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(He/They) History of Science, 1450-1700
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Even historians have a history. @lisapine.bsky.social launches her new @ihr.bsky.social podcast A Historian's Life, where historians talk about the histories they’ve explored and the lives they’ve lived. Listen to series 1 now.
www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/a-h...
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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In case anyone's interested in Buddhism and how young people engage with organized religion in Thailand!
2025/42 “Examining Religious Engagement Among Thai Buddhist Undergraduates” by Panarat Anamwathana
This paper examines the relationship between Thai Buddhist undergraduates and their religion, drawing on survey data from the Youth and Civic Engagement Survey carried out by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Insti...
www.iseas.edu.sg
June 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
May has been a peaceful month, while June is truly a challenging one …
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading.

Peter Szendy's Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks is out now.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
March 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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(New Book) Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 histoiresante.blogspot.com/2024/11/secr... #histSTM #histmed
November 12, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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"We need to get [scientists] to realise that history and philosophy of science has much to contribute to science itself"

A highly quotable episode with Editor-in-Chief of Science @holdenthorp.bsky.social

Out on @hpspodcast.bsky.social now!

#hps #philsci #histsci #sts🧪
S4 Ep 9 - Holden Thorp on 'Teach History and Philosophy of Science' - The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
“This is Holden Thorp. I'm the Editor in Chief of Science and thanks to Sam and Carmelina for all they're doing to get the word out about the history and philosophy of science”Today's guest is Holden ...
thehpspodcast.buzzsprout.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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A super review by Prof Lorraine Daston of Prof Greg Radick’s recent book, “Disputed Inheritance”, in the @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #histsci #HPS #skystorians
Lorraine Daston · Degrees of Wrinkledness: No More Mendelism
In the metaphorical language that has always saturated the science of inheritance, the genome may turn out to be less...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Issue 46.21 is online now, featuring:

Jenny Turner on Gillian Rose
Adam Tooze on Bidenomics
Julian Barnes on French alcohol and the First World War
Nick Richardson on grimoires
and a cover by Anne Rothenstein.

Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Hi everyone I wrote this it’s real I can hold it and it’s not too big of a doorstop (it’s actually quite svelte I could see you carrying it places if you wanted to be weird). So, uh, you can buy it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Some incredibly exquisite drawing from Jan van der Straet depicting A. Vespucci holding the Constellation, with the astrolabe aligned aside. (See 'The Cosmos' from "Spaces of Knowing" Cambridge)
October 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

Download away and share while you can . . . #histsci #histbio #STS #scicomm #QueerInSTEM 🗃️

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Erasmus Reinhold, professor for the higher mathematic in Wittenberg, who compiled the first planetary tables based on Copernicus' De revolutionibus, was born 22 October 1511 #histsci
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The other professor of mathematics at Wittenberg.
Anybody who knows a bit about the history of astronomy in the early modern period or who has wasted their time and money reading Dava Sobel’s last perversion of the history of science will know tha…
thonyc.wordpress.com
October 22, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Not the cover but the title page. Trust me, this is going to look gorgeous. I don't have a pub date yet, but it's at this stage now, so I'm guessing early 2025.
October 21, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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insomnia 2nite , have a 15th c korean buppy
October 21, 2024 at 3:04 AM
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Got a "big idea for a non-fiction book for general readers, that engages with the themes of health and being human"? The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards are open to entries ciadish.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/c... More writing competitions on Ciadish.co.uk ciadish.wordpress.com/category/wri...
Competitions: The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards
The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Award aims to to find and support writers from under-represented groups, who have a “big idea for a non-fiction book for general readers, that engages with…
ciadish.wordpress.com
October 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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We made another thing! Here is a pretty great 'HPS Starter Pack' so you too can follow all the awesome history, philosophy and social studies of science (and #metasci #histSTM #philsci #philsky #hps #histsci 🧪) accounts on Bluesky. Please share widely #academicsky :)
October 20, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Derrida Seminars: A Digital Repository of Jacques Derrida's Teaching Notes dpul.princeton.edu/derridasemin...
Papers in archives, slowly being edited and translated, they are now digitising all the teaching material and making it available online. An extraordinary and extraordinarily useful project.
Derrida Seminars
This page links to digitizations of Derrida's seminar notes from 1958-2003. These little-studied documents trace Derrida's trajectory as a philosopher, but especially as a teacher of philosophy. In hi...
dpul.princeton.edu
October 20, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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📣New BLOG | In the second post in a new series on our 2024 Graduate Conference, Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet offers his reflections on 'Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History'.

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/euro...
Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
October 18, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Our new Labor of Science Research Seminar seeks to explore the role of labor, especially of marginalized groups, in producing scientific knowledge in the early modern world.

Inaugural roundtable session: Oct. 23 @ 3pm @ the DCHA!

Contact: @guysechrist.bsky.social or @duyguyildirim.bsky.social
October 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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She also has a new book on print culture out this year that includes material on Peter Apian among others, which might be of interest to a number of us on here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #histsci #earlymodern
Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
Cambridge Core - History of Science and Technology - Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
www.cambridge.org
October 16, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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For the #Spacetober prompt history: my #linocut portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) & his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. 🐡🧪🔭 #histsci Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor, 🧵
October 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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ATTENTION. THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

YOU ARE BEING INFORMED THAT WE ARE NOW NUMBER TWO (2) IN THE UNITED STATES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS IN THE IOS APP STORE.

THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
October 18, 2024 at 5:23 AM