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Thank you!

Thank you!

And here is the table of contents: We will walk through the many lives of tulips, palm trees, sea coconuts, coffee, mummies and those who remade knowledge about them: naturalists, physicians, flower breeders, bazaar artists, Orientalist scholars, and enslaved Muslims.

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.

A smiling snake with sunglasses from the 17th century (or maybe I'm just a bit jet-lagged).

I am not here much these days - life runs too fast to be here regularly. But let’s go back to the time honoured tradition of the now defunct #twitter: #FF! For more top #histsci follow: @pratik-hstm.bsky.social @duyguyildirim.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social @simondolet.bsky.social

Also, a good review of Medicine on a Larger Scale, ed @ahlie.bsky.social Jeremy Greene and me, available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org A collection on the global history of social medicine (which can still be taught outside the US) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histstm

My review of Robert Morrison’s “Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,”in Isis: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/74…

I am very pleased and honored to serve on the organizing team of The Commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (CHOSTIS) as a counselor for the coming years. Here is the info about CHOSTIS: islamsci.org

Islamic ScienceCommission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societiesislamsci.org

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

Delighted to share that my book DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) has been awarded CBI's Human-Computer Interaction History Prize! Especially honored to follow last year's winners, Tom Mullaney and Brad Myers. Grateful to CBI for the award and for supporting work in computing history!

Two of the many images that will be featured in my forthcoming book. So this is really happening!

University of Pittsburgh Press are having a sale for this month, so you can pick up a copy of my book, The Age of Mammals, for a standard hardback price of $42 (rather than the usual more academic price of $70) Link here, and code is 29INT40 : upittpress.org/books/978082... #FossilFriday

Anita Guerrini's review of "Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800" is a feature review, free to read, in the latest RQ issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The book is edited by Sarah Peters Kernan & Helga Müllneritsch; it's published in the series Food Culture, Food History before 1900.

Normalize reviewing as a form of procrastination.

I started looking at this reversal between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in The State Drug but more research is needed on the global commerce of theriac!

The Ottoman elite had their coffee with mixed ingredients often with sweeteners, musk, and ambergris.

Second, coffee, which was an exotica for Europe, was then sold to the Ottoman Empire as a colonial commodity. The third, of course, is the tulip.

Even when we look at just three key items, we can see the Ottoman Empire’s place within the global economy at the beginning of the 18th century: first, theriac, a valuable medicinal compound, initially moved from the Ottoman Empire to Italy, but later this direction was reversed. +

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAABeyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...www.historiansofislamicart.org