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Iwan Rhys Morus
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Professor of History. Historian of Science.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 3d
Actually, folks, this is not phrenology (feeling the bumps on the skull) as people are saying in comments, it is physiognomy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiog... a similarly exploded 'science'. (What it is to be C19th quackery nerd.)

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · 7d
New issue alert!

‘Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices’, guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth is now freely available online at 19.bbk.ac.uk. @openlibhums.org

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 8d
I don’t *think* it was me. Or at least I don’t remember!

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 10d
Nos Galan.
Pumpkins

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 10d
This should make for an interesting year.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aberystwyth named Wales' first Unesco City of Literature
The town and Ceredigion county was chosen due to its
www.bbc.co.uk

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 12d
Machlud haul yn Aberystwyth/Aberystwyth sunset.
Sunset

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 16d
Y gwir yn erbyn y byd.
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How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
www.theguardian.com

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 19d
They’re probably wrong about that!

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 19d
They’re presumably assuming that most people won’t make that calculation.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25d
The beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time has been awarded the 2025 British Academy President’s Medal!

Professor Susan J Smith, President of the British Academy, praised the programme for bringing rigorous yet accessible discussion of complex ideas to millions of listeners: buff.ly/1bn63FD

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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 27d
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Oct 9
Still going cheap. You can't afford NOT to buy at this price!

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Oct 8
Bloody hell Thony, don’t do that again!

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · Oct 2
I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 23
Still going cheap. Hurry - it can’t last!

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 21
Ha! I think I wrote a couple of things for you. Forty years! Sheesh.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 20
It's suddenly struck me. Were you features editor of Stop Press around 1984/85?

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 18
And if you happened to leave some nice reviews, I wouldn't mind at all!

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 17
Oh, and there's a bridge in Brooklyn we'd like to sell you, too.
Nvidia and Microsoft bosses hail huge UK AI investment
Microsoft, Google and Nvidia have announced investments as part of a £31bn UK-US
www.bbc.co.uk

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 17
Entirely agree.
How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter
Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness
www.theguardian.com

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 16
UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 15
Drooling.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 15
Because it's all we can do.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 15
I just missed out on the first printing - sold out by the time I ordered a copy. Still got mine on the 15th though, it seems!
Silmarillion dust jacket. My signature as a 13 yr old.

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 14
O, mae nhw ar eu ffordd….

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 9
Funnily enough, I can remember Don Pacifico from my History O Levels. Not diplomatic history's greatest episode I'd have thought ....

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 8
Is that really you, Wil?

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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · Sep 8
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Lots of us are likely to lose our jobs (I’m at a highly expendable age) but not because of AI. It will be because the HE model in both the UK and the US is fucked.