The HU Berlin is closing the department of archaeology to save money!! Please sign the petition if you have a spare moment!

The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care. Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting. He never returned to her that day. 1/2

Aaaagh - if I didn’t have a full-time job I’d absolutely apply for this 😭 good luck to everyone who does apply!

22 Feb 1632: Printing of Galileo's 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems' is completed #otd

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people

MAKE RICH AMERICANS EVEN RICHER AGAIN

We have come such a long way since the Bronze Age veneration of the dead.

Greenland has 56,000 people. Its health services are publicly funded by the Danish government. It doesn't need a 1000-bed hospital ship that's in drydock, anyway. Mobile, Alabama, where Mercy and Comfort are dry-docked, has 187,000 people & turned down Medicaid expansion under the ACA. It might.

We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism: go.bsky.app/ArYba4T Let me know if you'd like to be added! #EarlyModern

New Medieval Books: The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing, by Ayoush Lazikani, published by @yalebooks.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-... #Moon #Lunar #books

d. #OTD, 1842 O. Reynolds, engineering prof, established experimentally that wind shear & atmos temperature variations cause sound to refract so that under some circumstances sounds can be heard at much greater distances than normal & at others not heard at all, though the source may be visible

This totally passed me by at the time, but it's a really fun little text on the diffusion of medical texts in twelfth century Germany by @mqassiti.bsky.social ! (There's also a version in English for those who don't do German, if you change the language in the top right.)

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

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Rare exception to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines spotted in the wild.

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I’ve admired this 1068 Toledo astrolabe in its case and I studied every millimeter of it on digital images, and today I got to handle it with the medieval manuscripts group. Oxford is wild.

Right right right, because Olympians are so known for not being high maintenance. You know no strict work out schedule, high disciplined, monitoring of calories, none of that.

Rudolf Wittkower had a 2nd major in archaeology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Uni in Berlin (now Humboldt-Uni) when he defended his dissertation in art history in 1923 - as required of all art historians there at the time. Archaeology at the Humboldt-Uni has been *so* influential! Sign the petition!

Back to my roots! Looking forward to sharing some initial research at this #RoyalSociety conference in March on Scientific portraits and portraits for science. I’ll be talking about an unrealised scheme for sculptures of scientists in the Palace of Westminster royalsociety.org/science-even...

Looks like the images of the early modern slave ships

We want to hear from you! 🌿 Our Natural History Museum is undergoing a major £5 million redevelopment, and we're holding free public consultation sessions to shape what it looks like. Come along and share your thoughts on the design, displays, and future events.

See also slimy flexible plastic covers and brittle hard plastic components (if not flammable celluloid and crumbly asbestos)

Nicolaus Copernicus was born 19 February 1473. @karlgalle.bsky.social's biographical sketch of his life & work #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/p...

Join us for this workshop with @petinozappala.bsky.social Details+registration: www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma... #Philosophy #philsci #ethics #politics

So I just found out that a cheeky term for a teacher in the Regency period was “Haberdasher of Pronouns.” I love the image of someone selling pronouns like buttons. Do we need to bring this back?

Nicolaus Copernicus was born 19 February 1473. @karlgalle.bsky.social's biographical sketch of his life & work #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/p...

Wonderful to see work by @rmidura.bsky.social featured in @lrb.co.uk !

A real treat for me to chat to Imad Ahmed about his work making the Moon meaningful for Muslims 🌙

Thinking of diagrams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeLU...

A tiny clip from a really fun conversation with a brilliant PhD student about the synergies between Ramadan and Lent 🌙

Why does Lent start today? ✝️ @sebfalk.com from @girtoncollege.bsky.social explores the numerous challenges faced by Christian scholars when it comes to finding the date for Easter. Watch the full conversation with PhD student Imad Ahmed on our YouTube channel 👇 https://bit.ly/4rTGhSP

It is good news, but the fact that a headline like this is even possible is very grim news indeed.

I explain in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social why Obama was right (or at the very least, eminently sensible) about aliens, while much of the media was extremely silly about it. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

New beginning from old roots: Russian mathematicians at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

106 years ago, in 1920 Hetty G Grouse wrote about "Embryo Women Engineers" in The Woman Engineer journal, calling for better scientific education for girls pg 40 twej.theiet.org/twej/WES_Vol... In 1919 she corresponded with Thomas Edison about electric batteries #NationalBatteryDay #WomenInSTEM

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

New: Tricia McLaughlin is reportedly leaving her role as spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. Here's a list of some of the biggest lies she's told while trying to defend Trump and Vance's violent masked agents: zeteo.com/p/tricia-mcl...

Divination. I see my visual history of divination is now up on the Yale website. Forthcoming this year, Oct 2026. Enjoyed the challenge, once again, of exploring global traditions. Complex and rich. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

*How did I end up here?*

Please make your events accessible. This means not merely making it possible to get into the room, but creating networking/conversation spaces where it is easy to sit down without leaving the conversation - a mix of bar stools with high tables and lower chairs with coffee tables, for example.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Constance Tipper metallurgist, crystallographer specialist in metal strength effect on engineering problems. #WWII solved brittle fracture in Liberty war ships. Reader in #mecheng 1st woman full-time faculty @eng.cam.ac.uk Cambridge U. b #OTD 16 Feb 1894 #WomeninSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan...

Georg Joachim Rheticus, who travelled to Copernicus in Frombork and took the manuscript of De revolutionibus to Johannes Petreius in Nürnberg to be published, was born 16 February 1514 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/m...

An empirical refutation that Al-Ghazali's "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" put an end to Islamic science #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/a...

The state of terrestrial and celestial mechanics, as Isaac Newton set out on his journey as a natural philosopher #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/f...

The Neglected History of Slavery in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2025/02/hist... #history

The state of terrestrial and celestial mechanics, as Isaac Newton set out on his journey as a natural philosopher #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/f...