At this point, I don’t trust anything I read about the Israel-Iran War. I have lost sleep trying to follow all the bombings, but I am still not sure just what has been destroyed, how many people have died. Even the footage is too poor by 2025 standards.
Iran’s military and political leadership are prepared to give up uranium enrichment to preserve the regime, per WSJ
June 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At this point, I don’t trust anything I read about the Israel-Iran War. I have lost sleep trying to follow all the bombings, but I am still not sure just what has been destroyed, how many people have died. Even the footage is too poor by 2025 standards.
June 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Welcome to the Turkish version of the simulation.
Man, news cycles from two weeks ago feel like they happened decades in the past
June 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Welcome to the Turkish version of the simulation.
This may be an “oh my god!” moment for now, but most historians and sociologists of science know that it will start looking like he said/she said to the reading public in a couple of years or maybe less. Time changes so much.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks.
The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.
The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.
RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel
Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."
www.washingtonpost.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This may be an “oh my god!” moment for now, but most historians and sociologists of science know that it will start looking like he said/she said to the reading public in a couple of years or maybe less. Time changes so much.
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It looks like we’ll have to learn to live without Internet before we learn to live with AI.
June 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It looks like we’ll have to learn to live without Internet before we learn to live with AI.
Reposted by Harun Kucuk
'UK universities are an incredibly cheap place to fund research. The exact cost recovery varies but overall universities only secure about 60% of the cost of research (excluding unfunded scholarship) from grants. The shortfall is paid by fees from teaching international students' 1/2
Good take down from @profserious.bsky.social of the fashionable idea that we should replace university research with institutes. We need different models for different disciplines, and the pipeline of talent needs universities
open.substack.com/pub/profseri...
open.substack.com/pub/profseri...
Do Research Institutes Make Sense?
building castles on a hill
open.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
'UK universities are an incredibly cheap place to fund research. The exact cost recovery varies but overall universities only secure about 60% of the cost of research (excluding unfunded scholarship) from grants. The shortfall is paid by fees from teaching international students' 1/2
Family stroll through Bryn Mawr’s beautiful campus with the Pentax K200 (CCD Sensor) + Pentax 18-135
May 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Family stroll through Bryn Mawr’s beautiful campus with the Pentax K200 (CCD Sensor) + Pentax 18-135
Ah yes, also known by different names such as “the West,” “world hegemony” and “empire”
JUST IN: 🇪🇺🇺🇸 European Union says it's ready to advance trade talks with the US "swiftly and decisively."
"The EU and US share the world's most consequential and close trade relationship."
"The EU and US share the world's most consequential and close trade relationship."
May 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ah yes, also known by different names such as “the West,” “world hegemony” and “empire”
This kind of plausible deniability gaslighting combo is very common in the United States. It’s not just the Republican Party and not just the politicians. It is almost like a widespread metastasis originating from a cancerous corporate culture.
TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
May 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This kind of plausible deniability gaslighting combo is very common in the United States. It’s not just the Republican Party and not just the politicians. It is almost like a widespread metastasis originating from a cancerous corporate culture.
I don’t mean to gainsay an eminent economist and a fellow countryman, but US did not become powerful because of its science. It deliberately developed its scientific infrastructure because and after it became rich and powerful. JB Conant said it best in 1948.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I don’t mean to gainsay an eminent economist and a fellow countryman, but US did not become powerful because of its science. It deliberately developed its scientific infrastructure because and after it became rich and powerful. JB Conant said it best in 1948.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Looks very interesting.
The proofs for Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe have arrived ✨
May 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Looks very interesting.
As this is a less salty platform than Twitter, let me share some low sodium photos from Mérida, where the annual History of Science Society annual meeting took place last weekend.
November 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
As this is a less salty platform than Twitter, let me share some low sodium photos from Mérida, where the annual History of Science Society annual meeting took place last weekend.
Maybe this is because MA is doing alright with the way things are and OK is struggling. I think we need to think more seriously about cause and effect in this election.
But don’t worry. Oklahoma is buying thousands of Bibles for their public schools.
November 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Maybe this is because MA is doing alright with the way things are and OK is struggling. I think we need to think more seriously about cause and effect in this election.
Reposted by Harun Kucuk
I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h
November 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h
Today, Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Huda Fakhreddine and Eve Troutt Powell have filed a motion to stop Penn from handing in documents to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. This is the new McCarthyism. The witchhunt has to stop.
March 12, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Today, Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Huda Fakhreddine and Eve Troutt Powell have filed a motion to stop Penn from handing in documents to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. This is the new McCarthyism. The witchhunt has to stop.
Reposted by Harun Kucuk
Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
December 15, 2023 at 10:44 PM
Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...