Edward Collins
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
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Edward Collins
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Navegaciones en época moderna: hombres, barcos y naufragios
Editores: Vicente Pajuelo Moreno y José María García Redondo.
Este libro es parte de los proyectos de investigación PR2022-033, del Plan Propio de la Universidad de Cádiz, y del I+D+i PID2022- 141020N...
publicaciones.defensa.gob.es
I have a chapter on animals on the Carrera de Indias in this awesome new publication. PDF version is free here: publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/navegaciones...
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Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
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RIP Mani
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads [HD]
YouTube video by Juan Jordan
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
RIP Mani
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The Iberian Colonial Repository is my own an initiative to facilitate the access to primary sources from the Iberian world to MA and PhD students. Traveling is difficult and expensive. An old source can put someone on a research journey. Please consider sharing them.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Iberian Colonial Repository is my own an initiative to facilitate the access to primary sources from the Iberian world to MA and PhD students. Traveling is difficult and expensive. An old source can put someone on a research journey. Please consider sharing them.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
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It is possible to recognise that Watson's treatment of Franklin was despicable and at the same time to acknowledge that Matthew is right.
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It is possible to recognise that Watson's treatment of Franklin was despicable and at the same time to acknowledge that Matthew is right.
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Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!
October 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of Geopam, just published her book "Introducción a la historia marítima de Nueva España". Congratulations!
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
www.biblhertz.it
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Introducing The Dark Frontier.
The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the ocean's depths. Out April 2026. linktr.ee/TheDarkFrontier
The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the ocean's depths. Out April 2026. linktr.ee/TheDarkFrontier
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Introducing The Dark Frontier.
The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the ocean's depths. Out April 2026. linktr.ee/TheDarkFrontier
The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. Marine microbiologist and deep-sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the ocean's depths. Out April 2026. linktr.ee/TheDarkFrontier
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Enlightenment Later
October 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Enlightenment Later
Won't someone think of the real victims here: old white guys and their imagined persecutions?
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Won't someone think of the real victims here: old white guys and their imagined persecutions?
Wonderful work!
And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!
September 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Wonderful work!
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🏴☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
September 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🏴☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Very proud to see @niamhcullen.bsky.social’s wonderful story ‘Come Away Oh Human Child’ in prestigious New Irish Writing series today in Irish Independent www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
New Irish Writing: Come Away, O Human Child by Niamh Cullen
1. It was a long time since Niamh had felt the warmth of a man against her body. Her sisters didn’t understand the longing. Why bother, Síobha said, when they are so impatient and skittish, their live...
www.independent.ie
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Very proud to see @niamhcullen.bsky.social’s wonderful story ‘Come Away Oh Human Child’ in prestigious New Irish Writing series today in Irish Independent www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
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![4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic2mhmdvsftki6qe275hycolgt22msekbwzdyqoujt56qzpcbm3hm@jpeg)
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Also: does pirated Photoshop feel insulted and abused?
I’m all for grappling with unsettling questions but not when the answer is very clearly “no”.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Also: does pirated Photoshop feel insulted and abused?
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me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
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call for no more papers
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
call for no more papers
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“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.”
An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love
#envhist #rivers
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love
#envhist #rivers
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Where the Dogs Run | Bathsheba Demuth
The best days to work a salmon net are dry and bright. Bankside willows tilt from summer green to autumn gold. Light wind, no longer warm, riffles the
www.nybooks.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.”
An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love
#envhist #rivers
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love
#envhist #rivers
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘“I just heard someone shout ‘Parklife!’ and turned round to find a fist in my face,” said one Oasis fan.’
Gang Of Rabid Blur Fans Jump Oasis Concert Goers, Police On The Scene
A FEUD long thought to be left in the 90s along with the Rachel haircut, The Troubles and decent pensions, police in Dublin have today arrested 46 Blur fanatics who gathered to target rival fans …
waterfordwhispersnews.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
‘“I just heard someone shout ‘Parklife!’ and turned round to find a fist in my face,” said one Oasis fan.’
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What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧
This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.
Listen now! 🎧