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Very happy with today's presentations until sofar, excited about giving mine later today, hopefully warming up the audience for @naomioreskes.bsky.social keynote in the Institution's famous theatre! Thanks @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social for organizing this!

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It is easy to mix up Leo and Louis. I pity the poor students taking history exams in the future, mixing up popes and French kings. 'Leo the Fourteenth? Ah, you mean that guy from 'L'Eglise, c'est moi'? Did you know he inherited a lot of benefices from Francis I?'

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Young pope, old name. The last Leo modernized the Church, published the Rerum Novarum, had to deal with Bismarck and capitalism, and became one of the longest sitting popes. They have voted in office a US pope who will be there for a while, saying hi to one American president after another.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When I feel like I need energy to teach, I will use Wagner's opening of Das Rheingold, but instead of having the sopranos sing I immediately skip to this song by David Bowie, here performed live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuDJ...

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NSC is zoveel meer dan alleen Pieter Omtzigt, het is óók een verzameling opportunistische conservatieve Kamerleden zonder duidelijk plan.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Climate TRACE shows you where and when greenhouse gas emissions are occurring.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Yes yes yes, madman Realpolitik always works very well in... [reads hastily written notes of online course International Relations 101] eh... economically dominating the world system.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Rutte's NATO is changing climate into 'operational environment'. That sounds like using 'special operation' instead of war. Importantly, this does NOT mean they deny climate change. It means what was public becomes a military secret. Climate change becomes privileged knowledge for armies.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Historians of science were brutally treated in the 1970s, never forget. #historySTM #historyofscience #historyofmeteorology

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Yup. We are him at the end of the video.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Actually, this is a refreshing analogy.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Job Claxon: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

This was 1778 and King Louis XIV was much more gracious to his guest than the American King Kong this evening was. I hope that this time it does not take 11 years for the people to come to their senses.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Western Civ 2.0: from broligarchs misreading Plato to the destruction of NATO

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Dutch people selling books in Frankfurt: why are you looking at me with forks and knives in your hands... (from: Daniel Stolzenberg, 'The Holy Office in the Republic of Letters', Isis (2019))

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Sigh. Fear and loathing in clickbait tv and newspaper land. Foreigners are over represented in the German news when it comes to violent crime. Luckily there are no vital elections coming, where say, climate, democracy and war in Ukraine demand protective policies.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes you have to harmonize to keep from crying. 😓🎶 Original song by @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 10 comments

This.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A bunch of needs in labcoats: "If we comply with the fascists demands they'll surely let us keep up our research" Those same scientists months or years before: "Eh, I'll skip history class. I wanna be a scientists. Not a historian lol"

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Inventing a sci fi world where one political party's program can be described as: 'give us four years to try to repair the chaos created by the right, and if that underwhelms, sure bring in/back the entropic fascists, because they kill your loved ones but at least they accomplish what they promise.'

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps because many free speech liberals were not even liberals to begin with

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

It is not a good thing for a historian of German science in the 1930s to have an Aha-erlebnis all the time. Or perhaps more a 'Oh nein'-erlebnis. Anyone interested in asking for a grant for historical research into German university laws after 1933?

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

My timeline is filled with people tagging the @royalsociety.org to protest their continuing endorsement of Elon Musk, FRS. Good. More people should do it. A vid I took when I got to handle the incredible Fellows’ Book and read all those inspirational scientists’ names alongside a businessman’s

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

When we were grad students in the hist. of science, Roger Turner developed a concept that we need: a category of science called “infrastructural sciences” They’re operated by the state, and since the administration is working to break as many as possible, we should think about what they are. 🧵

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

Pankaj Mishra. Worth reading.

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

Weerbedrijven klagen KNMI aan om oneerlijke concurrentie. Ze willen geld blijven verdienen aan data die ze gratis hebben gekregen van KNMI. Verdienmodel o.a. Buienradar: advertenties/verkoop persoons- en locatiegegevens, aldus VK. Huiswerk: Michael Lewis, Fifth Risk. www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bf742c17/

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

First history, then farce, and now we have farce squared

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect dialectical scheme we can also use for other historical events/periods. It shows how different kinds of narratives develop afterwards, first the heroic actors, then the critical structuralists, and finally tenured academic empaths like us saying 'ah yes, but we should not forget about'...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Only space superiority? Yes, it is also often about the critical minerals waiting to be mined from under the melting icecap that could be used to make the batteries of Teslas. Others beg to differ: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is often like that sibling who says to you "I ORDER YOU TO EAT THAT FOOD", just the moment you bring your fork with food close to your mouth. He transforms historical processes that are already happening because of his billionaire friends into dictatorial decisions ex post.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Not often do we see an official FRS, Fellow of the Royal Society, performing a heil hitler salute live in front of such a large audience. Surely the Royal Society is already investigating and will take a prompt decision in the coming days.

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

Trump wants Greenland in order to do another manifest destiny, Greenland cold air makes Trump move his inauguration inside. 'O, vent du Nord [...] tu chasses l’odeur du crime pestilent' (Alfred Desrochers, Canadian poet.)

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Oh no no no Mickey no no no no

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A picture of the full crew of the Siboga expedition, 1900 (from the Special Collections, UvA). Professional me: yes, this is empire. Non-professional me: THAT CUTE BLACK CAT ON THE LEFT IS LOOKING AT ME PSPSPSPSPS. (The other tabby cat three hoomans to the right thinks: ef this.)

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How do geohumanities scholars and digital mapmakers deal with uncertainty, with respect to their historical counterparts? In our recently published Special Issue, Dr. Rombert Stapel reflects on the necessary steps to bridge knowledge gaps: journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

I am 45 in 45^2, like all people from 1979/1980 are or have been or will be for a while. The last time this happened was with people born in 1891 or 1892, who had at least one day of being 44 in 44^2. People born in 2183 or 2184 will be really unique: they will be 3 in 3^7 and 13 in 13^3.

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