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Science | The GuardianEdinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/28/edinburgh-university-skull-room-highlights-its-complicated-history-with-phrenology" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/28/edinburgh-university-skull-room-highlights-its-complicated-history-with-phrenology</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/UniversityofEdinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniversityofEdinburgh</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Historyofscience</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/UKnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKnews</a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Race</a>

The Inquisitive BiologistThis week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Second-hand copies of The Lying Stones of Marrakech (another one of the essay collections of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/StephenJayGould" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StephenJayGould</a>), The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants by Leigh Calvez, and The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NaturalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Whales</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/MarineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genetics</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scicomm</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

AlcorNewsVulcain, planète fantôme du XIXe, a fait rêver les astronomes avant de devenir une belle erreur cosmique. La science aussi se plante parfois. <a href="https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/feldmann/2021/12/15/vulcain-histoire-dune-hypothetique-planete-au-xixe-siecle/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/feldmann/2021/12/15/vulcain-histoire-dune-hypothetique-planete-au-xixe-siecle/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vulcain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vulcain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceMistakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceMistakes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmergingTrend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmergingTrend</a>

michaelmy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> of The elements of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarieCurie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarieCurie</a> is out now in C&I: <a href="https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-radiant-legacy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-radiant-legacy.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womeninSTEM</a>

Matt HodgkinsonIt's often said that journal publishing is still using 17th-century technology, but I think that's unfair. After all, they didn't have DOIs in the 1600s.<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JournalPublishing</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a>

Daniel PomarèdeMartian MemoriesAdvances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars<a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mariner4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mariner4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Viking1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Viking1</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sojourner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sojourner</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spirit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Opportunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MRO</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HiRISE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HiRISE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curiosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curiosity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perseverance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perseverance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ingenuity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MartianMemories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MartianMemories</a>

Archivist LizThis blog has been a very long time in the making. Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help a few more people find their way to our catalogue as well! <a href="https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/arhives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arhives</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/digipres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digipres</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofscience</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/nuclearphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclearphysics</a>

The Inquisitive Biologist149 years ago today <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GeorgeMurrayLevick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeorgeMurrayLevick</a> was born. This British Antarctic explorer made observations on penguins considered too shocking for the world, as recounted in A Polar Affair, an unusual and colourful book of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PolarExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PolarExploration</a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Penguins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Penguins</a>, and perversion.<a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/20/book-review-a-polar-affair-antarcticas-forgotten-hero-and-the-secret-love-lives-of-penguins/</a><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistSci</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a>

The Inquisitive BiologistIt is 121 years ago today that the world lost <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JohnBellHatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnBellHatcher</a>. Meticulous in its historical detail, King of the Dinosaur Hunters is the definitive biography of this quietly famous and influential fossil collector.<a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2018/12/10/book-review-king-of-the-dinosaur-hunters-the-life-of-john-bell-hatcher-and-the-discoveries-that-shaped-paleontology/</a><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistSci</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a>

gzornettamy review of the proceedings from the conference on <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Copernicus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copernicus</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Ferrara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ferrara</a> has been published in the ‘ Annali di Storia delle Università Italiane’you can read it here: <a href="https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17396/117143" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17396/117143</a><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/HistoryOfUniversities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfUniversities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a>

The Inquisitive BiologistThis week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought a second-hand copy of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JamesHutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesHutton</a>: The Genius of Time from Birlinn Publishing and adopted a damaged copy of The Great Auk from Bloomsbury Sigma that I hope to review soon. Also very pleased to have found a second-hand copy of Peter Wellnhofer's classic The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pterosaurs</a> which was recommended by <a href="https://sauropods.win/@markwitton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@markwitton</a> for its section on the history of research (when Witton recommends, I listen).<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scicomm</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistSci</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ornithology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Matt HodgkinsonGood Will Hunting in reverse: the real-life story of Peter Putnam, promising physicist turned janitor.HT <a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cdarwin</a><a href="https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/</a><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PeterPutnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterPutnam</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GoodWillHunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodWillHunting</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NautilusMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NautilusMagazine</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AmandaGefter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmandaGefter</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/TheoreticalNeuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoreticalNeuroscience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceMastodon</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceStories</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JohnArchibaldWheeler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnArchibaldWheeler</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GayHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GayHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NeuralModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeuralModels</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LongReads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LongReads</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PrincetonUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrincetonUniversity</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RobertFuller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertFuller</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfPhysics</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a>

Daniel PomarèdeSic transit gloria mundi and the Unapologetic Vatican in the Shapley Supercluster: a recap on cosmic flows by Avi Loeb<a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-unapologetic-vatican-in-the-shapley-supercluster-cc8e5023c305" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-unapologetic-vatican-in-the-shapley-supercluster-cc8e5023c305</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CosmicFlows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CosmicFlows</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/galaxies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#galaxies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AviLoeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AviLoeb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vatican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vatican</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Laniakea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Laniakea</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/supercluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#supercluster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaniakeaSupercluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaniakeaSupercluster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DipoleReppler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DipoleReppler</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shapley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shapley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShapleySupercluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShapleySupercluster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZoneOfAvoidance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZoneOfAvoidance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VelaSupercluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VelaSupercluster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cosmography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Earth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MilkyWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MilkyWay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Andromeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andromeda</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LocalGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LocalGroup</a>

The Inquisitive BiologistThis week's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NewBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Two academic books- "Science for All: The Popularisation of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" from the University of Chicago Press; and - "The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire" from Harvard University Press.Completely unrelated, won at auction, a vintage artbook from <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/GamesWorkshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GamesWorkshop</a> by John Blanche and one of my favourite illustrators, Ian Miller.<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HistSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistSci</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anthropology</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scicomm</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Ruakueqche<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrFatima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrFatima</a> published an awesome essay on Feyerabend's "against method" and I got thoughts now.Her talk about heliocentrism vs geocentrism assumes that the two theories were in competition with each other. Which they were. But this "competition between theories" does not need to become a "competition between scientists". Heliocentrism did not have good arguments going for it when Galileo kept defending it, but if the only goal was to keep the theory alive until the data to prove it came along, then it could have existed as a funny thing to speculate about, or a world building exercise, or even just as a less proven theory. Scientists did not need to stake themselves in a theory (or stake each other). We could have kept it going in many ways that were not harmful to any participants.It might be better if science worked that way, if we kept open to the range of possible theories given the facts we've built about the world, and did not try to snuff out theories that have less support, and treated the scientists saying those theories like people who have valuable things to contribute (even if we don't agree with their favourite explanation)There is an asterisk with theories of reality that are actually harmful, but I don't have the energy to elaborate on that right now<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofscience</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/galileo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#galileo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/videoessay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#videoessay</a>

IHC🆕 Congratulations to Quintino Lopes, whose paper about Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory (co-authored with Francisco de Lacerda and Ana Simões) was the winner of the 2025 edition of the A. H. de Oliveira Marques Prize for Portuguese History! 🥳👉 Full story: <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-aholiveira-marques-prize/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-aholiveira-marques-prize/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodon</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PortugueseHistory</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryfTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryfTechnology</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Phonetics</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Awards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Awards</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ASPSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ASPSH</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AcademicLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicLife</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDePortugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistóriaDePortugal</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistóriaDaCiência</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaTecnologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistóriaDaTecnologia</a>

Christian BoulangerNow online: Videos from the workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science", April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT</a><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyofscience</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HPSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPSS</a>

Estelle PlatiniSaid Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”<a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learn</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reputation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reputation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#truth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/agnotology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agnotology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/historyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyOfScience</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ignorance</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knowledge</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/publicOpinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicOpinion</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mediaStudies</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/commOdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commOdon</a>

hightable notesFor most of history, the disciplines of science and philosophy are tightly connected, arguably even the same.Alchemy was considered a science, and indeed people like Newton and Bacon dabbled in it. Facts and theories as we now know them are much different, and bordered on philosophical arguments. Experimentation wasn't a standard procedure, and a community of scientific professionals hardly existed.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/historyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#historyOfScience</a>1/4

IHC⏱️ 90 segundos para a Ângela Salgueiro nos contar o que anda a fazer no projecto <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PHONLAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PHONLAB</a>, dedicado à História da fonética experimental em Portugal, nomeadamente ao Laboratório de Fonética Experimental instalado na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, em 1936, por Armando de Lacerda. 🎧 <a href="https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2026-angela-salgueiro/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2026-angela-salgueiro/</a><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryInThePublicSphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryInThePublicSphere</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComPT</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaNaEsferaP%C3%BAblica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistóriaNaEsferaPública</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Fon%C3%A9ticaExprimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FonéticaExprimental</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ExperimentalPhonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExperimentalPhonetics</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDaCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistóriaDaCiência</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Coimbra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coimbra</a>

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