If there are Brazilians in my following, this is for you. The Emperor of Brazil does briefly feature!

How the telephone helped form the Victorian future.

And today is the day. It's the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. And this is me discussing how Victorians used the telephone to reimagine the future:

Iwan Rhys Morus is, as you'd expect, informative and highly readable on the subject of Bell's demo and the wider story of invention: bsky.app/profile/irmo...

And today is the day. It's the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. And this is me discussing how Victorians used the telephone to reimagine the future:

If you're listening to BBC Radio Wales in about ten minutes you'll catch me talking about the 150th anniversary of the first phone call. "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you!"

Tomorrow's the day. A 150 years of talking on the telephone.

Tomorrow's the day. A 150 years of talking on the telephone.

And it really was good fun!

Today is the 150th anniversary of the patenting of the Telephone in 1876 — so, here is our very funny 150th episode of You’re Dead To Me about the telephone’s origins With comedian Catherine Bohart and historian of science Professor @irmorus.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Here I am, talking to @historyextra.bsky.social about Thomas Edison and what his story tells us about technological future-making and its history.

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

Listen to our 150th episode at 10am on Radio 4, or the full length podcast on BBC SOUNDS

You have about 10 minutes to settle down, put on BBC Radio 4, and listen to this. Enjoy!

I had huge amounts of fun recording this with @gregjenner.bsky.social and Catherine Bohart. So you should listen!

AHOY-HOY!!! Thrilled (and quite smug) to say BBC You’re Dead To Me has reached 150 episodes! Even better — we managed to time our anniversary to land within a week of the 150th anniversary of the telephone being patented. So, guess what we did for this week’s episode… ☎️

I had huge amounts of fun recording this with @gregjenner.bsky.social and Catherine Bohart. So you should listen!

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

You can read all about it here, as well:

Here I am, talking to @historyextra.bsky.social about Thomas Edison and what his story tells us about technological future-making and its history.

Here's me talking to Ferren Gipson about Victorian futures for the amazing Object podcast:

Here's me talking to Ferren Gipson about Victorian futures for the amazing Object podcast:

"as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, it’s also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted"

On science and religion, the myth of historic conflict, the problems of their collision and how we can better think about their relationship in the future #histSTM #sts

Here's some listening pleasure (I hope!)for your diaries:

Perfect!

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

Bruce Springsteen is currently number one in iTunes in 19 countries.

It’s arrived!

It’s arrived!

Are bankers starting to worry about bursting bubbles too?

My inaugural lecture, "Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology” last October was an opportunity to share my vision for a new field of knowledge and celebrate the creation of the first ever chair in Global Political Anthropology | @facultyofartsug.bsky.social books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

New and important: academic.oup.com/book/61786?l...

I’ve tried this quiz, and it genuinely is quite difficult to tell them apart.

Can’t wait to hear this one!

Wirioneddol edrych ymlaen at hwn!

Travelling home from London. Spent the afternoon having fun recording an episode of YDTM with the great @gregjenner.bsky.social. Wait to see - or rather wait to hear!

New and important: academic.oup.com/book/61786?l...

I unrhywun fydd yn Aberystwyth ar 23 Ionawr/In case you're in Aberystwyth on 23 January

Really looking forward to seeing how this goes!

Edrych ymlaen at groesawu @irmorus.bsky.social i draddodi prif ddarlith Cynhadledd Chwilen yn y Glust ar 23 Ionawr 🪲✨ Mwy o wybodaeth a sut i gofrestru yma: linktr.ee/chwilenynygl...

I had a fascinating chat with @themadstone.bsky.social about Frankenstein a few weeks ago.

I had a fascinating chat with @themadstone.bsky.social about Frankenstein a few weeks ago.

I’m not quite sure what the kids have done…..

By our director Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social

Impromptu plumbing. Not in my plans for the fourth day of Christmas!

Daffodils? In December?