Iwan Rhys Morus
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Professor of History. Historian of Science.
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Stephen Sackur
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PERSONAL NEWS! šļø Iām thrilled to be able to share the cover of my soon-to-be-published bookā¦
#HARDtruth
Thanks to @HeadlinePress1 for supporting a project that seems more important now than ever. Courageous journalism keeps democracy alive
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Another draft chapter for Empire of the Eye finished
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Lucky shot. Clicked the button just as he was taking off.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
22 days ago
Falch iawn i weld pob un o Aelodau Seneddol Plaid yn ymuno - cadwch ati Great to see all four Plaid MPs join the motion to disapprove the EHRC Code of Practice
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Very strange. They must have confused
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
with someone else, since they don't usually interview sane, well-informed people on the Today programme.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
22 days ago
There are SNP, Greens, Lib Dems and Labour on this, where are your four MPs
@plaidcymru.bsky.social
?
@lsrplaid.bsky.social
@benlake.bsky.social
@anndaviesplaid.bsky.social
@llinosmedi.bsky.social
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. Itās what makes us human | Wendy Liu
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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. Itās what makes us human | Wendy Liu
As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move, says author Wendy Liu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/24/ai-tools-thinking-human-hard-coding-writing-technology?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1779607820
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Tracy King
about 1 month ago
I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
about 1 month ago
Iām evolved enough to understand itās shit and we donāt want it because itās shit
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Elaine Crory
about 1 month ago
Excellent thread. Makes really clear that the focus on the notion of trans people as a *threat* is the real social contagion.
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Itās impossible to take this stuff seriously. And increasingly difficult to take the institutions that give it a platform (Oxford) and the media that uncritically report it seriously either
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AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder
Jack Clark describes āvertiginous sense of progressā and āprofound changesā to society alongside risks of technology
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/21/ai-nobel-prize-winning-discovery-robots-jack-clark-anthropic
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Neges Heddwch Ieuenctid Cymru
#Heddwch2026
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Neges Heddwch ac Ewyllys Da yr Urdd 2026 | #Heddwch2026 | The Urdd's 2026 Peace and Goodwill Message
YouTube video by Urdd Gobaith Cymru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0fsFzQbb0
about 1 month ago
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Oh, great. Turnitin seems to be down ....
about 1 month ago
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"You said you plan to vote Plaid Cymru at the Scottish Parliament elections" ?
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about 1 month ago
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Yesterday,
@mirierubin.bsky.social
gave a fabulous talk at
@aberuni.bsky.social
as part of a
@royalhistsoc.org
event. Amazingly, she delivered the first five minutes in flawless Cymraeg.
about 1 month ago
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Isn't it nice to see that there will still be a Duke of Wellington in the Lords!
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Duncan Bell
about 1 month ago
OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June
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The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells
Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells offers a wide-ranging overview of the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth ce
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/62696
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21st century spermatorrhea. We really are the new Victorians!
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about 2 months ago
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Technology has always been the spinal cord of government - and education. Thatās not the problem. The problem, as this piece points out, is who owns and controls it.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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My copy has arrived. Spanish readers, get yours!
about 2 months ago
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Aaaaand here we go again. To summarise: AI fed a bunch of similar looking images concludes theyāre similar. Fed a bunch of dissimilar images and concludes theyāre not.
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about 2 months ago
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Dinah Roe
about 2 months ago
"It is a technology that isn't without controversy and is already used in things like unlocking your phone, passport control, and some police investigations - via photographs and footage." Yes, let's carry on with destroying the Humanities, then. No need for critical thinking or expertise here.
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OK, just let me get this straight: wearing a T shirt is an attack; intrusive surveillance isnāt.
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Jamie Gaskarth
about 2 months ago
Academics when people get preachy about alcohol at work events...
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Hereās a link to the first Spanish translation of John Jacob Astorās *A Journey in other Worlds* (1894). Not great literature but a fascinating insight into the nineteenth century origins of techbro culture. Thereās even a prologue by me that says so! Sorry itās the Bad Place.
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Un viaje a otros mundos: Ciencia ficción de 1894
Un viaje a otros mundos: Ciencia ficción de 1894 : Astor, John Jacob, Morus, Iwan Rhys, Guirauta, Rubene: Amazon.es: Books
https://www.amazon.es/viaje-otros-mundos-Ciencia-ficción/dp/B0GY4MTMHS
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Aeon Magazine
2 months ago
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity. An Essay by
@coreenanne.bsky.social
& Alex Aylward
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Why did disabled people support eugenics in the 1930s? | Aeon Essays
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. But for some it seemed an opportunity
https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-disabled-people-support-eugenics-in-the-1930s
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OUP just sent me a nice little survey on AI use. I've told them what I think - I think you should too!
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91036107/...
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AI Survey 2026
https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91036107/AI-Survey-2026
2 months ago
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
3 months ago
Tonight the Youāre Dead To Me tour rolls into Cardiff!! (Iām actually already here, but itās not as glamorous to say I walk in)
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Very much looking forward to being in the audience for this tonight!
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3 months ago
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Pasg Hapus bawb. And no, I have no idea either.
3 months ago
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This is indeed a pretty good book. Highly recommended.
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This seems a good day to remember how it all began:
www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon ā Icon Books
https://www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how-the-victorians-took-us-to-the-moon/
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This seems a good day to remember how it all began:
www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon ā Icon Books
https://www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/how-the-victorians-took-us-to-the-moon/
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My main memory of the Apollo launchings, long, long, ago, is interminable shots of men in white shirts looking at screens. Similar amounts of tedium to what Iām watching now!
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And it was great fun to make! So Ahoy-hoy to all of you from me as well.
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And it was great fun to make! So Ahoy-hoy to all of you from me as well.
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The first Castell Aberystwyth, dark against the evening sky.
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Stuart Elden
3 months ago
Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett ā
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Working Knowledge
Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Ā Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coautho...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo257048012.html
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Absolutely.
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This must be one of the weirdest and most forced false analogies Iāve seen for a while. Doctorow canāt really think this can he? And to the guy in the replies: no, technology is never neutral.
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Of all the things that worry me about the Iran war ā¦.
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Prolonged high oil prices could ācrimpā AI boom, WTO warns
Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/19/oil-prices-ai-boom-wto-iran-war-energy-global-economy
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For *expert* read *advocate*:
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We asked experts about the most responsible ways to use AI tools ā hereās what they said
Use AI as a brainstorming partner and organizer, but donāt outsource your judgment
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/18/how-to-use-ai-tools-expert-guide
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
3 months ago
A funny clip from our recent 150th episode of YOUāRE DEAD TO ME about the invention of the Telephone ā with Professor
@irmorus.bsky.social
and comedian Catherine Bohart Catherine is now joining us in Cardiff for the YDTM Live Tour on April 9th. Get your tickets at
www.YoureDeadToMeLive.com
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3 months ago
AHOY-HOY!! Hereās a clip from our 150th episode of Youāre Dead To Me podcast about the 150th anniversary of the Telephone āļø This is me, comedian Catherine Bohart, and historian of science Professor
@irmorus.bsky.social
YOUāRE DEAD TO ME is going on tour very soon! London next week - get tickets!
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If there are Brazilians in my following, this is for you. The Emperor of Brazil does briefly feature!
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A história da primeira chamada telefÓnica: as palavras que mudaram o mundo
Alexander Graham Bell não foi a única pessoa que tentou inventar o telefone. Mas, hÔ 150 anos, ele venceu - por pouco - a corrida, e o resto é história.
https://theconversation.com/a-historia-da-primeira-chamada-telefonica-as-palavras-que-mudaram-o-mundo-278168
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How the telephone helped form the Victorian future.
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The story of the first telephone call ā nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race ā just ā and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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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:
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The story of the first telephone call ā nine words that changed the world
Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race ā just ā and the rest is history.
https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-first-telephone-call-nine-words-that-changed-the-world-277694
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4 months ago
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...
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