnivores in Yellowstone and Chitwan National Parks, in Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective, ed....
View Articleroundtable on wired wilderness
Thanks to the efforts of Jake Hamblin and three very generous and perceptive reviewers, a series of reviews of Wired Wilderness, with my response, is now available via H-Environment Roundtable Reviews....
View Articlethe significance of the unimportant
I just came across, randomly, through one of those serendipitous and unexpected JSTOR journeys, a 1966 article by ornithologist Herbert Friedmann on “The Significance of the Unimportant in Studies of...
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science under scrutiny
Reposting below an overview of some of my work on endangered species, regulation, and ethics, which I wrote in December 2012 for the web site of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science....
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‘a microscope in the field is worth two in the lab’
From the archives … though unfortunately I can’t remember which, and the photocopy I have of this ad for the Nikon H “hand or field microscope” only indicates the date of publication: April 1968. The...
View ArticleReview of Tom Tyler, CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers
My review of Tom Tyler’s illuminating and entertaining book of animal philosophy, CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers (Configurations 20, no. 3 (2012): 209-212), is now available here.
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SIMPLOT: an antique animal movement simulator
sample output from Donald Siniff’s 1967 program SIMPLOT The application below is a re-implementation — a sort of digital re-enactment — of an animal movement simulator originally developed by biologist...
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coding SIMPLOT
I think there are two reasons that I didn’t become a programmer or computer scientist despite some enthusiasm in that direction at one point. One reason is that I wasn’t particularly good at...
View ArticleReview of DeMello, Animals and Society, and Macgregor, Animal Encounters
Review of Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello and Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interactions in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One by...
View Articlenew media, new publics, and polar bears
Further thoughts on using new media to make regulatory matters visible, accessible, and “public” in new ways: my “New Media and New Publics: An Example with Polar Bears” has just been posted to Ant...
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The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States
L.F. Peck, “Hi, Mister! Scramble a Nut?” Harvard Lampoon, Vol. 46, No. 6 (Dec. 17, 1903), p. 121An article on gray squirrels that I have been working on for a very long time is now available online. It...
View ArticleJAH podcast on the urbanization of the gray squirrel
I recently spoke with Ed Linenthal, the editor of the Journal of American History, about my article on “The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States” for JAH’s podcast series. (mp3)
View Articlevisualizing cyberculture
Having asked students in the class on ‘Cyberculture’ that I’m currently teaching to try coding something in Processing that relates, in some way, to the themes of our first few weeks of reading and...
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