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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · Nov 29

Currently working on: history of cosmography (yes all of it!); emergence of cosmology as a disciplinary & epistemic category.

Intermittently thinking about: retiring 'mathematical practitioners'; notions of disciplinarity; the broken model of academic publishing.

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 2d

(a) *sigh*
(b) What's that Kemi? Regulation and not marketised competition is the key to ensuring quality?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'The party would introduce caps on funded courses that consistently “lead to poor graduate outcomes”, allowing it to invest further in the “apprenticeship revolution” it started, it said. Remaining funding will be used to support high-quality courses at research-intensive British universities.' 3/3

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 3d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 4d

From the conference app, you appear to be in charge of all the relaxed networking, Sacha. I hope that doesn't make you stressed!

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 5d

Look, I'm as much of a fan of speculative fiction and casual thought experiments as the next nerdy-PhD with some training in both the sciences and philosophy. But maybe we could focus for now on respecting the rights of the persons we have, rather than those we're just imagining.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 7d

Reposting with tags -- #HistSci #HistSTM #History

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

Super! But book reviews are now in the more than capable hands of Joseph Martin and Coreen McGuire @coreenanne.bsky.social at Durham. They can be reached at [email protected].

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

And if you are not yet a member of the BSHS, why not consider joining: www.bshs.org.uk/membership/ ?

Membership

The BSHS welcomes members from all backgrounds, in the UK and internationally. Current members include academics, writers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, museums professionals, schoolteacher...

www.bshs.org.uk

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

For more information on how to publish in the BJHS, see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core

The British Journal for the History of Science - Dr Amanda Rees, Dr Adam Mosley

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

Publishing with the BJHS, now a fully Open Access journal, is therefore a great way to help sustain our amazing community at this challenging time. I look forward to reading your submissions!

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

The money that the journal generates helps the BSHS to support the field in a variety of ways, including the funding of postgraduate scholarships, conference grants, and grants for outreach & engagement.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

It is also – through our agreement with Cambridge University Press - an important source of income for the Society.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

I'm particularly pleased to be joining the BJHS as a co-editor because, as a previous Reviews Editor and Council Member of the British Society for the History of Science @bshsnews.bsky.social, I know that BJHS is not only a cherished benefit of being a member of the Society...

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

As an early modernist, I’ll be responsible for submissions on pre-modern topics and things relating to my interests in the physical sciences, material culture, scientific communities, and so on.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

My appointment marks a new stage in the life of the journal, as it transitions to having a rotating team of three editors. We will share the work of editing the BJHS, making the journal itself more resilient, and applying an expanded range of expertise to the task.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 8d

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 9d

Ebooks are HERE! uk.bookshop.org/ebooks

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 10d

Looks like. M. B. Parkes' Pause and Effect might shed some light.

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 10d

While we're waiting for growth, perhaps we could try human decency, basic fairness, empathy, familiarity with other cultures, and humanistic inquiry as antidotes to division -- facilitated by principled political leadership, ethical business practices, and a responsible media. Utopian, I know...

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 10d

Sumerian Epic to Protestant Heretic

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 12d

Facebook is trash... It belongs in the bin.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

Guardian investigation into Facebook groups with 600k members in which the kind of extreme dehumanising language that socialises racist violence is rife. Facebook has become more permissive towards extreme content in the last year.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

Rioters were influenced by network that exposes hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist disinformation, Guardian research indicates

www.theguardian.com

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 14d

b/c they are forced to resort to unsafe and unsanctioned modes of migration by the restriction of safe and legal ones. Telling people there is a 'migration crisis' is sustaining the false Reform narrative, aided & abetted by the right wing media, and will not help other partys' electoral maths.

Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 14d

I don't think Digital ID is the solution to the 'migration crisis', regardless of its advantages and disadvantages (few and many in number) because I don't think there is a 'migration crisis'. What there is, is the repeated and avoidable human tragedy of adults and children being placed at risk...

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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social · 15d

Only a week to go folks! If you’ve not got your tickets head over to @waterstones.bsky.social ! We would love to see you there!

@gevemac.bsky.social

#Africa #AncientHistory #Heritage

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 18d

For those of you who were thrilled by That Meeting Could Have Been an Email, Academic Horror Productions is delighted to present the sequel, That Other Thing That Could Have Been an Email is Now a Recorded Video.

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Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social · 18d

Well the weather sign could be worse for the first day... Happy New Academic Year to those of you who celebrate.

A view over the dunes of Swansea beach to the East of Swansea Bay. The sun is rising over the hills.