An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps
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An amazing collection of primary sources on how science is represented and how these representations evolved #histsci #philsci #hps
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and hereβs at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
Lorraine Daston can take any topic and make it profound and exciting. Even insurance. This was a wonderful lecture
A heartbreaking personal story from a Sudanese journalist who escaped El Fasher. The sheer number of horrors is overwhelming, yet it still feels like a duty to bear witness.
Same in Croatian!
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Apparently the current discount rate in the US federal government cost benefit analysis is 7% π³
Salgado goes, may he travel onward in peace. An amazing photographer with a vast heart for humans and the world.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...
Sehr beeindruckend!!
Walking past a bookstore today, I noticed this book prominently displayed in the front window. Two things struck me: first, I couldn't think of a more zeitgeist-y title; second, I love that a book about "the science and power of being alone" is co-written by three authors. :)
Yes, it's actually a very worked out position of his. Which is why I always found Paul RicΕur's classification of him (together with Marx and Freud) as one of the three modern "masters of suspicion" a bit lazy and reductive. It's one of those papers I need to write :)
Happy New Year, Anna!
A lovely way to start a year! My favorite version of that argument is in #321 in Gay Science (Die frΓΆhliche Wissenschaft):
Christopher Newfield on how humanities research funding works (or doesn't).
Full article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
stunning increases in homelessness released today from HUD
771,480 people experienced homelessness on a single night this past January, an 18 percent increase nationwide over 2023. Among those were 150,000 children, a 33 percent increase over 2023
www.huduser.gov/portal/sites...
Tomo Buzov's story always made me think of Martin NiemΓΆller's poem "First they came."
www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2019-0...
His story doesn't fit any nationalist narrative. A Croat whose father was killed by the Croatian Nazi puppet regime. Identified as a Yugoslav and spent his life in the Yugoslav National Army, in Belgrade. Killed by the Army of Republika Srpska for trying to prevent slaughter of Bosniaks.
www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
13 minutes very worth your time. A story about the Ε trpci massacre of 1993 and "the man who could not remain silent."
Short Film Palme d'Or winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and now shortlisted for the Best Live Action Short Film at the upcoming Oscars.
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for β¦ sleep apnea
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Ones & Tooze 3-part series on heterodox economics. Glad to see Kalecki included. Contra Tooze's (brief but) orthodox interpretation of Marx, I prefer a value-form reading. Otherwise a great episode. Next week is Joan Robinson (of King's College, Cambridge)!
Is there a recording perhaps?
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs π #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
π£ CfA - Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy (Annual BSHP Conference 2025)
πCambridge, 3-5 April 2025
The deadline to submit a paper/symposium proposal for the conference is coming up on *11 December*
bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...
"The research also helps upend the assumption that only humans have cumulative culture. Chimpanzees do too, just less of it. And this may help explain how humans came to have such a complex cumulative culture in the first place."
... Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the differences in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and made my blood rush out, is at least a twosomeness."
"I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted, I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza... Not only is his over-all tendency like mineβmaking knowledge the most powerful affectβbut in the main points of his doctrine I recognize myself..."
Yesterday was Spinoza's birthday (Nov 24, 1632). The old Bento is approaching 400. What is perhaps less known outside of Nietzsche-scholarship is that Nietzsche was a great admirer of Spinoza. Below's the text N sent to Franz Overbeck in a postcard from Sils Maria in 1881.
βjust a little more reading then I can start writingβ
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his fry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life.
The Centre for Political Thought at Cambridge has agreed that BlueSky will be its main focus for social-media-related activity for the foreseeable future, and that we're winding down our activities on the network formerly known as Twitter.