My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philsci

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

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My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philsci

Hiermit lassen sich 63.000L Kartoffelsuppe transportieren ☝️

Omg, I am here for this.

On Monday, our Chair Richard Keller read the Memorial Resolution honoring Professor Emeritus Ronald L. Numbers, crafted by Judy Leavitt. Read the full resolution: go.wisc.edu/q6t59g A fitting tribute to an extraordinary scholar and colleague. 🕊️

who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not . . . earbuds.

not every Democrat is perfect on trans rights but they are one of the most successful pro-trans rights parties in the world.

Now *that* is how you do a journal cover.

I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation

We have a job at @kingshistory.bsky.social! Open-ended lecturing post in Early Medieval History, with focuses on Britain and/or Europe: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...

I am slightly in awe of this photo taken of my grandparents just as they were about to casually ride a tandem on a 500+ mile round trip from their home in Nottingham to Devon, as if that is something you could just do really easily in 1948 on your week off from the factories where you worked.

Run, don’t walk, to pre-order my colleague Pablo Gómez’s fantastic, haunting new book, Bloody Numbers!

Why protein dynamics matter and AlphaFold isn't the answer to everything. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Ok Bluesky! What is your favourite academic book review of all time? One that you found particularly well-written, one that you thought captured the essence of the (difficult) task?

Perhaps it may not happen in my lifetime, but I hope Europe will one day face a cultural reckoning where it confronts its neglect of the literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Medieval psalters be like 🌺🌿🌿🌿🌿🌺🌱🌱💫 🌿🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🌼🌱💫 🌿🟡🟦🟦🟦🟦✨🌱💫 🌿🟡🟦🤴🏾🦄🌝🟦🦚💫 🌿🟡🟦🟦🟦🟦✨🌱🍆 🌿😼🟦🤺🥀🏹🟦🐕💫 🌿🟡🟦🌸🦜🐉🟦🌱💫 🌿🟡🟦🏹🐒🐝🟦🌱💫 🌿🟡🟦🟦🟦🟦eatus vir 🌿🟡🟡🧜‍♂️🟡🟡🌷🌱💫 🌺🌿🌿🌿🌿🌺🌱🌱🌼

Wenn es aussieht wie eine Ente, schwimmt wie eine Ente und quakt wie eine Ente, dann ist es wahrscheinlich eine Ente. #ICE #Bovino #Nazi #Trump #USA

What I actually want to know is why anti-free will determinism has been so persistent despite the fact that physics changed a lot many times "in the intervening millennia" between Epicurus and the discovery of quantum mechanics. (FWIW I think the problem is the free will part, not physics) #histsci

klingon pacifism movement real or hoax

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

He's been back at it for a while, and it's troubling. But the Frankenstein label... straight out of the lineage traced in my book Unnatural. (Also - you knew I'd say it, right? - Victor Frankenstein was not an effing "Dr".)

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My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

Is "I, Claudius" more famous as a book or a TV series?

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My wife just upgraded to Tahoe.

I'm 100 pages through on @matthewcobb.bsky.social 's new Francis Crick biography, and among the many delightful surprises to me has been the fact that whole cell biophysics and thixotropic colloidal gels were apparently still a hot topic in 1950.

"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles. That is after all a very proper attitude to take." William Bragg, 1921, Electrons and Ether Waves catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00655...

This would imply that our ancestors from ca. Atari through the SNES and up to the PS1 were bumbling around in the Dark Ages, until Sony rediscovered the form and brought us in to the Renaissance and rediscovery of Classical Controller Ergonomics.

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

China's advantage is that they don't care about the environmental damage they do in rare earth mining and refining. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the whole story. 2/

So sieht die #Gestapo 2026 aus: #ICE #Murder #Minneapolis #Trump de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geheime...

Guys, we have failed Bluesky. We have failed utterly. In the days of yore it was clear that if you got two historians into a room and asked them when did the Roman Empire fall you would get three opinions.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Man sagt nicht mehr "dumm". Man sagt "naturtrüb".

Here is an exemplary Wikipedia page, "List of extant steam locomotives in Germany": de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_i...

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finally, we're living through precedented times

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

The doubt of the century.

I dunno, maybe it has a good personality, or a sense of humor.

Computers are simply Not Gooey enough to be alive or create life

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!

Frohliches Fahrplanwechseltag, for those who celebrate! 🛤️🥳

Some historians of science like to say that objectivity is a sham, I like to say that objectivity is very funny.

idk whatever. something like this.