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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD
@node801.bsky.social
Professor of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Dept. Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute.
https://sciences.social/@NODE801
#HistSTM #CriticalTheory #soundscapes
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Simon's Rock College '78-'82
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Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Ringing Ocean - from their 2025 album, Liminal www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Bc...
Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Ringing Ocean (Visualizer)
YouTube video by BrianEnoVEVO
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, February 2026
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...
Marx and the Critique of Humanism
What is the status of 'the human' and 'humanism' in Marx's thought? Does Marx's critical project rest upon 'humanist' commitments? If so, what are these and how…
www.bloomsbury.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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The recent issue of the journal includes an article by Wojciech Engelking: "Schmitt's Reinterpretation of Hegel During His Nazi Period." Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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In This Black Louisiana Town, Forests are Browning and Animals are Dying

After the industrial explosion in Roseland, the EPA still says there is no health threat.

capitalbnews.org/roseland-oil...
In This Black Louisiana Town, Forests are Browning and Animals are Dying
After the industrial explosion in rural Louisiana town, the EPA still says there is no health threat.
capitalbnews.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property. The non-proprietor will be the scribe of the proprietor. What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law, or else in defiance of it....Every actual State is corrupt" - R.W. Emerson
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays | @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social

From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org/snap-crisis-... | @capitalb.bsky.social
Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.

Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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On Here & Now @wbur.org @npr.org, ASA Member Karen Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social @uncpopcenter.bsky.social discussed politicians leveraging concern about low birth rates to justify policies that limit rights for women, non-Christians, people of color, & the LGBTQIA+ community.
The state of the pronatalist movement
The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Help shape a dynamic and impactful program at the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting! The online portal is now open for submissions.  Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research with colleagues! Deadline is Feb. 25. https://bit.ly/ASA26portal
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Researchers, hunters study how oilsands noise might impact moose hunting

"@peterfortna.bsky.social said community interviews revealed that industrial noise and landscape changes are believed to be impacting how people hunt and how successful they are at calling moose."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Researchers, hunters study how oilsands noise might impact moose hunting | CBC News
Hunters in northern Alberta are helping scientists test how industrial noise from the oilsands affects moose hunting — a food source and a connection to cultural traditions for many rural and Indigeno...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres. 🏺 🧪
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.
go.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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That is William J Herschel, the son of John, grandson of William, and great nephew of Caroline en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Wil...
#histSTM
In colonial India, William Herschel introduced fingerprinting in the 1850s to authenticate identity on legal documents.

Influenced by colonial ideologies, his experiments laid the foundations for modern forensic identification, codifying the hand as a scientific marker of identity.

#handoftheweek
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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24-Oct: On this day in 1852, Charles Darwin wrote to his cousin to commend the miraculous new substance chloroform… #histsci friendsofdarwin.com/darwin-on-ch...
24-Oct-1852: Darwin on the new miracle substance, chloroform
‘The grandest & most blessed of discoveries.’
friendsofdarwin.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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I started watching the 1992 PBS series The Dinosaurs! - I love older pre-Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)/pre-CGI documentaries about dinosurs - and in episode 1 was none other than historian of science Martin Rudwick, talking about Georges Cuvier. #histsci #HPS

[I'll follow w/ links to the episodes]
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Our editor, @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social, examines "The Erie Canal at 200."

"Designing the Erie’s liquid route required amassing knowledge of local landscapes and ecological conditions."

niche-canada.org/2025/10/26/t...

#envhist #envirotech #waterhistory
The Erie Canal at 200
Erie Canal’s 200th: engineering success, reshaped settlement, boosted trade, harmed Indigenous lands and ecosystems, linked U.S.–Canada waterways, now mostly recreational.
niche-canada.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Now streaming at my house, for a jazz giant who died yesterday at age 83:

Pictures (1977) by Jack DeJohnette, who drummed with all the greats like Charles Lloyd, Miles Davis, etc & had a sterling solo career...this is just him on drums/piano/organ, with John Abercrombie (gtr), inventive & beautiful
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Jack DeJohnette (Aug 9, 1942 - Oct 26, 2025)
Love his music, so very much.
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Xh...
In ’N Out (Live)
YouTube video by McCoy Tyner - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#RIP Jack DeJohnette
📷 K. Abe, 1972

"I hear overtones & chords in the cymbals as well as the drums. I am hearing orchestrally. The cymbals are to my drum set what the sustain pedal is on the acoustic piano. So I am hearing colors. I consider myself somebody who colors the music."
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.
Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.
www.npr.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Not only is Hurricane Melissa now a Category 5, it is still strengthening.

Hurricane hunters are finding the central pressure continuing to drop and the eye continuing to warm. Flight level winds are as high as 180mph.
Waking up to Category 5 monster. Hurricane Melissa begins its move toward Jamaica today.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM