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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) is published today with Boydell and Brewer! 35% off if you use the code BB135. Book link in comments ws.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hi Sophia. I teach on Durham' History and Philosophy of Psychiatry module and share your concerns. I've just noticed the following message that Nature has placed on the article:

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My PhD student Lenka Schmalisch has completed her PhD! Congratulations Dr Schmalisch!

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Thank you @sebfalk.com and @saraluckelman.bsky.social for mentioning my book! Really sorry to miss Seb's paper - which I'm sure was amazing! #BookHistory #EarlyModern #HistSTM #HPS #STS

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation: #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Just discovered from c 1800 school textbooks that one of the black doctors I'm researching was likely taught ... the history of science! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Good news! This week I was interviewed by @NewBooksNetwork about my recent book: newbooksnetwork.com/media-and-th... #EarlyModern #histsci #bookhistory #HistSTM #HSTM #arthistory #manuscripts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Wonderful to see John Christie and Robert Fox (my external PhD examiner many moons ago) when I was in Oxford this weekend.

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Spent yesterday exploring the Durham University's historical biosciences collection with the curator Gemma Lewis. We want to use it as a learning resource for students. You can read more about it here: stories.durham.ac.uk/ReawakeningB... #hps #hstm #sts #histsci #collections #museums

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Join me online this Monday! #histsci #histmed #colonialism #africa #hps #sts instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/semin...

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Looking forward to reading Marianne Sommer's new FREE open access book on the history of evolutionary diagrams. #histsci #hps #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Data, Race and Empire: African Health, Scottish Missions and the Information Strategies of Dr Archibald Hewan (1832-1883) Durham University National Museum of Scotland Full PhD Studentship (AHRC CDA) Further information: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... #histsci #hps #hstm #sts #blackhistory

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Good news! Meng Li's Chinese translation of my Oxford University Press critical edition of William Paley's Natural Theology (1802) will be published as 自然神学 by China's Commercial Press [商务印书馆] in early 2025. #hps #sts #histsci #histmed #history #philosophy #theology #religion

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A big congratulations to my PhD student @Odile_Lehnen, who has been awarded a placement with the BBC Natural History unit, where she will be working on various shows and on a collaboration with National Geographic! @BBCEarth #hps #histsci #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Ever wonder how women learned about experimental science during the long eighteenth century? Join me (for free!) at 5 pm (GMT) on 21 November to hear more my research on the topic: www.youtube.com/live/veM-pG9... #histsci #histSTM #hps #sts #women

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Come here me speak online for Uppsala University's Instructing Natural History seminar in December! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #hstm instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/semin...

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Recently one of my former PhD students from China gave me these two lovely gifts! One is a mug with the cover of my recent book on it. The other is a statue of me looking dashing in the glasses I wore when he was in Durham.

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

I am elated to write that Media and the Mind was given the 2024 Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science! I am greatly honoured to receive the award. #hps #histsci #manuscripts #hstm #histmed

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Wonderful to run into Tony Grafton in Oxford this week! It's always a pleasure to see scholars who have had such a strong impact on my thinking and career.

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Delighted to write that Media and the Mind has been shortlisted for the 2024 prize given by SHARP for the best work in book history! It is truly an honour to receive this nomination. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

I'm super thrilled to write that the British Society for the History of Science has shortlisted my book for the PICKSTONE PRIZE! This is wonderful news, not least because the BSHS has been my intellectual home for many years. #hps #histsci #sts #manuscripts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Delighted to announce that I will be writing the introductory essay for the Chinese translation of Paley’s Natural Theology [自然神学]. It will appear with Beijing's Commercial Press[商务印书馆] in 2025. #histsci #religion #hps #sts #histmed

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

If you are Edinburgh in late June... Here's the registration info: www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-... #histsci #womenshistory #sts #hps #museums #gender

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Happy that I've been granted permission the use these images in my forthcoming (2025) essay about the agency of 18th cen. middle class women who devised ingenious ways to learn science in an age when they were excluded from universities. #histsci #womenshistory #sts #hps #manuscripts #gender

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Fabulous paper on the eighteenth-century astronomer Carloline Herschel given my PhD Student @Odile_Lehnen today at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome today. #histsci #hps #sts #manuscripts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

A note of congratulations to my PhD student John Shepherd, who has successfully passed his examinations and will be conferred his doctoral degree at Congregation! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Excited to see @nathanbossoh's summary of his work on the Wellcome African artefacts and specimens in the Science Museum. Looking forward to the full report! #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #africa

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Join me on May 21st at 5 pm (UK) and 12:00 pm (east cost USA) on The Revolving Century to talk about my new book! #hstm #histsci #bookhistory #sts #hps #manuscripts #notebooks forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

Durham's Bishop Cousin Library is now open to the public! #bookhistory #manuscripts cosinslibrary.webspace.durham.ac.uk

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

I wish the headline wasn't true, but alas.... www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cca6...

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Question: What was a moral machine? Nature has run several articles on the 'im/moral machine' concept in recent years that focus on current digital data. Is there literature about predigital data and moral machines? #histsci #histtech #STS #philsci #histstm #histmed #bookhistory #manuscripts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Currently the marginalia in Darwin's library books. Here's his reaction to an author who mentions his work: "Allow me to point out that you have unintentionally misrepresented me . . ." #STS #histsci #HPS #histSTM

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

It was great to hear Thomas Ahnert this week give a paper in Durham on the curriculum of Edinburgh University during the long century. Many insights about the oral, printed, and inscribed history of philosophy, science and theology. #histsci #hps #scotland #philosophy

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

Currently contemplating how Charles Lyell's early geological sections functioned as diagrams. #histsci #hstm #hps #sts

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

You never know which philosophers you are going discover when you delve in the fabulously quirky history of the earth sciences.... #histsci #hstm #hps #sts #History

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

A big congratulations to my PhD student @Odile_Lehnen on the publication of her first book review in this month’s edition of the British Journal for the History of Science. #histsci #hstm #hps #sts #History

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Calling historians of science and technology: Do you know what this early 19th century machine is? #histsci #sts #hstm #hps

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I'm quoted on the front page of the Financial Times today about the British Library's cyber attack. As I say in the article, the current situation effects many academics like myself who aren't even based in London. #bookhistory #history #hps #histsci #histmed

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