Prof Joe Cain
@profjoecain.bsky.social
UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology | Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) | profjoecain.net
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We are thrilled to announce a joint UCL STS - Science Museum conference titled: "Leviathan and after". Taking place on 12 May at the Science Museum. For more details and how to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...
Leviathan and after – a celebration of the history of science, the
A joint UCL STS – Science Museum Conference
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March 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We are thrilled to announce a joint UCL STS - Science Museum conference titled: "Leviathan and after". Taking place on 12 May at the Science Museum. For more details and how to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/ev...
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Some excellent work produced by Mykyta Osadchyi - one of our MSc Science Communication students - for @bbcworldservice:
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#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology
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#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology
How Scotland’s largest dinosaur fossil was extracted - BBC World Service
A group of palaeontologists in Scotland have extracted the most complete dinosaur fossil in the country, on the Isle of Skye.
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM
It dates all the way back to the Middle Jurassic – a period from which dinosaur fossils are notoriously h
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May 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Some excellent work produced by Mykyta Osadchyi - one of our MSc Science Communication students - for @bbcworldservice:
www.youtube.com/watc...
#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology
www.youtube.com/watc...
#dinosaurs #fossils #scotland #scicom #sts #science #technology
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We will be at this event: T-shirts and books (for sale!), 3D-printed creatures (not for sale!), stickers and A5 leaflets (free!), plenty of facts (ask us why the Dinos owe their existence to..bananas! 🍌)
Just under two weeks to go until the launch of Palaeontology in Public in London at KCL!
We'll have talks, a pop-up exhibit and panel discussion on the place of palaeontology in public culture. Speakers in the image below
Free event - more info & sign-up link here: forms.office.com/e/dsKYteTD1B
We'll have talks, a pop-up exhibit and panel discussion on the place of palaeontology in public culture. Speakers in the image below
Free event - more info & sign-up link here: forms.office.com/e/dsKYteTD1B
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We will be at this event: T-shirts and books (for sale!), 3D-printed creatures (not for sale!), stickers and A5 leaflets (free!), plenty of facts (ask us why the Dinos owe their existence to..bananas! 🍌)
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And paging the speakers: @richardfallon.bsky.social @hydrarchos.bsky.social @markwitton.bsky.social @susieoftraken.bsky.social @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social @profjoecain.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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January 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?
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(There are loads of great online articles about this legendary event, and we will continue to reference many on a regular basis, but we would always recommend starting with anything written by our friend @profjoecain.bsky.social)
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New Year's Eve Dinner in Iguanodon | Professor Joe Cain
"Dinner in the Iguanodon Model" is a famous story about Crystal Palace Dinosaurs that took place New Year's Eve 31 December 1853.
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January 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
(There are loads of great online articles about this legendary event, and we will continue to reference many on a regular basis, but we would always recommend starting with anything written by our friend @profjoecain.bsky.social)
profjoecain.net/dinner-iguan...
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profjoecain.net/dinner-iguan...
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For National #Handwritingday, a letter from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins to Edward Trimmer (of the Royal College of Surgeons) in Aug 1862, recalling the famous NYE dinner in the Iguanodon mould
(from one of @profjoecain.bsky.social’s many excellent posts, profjoecain.net/remembering-...)
(from one of @profjoecain.bsky.social’s many excellent posts, profjoecain.net/remembering-...)
January 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For National #Handwritingday, a letter from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins to Edward Trimmer (of the Royal College of Surgeons) in Aug 1862, recalling the famous NYE dinner in the Iguanodon mould
(from one of @profjoecain.bsky.social’s many excellent posts, profjoecain.net/remembering-...)
(from one of @profjoecain.bsky.social’s many excellent posts, profjoecain.net/remembering-...)
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Imagine if Nick Clegg was interested in democracy. He could tell us some things about Facebook, and maybe help us regulate it. Worth breaking an NDA for?
January 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Imagine if Nick Clegg was interested in democracy. He could tell us some things about Facebook, and maybe help us regulate it. Worth breaking an NDA for?
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📢 We’re hiring! We are looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25.
For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
#medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
#medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📢 We’re hiring! We are looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25.
For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
#medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
#medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
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A great thread by our friend @markwitton.bsky.social on the recent UK tracksite, and his accompanying art
(The site is only a mile-or-so from the current human trackway that is the M40 motorway..)
(The site is only a mile-or-so from the current human trackway that is the M40 motorway..)
January 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A great thread by our friend @markwitton.bsky.social on the recent UK tracksite, and his accompanying art
(The site is only a mile-or-so from the current human trackway that is the M40 motorway..)
(The site is only a mile-or-so from the current human trackway that is the M40 motorway..)
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Day 22 🌲🌲🌲 @profjoecain.bsky.social is reading Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt this week - "A long time pro describes ways to break out from the pack through story-telling and 'opposite' strategies".
December 22, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Day 22 🌲🌲🌲 @profjoecain.bsky.social is reading Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt this week - "A long time pro describes ways to break out from the pack through story-telling and 'opposite' strategies".
Love TEZ Talks repeats on BBC Sounds from 2018ish. Brilliant comedy. Clever. Fresh. Wide-eyed. Funny, funny, funny.
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TEZ Talks - Series 2 - 4. Made in Britain - BBC Sounds
Tez talks about what it is like being both Muslim and British at the same time.
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December 22, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Love TEZ Talks repeats on BBC Sounds from 2018ish. Brilliant comedy. Clever. Fresh. Wide-eyed. Funny, funny, funny.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Burning the Clocks in #Brighton today, marking the Winter Solstice; charity event run by SameSky samesky.co.uk/events/burni... Fabulous event
December 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Burning the Clocks in #Brighton today, marking the Winter Solstice; charity event run by SameSky samesky.co.uk/events/burni... Fabulous event
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19th Day!! 🎁 🎁 🎁 PhD Lala Luthfiyah is reading Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas - "about the origin and damages inflicted by the fast fashion industry - not only harming the environment but also based on dangerous practices. It is also optimistitc about smaller more sustainable brands".
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM
19th Day!! 🎁 🎁 🎁 PhD Lala Luthfiyah is reading Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas - "about the origin and damages inflicted by the fast fashion industry - not only harming the environment but also based on dangerous practices. It is also optimistitc about smaller more sustainable brands".
Sad to learn of the death this year of E. Charles Nelson (1951–2024), botanist and historian of natural history. Long-time editor of Archives of Natural History.
Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
December 18, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Sad to learn of the death this year of E. Charles Nelson (1951–2024), botanist and historian of natural history. Long-time editor of Archives of Natural History.
Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
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I’m grateful to the folks at @archive.org who’ve agreed to scan and post some of the historic #radio scripts by my late friend, “Murrow Boy” Richard C. Hottelet. They should be available online in early 2025.
Dick would be pleased.
This is page 1 of his D-Day script:
Dick would be pleased.
This is page 1 of his D-Day script:
December 17, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I’m grateful to the folks at @archive.org who’ve agreed to scan and post some of the historic #radio scripts by my late friend, “Murrow Boy” Richard C. Hottelet. They should be available online in early 2025.
Dick would be pleased.
This is page 1 of his D-Day script:
Dick would be pleased.
This is page 1 of his D-Day script:
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The nineties were crazy! Our Dinos still had paint jobs, and they were very much NOT on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register - as proved by @sophiealdred.bsky.social in this very cool (but irresponsible) photoshoot for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #162, July 1990
(archive.org/details/Doct...)
(archive.org/details/Doct...)
December 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
The nineties were crazy! Our Dinos still had paint jobs, and they were very much NOT on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register - as proved by @sophiealdred.bsky.social in this very cool (but irresponsible) photoshoot for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #162, July 1990
(archive.org/details/Doct...)
(archive.org/details/Doct...)
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📢 We’re hiring! We are currently looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
December 16, 2024 at 1:50 PM
📢 We’re hiring! We are currently looking for a Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society to join our Department from Sept 25. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/41CTiXk
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025 #medicine #health #society #science #technology #WeAreSTS
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For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
December 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM
For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
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Why do some physicists consider galaxy cluster mergers to be the 'smoking gun' for noninteracting particle #darkmatter? What do 50% of the words in that sentence mean? Find out with UCL graduate Mary Westover in #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: https://buff.ly/3Vtmzjl
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics
#201 Dark Matter and the Search for Elusive Evidence | WeAreSTS
WeAreSTS · Episode
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December 13, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Why do some physicists consider galaxy cluster mergers to be the 'smoking gun' for noninteracting particle #darkmatter? What do 50% of the words in that sentence mean? Find out with UCL graduate Mary Westover in #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: https://buff.ly/3Vtmzjl
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics
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Day 11🎄 @jonagar.bsky.social is reading TWO history of science books: "Theresa Levitt's Elixir, about perfumes and the chemistry of life around the French Revolution, and Jessica Marie Otis's By the Numbers on how the population of early modern England went from faith to trust in maths. Both superb"
December 11, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Day 11🎄 @jonagar.bsky.social is reading TWO history of science books: "Theresa Levitt's Elixir, about perfumes and the chemistry of life around the French Revolution, and Jessica Marie Otis's By the Numbers on how the population of early modern England went from faith to trust in maths. Both superb"
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The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional.
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...
Paul McClean graduate trainee programme
Applications will open in December for our 2025 intake
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December 11, 2024 at 11:35 AM
The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional.
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...
It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...
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10th Day!!🎄 MSc student Natalia Jordan Valenzuela is reading History of Information Graphics: "Infographics are everywhere and it's hard to imagine how they started and evolved. This massive compendium shows the rich history of data graphics. It's comprehensive, but above all really beautiful"
December 10, 2024 at 3:08 PM
10th Day!!🎄 MSc student Natalia Jordan Valenzuela is reading History of Information Graphics: "Infographics are everywhere and it's hard to imagine how they started and evolved. This massive compendium shows the rich history of data graphics. It's comprehensive, but above all really beautiful"
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ever want to run away from all civil society, claim a former british navy platform in the english channel as your own and declare it your own country? 🏄🌊🐠
too bad for you somebody got there first 😕 learn by example from the principality of #sealand on #WeAreSTSPodcast : https://buff.ly/4iBEONs
too bad for you somebody got there first 😕 learn by example from the principality of #sealand on #WeAreSTSPodcast : https://buff.ly/4iBEONs
#202 Outlaw Ocean – Ian Urbina’s Book is STS1Book for 2024-25 | WeAreSTS
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December 9, 2024 at 10:28 AM
ever want to run away from all civil society, claim a former british navy platform in the english channel as your own and declare it your own country? 🏄🌊🐠
too bad for you somebody got there first 😕 learn by example from the principality of #sealand on #WeAreSTSPodcast : https://buff.ly/4iBEONs
too bad for you somebody got there first 😕 learn by example from the principality of #sealand on #WeAreSTSPodcast : https://buff.ly/4iBEONs
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'We know that they make obscene amounts of profit … We know that they can limit these things when they want. You only have to look at where Tiktok originated in China, and the things that aren't allowed on the platform over there.' –Dr Shaughnessy, UCL, #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep203
#203 Baby-Botox: Anti-Aging Is Out Of Control | WeAreSTS
WeAreSTS · Episode
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December 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
'We know that they make obscene amounts of profit … We know that they can limit these things when they want. You only have to look at where Tiktok originated in China, and the things that aren't allowed on the platform over there.' –Dr Shaughnessy, UCL, #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep203