Excited to hold my AH special issue on 'atomic agriculture' - in real, tangible, three-dimensional paper! 😊 Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social !

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist. buff.ly/H1WkRpn

Moral Contamination, Emotion, and the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement* url:https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/48/3/424/7612716

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

$9.5 billion of biomedical research support, 2,100 grants, have already been terminated at NIH www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...

The JHB issue 58.1, which includes part of our Topical Collection on the "Legacies of Asilomar," is finally out! Enjoy your reading! link.springer.com/journal/1073... #histsci #histtech #histSTM #HPS #STS

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/9781...

What a time to be a historian...

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

History is under unprecedented attack from the Trump administration. We have made free access for one month this important article on the origins & vision of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, established in 2016. academic.oup.com/hwj...

my ghiblified selfie

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

Why establishing a EUROPEAN laboratory? - Max Perutz interviewed by Graham Chedd for the "New Scientist" (29 February 1968) @embo.org @embl.org

The Topical Collection "Legacies of Asilomar" I co-edited with Luis Campos for the Journal of the History of Biology, is online! It includes essays by Matthew Cobb, Doogab Yi, Robin Wolfe Scheffler, and me (with S. de Chadarevian), all available in Open Access! link.springer.com/collections/...

My and Soraya’s article “Asilomar across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise” has just been published and is now available in Open Access! link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Enjoy your reading! @embo.org @embl.org

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

Get moving, Europe. This will be what it takes.

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

And here we go—Trump blaming Ukraine for 'starting' the war, while the entire Italian press echoes Russian propaganda about 'dialogue' and 'peace'...

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America. Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

The environmental law attorney and climate expert Vadim Ni, Kazakhstan, warns that the Caspian Sea stands on the brink of a nature disaster and calls for global action to prevent an ecological collapse. #environment #climate timesca.com/environmenta...

Squirrels eating my flowers at St. Valentine's Day. I feel like there's a hidden message here 😁

In light of today's devastating announcement of a 75% cut to NIH overhead, it scarcely seems newsworthy that couple dozen COVID contrarians are cosplaying PNAS. But two of them are slated to lead the NIH and the FDA. Is this how they'll stand up for science?

I Ran U.S.A.I.D. Killing It Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Cinquant'anni fa Asilomar ha dimostrato che la scienza sa essere responsabile. Anzi no, ha diffuso l'idea che la genetica è pericolosa, seminando diffidenza. Le opposte letture di quel memorabile evento sono diventate un gioco delle parti 🧬

My article 'Atomic Spaghetti' is in Adam Tooze's Chartbook Top Links! Thank you very much! Top Links 628 Will IPOs recover? Worrying about France. The chances of a new pandemic & atomic spaghetti. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Join us next Monday, for this book presentation! @centrastudies.bsky.social

Looks great. Includes a chapter on Rudolf Virchow and the question in how far he was or was not a pioneer of what we now call social medicine, by yours truly.

I've always wanted to publish an article titled 'Atomic Spaghetti'. And now, I finally have! Here's the free-access author link (available for the next three months). Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural... #histsci #histtech #envhist #nukesky @dukepress.bsky.social

Take a look at our video on IAEA's mobile radioisotope laboratories of the 1960s www.fau.eu/2024/11/28/n...

The special issue I edited on Atomic Agriculture for the "Agricultural History Journal" is now available online: read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural.... The Introduction is free to access

Cultivated meat beyond bans: Ten remarks from the Italian case toward a reasoned decision-making process www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

“Post-constitutional” radical Grateful to @theunpopulist.net for publishing my piece on Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025 and an ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right, who believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn the system down.

My 'review' (more accurately, launch) of @profemmakowal.bsky.social's Haunting Biology has appeared in TAJA but not open access, alas. Interesting contributions also from David Trigger and @lynetterussell.bsky.social, as well as a response from Emma #STS #anthro @dukepress.bsky.social

Interesting piece by Robert Hassan on the impact of the typewriter on Nietzsche’s style of writing and thinking

Interesting CFP www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Tis the season...

In Hirayama's mood

“The conflicts of Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon all come together and overlap in Aleppo.” My @WSJ analysis of how events outside Syria have resulted in a stunning reversal of the Syrian war. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Bertrand Bonello, La Bête (2024). Loved it ❤️