B. Ricardo Brown, PhD
@node801.bsky.social
Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Dept. Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute.
https://sciences.social/@NODE801
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #soundscapes
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Simon's Rock College '78-'82
Dept. Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute.
https://sciences.social/@NODE801
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #soundscapes
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Simon's Rock College '78-'82
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This selection of essays and interviews reflects the wide range of scholarship published on the blog in 2025.
Year in Review: Best of 2025
by the Primary Editors
www.jhiblog.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This selection of essays and interviews reflects the wide range of scholarship published on the blog in 2025.
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Special issue on the Sociobiology Debate at fifty. Important new archival discoveries. No paywall.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
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Volume 55 Issue 1 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press
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January 1, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Special issue on the Sociobiology Debate at fifty. Important new archival discoveries. No paywall.
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...
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Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature in January. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature in January. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪
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Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of people without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature last February. go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪
January 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of people without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature last February. go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪
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Worrying about the US labour market. Adorno on sociology & the genocidal logic of permanent security.
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Worrying about the US labour market. Adorno on sociology & the genocidal logic of permanent security.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
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January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Worrying about the US labour market. Adorno on sociology & the genocidal logic of permanent security.
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open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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”the work of historians, sociologists and racial and ethnic studies researchers shows how the efforts of marginalized groups to achieve political and social equality often provoke powerful backlash from dominant groups ie Whites in the US" 'extreme left' www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...
Our Problem Isn't Polarization. It's Fascism.
A new paper makes the case.
www.everythingishorrible.net
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
”the work of historians, sociologists and racial and ethnic studies researchers shows how the efforts of marginalized groups to achieve political and social equality often provoke powerful backlash from dominant groups ie Whites in the US" 'extreme left' www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...
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Seems extremely unfair that another country doesn't invade the U.S. and capture Trump.
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Seems extremely unfair that another country doesn't invade the U.S. and capture Trump.
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her only friend her bitterest foe
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 PM
her only friend her bitterest foe
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Now it’s official!
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Now it’s official!
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I teach at CUNY where this is just the average mix you'd get if any 3 kids sitting together. It truly is NYC, the best of NYC.
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I teach at CUNY where this is just the average mix you'd get if any 3 kids sitting together. It truly is NYC, the best of NYC.
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CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
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The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
buff.ly
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
CALL: seminar funding for 2026
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.
Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
➡️
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#EconSky Like sociology, social policy (called "social ethics") was regularly offered to students of economics at Harvard in the early 20th century. Course description, enrollment and exams for 1909-10 taught by Francis G. Peabody and three young instructors. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-desc...
December 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#EconSky Like sociology, social policy (called "social ethics") was regularly offered to students of economics at Harvard in the early 20th century. Course description, enrollment and exams for 1909-10 taught by Francis G. Peabody and three young instructors. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-desc...
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Anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism. Eva Illouz’s falsehoods
@orientxxi.bsky.social
My response to French-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz, initially submitted to Le Monde.
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@orientxxi.bsky.social
My response to French-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz, initially submitted to Le Monde.
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Anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism. Eva Illouz's falsehoods
In her column published in “Le Monde” on 18 December 2025, the sociologist Eva Illouz offers unwittingly a striking illustration of “denial” and “accusatory (…)
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December 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism. Eva Illouz’s falsehoods
@orientxxi.bsky.social
My response to French-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz, initially submitted to Le Monde.
orientxxi.info/Anti-Zionism...
@orientxxi.bsky.social
My response to French-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz, initially submitted to Le Monde.
orientxxi.info/Anti-Zionism...
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A Boxing Day treat!
The Darwin Family Bible reproduced for the first time, including a transcription of Emma Darwin's notes on the children. Reproduced courtesy of English Heritage (Down House Collection).
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=EH88203302&pageseq=1
The Darwin Family Bible reproduced for the first time, including a transcription of Emma Darwin's notes on the children. Reproduced courtesy of English Heritage (Down House Collection).
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=EH88203302&pageseq=1
December 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A Boxing Day treat!
The Darwin Family Bible reproduced for the first time, including a transcription of Emma Darwin's notes on the children. Reproduced courtesy of English Heritage (Down House Collection).
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=EH88203302&pageseq=1
The Darwin Family Bible reproduced for the first time, including a transcription of Emma Darwin's notes on the children. Reproduced courtesy of English Heritage (Down House Collection).
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=EH88203302&pageseq=1
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Charles Darwin's Address Book published for the first time!
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!? The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up?
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!? The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up?
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Charles Darwin's Address Book published for the first time!
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!? The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up?
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!? The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up?
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...
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Darwin's colour index during the voyage of the Beagle- Werner's Nomenclature. First digitized in 2011 and visited since then almost 100,000 times:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Darwin's colour index during the voyage of the Beagle- Werner's Nomenclature. First digitized in 2011 and visited since then almost 100,000 times:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
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La fin du monde / The end of the world
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115018
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115018
December 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
La fin du monde / The end of the world
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115018
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115018
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See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read.
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read.
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
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Logique du capitalisme logistique, de la plantation à l’entrepôt www.terrestres.org/2025/12/19/l...
Logique du capitalisme logistique, de la plantation à l'entrepôt
Jacopo Rasmi · Dans leur essai “All incomplete”, Fred Moten et Stefano Harney sondent les infrastructures du capitalisme logistique. Lecture.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Logique du capitalisme logistique, de la plantation à l’entrepôt www.terrestres.org/2025/12/19/l...
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Some beautiful books for lovers of history of science as lateChristmas gift suggestions! #histsci #books #goodreads
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A Christmas gift from the Gnomes of Ball Mansions.
Philip Ball is one of the best English science writers and with certainty one of the most if not the most prolific. He churns out books and article, with radio programs thrown in along the way, at …
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December 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Some beautiful books for lovers of history of science as lateChristmas gift suggestions! #histsci #books #goodreads
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thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/a...
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Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist
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Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅
'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️
'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️
Christmas on HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin spent Christmas day of 1831 in Devonport awaiting favourable weather for the departure of HMS Beagle. Darwin wrote in his diary for the voyage: Christmas day is one of great importan…
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December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Happy Christmas! 🎄🎅
'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️
'Christmas day is one of great importance to the men: the whole of it has been given up to revelry, at present there is not a sober man in the ship' - Charles Darwin, 25 December 1831. 🍾
thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/c... #Christmas #histsci #histbio 🗃️
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A study in npj Clean Air shows there was a reduction in air pollution during the first six months of congestion pricing in New York City. go.nature.com/4aTnpya 🧪
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A study in npj Clean Air shows there was a reduction in air pollution during the first six months of congestion pricing in New York City. go.nature.com/4aTnpya 🧪
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Robert Fripp: Silent Night - originally released as a flexi-disc with Chicago based Praxis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 December, 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFAE...
Robert Fripp - "Silent Night" a' la Frippertronics
YouTube video by ScootTheCat
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December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Robert Fripp: Silent Night - originally released as a flexi-disc with Chicago based Praxis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 December, 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFAE...
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One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiez4d5lsrpbn3mrwkwrnbrhb3ra7dmvagbxjaz7hg5be7njnsbary@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...