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Edward Collins
@ejpcollins.bsky.social
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Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at @ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Nov 13
I have a chapter on animals on the Carrera de Indias in this awesome new publication. PDF version is free here: publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/navegaciones...
Navegaciones en época moderna: hombres, barcos y naufragios
Editores: Vicente Pajuelo Moreno y José María García Redondo. Este libro es parte de los proyectos de investigación PR2022-033, del Plan Propio de la Universidad de Cádiz, y del I+D+i PID2022- 141020N...
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · 7d
RIP
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · 9d
Won't someone think of the real victims here: old white guys and their imagined persecutions?
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · 12d
Wonderful work!
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12d
And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!
Cover and spine of CRICK, my biography of Francis Crick Endpapers and inside flap of book Double page photo of Crick at blackboard with section title The Central Problem Colour plate showing Crick at Cold Spring Harbor in 1954.
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · 23d
‘Mr. Worf…. Fire’ - words that launched a thousand ‘nooooooooos!’
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · 24d
Ohhh those two episodes sealed my love for TNG all those years ago.
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Sep 7
🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Sep 4
The Spanish maritime diet was somewhere in between these two. Of course, all diets tended towards disgusting similarity, regardless of nationality, when stranded at sea for weeks…
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · Aug 30
Very proud to see @niamhcullen.bsky.social’s wonderful story ‘Come Away Oh Human Child’ in prestigious New Irish Writing series today in Irish Independent www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
New Irish Writing: Come Away, O Human Child by Niamh Cullen
1. It was a long time since Niamh had felt the warmth of a man against her body. Her sisters didn’t understand the longing. Why bother, Síobha said, when they are so impatient and skittish, their live...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Aug 28
Wavefunction Collapse

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4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 26
Also: does pirated Photoshop feel insulted and abused?
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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · Aug 26
I’m all for grappling with unsettling questions but not when the answer is very clearly “no”.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · Aug 25
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 25
Excellent piece!
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 22
His results were unbelievable! And he’s so chill about it 😆
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 21
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Aug 20
call for no more papers
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 18
His unfinished diss track, ‘Off da Boyle (Hot Air-Pump mix)’. True story.
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · Aug 15
“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.”

An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love

#envhist #rivers
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Where the Dogs Run | Bathsheba Demuth
The best days to work a salmon net are dry and bright. Bankside willows tilt from summer green to autumn gold. Light wind, no longer warm, riffles the
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 17
‘“I just heard someone shout ‘Parklife!’ and turned round to find a fist in my face,” said one Oasis fan.’
Gang Of Rabid Blur Fans Jump Oasis Concert Goers, Police On The Scene
A FEUD long thought to be left in the 90s along with the Rachel haircut, The Troubles and decent pensions, police in Dublin have today arrested 46 Blur fanatics who gathered to target rival fans …
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The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social · Aug 7
What happens when the old contract between science and society no longer fits?

This week, Prof. Heather Douglas unpacks the legacy of the value-free ideal, examines research ethics & funding — and proposes a new social contract for science. This was an illuminating conversation.

Listen now! 🎧
S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract
The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode
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Tom Good 🦋🐑🐴🐕🦊🐮🐖🐗🐱🦅🐇🐦🐝🐞🌳🌱🎶🥾🍺🏏 @tofuratitomgood.bsky.social · Aug 7
I saw this after yesterday's show and it seemed very apt in relation to the first hour's topic...
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Aug 5
Stars (1936) — A.E. Housman
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · Aug 5
dude, your soda and your boots rock
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ruthburns.bsky.social @ruthburns.bsky.social · Aug 2
Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.
A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Jul 31
A must read for serious early modernists.
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Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social · Jul 29
two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
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