Heading back home from a great visit to WashU. The book talk continues!!!

Didn’t love One Battle After Another. Politics felt remarkably conservative.

In miserable times, people ask: what can I possibly do as an individual? The answer: not a lot, except join other individuals. Solidarity is where power is to be found. Join a union. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Underrated phenomenon is so many people were already looking for streaming services to cut and Disney basically helped them figure it out.

Here’s a thought. Cancel Disney+ and put half of the $200 you’ll save per year into causes that work against the fascists killing democracy. Buy something else nice with the other half.

Cancelling Disney+ and boycotting Target are excellent. But nothing will do more than what we can do together. Join a union. Solidarity is the power we really have as individuals. Nothing could be weaker than the feeble might of one. It’s the union makes us strong. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Go fash, lose cash

Cancelled my Disney+ subscription. Saving $200/year and also not funding as much cowardice and greed.

Time to hear from all those standups who have spent years railing about censorship from the woke left. Apologies, perhaps?

Looking forward to reading this, by Vanita Seth www.routledge.com/UnDoing-Hist...

Greg Radick takes over as the new editor-in-chief of journal Metascience (thanks to Greg for this service)! And ICYMI, Metascience now has a Bluesky account ⬇️ @metasciencejournal.bsky.social Welcome to Bsky Metascience & congrats on the great new editor! #HPS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Eeeeeee!!! Page proofs!!!

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

My students after three lectures on Marx.

I am this regime's worst nightmare. I’m an independent thinker. No party affiliation. Don’t leave my feet hanging over the bed in case Chucky is real. Not fear. Just logic. The government has never disproven Chucky. Unnatural strength. More than a doll that can walk and talk. Get out of your bubble.

Please register for the HSS meeting @NOLA & come meet Ashton Wesner 🐟Sam Muka 🪸 Rebecca Woods 🐒 Aleksandar Shopov 🐫 and + discuss their research on animal mobilities and why such histories of science matter. Thanks to Sonia Wigh, co-organizer of this roundtable with the Osiris editors! #histsci

For Kuhn's Bday resharing this paper on Kuhn's philosophy of data & fundamental constants, coauthored w/ my recent PhD student @federicabocchi.bsky.social, which has the cryptic title "Kuhn’s ‘5th Law of Thermodynamics’: Measurement, Data, & Anomalies" #philsci bokulich.org/wp-content/u...

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

Anniversary review alert! Suman Seth reviews Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's, "Leviathan and the Air-Pump" for Metascience. Check out the review here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alltoosuman.bsky.social

The original ‘No Kings Day’ is today.

I’m game. Dr. Pepper is not as good as cherry coke. And in all situations where both are available, the second is superior.

Damn. I’m so close. 4/5. Well, 3, since I’d need to grow more than an inch to be 5’8”.

Hey! Want to get my book with FREE SHIPPING? And not from The Behemoth? For the next 31 hours, you can get it from Bookshop.org !! And any any other book they carry! bookshop.org/p/books/push...

Saw and heard flamenco for the first time. Can see an obsession brewing. What do I read to understand what I just saw?

It’s time

An appealing senior job in medical humanities at Lund. Perhaps especially attractive to some of our US friends? If I were better at empathy and compassion I might even consider it myself! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

hm, shame. Anyways, here's a link to bookshop.org which is having a sale of its own.

These capybaras look like they’re about to drop the hottest rap album of all time

Am drinking a glass of Amontillado, 40 years after reading the Poe story. Fingers crossed no one gets bricked up in a cellar.

always hits different to see your manuscript typeset

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

Evergreen goddam tweet. You can set your watch by how craven Australian politicians are.

Hey there, I've a new review essay out. If you enjoyed Leviathan and the Air-Pump, or if you've always wondered about the multiple meanings of 'symmetry' and social construction in STS or history of science, you may well find it useful. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

In other news 60% is apparently ‘just below’ 90%.

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

Why push for impeachment? Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate. The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention. Performative public investigations matter

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

And they’re still going to do nothing.

Q: The DNI concluded in March that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. What new intel does the US have that Iran changed its position? HEGSETH: The president has made it very clear that he's looked at all the intelligence and come to the conclusion that the Iranian nuclear program is a threat

I know it’s a useless question, but I really want to know how many of these goons refused to wear a mask during the worst days of the COVID pandemic.

About to hang with the folks at the MPIWG for a few days, at a workshop on ‘Unsettling Exposure. ‘ lovely to be back in Berlin, particularly a Berlin that is positively balmy.

Speaking soon at our local No Kings rally. As an adoptive son of this nation, I just want to note that I am proudest of the fact that every day in America is no kings day.

On a Friday the 13th filled with little but bad news and evil portents, I received draft cover art for my new book. It should be out by December... mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci 🗃️

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Just correctly (I think) used the word ‘thriven’ in a rec letter. AMA.

Honestly thought I would’ve disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle by now.

Hooray!!!!!! In related news, I’m going to make the P-dog visit Ithaca a bunch.