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A fun architecture / geography / politics quiz here: 36 mystery European parliament buildings for you to work out. (in fact the cover of a fascinating book by @sophiapsarra.bsky.social which is also open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/parliam...)

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The cover of this book makes a great quiz!

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If we need to reach the stars to survive, we don’t deserve to reach the stars. Book review: ‘The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire’ by Dr Henry Gee eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...

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I have discovered over the last 94 days that the cancellation of longitudinal scientific studies is deeply gutting to me. The very fact that humanity ever got its shit together enough to collaboratively study the world around us, passing the torch btw generations, is evidence that we can be better

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Just remembering the 2009 Identity: 8 Rooms, 9 Lives exhibition @wellcomecollection.bsky.social when we were able to present issues of sex and gender without controversy.

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First swallow today

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Christiaan Huygens, astronomer, physicist, engineer and inventor, the greatest scientist on the European stage between Galileo and Newton, was born on this day in 1629. His father, the diplomat and poet, Constantijn Huygens, recorded the event. . . . 1/4

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Kudos to Robin McKie for this (and for some nice review notices in the past!): ‘We certainly have the intellectual capacity to halt the changes that lie ahead.’ . . . www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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All sorts have washed up at @sainsburycentre.bsky.social’s World of Water exhibition. Faves: Athanasius Kircher’s fiery earth; George Vincent’s Dutch Fair on Yarmouth Beach; Julian Charrière torching an iceberg; and Maggi Hambling

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Namens @walburgpersmag ik 3 exemplaren van het interessante boek ‘Huygens en Hofwijck’ verloten! Interesse? Retweet dan dit bericht en volg mij. De winnaar wordt op vrijdagavond 11 april 2025 om 20.30 uur bekend gemaakt.

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Texts from many of my books and articles, even some from decades ago, have been stolen by Meta to train its AI. This is in clear contravention of copyright law. I’ve written to protest this to Meta and to Lisa Nandy MP, and am now joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #DoTheWriteThing protest

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Loving Boulez Day on Radio 3. They should do this sort of thing more often. Then we’d all get used to this fantastic music, and even get to like it!

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I love this. A journey imagined, never made. Matthew of Paris’s 13th century itinerary map for pilgrimage to Jerusalem

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Fretty on the Norfolk coast today

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Happy ADMOVERE OCVLIS DISTANTIA SIDERA NOSTRIS, VVVVVVVCC CRRHNBQX Day to those who celebrate.

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Word of advice for element collectors: when it comes to plutonium, best stick to the homoeopathic version! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Spring has officially sprung. But #equinox aside, how do we tell the season is here? @hoooaw.bsky.social looks at Robert Marsham’s Indications of Spring (1789), a lifelong calendrical project by Britain’s first phenologist — publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-s...

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My spring bouquet! (If only I had pieces on all the other seasons ready to roll.)

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What’s got into Wikipedia?

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Nice bonus question about Christiaan Huygens, Horologium Oscillatorum and the cycloid on University Challenge just now. Perhaps they’ve been reading my book 😉

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Spring is springing. Saw the first peacock butterfly yesterday. A good time to bone up on Robert Marsham, who launched the scientific study of the signs of spring: publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-s...

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If only there were an equivalent painting of Norwich in the aftermath of the ‘Great Blow’ of 1648, when 98 barrels of gunpowder were accidentally ignited . . . (the 2018 book about it uses the van der Poel picture of Delft on the cover!)

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Wonderful to see de Keyser’s charming portrait of Sir Constantijn Huygens as the Guardian’s ‘Masterpiece of the week’: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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On this day in 1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Peace talks made little progress until the Dutch Raid on the Medway in June 1667. Great job.

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From the conclusion of my Christiaan Huygens biography, Dutch Light. Now unexpectedly and horribly pertinent.

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Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives. An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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AI is profiting from human creativity – isn’t it time creators got their fair share? A fair deal for creators isn’t just about making things right, it is essential for the future of creativity and AI. Find out more: societyofauthors.org #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

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Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

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Finding this Yourcenar very much the Wolf Hall of alchemy. In case you were in search of such a thing. (In English translation as The Abyss).

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Deuteroscopy

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Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

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Just back from Belgium. Trying to keep the mood.

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