Cyrus Mody
@ccmmody.bsky.social
historian of sci/tech/energy/enviro @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social; http://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org; http://managingscarcity.com; The Squares https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543613/the-squares/. Call me Cyrus or Cy or "hey, mister" but not Cirrus or Moody.
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Cyrus Mody
@ccmmody.bsky.social
· Nov 1
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology
Innovation studies scholars use the concept of ‘spillovers’ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...
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just out from @mitpress.bsky.social a new addition to the Engineering Studies series. lots for @engrstudies.bsky.social & especially @thatminesgirl.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255335...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255335...
An Engineered World
An Engineered World examines the dramatic and global expansion of modern professional engineering between roughly 1870 and 1950. Over these decades, the numb...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
just out from @mitpress.bsky.social a new addition to the Engineering Studies series. lots for @engrstudies.bsky.social & especially @thatminesgirl.bsky.social
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255335...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255335...
good grief. it's "outside the scope of ABMC’s commemorative mission" to, you know, commemorate the struggles of African-American soldiers & to honor their service in both liberating Limburg & burying the dead at Margraten?
More on the wrongful erasure of Black servicemen from the Margraten, Netherlands US cemetery
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/pane...
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/pane...
Panel on segregation in US army will not return to Margraten - DutchNews.nl
A panel commemorating the experiences of black American soldiers who served in the Netherlands during the Second World War will not be restored to the US military cemetery in Margraten. The American B...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
good grief. it's "outside the scope of ABMC’s commemorative mission" to, you know, commemorate the struggles of African-American soldiers & to honor their service in both liberating Limburg & burying the dead at Margraten?
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Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...
when can we expect the letter co-signed by dozens of Harvard faculty members praising Larry Summers as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen"? you can just copy-paste from that Comaroff letter, guys.
as @nytpitchbot.bsky.social might put it,
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
when can we expect the letter co-signed by dozens of Harvard faculty members praising Larry Summers as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen"? you can just copy-paste from that Comaroff letter, guys.
looking forward to Jens's PhD defense, November 28
Mycket peppad på att läsa den här avhandlingen (otroligt snygg dessutom?).
research.chalmers.se/publication/...
research.chalmers.se/publication/...
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
looking forward to Jens's PhD defense, November 28
an oil spillover in the history of beloved hometown institution Waxman Candles!
tho, sadly, Waxman's garbles its own history a bit here - no embargo in 1980, just a price shock.
tho, sadly, Waxman's garbles its own history a bit here - no embargo in 1980, just a price shock.
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
an oil spillover in the history of beloved hometown institution Waxman Candles!
tho, sadly, Waxman's garbles its own history a bit here - no embargo in 1980, just a price shock.
tho, sadly, Waxman's garbles its own history a bit here - no embargo in 1980, just a price shock.
as @nytpitchbot.bsky.social might put it,
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
as @nytpitchbot.bsky.social might put it,
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
Larry Summers to join Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
oh, wait a minute...
cough it up, Atlantic - America needs your oil and gas!
this guy looks like he should be in the current Department of Labor's ad campaign
this guy looks like he should be in the current Department of Labor's ad campaign
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
cough it up, Atlantic - America needs your oil and gas!
this guy looks like he should be in the current Department of Labor's ad campaign
this guy looks like he should be in the current Department of Labor's ad campaign
colloquium today featuring @timvanderheijden.bsky.social in honor of the retirement of his (now long-ago) PhD supervisor, Jo Wachelder
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
colloquium today featuring @timvanderheijden.bsky.social in honor of the retirement of his (now long-ago) PhD supervisor, Jo Wachelder
for Armistice/Veterans Day: recently, like many UKish & N. Americanish men of a certain age living in Western Europe, I visited the landing beaches & WW2 memorials/museums in Normandy. [We also went to Mont St. Michel & various castles & churches, but that's for another day.] 1/x
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
for Armistice/Veterans Day: recently, like many UKish & N. Americanish men of a certain age living in Western Europe, I visited the landing beaches & WW2 memorials/museums in Normandy. [We also went to Mont St. Michel & various castles & churches, but that's for another day.] 1/x
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
incl. chapter by @inquiline.myatproto.social
*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
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Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
incl. chapter by @inquiline.myatproto.social
Exxon committing itself to low-emission transportation technology - in 1978.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Exxon committing itself to low-emission transportation technology - in 1978.
one for @nanobubbles.bsky.social. do we at least get to keep Imaginary Friends?
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
one for @nanobubbles.bsky.social. do we at least get to keep Imaginary Friends?
i'm fond of Bielefeld but can't really recommend it as a tourist destination - except to @icpetrie.bsky.social. sewing machine manufacturers! bicycle manufacturers! combination sewing machine manufacturers & bicycle manufacturers! great examples of clusters of Mittelstand firms in the same industry.
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
i'm fond of Bielefeld but can't really recommend it as a tourist destination - except to @icpetrie.bsky.social. sewing machine manufacturers! bicycle manufacturers! combination sewing machine manufacturers & bicycle manufacturers! great examples of clusters of Mittelstand firms in the same industry.
sadly, now two Rice physicists who've made similar pleas in big-name newspapers:
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
sadly, now two Rice physicists who've made similar pleas in big-name newspapers:
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
oil modernism in living color! what a find, @jonagar.bsky.social
And for ICI it is unashamedly about OIL and MODERN BRITAIN
Left: infographic ‘Treasure from oil’, ICI Magazine 1957
Right: ICI educational posters, ‘Terylene a great British discovery’ and ‘Britain turns to Terylene’, 1956
New Elizabethan, “defiant modernism”(©️Science Museum) vibes
Left: infographic ‘Treasure from oil’, ICI Magazine 1957
Right: ICI educational posters, ‘Terylene a great British discovery’ and ‘Britain turns to Terylene’, 1956
New Elizabethan, “defiant modernism”(©️Science Museum) vibes
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
oil modernism in living color! what a find, @jonagar.bsky.social
apparently people on this website think that there are a lot of robots in Doctor Who? I mean, there are a few but not many. not sure how to classify Cybermen, but as name implies they're more like cyborgs. & Daleks 👇 have a living creature, genetically engineered for evil, inside them.
anyway, boo!
anyway, boo!
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
apparently people on this website think that there are a lot of robots in Doctor Who? I mean, there are a few but not many. not sure how to classify Cybermen, but as name implies they're more like cyborgs. & Daleks 👇 have a living creature, genetically engineered for evil, inside them.
anyway, boo!
anyway, boo!
this is such a great program & a really useful resource.
@nanoscaleviews.bsky.social & @debrakolah.bsky.social - would be great if photos of Rice physicists were well-represented in the collection.
@nanoscaleviews.bsky.social & @debrakolah.bsky.social - would be great if photos of Rice physicists were well-represented in the collection.
Do you take snapshots of your everyday life as a physical scientist? @aip.bsky.social is soliciting photos from scientists at all career stages and disciplines from around the world to broaden its 30 000+ photo collection, which is used frequently by historians. #physics #astronomy #histSTM
Archivists seek photos of today's physical scientists
The goal of a new crowdsourcing effort is to build a more contemporary and inclusive visual record of the physical sciences community.
physicstoday.aip.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
this is such a great program & a really useful resource.
@nanoscaleviews.bsky.social & @debrakolah.bsky.social - would be great if photos of Rice physicists were well-represented in the collection.
@nanoscaleviews.bsky.social & @debrakolah.bsky.social - would be great if photos of Rice physicists were well-represented in the collection.
genuine question: which of these would be the more stable coalition?
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
genuine question: which of these would be the more stable coalition?
is Dick Schoof laughing or crying tonight? anyway, very much looking forward to a looooong stretch of caretaker government.
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
is Dick Schoof laughing or crying tonight? anyway, very much looking forward to a looooong stretch of caretaker government.
in this house we believe:
1. aunt/uncle + NAME = (esp. US) parent's sibling(-in-law) or parent's aunt/uncle
2. NAME + auntie/uncle = possibly same as 1 but for Indian relatives; could also be (not just Indian) family friend or distant relative
3. aunt rhymes w/ rant, auntie rhymes w/ jaunty
YMMV
1. aunt/uncle + NAME = (esp. US) parent's sibling(-in-law) or parent's aunt/uncle
2. NAME + auntie/uncle = possibly same as 1 but for Indian relatives; could also be (not just Indian) family friend or distant relative
3. aunt rhymes w/ rant, auntie rhymes w/ jaunty
YMMV
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
in this house we believe:
1. aunt/uncle + NAME = (esp. US) parent's sibling(-in-law) or parent's aunt/uncle
2. NAME + auntie/uncle = possibly same as 1 but for Indian relatives; could also be (not just Indian) family friend or distant relative
3. aunt rhymes w/ rant, auntie rhymes w/ jaunty
YMMV
1. aunt/uncle + NAME = (esp. US) parent's sibling(-in-law) or parent's aunt/uncle
2. NAME + auntie/uncle = possibly same as 1 but for Indian relatives; could also be (not just Indian) family friend or distant relative
3. aunt rhymes w/ rant, auntie rhymes w/ jaunty
YMMV
important figure in the oil industry's adoption of digital tools, with influential side interests in nuclear and solar energy
October 28, 1965, geophysicist Edward Bullard, using the first "tectonic" computer simulations, publishes a paper with the title "The Fit of the Continents around the Atlantic."
earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/eoc_teac...
earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/eoc_teac...
October 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
important figure in the oil industry's adoption of digital tools, with influential side interests in nuclear and solar energy
what if - no, hear me out - what if we treated solid waste with oil to turn it into a "hard mass" with which to construct toboggan runs on the flat prairies of the Midwest?
it's the evolution of high modernism into postmodernism distilled into a single memo.
it's the evolution of high modernism into postmodernism distilled into a single memo.
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
what if - no, hear me out - what if we treated solid waste with oil to turn it into a "hard mass" with which to construct toboggan runs on the flat prairies of the Midwest?
it's the evolution of high modernism into postmodernism distilled into a single memo.
it's the evolution of high modernism into postmodernism distilled into a single memo.
Francis Bacon Sandwich
I'm not impressed with articles that cite both Homi Bhabhas anymore. To get my respect some enterprising fuel cell historian is going to have serve up the full Francis Bacon Sandwich.
I'm not impressed with articles that cite both Homi Bhabhas anymore. To get my respect some enterprising fuel cell historian is going to have serve up the full Francis Bacon Sandwich.
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Francis Bacon Sandwich
I'm not impressed with articles that cite both Homi Bhabhas anymore. To get my respect some enterprising fuel cell historian is going to have serve up the full Francis Bacon Sandwich.
I'm not impressed with articles that cite both Homi Bhabhas anymore. To get my respect some enterprising fuel cell historian is going to have serve up the full Francis Bacon Sandwich.