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Peter Bokulich
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I write about geology at MIT (mostly Precambrian carbonate stratigraphy). I have a PhD in philosophy (mostly physics, reduction, denialism). Occasional carpenter and sailor. He/him/Dr./Peter
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#FrescoFriday - The portrait usually identified as being of Terentius Neo and his wife, from their house in Pompeii (VII.2.6). I adore the level of detail in the piece, especially on the rotulus, stylus, and wax tablet. #Pompeii #AncientBluesky 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9058)
November 29, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Post the cover of a book you read way before you were ready for it.
Cover of Misner, Wheeler, and Thorne’s book titled _Gravitation_. It’s a huge book, but that isn’t obvious from the cover.
November 25, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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Worried about missing posts of some of your closest colleagues/friends as Bsky grows? Use Lists feature to creat a special feed of just their posts. Instructions with screenshots ⤵️
alisabokulich.bsky.social Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 20
@michelamassimi.bsky.social The easiest way not to miss the posts of some people you follow is to create a Bsky List:
1. Click 3 parallel lines to get to your home; click "Lists"
2. Create list click "+New
3. Name it & Save
4.Find it under Lists, click About, then start adding the people you want.
November 23, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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3. In 1672, English Puritan missionary John Eliot published a bilingual logic textbook written in English and Massachusett.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
John Eliot's Logick Primer: A Bilingual English-Massachusett Logic Textbook
In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to ...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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In this Quincy bar, Cheney still means Celtics guard Don. But they do know this: Democrats must appeal to Atlantic-reading neoconservatives if they want to win in 2028.
November 23, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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It's November, & you know what that means!

Yup. Time to start thinking about ordering your holiday eels!
Henry III knew. In November of 1256 the king ordered up 5,000 small eels from Ely, to be sent to him for the Jan. 6 feast of St. Edward.

Only the best for the Confessor.
🗃️🧪
Meme. Scene from the Bayeux tapestry depicting King Edward talking to Harold Godwinson. Edward is sitting on this throe, holding his scepter and wearing a crown. He owns an excellent beard that forks down over his chest. He is leaning forward towards Harold, and his expression seems hopeful, and fascinated. There's the hint of smile on his lips, and his eyebrows are raised. His whole posture is anticipatory. He's invested. For his part, Harold is standing, tall and mustachioed, in the light of his monarch's attention. He is gesturing broadly with both hands. His right hand is up above his head, as if to say, "And the platypus was THIS tall!" His left hand is extended towards the king, as if to stave off disbelief. The scene looks, for all the world, like Harold telling an amazing story to an enraptured child. I hope he volunteers for reading hours at local libraries. He seems like he'd be excellent at it. Meme text reads: "I do confess... I hope it's a mighty celeelbration"
November 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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I realized that there was no story in English that would explain what happened to my institute, so I decided to write up this blog entry, which shows how low-quality AI systems fail to assess research quality: marcinmilkowski.pl/2024/11/20/w...
When AI Systems Fail: A Personal Account of the Crisis at Poland’s Leading Philosophy Institute
As the Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), I find myself in an unprecedented situation. Our institute, on…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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Spock is a Boston native. If you have a few bucks to support his legacy, and support science appreciation, here’s a link:

donate.mos.org/campaign/leo...
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Philosopher Quayshawn Spencer wrote a moving remembrance of George Smith, his teacher of #histsci and #philsci at Tufts. The description of the legendary Newton seminar blew my mind. Imagine evaluating such pedagogy by the metrics of ‘teaching quality’. No way it would pass and that is heartbreaking
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November 16, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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🧵 Updated Shortlist of Geosciences Starter Packs🧵

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November 9, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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We have an opinion piece at the NYT on the need to operationalize some aspects of climate science. 🧪

Thoughts welcome!

(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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1/8 I'm often asked "Why do amphorae have pointed bases?" and as a potter who has now made hundreds of them, I have to say that it's something that I have thought about a lot. For a start they'd be a lot easier to make if they had a flat base. As it is you start throwing from..
Graham Taylor of Potted History, standing behind two of his replica Roman Amphorae. He is resting his elbow on the rim of the larger of the two which stands at one point two metres tall,
November 12, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Thanks for following us on Bluesky! We’re the official resistance team for the National Park Service.
November 13, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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100 years after Moritz Schlick launched his discussion group at #UniVienna, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is organizing a Vienna Circle conference.

sites.google.com/view/valuepo...

Sahotra Sarkar will announce his new book "The Vienna Circle: The Story of Logical Empiricism" #philsky
valuepolarizations - VC Centenary
Politics and Values in Logical Empiricism: From Scientific Philosophy to Scientific Attitude at 100
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November 11, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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“No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this.”

-Einstein, Podolsky, & Rosen (1935), Physical Review 47, 777
November 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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I've started a Boston starter pack, but it's no doubt woefully incomplete, so who would you consider essential people/accounts to follow to get up to Hub speed quickly? I could really use help with sports-related stuff. Thanks!
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November 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Hey folks, I've created a feed for the Philosophy of Science 2024 meeting. Subscribe to it in order to keep up on what's happening next week. If you want your post to be in the feed, just use the #PSA24 hashtag.

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November 8, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Science friends in the U.S.: we have two months to make sure data, code, and websites are saved somewhere securely. This isn't going to be pretty.
November 6, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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Billionaires can own a high status news outlet or they can have a news outlet they control. It's important that they can’t have both and that they know it.
October 28, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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“But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that.”

🎁 #gift

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Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?
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October 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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In a collaborative project involving engineers, aerodynamics experts and palaeontologists, I and colleagues constructed a life-sized model of the Early Cretaceous maniraptoran theropod Microraptor (involving real feathers) and... #dinosaurs
Model of Microraptor, posed in a green garden.
October 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Carbon and oxygen isotopes from carbonates on the surface of MARS! measured remotely by a rover 🤯 = evaporative loss of water and cyrogenic formation "...a poignant example of how the Martian carbon cycle differs from that on Earth..." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪⚒️🌊
Highly enriched carbon and oxygen isotopes in carbonate-derived CO2 at Gale crater, Mars | PNAS
Carbonate minerals are of particular interest in paleoenvironmental research as they are an integral part of the carbon and water cycles, both of w...
www.pnas.org
October 15, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Vote Rhodochrosite!

Cutting edge research is showing that meat rock made animals!

Manganese carbonate rocks are tied to climate extremes that shaped Ediacaran biota — the first animals.

You owe your life to meat rock! It’s the final match. Vote rhodochrosite!

(Next year: Whewellite & Calcite)
October 1, 2024 at 1:46 PM