At this point, I don’t trust anything I read about the Israel-Iran War. I have lost sleep trying to follow all the bombings, but I am still not sure just what has been destroyed, how many people have died. Even the footage is too poor by 2025 standards.

Some shots from Istanbul Pentax k200 + Pentax 50mm 1.7 #CCD

Welcome to the Turkish version of the simulation.

This may be an “oh my god!” moment for now, but most historians and sociologists of science know that it will start looking like he said/she said to the reading public in a couple of years or maybe less. Time changes so much.

Some photos from the Chanticleer Gardens Pentax K200, 18-135 #CCD

It looks like we’ll have to learn to live without Internet before we learn to live with AI.

'UK universities are an incredibly cheap place to fund research. The exact cost recovery varies but overall universities only secure about 60% of the cost of research (excluding unfunded scholarship) from grants. The shortfall is paid by fees from teaching international students' 1/2

Family stroll through Bryn Mawr’s beautiful campus with the Pentax K200 (CCD Sensor) + Pentax 18-135

Ah yes, also known by different names such as “the West,” “world hegemony” and “empire”

This kind of plausible deniability gaslighting combo is very common in the United States. It’s not just the Republican Party and not just the politicians. It is almost like a widespread metastasis originating from a cancerous corporate culture.

I don’t mean to gainsay an eminent economist and a fellow countryman, but US did not become powerful because of its science. It deliberately developed its scientific infrastructure because and after it became rich and powerful. JB Conant said it best in 1948. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looks very interesting.

As this is a less salty platform than Twitter, let me share some low sodium photos from Mérida, where the annual History of Science Society annual meeting took place last weekend.

Maybe this is because MA is doing alright with the way things are and OK is struggling. I think we need to think more seriously about cause and effect in this election.

I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h

Today, Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine, Huda Fakhreddine and Eve Troutt Powell have filed a motion to stop Penn from handing in documents to the Committee on Education and the Workforce. This is the new McCarthyism. The witchhunt has to stop.

Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...