Daniel Liu π
@dan-liu.net
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Historian of the life + physical sciences. About me + publications + CV + etc.:
https://dan-liu.net/
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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
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Why is this journal called Protoplasma? A history of protoplasm theory and the divisions in cell biology before 1926 - Protoplasma
When the journal Protoplasma was founded 100 years ago in 1926, scientists used two different concepts to describe what we would now consider one and the same object: the cell for the membrane-bound s...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-026-02158-1
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Waffle π§
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βIβve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddingsβ is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
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Brandon Bishop
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We need more geo content. Post a geo question and let's see if we can't lure out more geo content.
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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
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Why is this journal called Protoplasma? A history of protoplasm theory and the divisions in cell biology before 1926 - Protoplasma
When the journal Protoplasma was founded 100 years ago in 1926, scientists used two different concepts to describe what we would now consider one and the same object: the cell for the membrane-bound s...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-026-02158-1
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Tim Knopf
4 days ago
Hiermit lassen sich 63.000L Kartoffelsuppe transportieren βοΈ
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Omg, I am here for this.
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UW-Madison Medical History & Bioethics
8 days ago
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. ποΈ
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internet freds π¦β οΈπΎβ¨οΈ
9 days ago
who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not . . . earbuds.
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BeijingPalmer
9 days ago
not every Democrat is perfect on trans rights but they are one of the most successful pro-trans rights parties in the world.
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Now *that* is how you do a journal cover.
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Oli Franklin-Wallis
16 days ago
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
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Chris Manias
15 days ago
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...
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Lecturer in Early Medieval History at King's College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Early Medieval History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/lecturer-in-early-medieval-history
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Alexandra Petri
21 days ago
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Tom Cox
21 days ago
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.
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Richard C. Keller, PhD
22 days ago
Run, donβt walk, to pre-order my colleague Pablo GΓ³mezβs fantastic, haunting new book, Bloody Numbers!
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Philip Ball
22 days ago
Why protein dynamics matter and AlphaFold isn't the answer to everything.
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Predicting protein interfaces in the age of AlphaFold: Why dynamics and disorder remain a challenge
Two recent studies in Cell Systems show why protein dynamics matter for prediction. By moving beyond static structures and embracing the dynamic βjigglings and wigglingsβ that Richard Feynman famously...
https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(25)00341-2
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Mateusz Fafinski
24 days ago
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?
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Dr Francis Young
24 days ago
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
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Marisa Kabas
25 days ago
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing heβs a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Mateusz Fafinski
over 1 year ago
Medieval psalters be like πΊπΏπΏπΏπΏπΊπ±π±π« πΏπ‘π‘π‘π‘π‘πΌπ±π« πΏπ‘π¦π¦π¦π¦β¨π±π« πΏπ‘π¦π€΄πΎπ¦ππ¦π¦π« πΏπ‘π¦π¦π¦π¦β¨π±π πΏπΌπ¦π€Ίπ₯πΉπ¦ππ« πΏπ‘π¦πΈπ¦ππ¦π±π« πΏπ‘π¦πΉπππ¦π±π« πΏπ‘π¦π¦π¦π¦eatus vir πΏπ‘π‘π§ββοΈπ‘π‘π·π±π« πΊπΏπΏπΏπΏπΊπ±π±πΌ
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JΓΌrg Vollmer
24 days ago
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
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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
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Riker Googling
27 days ago
klingon pacifism movement real or hoax
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Mr. Dan Zak
28 days ago
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Philip Ball
28 days ago
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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(Don't skip the rest of the threadβ¦)
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29 days ago
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Mark Harris
29 days ago
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.
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Is "I, Claudius" more famous as a book or a TV series?
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Ben Sandofsky
30 days ago
My wife just upgraded to Tahoe.
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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.
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"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...
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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.
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Alexandra Petri
about 1 month ago
if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story Iβve 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...
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/individual-federal-services-replacement/685333/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KE19TrqCsoWVu-Z-y54aEiM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Cheryl Rofer
about 1 month ago
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/
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JΓΌrg Vollmer
about 1 month ago
So sieht die
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2026 aus:
#ICE
#Murder
#Minneapolis
#Trump
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Mateusz Fafinski
about 1 month ago
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.
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Mehdi Hasan
about 1 month ago
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Carrie Spooner
about 1 month ago
Man sagt nicht mehr "dumm". Man sagt "naturtrΓΌb".
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Here is an exemplary Wikipedia page, "List of extant steam locomotives in Germany":
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_i...
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Liste in Deutschland vorhandener Dampflokomotiven β Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_in_Deutschland_vorhandener_Dampflokomotiven
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
finally, we're living through precedented times
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
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.
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DG MEME
about 1 month ago
The doubt of the century.
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I dunno, maybe it has a good personality, or a sense of humor.
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about 2 months ago
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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches
about 2 months ago
Computers are simply Not Gooey enough to be alive or create life
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Gregory Kohn
about 2 months 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! π€οΈπ₯³
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
idk whatever. something like this.
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