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Reposted by: Iwan Rhys Morus

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I'm pleased to share the news that I have recently begun a term as co-editor of the British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS), working together with the now editor-in-chief, the brilliant Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social.
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Still going cheap. Hurry - it can’t last!
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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 21d
UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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irmorus.bsky.social
Ha! I think I wrote a couple of things for you. Forty years! Sheesh.

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irmorus.bsky.social
It's suddenly struck me. Were you features editor of Stop Press around 1984/85?
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irmorus.bsky.social
And if you happened to leave some nice reviews, I wouldn't mind at all!
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Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 21d
UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
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by Iwan Rhys Morus

irmorus.bsky.social
Oh, and there's a bridge in Brooklyn we'd like to sell you, too.
Nvidia and Microsoft bosses hail huge UK AI investment
Microsoft, Google and Nvidia have announced investments as part of a £31bn UK-US
www.bbc.co.uk
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irmorus.bsky.social
Entirely agree.
How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter
Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness
www.theguardian.com
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by Iwan Rhys Morus — Reposted by: Iwan Rhys Morus

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UK readers: if you want to buy a hardback HTVTUTTM at a paperback price, Amazon currently have it at a whopping 68% off. Worth it for the amazing dust-jacket alone:
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Buy How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Rhys Morus, Iwan (ISBN: 9781785789281) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
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irmorus.bsky.social
Drooling.
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Because it's all we can do.
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irmorus.bsky.social
I just missed out on the first printing - sold out by the time I ordered a copy. Still got mine on the 15th though, it seems!
Silmarillion dust jacket. My signature as a 13 yr old.
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irmorus.bsky.social
O, mae nhw ar eu ffordd….
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irmorus.bsky.social
Funnily enough, I can remember Don Pacifico from my History O Levels. Not diplomatic history's greatest episode I'd have thought ....

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irmorus.bsky.social
Is that really you, Wil?
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irmorus.bsky.social
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Lots of us are likely to lose our jobs (I’m at a highly expendable age) but not because of AI. It will be because the HE model in both the UK and the US is fucked.
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irmorus.bsky.social
Yes.
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irmorus.bsky.social
Fascinating Aberystwyth connection to this story:
The Welshman who broadcast Nazi propaganda to soldiers
After becoming a prisoner of war, he became a useful tool in the Nazi propaganda machine.
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Iwan Rhys Morus

irmorus.bsky.social
Rage, horror, despair, anguish, and ghastly smiles, united their hideous expressions in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a Kean.

That's Matthew Clydesdale's corpse being electrified by Andrew Ure in 1818!
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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 7
I recently had the enormous pleasure of telling @ceaubin.bsky.social why the genius Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean was my fave problematic douchebag from history.
Our podcast chat is a deep dive on a true fame monster — give it a listen here! @thisguysucked.com

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Edmund Kean with Greg Jenner
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 04/09/2025 · 1h 41m
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I recently had the enormous pleasure of telling @ceaubin.bsky.social why the genius Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean was my fave problematic douchebag from history.
Our podcast chat is a deep dive on a true fame monster — give it a listen here! @thisguysucked.com

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Edmund Kean with Greg Jenner
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 04/09/2025 · 1h 41m
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: Iwan Rhys Morus, Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings , and 9 more

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'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Reposted by: Iwan Rhys Morus

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This is a massive fail. "We made errors here" does not begin to cover it. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/02/w...
Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist
The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners r…
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by Iwan Rhys Morus

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Old but still relevant - possibly even more so now. I should update this.
The I at the Heart of the AI Storm
Speaking at the New Economy Summit in Singapore last November, Jeff Katzenberg, former chair of Disney and founder of Dreamworks Animation…
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irmorus.bsky.social
Isn’t that pretty much the opposite direction?!

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irmorus.bsky.social
Well I've voted calcite. I don't think David Brewster's ghost would forgive me if I didn't.
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Kristin Mai @kristinmaiart.bsky.social · Sep 4
I'm once again imploring everyone to vote for Iceland Spar, the Viking compass! A type of calcite used by the Vikings to navigate on cloudy days.

#TeamCalcite #MinCup25
A small, clear square of optical calcite/ Iceland spar refracting hues of blue, purple and yellow. There is a crackle quartz next to it also catching some of the light/ color.
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I'm once again imploring everyone to vote for Iceland Spar, the Viking compass! A type of calcite used by the Vikings to navigate on cloudy days.

#TeamCalcite #MinCup25
A small, clear square of optical calcite/ Iceland spar refracting hues of blue, purple and yellow. There is a crackle quartz next to it also catching some of the light/ color.
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irmorus.bsky.social
Particularly ironic given that it's documented this has happened to non-US citizens entering the US.
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irmorus.bsky.social
I'm not entirely sure I know that an ideological and occupational foot-soldier even is.
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irmorus.bsky.social
I spent some of the morning being interviewed about Harry Grindell Matthews, Death Ray inventor. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) topical as it turns out. So watch this space.
Death ray apparatus
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Universities risk being “torn apart” by diverging views on whether their role is to be creators and disseminators of knowledge, or producers of ideological and occupational foot-soldiers, writes John Ross
#academicsky
Split views about universities ‘risk tearing them apart’
Social licence ‘more fragile than people realise’ in a world where populism rules, science diplomat warns
www.timeshighereducation.com
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