One hundred years ago today, Robert Goddard launched the first modern fueled rocket beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight. Article in @theconversation.com by Michael Carrafiello theconversation.com/the-first-mo...

At 13:00 (UTC+1), the sunlight that passes through the center of the circle at the top of the totem marks a point on the slab that traces an elongated figure eight over the course of the year: the analemma. The zodiac constellations, days, and months have been marked. This is a solar calendar. 🧪⚛️🔭

Quan pensem en l’origen de la vida, hi ha un gran salt entre les primeres molècules i el famòs LUCA o primer ancestre universal. Però, què passa enmig de tot això i com ho unim? ✍️ @julipereto.bsky.social i @pablocarb.bsky.social (@i2sysbio.es @uv.es @csic.es)

“Belief vs. evidence” by Brian Alston. ‘Most individuals do not choose between belief and evidence. Instead, they continuously negotiate between them—integrating data, experience, intuition, values, and trust.’ open.substack.com/pub/briancal... 🧪🔭⚛️

Review on The Reinvention of Science by Kyle Cudworth, former director Yerkes Observatory. “One does not need to be a physicist to read and benefit from the book… readers should take time to enjoy the many stories of interesting characters and the fun historical tidbits”🧪⚛️🔭 doi.org/10.56315/PSC...

The Star of Bethlehem. In Giotto’s fresco The Adoration of the Magi, the painter represents the star as a comet. Giotto was able to observe Halley’s Comet in 1301. This comet, with a period of 76 years, was alo observed in the year 12 BCE; therefore, it could not have been the star of Bethlehem🧪⚛️🔭.

Happy solstice! 🌍❄️ Today (Dec 21) at 16:03 (CET or UTC+1) winter officially begins. Shortest day of the year, but your noon shadow will be the longest. From now on, days slowly start getting longer again. Animation by NAAP labs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 🧪⚛️🔭#astronomy

“A century of modern cosmology” by Wendy Freedman, “These measurements have given rise to the “Hubble tension,” a persistent and intriguing discrepancy in the current rate of cosmic expansion, which continues to challenge modern understanding of cosmology” 🧪🔭⚛️Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Science has always been marketed, from 18th-century coffeehouse demos of Newton’s ideas to today’s TikTok explainers” by Beth DuFault 🧪⚛️🔭. See also “Bubbles and Influencers” (Chapter 3 of The Reinvention of Sicence) @theconversation.com theconversation.com/science-has-...

Lean a @aberron.bsky.social "Avi Loeb y los científicos que se pasan al ‘lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razón duerme en casa". Hablamos del papel de los 'influencers' en ciencia en "The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance"🧪⚛️🔭 www.eldiario.es/1_c3aebe?utm...

Fascinated by the comet 3I/ATLAS and Prof Avi Loeb’s hypotheses? Watch the short film “Bow Shock” by Javier Díez. In the movie, astronomers spot an electromagnetic “bow wave”. A sudden deceleration of the wave suggests it is could be caused by an alien spacecraft. ⚛️🔭🧪 youtube.com/watch?v=fwZP...

Dinosaurs & Astrophysics: Rethinking Science: “…when an idea is accepted as dogma by the community, it is difficult to overthrow it, regardless of whether it is true or false.” From www.vu.lt/en/news-even... 🧪🔭⚛️

Compelling account of some of the most important questions in science, both historical and contemporary, showing how understanding develops, how wrong ideas can halt progress, and how the wrong people sometimes get the credit. Sample reads @ doi.org/10.1142/q0394 🧪🔭⚛️

Scientists Vicent J. Martínez and Bernard J. T. Jones discussing the research published in their book "The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance." Event chaired by Sonia Antoranz Contera, Professor of Biological Physics at Oxford Univesity. 🧪⚛️🔭 youtu.be/Ue0rz2hmcZ4?...

You can now see the conversation on the book: "The Reinvention of Science" held at the Instituto Cervantes (London). The same venue where the event with @irenevalmore.bsky.social about her wonderful book #Papyrus took place. See the quote from Richard Dawkins in our book.🧪⚛️🔭 youtu.be/Ue0rz2hmcZ4?...

OTD (November, the 11th), in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation of Cassiopeia. In Valencia, shepherds and lime burners were surprised to see the celestial intruder. Page of the book "The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance"🧪⚛️🔭

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Rainbow over the Tower of London

The conversation about the book “The Reinvention of Science” that will take place on Tuesday the 28th (18:30 UK time) will be broadcasted. Get free tickets in go.uv.es/S9LaQ1j to receive the link for streaming. More about the book, including a booktrailer www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... 🧪🔭⚛️

On the Hubble tension and the dark energy. bigthink.com/starts-with-... by @startswithabang.bsky.social. Read also theconversation.com/dark-energy-... 🧪🔭⚛️

Next Tuesday October the 28th, at the Instituto Cervantes (London), we will have a conversation about the book: "The Reinvention of Science" with authors Bernard J. T. Jones and Vicent J. Martínez, chaired by Prof. Sonia Antoranz Contera. In person and online, free tickets at go.uv.es/S9LaQ1j 🧪⚛️🔭

Nos vemos este miércoles, 8 de octubre, en Córdoba. Hablaremos de "La Reinvención de la Ciencia. De la extinción de los dinosaurios a la materia oscura en el universo". A las 19:30h en el Rectorado de la Universidad de Córdoba 🧪🔭⚛️ @cordobaciencia.bsky.social @cienciasuco.bsky.social

Leaving Vilnius after a fruitful week of work at the Astronomical Observatory in Moletai and at the University's Physics Department where I gave a talk to a large and interested audience: "What killed the dinosaurs? and other science stories that you were wrongly told”. Many thanks to ACEBaltic🧪🔭⚛️

Next Thursday, September 25, 15:00h, at Vilnius University, Lithuania: “What killed the dinosaurs? And other science stories you were wrongly told”.🧪🔭⚛️🦕🌋☄️

Today, September 22nd, is the autumnal equinox. A good day to try this problem from the book "Fundamental Astronomy" by Karttunen et al. (Springer). Are the sentences underlined in red and in blue correct? Hint: The sequence happens in Havana, let's say on September 22nd. Repost and try it!🧪⚛️🔭

The mathgenealogy.org allows us to reconstruct our academic genealogy: I was a student of B. Jones, who in turn was a student of M. Rees, who in turn was a student of D. Sciama... and so, in 40 steps, we arrive at Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Many of us are descendants of Persian and Byzantine scholars!🧪⚛️🔭

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Reviewed by Isaac Randel 🧪🔭⚛️🦕🌋☄️ www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

“With a remarkable eye for dramatic detail…the book makes a persuasive case…An authoritative look at one of the most misunderstood cataclysms in the planet’s history.” Foreword magazine on Gerta Keller's THE LAST EXTINCTION. Full review here: bit.ly/46xrZzu @diversionbooks.bsky.social

Princeton paleontologist Gerta Keller's book, "The Last Extinction", is being published tomorrow, September 9th. "The Reinvention of Science" already addressed the debate on the extinction of the dinosaurs: a bolid impact (Alvarez) or extreme volcanism in India (Keller) 🧪⚛️🔭🦕@lissawarren.bsky.social

Yes, you are right. In the Preface of the book we talk🧪 about science and truth: "Our “true” is just the ideas (theories, hypotheses, models and scenarios) that agree most closely with the results of observations and experiments" at a given moment. 🧪⚛️🔭

Engaging article by Dr. Sara Giordano in @theconversation.com. The book “The Reinvention of Science” by Jones, Martinez & Trimble contains an extensive history of how science evolved through controversy, suppression, and the desire to mantain the status quo. 🧪🔭⚛️ theconversation.com/scientific-o...

Review in Amazon by the cosmologist Jaan Einasto, on “The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma an Ignorance”. “An excellent and well written book on history of wide range of natural sciences, both historical and modern. written by best expert” 🧪 🔭⚛️ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Ei...

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2... 🧪🔭⚛️

The morning in the "Picos de Europa" National Park. Spain - 2025 🥾 #hiking #nature #mountains #sunrise #landscapes

Claro que te entendemos. ¡Qué maravilla de cuadro (Los cazadores en la nieve de Pieter Brueghel el Viejo) y de libro (#Loscielosretratados)

Altísimas concentraciones de monóxido de carbono (CO) generado por los pavorosos incendios del noroeste peninsular. Los confinamientos en localidades afectadas por el humo de los incendios están justificados. (Captura del monitor de mapas de @MeteoredES).

Does the Universe expand faster than the speed of light? by @startswithabang.bsky.social. I talked about this question in the small book: “Abriendo las puertas del cielo” (in Spanish) in a couple of pages ending with a wonderful quote from Cecilia Payne.🧪🔭⚛️📚 bigthink.com/starts-with-...

The International Space Station (ISS) passing in front of the Moon this morning (August 15, 2025) photographed by Alicia Lozano and Vicent Peris from the Aras de los Olmos Observatory (Seestar S50 + Canon EosR) and the ISS and the Moon photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis in 2011 (NASA) 🧪🔭⚛️🌖

El origen astrofísico de la señal Wow! francis.naukas.com/2025/08/15/e...

Review on “The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance” by @jipereziglesias.bsky.social #historyofscience ‘The subtitle refers the legend HC SVNT DRACONES’ 🧪🔭⚛️🗃️https://mappingignorance.org/2024/04/09/the-reinvention-of-science-slaying-the-dragons-of-dogma-and-ignorance/

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This is a fantastic new @chanda.bsky.social. I hope to read it soon. Your description is very promising. A poem by Alexander Pope, introduced to me by my co-author Virginia Trimble, led us to write "The Reinvention of Science." By the way, I'm just finishing your first book. #womeninstem 🧪⚛️🔭

@rauchway.bsky.social I would like to be on the “What’s History” list.

Here is the article header with a dialogue made up of two Shakespeare quotes about the stars used as an epigraph.

OTD in 1919 Margaret Burbidge was born. She was the first author of a 1957 article titled "Synthesis of Elements in Stars" that explains the production of elements present in the Earth and the stars. Shakespeare quotes. Photo (1971) from Wikipedia Michael Webb - Hulton Archive. #womeninstem 🧪⚛️🔭

Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🔭She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The bolide impact that created the Chicxulub crater (Alvarez’s hypothesis) or the extreme volcanism that produced the Deccan Traps in India as paleontologist Gerta Keller argues? We talk about this topic in “The Reinvention of Science” #womeninstem 🧪🔭⚛️🦕🌋☄️

The book “The Glass Universe” by Dava Sobel tells the story of the women astronomers at Harvard, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming and Antonia Maury, and the support of Mary Anna Draper. Their work was essential to the birth of Astrophysics. #womeninstem 🧪🔭⚛️.

How far away are we from the location of the Big Bang? by @startswithabang.bsky.social “the expanding Universe means the Big Bang wasn’t an explosion that happened at a point, but rather was the beginning of a relentless expansion that started at a given time”🧪🔭⚛️ open.substack.com/pub/startswi...

Compelling account of some of the most important questions in science, both historical and contemporary, showing how understanding develops, how wrong ideas can halt progress, and how the wrong people sometimes get the credit. Sample reads and book trailer 🧪🔭⚛️ www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...