The journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS) is inviting short essays (800-1K words) revisiting "classic" works in the history of the natural sciences. These will be collected in a special issue planned for 2027. If you have an idea, please contact me. (I'm an associate editor)

An interesting and thoughtful review, that asks what #histsci was/is/will be. I'm also sympathetic to Dear - the Q of how science gained authority, and was shaped in the process, underlies much of what I do - but we gain from research on other kinds of natural knowledge. But is that #histsci?

Apparently what use this site for now is posting book reviews. The latest of Peter Dear’s The World as We Know It. No acknowledgments allowed in press, but thanks due to @coreenanne.bsky.social and Ludmilla Jordanova. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JAHQP...

It is surprising how so few of the many histories of eugenics centre the voices of disabled people. Uncovering these perspectives contradicts all previous narratives of eugenics in interwar Britain

"Historians of science interested in the 1980s [...] can profitably learn from one another by comparing how scientists of different stripes moved through the greedy waters they swam in." Joseph Martin's review of Greedy Science: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Breaking my social media silence because this #histsci review was oodles of fun to write, and I hope it's also fun to read. www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour...

Thanks to @patrickmccray.bsky.social and Michael Gordin for the chance to review this one. rdcu.be/eMsRb

That tracks.

The Eisenhower administration dismissed the director of the National Bureau of Standards (the predecessor of NIST) in 1953. As Joseph D. Martin writes, scientists suspected political interference with the agency’s research, fought back, and won. #histSTM #longread

I'm gonna open an NFL bar in London. The Drop Back and Pint.

I support efforts to restrict social media access for youth. Access to technology in an individual child's development should recapitulate the development of technology through human history. That's why, a soon as they can crawl, I start my kids off with fire.

Imagine the world that might have been had Peter, Paul, or Mary thought to nip into a hardware store.

Cooper pairs

cricket, or, as I like to call it, tea-ball

A jigsaw puzzle blog called piecenik.

I misread this headline in exactly the way you would expect. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CfP: How Sciences End Oxford, 11-13 July 2025 Deadline: 31 January 2025 Submit 250-word abstracts to [email protected] [I'm broadcasting this on behalf of Joe Martin, Michelle Aroney & Alex Aylward, none of whom AFAIK are on this site yet]

This is not the #future we were promised.

Hey!… Uhh, fuck you too, brochure on the history of measurement!

Can you believe we made it out of the Cold War alive?