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Thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social and Michael Gordin for the chance to review this one. rdcu.be/eMsRb
Adjectival science
rdcu.be
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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That tracks.
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
AD-X2: When US Politics Take on Science
www.historytoday.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards (the predecessor of NIST) in 1953. As Joseph D. Martin writes, scientists suspected political interference with the agency’s research, fought back, and won. #histSTM #longread
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The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards in 1953. Suspecting political interference with the agency’s research, scientists fought back—and won.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I'm gonna open an NFL bar in London.

The Drop Back and Pint.
July 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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I support efforts to restrict social media access for youth. Access to technology in an individual child's development should recapitulate the development of technology through human history.

That's why, a soon as they can crawl, I start my kids off with fire.
March 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Imagine the world that might have been had Peter, Paul, or Mary thought to nip into a hardware store.
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Cooper pairs
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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cricket, or, as I like to call it, tea-ball
March 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A jigsaw puzzle blog called piecenik.
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I misread this headline in exactly the way you would expect.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cuny graduate school rolls back pregnant students’ protections after Trump letter
Move comes amid Trump’s overturn of Title IX guidance, limiting schools’ liability in sexual misconduct cases
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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CfP: How Sciences End
Oxford, 11-13 July 2025
Deadline: 31 January 2025
Submit 250-word abstracts to [email protected]

[I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]
CALL FOR PAPERS: How Sciences End Dates: 11–13 July 2025 Location: University of Oxford, UK Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 Conference Theme and Goals Historians have studied extensively how sciences begin—but how do they end? This is a crucial question for understanding how the labour of knowledge-making evolves. Previous attention to the founding, disciplining, and professionalisation of individual sciences has provided robust frameworks for thinking through the birth and growth of knowledge-making communities. Far less attention has been directed toward how those same communities decay, dissipate, or evolve beyond the contemporary boundaries of science. This conference seeks to cultivate case studies of the ends of sciences, and thereby to motivate a new approach to thinking about the developmental trajectories of scientific disciplines, communities, institutions, and the ordering of expert knowledge. A further aim is to strengthen the community of scholars with a shared interest in studying the ends of sciences. Submission Process Submissions should be sent to howsciencesend@gmail.com. Please title the email “SciEnds Abstract Submission” and include the following information in the body: - Full name as you would like it to appear on the programme - Email address - Affiliation, or how you would like to be identified on the programme - Presentation title - An abstract of no more than 250 words describing your proposed talk and how it fits the conference theme and goals. - An indication of whether you would like to be considered for travel support. (Limited funds are available to defray travel costs, with priority given to early career and insecurely employed scholars.) The submission deadline is 31 January 2025. We plan to circulate a draft program by the end of February 2025. Programme Committee Michelle Aroney (Oxford), Alex Aylward (Oxford), Joseph D. Martin (Durham)
November 25, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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This is not the #future we were promised.
October 1, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Hey!… Uhh, fuck you too, brochure on the history of measurement!
March 31, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Can you believe we made it out of the Cold War alive?
March 31, 2024 at 8:34 PM