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lest you think AC Avignonnais is but a footnote in French football's history, the great Claude Le Roy -- everyone's favorite national team coach (and currently Congo Brazzaville's manager) played 123 matches for Olympique Avignonnais (of which ACA is the successor club)!

My "You have to get an 80 on the map quiz to pass the course because you will not embarrass yourself & me in the workplace" policy is proven right once again.

Even if you weren't inclined to go along with Bernal (I think there are other bases for delineating the interactions, and I find his premise still too Eurocentric) the kind of embarrassed silence around the East Face of Helicon is rather telling...

Was once told that “The East Face of Helicon” was “Black Athena” done right. Probably not exactly true, but it was thrilling.

Recipes for Science is an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning, with historical case studies and case studies across natural and social sciences. Here's a link to the original English (2nd ed.): doi.org/10.4324/9781... #philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪

Recipes for Science, coauthored with Matteo Colombo and Cory Wright, will have a Japanese translation coming out in a few months! Here I am with Ryota Morimoto, the translator, at the recent meeting of the Asian Philosophy of Science Association in Singapore. #philsci #philsky #scicomm 🧪

Tonight I attended the launch of the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition Children In War — I was on the advisory panel, so I thought I knew what to expect, but I found it deeply moving. It’s suitable for families with children aged 8+ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Oguchi Onyewu is a reasonable comparator. He had the size and speed, but was never really able to hold down a centre half spot in a top European league. Might've been a contender If he'd started out in Europe.

Chad Ochocinco weighs in on USMNT and soccer in the US adding some needed sense into this discussion

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

This is my final instalment in a trilogy of posts on Ravi Govindia, the Conservative former leader of Wandsworth Council who first came to Britain as a refugee from Uganda, in this instance using his story to shed light on the wider trajectory of British politics since the 1970s. 🧵 #skystorians🗃️

(Maybe more accurate to say that given her Klytemnestra bit, I’d love to see her confront Creon.)

I’m confident she’d make a really good Antigone.

I would love a theater run of the Oresteia starring Lupita Nyong’o

I started substacking (link in comments). Disclosing industry connections in academia is very important. And there are reasons these influences are importantly different from the other personal commitments that can bias science.

Rejected headlines for this include: "2 tiny ptarmigan carvings unearthed from prehistoric cave in Germany" and "Two birds, one Stone Age cave." 🧪🏺

many Americans think corruption is a sign of success or canniness

Noticeably missing: corruption