Will Thomas
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Director @aip_history. Also works with @FYIscipolicy. Plus: history of operations research and economics. https://t.co/hytBqTVrKJ Tweets only represent me.
Silver Spring, MD
Joined February 2012
The application period for the @APSPhysics and AIP 2024 Congressional Fellowship Program is open! If you’re interested in #SciPol and providing analytical expertise and scientific advice to Congress, apply by Sunday, Dec 1, 2024: https://t.co/H7uHoX7Pvz
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From Kristine Palmieri for @PhysicsToday: A photo gallery of archival images highlight the work of female astronomers at the @yerkescosmos facility in the early 20th century. #HistSTM #HistSci
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Archival images highlight the work of female astronomers at the Wisconsin facility in the early 20th century.
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Happening now!
Tomorrow at 3pm Eastern, AIP presents our latest online Trimble Lecture: Bruce Hunt, “The Victorian Cable Empire and the Making of ‘Maxwell's Equations’”. Register here:
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AIP's last online Trimble Lecture of the year will be on Dec. 6: Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), “Making Radium Kinky: The Epistemology of the Familiar” https://t.co/NPiIQkxbbh
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Tomorrow at 3pm Eastern, AIP presents our latest online Trimble Lecture: Bruce Hunt, “The Victorian Cable Empire and the Making of ‘Maxwell's Equations’”. Register here:
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Had long heard that US university libraries have strong collections of postcolonial Indian government documents as some of the PL480 rupees (from the sale of wheat to India) were used to buy literally every report published in India every year. Glad to see documentary evidence.
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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table-#MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do each year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OTD
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Check out Kristine Palmieri's new photo essay, "The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory," at Physics Today:
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Archival images highlight the work of female astronomers at the Wisconsin facility in the early 20th century.
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Scoop: House appropriators are backing @NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission and prospective @NSF large facility projects, according to a newly posted document:
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House appropriators are backing NASA’s imperiled Mars Sample Return mission and prospective NSF large facility projects, according to a newly posted document. The appropriators also elaborate on...
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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State. Advance copies are here! I must say they are very fine. Huge thanks to @AbbySCollier & @UPittPress & to supportive words from John Gascoigne, @beckyfh & William Ashworth. Publication 14 November. https://t.co/69I4vYxqGs
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Are you interested in #SciPol? We're seeking applicants for our State Department Fellowship program. Fellows will spend their 1-year term contributing scientific and technical expertise at the State Department. Applications are due Nov. 1: https://t.co/z3lmeLGOCU
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Presidential science and technology advisor & @WHOSTP director Arati Prabhakar has an essential task: “Making sure that this investment that we make in federal R&D ultimately changes the lives of Americans—that’s the job.”
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Presidential science and technology advisor Arati Prabhakar talks about how the US innovation ecosystem can help the country and its citizens to flourish.
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This year, the OR Society celebrates its 75th anniversary! We start our journey at 1948!
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#OnThisDay 38 years ago: @Fermilab dedicated the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. You can see the program from the event here: https://t.co/spWoD57aJq and the proceedings from the event here: https://t.co/oqe77MmHgj
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🚨New Issue Alert🚨Volume 53 Issue 4 contains 2 articles by @KatySDuncan and @ESkulberg and Martin Sparre, and two essays by Eleanor S. Armstrong and @jordanbimm and Mathias Grote.
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Obituary: W. Jason Morgan, discoverer of plate tectonics (1935–2023)
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Nature - Geophysicist who showed how segments of Earth’s crust move.
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On October 20, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing to offer historical perspectives on the challenges posed by AI. @nescioquid, @JanetAbbateVT, @mattspast, and @JustCodeCulture will put the current conversations on AI into historical context.
historians.org
Providing Historical Perspectives to Policymakers About the Briefings The AHA's Congressional Briefings series seeks to provide Congressional staff members, journalists, and other members of the...
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Leo Szilard’s Legacy — a webinar with biographer William Lanouette and molecular biologist Matthew Meselson. November 2, 2023 at 4:00 PM Pacific time.
library.ucsd.edu
Join biographer William Lanouette and geneticist Matthew Meselson as they celebrate the 125th anniversary of Leo Szilard’s birth and the Szilard archive held in UC San Diego Library’s Special...
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Come and join me, @jon_agar @gentraso (and more) @stsucl on 12th October, to mark the 60th anniversary of Wilson's White Heat of Technology Speech. Eventbrite signup below.
In Sep 1963,Labour Leader Harold Wilson gave his famous “White Heat of Technology” speech to the Labour Conference in Scarborough. To mark the 60th anniversary of the speech, we would like to invite you to join us to reflect on the impact of this speech. https://t.co/hgkRBC6f3V
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