I’ve posted some archival document finds that show John Prescott (RIP) in interesting lights over on the bluer, less musky site. Join me there!

It’s day of the dead time of year. So there are flowers, little shrines, and photos of loved ones everywhere. And even Tren Maya-branded day of the dead candies

In Merida, Yucatán, Mexico, for the HSS annual big meeting. Arrived on the brand new Tren Maya. Station is still being built. But it turns out you ** CAN ** build a fast train that goes roughly the distance between London and Manchester

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Call for proposals for the Experimental History of Science Workshop 5/5 please share and circulate!

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I’m co-organising, with Cathy Lucas and Simon Werrett of @stsucl, an ‘Experimental History of Science Workshop’ to take place in April 2025 Think about entirely new ways of doing #histsci Let your imagination go wild! Here’s the call for proposals. 1/5

Common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) at Walthamstow Wetlands today #wildflowerhour

In Munich to talk 1990s science policy

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Seen Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)! If you are in London, it’s clear and you can see the tail through binoculars Look near alpha Serpens, left of Arcturus

@stsucl Today at @stsucl History of Science Reading Group we’re discussing Daniel Immerwahr’s ‘All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States’, Past & Present (2024). Looking forward to it. It’s a superb paper

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A century ago Henry Ford showed you could be a genius at business, and a brilliant pioneer in engineering, but a dangerous fool in relation to politics, admiring and admired by all the wrong people. Elon Musk is following in his footsteps – this week giving $75m to the campaign

Not seen this one before: “Wireless War” (poster, 1943)

In Harmondsworth, for barns and Barnes Wallis

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