One of the most pernicious lies that won't die is the idea that intelligence is innate. It's pathologies are many. But consider one of them. Intelligence is acquired and maintained. You have to work for it. Fight through friction. Challenge yourself. Keep challenging yourself.
Burn it all down. www.waterstones.com/book/artific...
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Cold take: If you use LLMs for so much as a grocery list, you are complicit in your own dehumanisation. Expect to be treated accordingly.
🏆 Congratulations to Lucy Jameson (Durham) and Michelle Pfeffer (Oxford), winners of the 2026 BSHS Singer Prize! Read about their award-winning essays, the special commendations and the panel's comments here: bshs.org.uk/singer-prize... More on the authors coming soon!
I would like to state for the record that I am standing up to help hand out agendas, not causing a ruckus and being ordered to sit back down.
BSHS@bshsnews.bsky.social · last mo.BSHS EGM just started with sandwiches and thanks to the fantastic people who made this meeting possible! Welcome to all new council members and our greatest thanks to the retiring council members and chairs! The BSHS would not be possible without all your hard work!
I'm pretty sure that the fact that Mario invariably dies immediately after getting the fire flower is a commentary on American gun culture.
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we sifted through the mammoth program for the ESHS/HSS meeting in Edinburgh next week to highlight talks related to the history of the modern physical sciences. It's a lot, and there was much we didn't cover. Full program here: hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...
Conference spotlight: ESHS/HSS Edinburgh
AIP History Weekly Edition: July 10, 2026
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Escatology, n. The study of the end of the world though enshittification.
Not the characteristic I would have singled out, but sure?
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, for Pride Month summer intern Amelie Heying excerpted an oral history with Leeds food physicist Megan Povey, discussing her science, activism, and mid-career gender transition. Joe Martin (@randomjetship.bsky.social) & Wilson Poon conducted the interview. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Megan Povey—Activism, Identity, and the Physics of Food
AIP History Weekly Edition: June 5, 2026
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The journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS) is inviting short essays (800-1K words) revisiting "classic" works in the history of the natural sciences. These will be collected in a special issue planned for 2027. If you have an idea, please contact me. (I'm an associate editor)
An interesting and thoughtful review, that asks what #histsci was/is/will be. I'm also sympathetic to Dear - the Q of how science gained authority, and was shaped in the process, underlies much of what I do - but we gain from research on other kinds of natural knowledge. But is that #histsci?
Random Jetship@randomjetship.bsky.social · 4mo agoApparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...
Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...
Canon Fodder. The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain
Why did disabled people support eugenics in the 1930s? | Aeon Essays
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity
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"Historians of science interested in the 1980s [...] can profitably learn from one another by comparing how scientists of different stripes moved through the greedy waters they swam in." Joseph Martin's review of Greedy Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Breaking my social media silence because this #histsci review was oodles of fun to write, and I hope it's also fun to read. www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour...
Physics Envy | Brepols Online
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Thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social and Michael Gordin for the chance to review this one. rdcu.be/eMsRb
Adjectival science
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The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards (the predecessor of NIST) in 1953. As Joseph D. Martin writes, scientists suspected political interference with the agency’s research, fought back, and won. #histSTM #longread
Political currents
The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards in 1953. Suspecting political interference with the agency’s research, scientists fought back—and won.
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I'm gonna open an NFL bar in London. The Drop Back and Pint.
I support efforts to restrict social media access for youth. Access to technology in an individual child's development should recapitulate the development of technology through human history. That's why, a soon as they can crawl, I start my kids off with fire.
Imagine the world that might have been had Peter, Paul, or Mary thought to nip into a hardware store.
