Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Light a candle. In the UK, blatant corruption is still frowned upon, mostly.
George MonbiotThis is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nolan’s Odyssey is a commercial film, if you want to watch it, do so, if you don’t want to watch it, then don’t. Nobody is forcing you to do either. If you watch it and like it, fine. If you watch it and don’t like it, it almost certainly won’t be the first time you’ve watched a film you don’t like.
#HPS ⚛️
Will ThomasThe Seventh AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 21-25, 2027. Supplementary travel funding provided. The call for submissions is now open and closes November 15. Details here: www.aip.org/history/earl...
As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)
John GrindrodReally one of the most important postwar sites in Britain
'I'm an atheist, so I will have a humanist funeral... 'I want to come into "Nothing Compares 2 U by Prince, and disappear to Cocktails For Two by Spike Jones. 'My ashes can be scattered on Hampstead Heath. I love it there.’ humanists.uk/2026/07/29/b...
Bill Oddie OBE (1941–2026): ‘I’m an atheist, so I will have a humanist funeral’Humanists UK is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the naturalist, broadcaster, and humanist Bill Oddie OBE, who has died at the age of 85. He told a journalist in 2012: ‘I'm an atheist, so I wi...humanists.ukHumanists UKBill Oddie has died aged 85. We'll certainly be thinking of this quote today. #Humanist #Nature #Birdwatching #Humanists #HumanistsUK #BillOddie
Meet "The unknown animal", in German: Das unbekante Thier. Never to be seen in Europe before, says the advertising print of the 1820s also. To me it looks like a bear, but this is not the main point of this starting 🧵, follow me along for wild animals being imported to Europe ...
Interesting LARGE manuscript of astronomical tables that appears to have been copied out years after the earlier publication of the print version. Link to the digital copy of the MS and a slightly longer video description here: find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949... #HistSTM #MedievalSky
[Calendarium and ephemerides]. · Find · Penn LibrariesAccess '[Calendarium and ephemerides].' through the Penn Libraries catalog.find.library.upenn.eduSchoenberg Institute for Manuscript StudiesToday's manuscript is a copy of the Calendarium and Ephemerides as published by Regiomontanus in 1474. The Calendarium, for 1475-1530, gives information on lunar and solar eclipses, the length of days, and the signs of the zodiac and planets. #medievalsky 🔗 https://bit.ly/44BxXxN
Jodrell Bank is a piece of world radio #astronomy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site still leading research & training new astronomers🔭🧪⚛️ Shutting it down to save a tiny fraction of science budget is short-sighted. We can't let it become a rusting monument to discoveries never made. #SaveJodrellBank
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine HeymansI'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
