Daniel Liu 🍜
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Historian of the life + physical sciences. About me + publications + CV + etc.:
https://dan-liu.net/
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Hi
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#organism
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Elementary Organisms - Journal of the History of Biology
In 1861 the physiologist Ernst Brücke (1819–1892) published “The Elementary Organisms,” calling for a major reform of the definition of the animal cell. An English translation of Brücke’s essay is pre...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-024-09773-9
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I dunno, maybe it has a good personality, or a sense of humor.
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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches
6 days ago
Computers are simply Not Gooey enough to be alive or create life
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Gregory Kohn
11 days ago
In the days before digital cameras I studied at the University of Ghana and lived with family in South Africa and Botswana while working for Wits Uni. I thought I lost all the photos from that period in an apartment flood a few states ago. Happily that was not the case, and I have found them!
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Frohliches Fahrplanwechseltag, for those who celebrate! 🛤️🥳
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Some historians of science like to say that objectivity is a sham, I like to say that objectivity is very funny.
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sarah jeong
19 days ago
idk whatever. something like this.
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The grim cherry on top of the grim heap of this science journal chum is that Nature Scientific Reports claims to be the "3rd most cited journal in the world," driven in part from publishing over 43,500 articles in 2025, a rate of about 125 per day. (Screenshot 9 Dec 2025)
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19 days ago
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Matthew Cobb
25 days ago
Franklin searching for the structure of DNA in 1952, with triple and quadruple strands, some of which exclude a helix. She was working with the wrong structure of the bases, so would be unable to find the right answer.
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Andreas Moser
28 days ago
Hier gibt es eine Menge Impfspaß, auch ohne Impfpass. Wie immer mit ein paar Nebensträngen, von Kanada nach Mexiko, von Polen nach Japan. Und mit viel Romantik. 💉🥰
andreas-moser.blog/2025/11/30/g...
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Die Nebenwirkungen der Grippe-Impfung
Ich bin immer skeptisch, wenn Leute auf eine Zahl oder eine Statistik starren und dann glauben, dass man daraus viel für die Wirklichkeit ableiten könne, ohne die näheren Hintergründe zu verstehen.…
https://andreas-moser.blog/2025/11/30/grippe-impfung/
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
about 2 months ago
Many are the rubes of our time, but the Q-Anoners who voted for Pedo-President three times may be the most rube and patsy that anyone can ever get. In the history of the world, 'anti-pedophile conspiracy detective accidentally makes a pedophile rapist president *twice*' may never be topped.
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Nathaniel Comfort
about 2 months ago
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson. Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
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Fishbourne Roman Palace
about 2 months ago
Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Holy god is Liquid Glass on Mac OS 26 ugly. What did they do to the Mail app, and why is the top of the Maps app inexplicably blurry?
about 2 months ago
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Tobias Niedenthal (aka hexaOrthorexia)
about 2 months ago
All is fine! BML, Plut.73.16, f.92v, c. 1250.
tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
#histmed
#bookhistory
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Catherine Rampell
2 months ago
Harvard has slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/
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For the sake of historical accuracy: the Totenkopf was not exclusively a Nazi symbol, it was a symbol commonly used in nationalist death squads in Central and Eastern Europe after 1919. Also, for the sake of historical accuracy, the Totenkopf was a symbol commonly used in nationalist death squads.
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Noam auf Gleis 13
3 months ago
Besuch an den Open Days der Fondazione FS im Depot Milano. Ab Milano Centrale fährt ein Shuttle mit restaurierten ALn668 🥰
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Michael D. Barton
3 months ago
Jane Goodall Institute announced just minutes ago that she died this morning from natural causes while in California for a speaking tour. :(
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Ainsley S
3 months ago
there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely 1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma) 2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar 3. Proceed to grow as usual 4. Repeat step 2
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Brad Bolman
3 months ago
@petervale.bsky.social
& I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!
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If this is an app it better have a geolocation feature that detects when your in a library, and change it to sound like turning or flipping pages in a book.
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4 months ago
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Charles West
4 months ago
An enchanted archive.
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Ainsley S
4 months ago
and finally, a reminder to always photograph your glabrous beetles with a diffuser. Geotrupes splendidus looks HARDLY as splendid with hard lighting.
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Ainsley S
4 months ago
OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution
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🎄🎅🏻 Tiny Tim Pierce ☃️🎁
4 months ago
The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip*
www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...
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Entomologists:
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4 months ago
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Today Sylvana was 49 x 15 cm.
#特に意味をなさない猫の計測
4 months ago
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Naomi Oreskes
5 months ago
If you have ever wondered what difference does disinformation really make, please read this:
www.kff.org/health-infor...
The kicker is not this chart, but the finding that fully 40% of Republicans think more people died from the Covid vaccine than the disease, up from 25% in 2023.
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KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: January 2025 | KFF
As Senate hearings begin for President Trump’s health nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows a decline in public trust for govern...
https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/poll-finding/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-january-2025/
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra
5 months ago
Show me your getaway vehicle.
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Furthest I've been: N: Trondheim, Norway E: Mount Tai 泰山, Shandong, China S: Mérida, Mexico W: Port Orford, Oregon, USA
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Depending on how extensive this scheme is the US might become an unsuitable place to host international conferences.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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State Department to charge some travelers $10,000 bond to get visas
The first Trump administration announced it would launch a six-month pilot of a similar program in 2020.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/state-department-visa-bonds-00492077
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Celeste Labedz
5 months ago
Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists! Assembled by the awesome
@geohenning.bsky.social
:
go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k
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I think we all did a bit better than Tom Lehrer thought we would! So far, at least. RIP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...
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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
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Forget LLM's making software and websites. I worry that some structural engineer somewhere in the world is already building a bridge, a warehouse, a 4+ story building, a crumple zone, a dyke, etc. using ChatGPT, and nobody is checking their math.
leancrew.com/all-this/202...
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ChatGPT and beam bending redux
ChatGPT has gotten better at solving a simple structural analysis problem, but don’t ask it to explain itself.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/07/chatgpt-and-beam-bending-redux/
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Dear any generation, this is how you're supposed to answer the phone:
youtu.be/Vn_GO50AAjE
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Ross in Detroit
6 months ago
Grandma (b 1917, d 2019) is gone but her pickled beans from the 90s remain.
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Alexandra Petri
6 months ago
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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Matthew Cobb
6 months ago
Just learned that Frank Stahl (of the Meselson and Stahl DNA replication experiment ("the most beautiful experiment in biology") died at the beginning of April, to no fanfare. Here's a lovely video of them reminiscing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tn...
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The Most Beautiful Experiment: Meselson and Stahl
YouTube video by Science Communication Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tnuAqEp9g
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New life goal is to get published in AARP Magazine.
6 months ago
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Richard C. Keller, PhD
6 months ago
Also important to note: heating releases *four times* the emissions of cooling every year. Source:
www.iea.org/data-and-sta...
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Does something happen to olive oil when it ages that makes it suitable for doing physics experiments? Because there are an awful lot of references to "old olive oil" in 19th century science, and surely this is not because only the "new" stuff is for eating.
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Katie Mack
6 months ago
If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.
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At last, a restoration of America’s real cultural divide, jocks vs. nerds. “Elon Musk is an insufferable nerd, and I hope this marks the end of his engagement with public life…He’s an aesthetic nightmare…Like, he doesn’t have anything interesting to say.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The MAGA faithful celebrate the end of the Trump-Musk bromance
Patrons of the pro-Trump Butterworth’s Restaurant hope that the feud between the two men marks the end of Musk’s influence in Washington.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/butterworths-trump-musk-feud-maga/
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When I used to do long distance solo bike touring ca. 2006–2014 I would print out turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps and call friends on my flip phone if I got lost. Also flagging down locals and asking for help if I was really lost. (I got my first smartphone in 2015.)
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Mateusz Fafinski
7 months ago
Me, staring at a blank page in Word. Oxford, MS. Auct. T. inf. 2. 7, 12th century
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No, no, that's not right, the original American enema fad was *yogurt* enemas, not coffee enemas.
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Doubtful Theories, Drastic Therapies: Autointoxication and Faddism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
MICAELA SULLIVAN-FOWLER; Doubtful Theories, Drastic Therapies: Autointoxication and Faddism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Journal o
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/50/3/364/843786?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Pjörk
7 months ago
This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen
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