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Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social
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Historian of Science

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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thank you! @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/meet-the-d...
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Meet the demons: four mythical creatures that inhabit science – Physics World
Scientists can learn a lot from diabolical creatures, Robert P Crease reveals
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/05/2026
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities violated the Constitution, while also creating a broad “chilling effect.”
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#ACLS www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...
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ACLS-AHA-MLA Welcome First Amendment Win in Decision to Make DOGE Videos Public
Plaintiff statements about Decision of Judge Colleen McMahon
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Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica @schct.iec.cat · 18/12/2025
-- @canales.bsky.social 👹, @acls1919.bsky.social schct.iec.cat/wp-content/u...
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Ben Walsh @bwalsh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I just got "A Tenth of a Second" by @canales.bsky.social and this is R Austin Freeman from 1925
"Yes," agreed Varney, "and that is probably the explanation. An artist puts down what he sees and what anyone else would see and recognize. A photograph puts down what is there, regardless of how the scene would look to a spectator. Consequently, it is full of irrelevant detail, which gets in the way of the real effect as the eye would see it; and it may show appearances that the eye never sees at all, as in the case of Muybridge's instantaneous photographs of galloping horses. A photograph of a Dutch clock might catch the pendulum in the middle of its swing, and then the clock would appear to have stopped. But an artist would always draw it at the end of its swing, where it pauses for an instant, and that is where the eye sees it when the clock is going."
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Very proud of #ACLS "the plaintiffs — the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Authors Guild — argue that DOGE illegally took control of the agency" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
For our next broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to get the story behind an infamous 1922 encounter from Jimena @canales.bsky.social, author of "The Physicist & the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time": youtu.be/IRQXam9WV-w #PhilSky
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Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report
YouTube video by Philosophy Talk
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thank you! www.ec-chronoi.de/post/worksho...
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Workshop: “Time Revolution: Contemporary Thought and the Struggle Against Scientific Necessity”
Join us on July 17th and 18th for a workshop organized by Amir Engel
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What are Science readers enjoying?
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#ACLS www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...
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Humanities Organizations File Lawsuit Against NEH Over Massive Program Cuts
NEH has suspended entire divisions, initiated firing 65 percent of its staff, and halted numerous grant programs in recent weeks.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#ACLS news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d...
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DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities
The Department of Government Efficiency has left the National Endowment for the Humanities “a shell” of an agency through its cost-cutting efforts, several grantees said in a new lawsuit Thursday.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#ACLS www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Three Humanities Organizations Sue NEH Over Its ‘Dismantling’
American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and MLA have sued the NEH over its dismantling, as well as DOGE.
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Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica @schct.iec.cat · 24/04/2025
📢Torna #FemCiència? ✨ @iec.cat ➡️ Estrenem la temporada amb @canales.bsky.social l historiadora de la ciència i membre de la @acls1919.bsky.social , Entrevista: schct.iec.cat/entrevista-a... 🔥 Los demonios de la ciencia no se presentan como antítesis de los ángeles, sino que tienen su propio lugar.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New book review: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Review | A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning
In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Excited to participate: news.stonybrook.edu/university/c...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 18/03/2025
Beyond the equations and experiments, physics has always carried echoes of the divine.
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Why physics today stands on the wings of angels and demons | Aeon Essays
When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Bravo @clearwing3.bsky.social !
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tiempo medido y tiempo vivido formasnomadas.com/2025/01/30/m...
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Medido / vivido – Formas Nómadas
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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
LOVE that book, and your 10th of a Second Book.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you!
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you! Totally recommend
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you!
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Rhys Ting @rhysjamais.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Of course! I have gotten so much out of “Bedeviled” and “The Physicist and the Philosopher”, so I should be the one thanking you ☺️
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
thinking about Jimena Canales, Tenth of a Second; D&G, 1000 Plateaus; Foucault on power&resistance; Barthes' Camera Lucida. Any readings on movements & dynamics in political, musical senses? @alc0fribas.bsky.social are there perhaps accessible works in history of maths for non-expert mathematicians?
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you!
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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Playground - Richard Powers The Just City - Jo Walton Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales 💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you! Totally recommend
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you!
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you!
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hmmm seems another imposter case.... #philsci
2 accounts one imposter of Maarten Van Dyck
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Book of the month! #Bedeviled letraslibres.com/revista/maia...
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
La historia de los demonios es nada menos que un buen trozo de la historia de la física occidental ... y discutir con lucidez y picardía su utilidad como herramienta para extender las ideas científicas letraslibres.com/revista/maia...
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Demonología de la imaginación científica | Letras Libres
Maia F. Miret reseña "La ciencia y sus demonios", de Jimena Canales.
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"Envy can include admiration and is compatible with the most amicable feelings toward the person envied." Freud to Einstein, 1929
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thrilled to be mentioned in @science.org
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Here's my recent piece on the Bergson-Einstein debate, which is based on The Blind Spot and indebted to @canales.bsky.social's book. aeon.co/essays/who-r...
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Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time? | Aeon Essays
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” Oscar Wilde
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Delicious morning treat! @emilyherring.bsky.social
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
#histsci #physics 😈
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
New book out!
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Always a necessary reminder: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/live...
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Thrilled to participate: www.essentiafoundation.org/announcing-t...
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
It's Bergson's birthday born OTD 1859! Did you know that this French philosopher was so famous in the early 20th century that he caused the 1st ever traffic jam on Broadway? More in this article I wrote about how his many female fans were used to discredit him and his ideas aeon.co/essays/henri...
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Henri Bergson, the philosopher damned for his female fans | Aeon Essays
Women loved Bergson’s philosophy of creativity, change and freedom, but their enthusiasm fuelled a backlash against him
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Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
#philsci #histsci #philsky Inference and Representation is now in production and will be out December 6. Table of contents, pre-orders, and some early reviews can be found at its webpage @ Chicago University Press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Inference and Representation
The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology.   Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that de...
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Jimena Canales @canales.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
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AI Model Based on Harvard President Gay Taken Down After Instructions Allegedly Invoked Racist Stere...
AI Model Based on Harvard President Gay Taken Down After Instructions Allegedly Invoked Racist Stereotypes | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Welcome @canales.bsky.social! Also, enjoying Bedeviled thanks to your rec
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