My friend told me her 10 yo daughter is growing out her hair after a teacher at school barred her from entering the girl’s bathroom last year because of her short hair. Can you believe this shit? And the school never apologized for this act of bullying.

Chronologist Joseph Justus Scaliger, who created the Julian Day Count, was born 7 August 1540 'histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/c...

Counting the days.

All calendars are conventions and a compromise. The natural measures of time the day, the (lunar) month and the year are incommensurable, a long mathematical word meaning you can’t measure the one …

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Science populariser Ethan Siegel tries his hand at the history of astronomy of the Early Modern period on Starts with a Bang, and fails miserably 'histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/n...

No Ethan, Kepler did not change his mind!

Ethan Siegel is a big hitter under the Internet science explainers and popularisers, under the brand, Starts with a Bang. This started many years ago as a blog and has now been part of the&nbs…

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Science populariser Ethan Siegel tries his hand at the history of astronomy of the Early Modern period on Starts with a Bang, and fails miserably 'histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/n...

No Ethan, Kepler did not change his mind!

Ethan Siegel is a big hitter under the Internet science explainers and popularisers, under the brand, Starts with a Bang. This started many years ago as a blog and has now been part of the&nbs…

thonyc.wordpress.com

Chronologist Joseph Justus Scaliger, who created the Julian Day Count, was born 7 August 1540 'histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/c...

Counting the days.

All calendars are conventions and a compromise. The natural measures of time the day, the (lunar) month and the year are incommensurable, a long mathematical word meaning you can’t measure the one …

thonyc.wordpress.com

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

A six-metre Moon inside Colchester Castle. At a scale of approximately 1:600,000, every centimetre of Museum of the Moon represents six kilometres of the lunar surface. Come and look closer: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/moon-...

When and how did Earth get its oxygen? The answer used to seem simple...but the more we learn, the more complicated it looks. The path to breathable air may have been twisted by shifting continents & runaway glaciers. 🧪🔭 www.science.org/content/arti...

Have you seen Jessica Riskin's new biography of Lamarck? It's brilliant. Lamarck would have agreed w/ Nabokov on that one!

If you have experienced Lunar House, you'll never trust the Immigration Service.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

Wonderful news! OSIRIS, vol. 41: Histories of Science and Childhoods is FINALLY out! The hope is that this is just initial steps, sparking further research into and engagement with the intricately interwoven worlds of the child and science. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...

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If someone with a spare £6.5 million plus could buy this and set up a writing retreat exclusively for historians of science, technology and medicine, I'd be very grateful.

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d ago

I haven't been doing #HouseGawp while on holiday but now I'm back so how about a whole island? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. Using this framing: "Two people died of a preventable infection. But don't worry, its just disabled/vulnerable people!" should automatically mean you are eligible for a fiery, pus-ridden, painful, endless and eternal toil in the depths of Tartarus

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

The Seventh AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 21-25, 2027. Supplementary travel funding provided. The call for submissions is now open and closes November 15. Details here: www.aip.org/history/earl...

Since #COVID & pandemic handling is in the news, I want to recommend the brand new COVID Studies: A Reader: www.pennpress.org/978151282949... This is a fantastic collection of essays based in SSH fields. It is available to read #openaccess for free too.

Have you heard of William Stukeley? William Stukeley (1687–1765) joined the Society of Antiquaries in 1717. The following year he was elected the Society’s first Secretary.

This article by @smellosopher.bsky.social on Mary Hesse, of whom I was/am scandalously ignorant is a brilliant introduction to a brilliant and important thinker about how science works.

@smellosopher.bsky.social the lady vanishes The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example by Ann-Sophie Barwich aeon.co/essays/why-a...

Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky

How I plan to enter the weekend ... #weekendsky

„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Text mining before the age of LLM training.

Yesterday I was reading an academic book and learned that more than 500 children died in automobile accidents in New York City in 1914 alone, most after being struck by cars. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I tried to verify the number and found this poster from 1917.

in scotland, the lockdowns were so successful we didn’t record a single death from COVID in almost six weeks over summer 2020 then Eat Out To Help Out happened

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

If we’re discussing covid, back in August 2020 the Prime Minister of the UK, Rishi Sunak, introduced a programme that subsidised £850m for people to congregate in enclosed spaces and get infected with the disease that killed people, then the state broadcaster depicted him as a superhero

My timeline might be pleased to know that there's now a statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Dorchester's high street.

Pug loved Leo dearly, but wished he wouldn't insist on taking selfies _everywhere_. #DominieAufUrlaub

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

The E of E. coli fame. I did not know this story - fascinating! #IDSky #Microsky

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

One thing that really struck me reading about the 1918 flu pandemic which killed at least 25 million, and up to 100 million, was how it was scarcely mentioned afterwards ianhopkinson.org.uk/2022/05/book...

I see the Romans hadn’t invented roofs yet

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d ago

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

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