Pirate baby, 2010

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Now that there are no more jobs at all academia has finally become meritocratic

The first paper I wrote in graduate school isn’t that bad. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What we always order after we go for a hike

Germany dreaming of Italy

View of Como

Continental Divide looks bleak

Boreas Pass Road near Breckenridge

Grove

As we keep saying: when the humanities are in trouble, the sciences are, too; generally, at UK universities, the sciences are cross-subsidised by the arts and humanities. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment. Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out.

First snow in the mountains

Twelve years ago

12 years ago today. My daughter is still giving me the same look of shock and confusion.

Gordon Craig

Trump reacts to appeals court striking down his tariffs

Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Antiques in Paris

Hello

Prairie stickweed

Fake lake

La Roche aux Oiseaux

I ascribe these breaches of public decorum to the tone set by the current administration

Walking

The point of getting up

Join us in Berlin on the 29th!

They. Are. Nazis. I don't know how else to say this.

Joshua Tree, 2019

What Were the Japanese Thinking? (August 2023, Volume 68, Issue 5) www.americanheritage.com/what-were-ja...

For those interested in the historiography cup.columbia.edu/book/the-col...

Public bathroom, France

Here's an interview about my research and career in the history of science www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGtB...

Tourist magnet

Droning cicadas

Lyon

Barbarians at the Gate www.imdb.com/title/tt0106...

Guanella Pass

The forest is nice

My book is on sale for $25.48! Join the thousands of people whose lives have been changed by the story of Emil du Bois-Reymond. www.amazon.com/Emil-Bois-Re...

i'm sorry my review is late i meant to read it weeks ago but the writing was actively hostile to comprehension each paragraph a slow erosion of my will to live

It was a privilege to interview @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social for @awaisaftab.bsky.social’s Psychiatry on the Margins, where we discuss the 19th C scientist Emil Du Bois-Raymond’s famous dictum regarding consciousness: “Ignoramus et ignorabimus“, or “we are ignorant and we will remain ignorant.”

Heads of State: The Comedy

Perfect day seven years ago

Isaac Bashevis Singer in Miami Beach, 1981. Photo by Nathan Benn.

I wrote this about science and I don't think I'm ever going to write anything better.