After a mad dash across the 3rd floor of the Maison du Savoir, I've arrived at 3.350 for a panel on Migrating Machines & Their Makers in the early modern world. Our 1st speaker is Wenjie Su, whose talk considers changing iconography when theaters of machines were translated into Chinese.

#SHOT2025

For anyone curious about what was in the book

Riddle me this, historians of technology!

What do saxophones (🎷), hearing aids (🦻), FM radio (📻), and Biblical archaeology (📖⛏️) have in common?

A: They'll all be the focus of talks in the #SHOT2025 panel I'm chairing this morning (Media & Tech I). Join us at 8:30 AM, CEST in Classroom 3.380.

Side eye from a hedgehog

If only there was a Nobel War prize, then once Putin and Netanyahu had had their awards, Trump would be a shoo-in for bringing war to the streets of his own country.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Thanks for the kind offer, but I have people who are closer who are taking care of everything that needs doing 🙃

it’s all just a grift

Delighted to say my new children’s audiobook is out today!

Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild is a wild, funny rampage through 34 million years of human evolution and global prehistory. Cowritten with archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, it’s out now!

youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

The anatomy lesson: painted by Rembrandt in 1632, depicting annual dissection at Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, conducted by celebrated City Anatomist & later Mayor of Amsterdam, Dr Nicolaes Tulp, born #OTD 1593.
Mauritshuis, den Haag

Edinburgh is the #histSTM place to be next summer. Between this and the ESHS/HSS extravaganza in July will be a workshop on practices and material cultures of metrology and accounting, plus the Medical School & Hutton's 300th, + Dolly 🐑 30th, and more!

It’s already on the way

Painful indeed

That is an impressive thread of screws!

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

I’ll try to avoid a repeat performance

Roughly where the sword is going into the side of his body is where the tubes are entering mine at the moment

Thank you, deeply unpleasant indeed!

Not one that I would recommend 🙄

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“Transmission of scientific knowledge from one culture to another plays an important role in the history of science.” 👇

There will be no Renaissance Mathematics this week, my body decided yesterday to find out if it’s possible to breath with just 1 lung! I suffered a Pneumothorax and my right lung collapsed and I’m now lying in a hospital bed with some rather large tubes sticking out the right hand side of my body!🙄