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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 2h

MUSTS colloquium '#Freedom, #Imagination and #Change | From Answers to Questions: #Heritage, Meaning-Making, and #Multivocality in #Museum Collections' by Carmen Cabo & Vilja Marée-Bemelen (Discovery Museum). 📅 7 October, 15:30-17:00 📍Grote Gracht 80-82, room 3.002

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jhokjournal.bsky.social @jhokjournal.bsky.social · 23h

📣 Call for Contributions! 📣 The Third International History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027, with the central theme Decentering the History of Knowledge. The deadline for all submissions is 15 December 2026. More information here: www.uu.nl/en/news/call...

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Call for Contributions Third International History of Knowledge Conference

From 25 - 27 August 2027 the third International History of Knowledge Conference will take place in Utrecht. It is now possible to submit contributions that tie in with the central theme of the confer...

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

find a job you love as much as Leonard Rossiter enjoyed hammily prancing in his red coat and riding boots in Barry Lyndon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=koWs...

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Barry Lyndon - Irish Jig

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

historically-minded fans of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn: Tom Hughes says the 1st megawatt electrical plant powered by a steam turbine was built in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal) in 1899. Schwebebahn was built 1901. Was it built because of (to show off?) the megawatt plant? or just coincidence?

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

congrats to Dmitri Shostakovich, bell hooks, Barbara Walters, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Glenn Gould & Donald Glover, among others. It is a well-known statistical fact that among 23 people w/ the same birthday, there is a 50% chance that two will have been married to each other.

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NanoBubbles @nanobubbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📰 Our team member Guillaume Cabanac is in Physics World today! “Cabanac says that the latest misconduct smoking gun can be found in bibliographies and the growing use of hallucinated references…” Read here: physicsworld.com/a/how-scient... @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

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How scientific publishers are fighting back against fraudulent papermills – Physics World

The growth of AI and papermills has caused publishers countless headaches

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So many moving parts & last-minute scrambling to get this post up in time for Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Ark's opening. Just like the Ark's opening itself! #princeedwardisland #pei #envhist #cdnhist

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eglerin.bsky.social @eglerin.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Want to know how #heritage was used to open up the #secret #atomic #cities in #Russia? See my article on #NuclearCulturalHeritage in #Sarov/Arzamas-16 that has just been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social as part of special issue edited by Victoria Fomina www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past | Urban History | Cambridge Core

The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past

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Michael Barany @mbarany.com · 18/09/2026

'strong language programmes make every discipline stronger' is one absolutely unavoidable lesson of the Cold War university that managers (consultants) have been falling over themselves to forget since then

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the time for coy obfuscation is over - I can announce that the European Society for the History of Science 2028 meeting will take place in Maastricht in the last week of October or the first week of November. Maastricht hosted the first ESHS meeting in 2004, so European #histsci is coming home!

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this bit especially ironic since Barton County is the only Kansas county named after a woman or (AFAIK) a medical professional

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

your periodic reminder to submit a paper for our special issue on scientific bubbles! I'm working on my own paper for SI right now & came across an oddity in the graphs kindly generated for me by Yagmur Ozturk @nanobubbles.bsky.social 1/x

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear ethicist, My neighbor looks like Phil Silvers. Is it wrong of me to think of Sgt. Bilko every time I see him?

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Prof Paul Edwards, @avastmachine.bsky.social on CO2 Newsletter Vol. 2, 6. – “remarkable documents, capturing a crucial moment in the history of climate science and politics.” Pls comment, share widely! If you want to write a commentary, get in touch. allouryesterdays.info/2026/09/02/p...

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UTwente Philosophy @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our next Philosophy of Science in Practice colloquium will take place on September 3, in room RA4231 from 15:45 to 17:00. Miles MacLeod and Y. J. Erden will be presenting a paper titled "Exploring Scientific Bubbles": www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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NanoBubbles | University of Twente Philosophy Section

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

ugh. on my last visit to the Academy of Natural Sciences archive I found a priceless, argument-defining document in the Ruth Patrick collection. sounds like their special collections will still exist (for now), but no more public viewing of beauties like this 👇😡

a magnificent mosasaur at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences

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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Very excited to work with @ccmmody.bsky.social and Matt on this series, building on what Gary Downey and Matt built! We welcome conversations and proposals for books about engineers and engineering - as a social, historical, political, etc practice.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

some personal-professional news: @thatminesgirl.bsky.social & I have been appointed to join Matt Wisnioski as co-editors of the @mitpress.bsky.social Engineering Studies series. we are taking up the mantle of the legendary Gary Downey, who founded the series in 2010, w/ Matt joining him in 2017. 1/x

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🏆 Congratulations to Michiel Bron on receiving the inaugural William Burr Prize in Nuclear History, awarded by @shafrhistorians.bsky.social and @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, for his PhD on how #oil and the #petroleum industry have been deeply intertwined with the development of #nuclear energy.

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

our special issue on Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling is out. What started in Berlin in 2022 as a collaboration between me and Tom Turnbull grew into a larger project running over several years, featuring three workshops in Berlin, Stockholm and Venice tinyurl.com/3uudrmw9 #envhist

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The Anthropocene Review - Volume 13, Number 2

Table of contents for The Anthropocene Review, 13, 2

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this was supposed to be a picture of the Lambertuskerk in the subdued light of the eclipse (which didn't really work), but instead I got a very cool lens flare of the eclipse itself (lower right):

the sun, shining directly on the idiot photographer, washing out an image of a stone church, with a crescent-shaped lens flare in the lower right

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some public history of science at the Delaware State Fair

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

found this little guy on some Mody family stationery today. not sure if the snake is specific to the medical branch of the family (my GGF, GF & uncles) or if other lines used it too. what a cutie!

a snake twined around a stick with a banner beneath reading "Dum Spiro Spero"

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

great write-up by @lawrencelundy.bsky.social of our convo ab/ tech bubbles. really helpful to see my old work on CNTs & superconducting computing & newer research on @nanobubbles.bsky.social in light of Lawrence's Qs ab/ how to apply historical findings. cntdispatch.substack.com/p/bubbles-cr...

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Bubbles, Cryotrons, and CNTs

Edition #011: Imagine a bubble that only bursts when there’s somewhere better to go with Cyrus Mody, Author of Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Congratulations to @michielbron.bsky.social on receiving the KHMW Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize for his PhD thesis 'The Petro-atom', supervised by @ccmmody.bsky.social & @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social! The award recognises outstanding research in economic, political and social history. 📸Marlise Steeman

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Vol. 2, no. 4 of the CO2 Newsletter, April-May 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. 1/9 allouryesterdays.info/2026/07/08/c...

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

for those attending #ESHS-HSS (esp. on the ESHS side), watch this space! I, @moneschleper.bsky.social, @rafdebont.bsky.social & our colleagues hope to have some news soon which you can preview 👇

a powerpoint slide with images of Maastricht and the text "See you in Maastricht!"

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

since this comes up occasionally: from Christophe Lécuyer, "Ion Implantation," in Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research [A WSPC Encyclopedia of the Development and History of Materials Science], ed. @randomjetship.bsky.social & me (World Scientific, 2020): 341-348.

But his concept was later realized by physicists and engineers
working for High Voltage Engineering Corporation (HVEC) and Ion
Physics Corporation (IPC), two firms located along Route 128 near
Boston.5 HVEC was a maker of accelerators for physics research. It
had been established by Robert Van de Graaff and John Trump, two
MIT faculty members, to design and fabricate electrostatic instruments
for nuclear physics research. IPC was the firm’s subsidiary
specializing in the execution of R&D contracts for the federal government,
especially the military services, such as an ion engine it
made for the Army Ballistic Missile agency.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

really nice special issue @thomabr.bsky.social (and colleagues)!

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

in honor of July 4 - without the War of Independence we would not have great art such as this:

My father was master of the situation. He had made a little fantasy for himself, that Jorkins should be an American, and throughout the evening he played a delicate, one-sided parlour-game with him, explaining any peculiarly English terms that occurred in the conversation, translating pounds into dollars, and courteously deferring to him with such phrases as "Of course, by your standards..."; "All this must seem very parochial to Mr. Jorkins"; "In the vast spaces to which you are accustomed..." so that my guest was left with the vague sense that there was a misconception somewhere as to his identity, which he never got the chance of explaining. Again and again during dinner he sought my father's eye, thinking to read there the simple statement that this form of address was an elaborate joke, but met instead a look of such mild benignity that he was left baffled.

Once I thought my father had gone too far, when he said: "I am afraid that, living in London, you must sadly miss your national game."

"My national game?" asked Jorkins, slow in the uptake, but scenting that here, at last, was the opportunity for clearing the matter up.

My father glanced from him to me and his expression changed from kindness to malice; then back to kindness again as he turned once more to Jorkins. It was the look of a gambler who lays down fours against a full house. "Your national game," he said gently, "cricket," and he snuffled uncontrollably, shaking all over and wiping his eyes with his napkin. "Surely, working in the City, you find your time on the cricket-field greatly curtailed?"

At the door of the dining-room he left us. "Good night, Mr. Jorkins," he said. "I hope you will pay us another visit when you next 'cross the herring pond.'"

"I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American."

"He's rather odd at times."

"I mean all that about advising me to visit Westminster Abbey. It seemed rum."

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

seems like a good time to revive one of my oldest business ideas: a chain of coffee shops, with each franchise named after a different famous headland or promontory: Cafe of Good Hope, Cafe Cod, Cafe Horn, Cafe Verde, Cafe Canaveral & of course Cafe Fear.

the Don Draper meme, where the chart says "chain of coffee shops named after famous capes"

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

eager for the #ESHS-HSS cèilidh but feels like I need to do some homework first. best filmic representation of a cèilidh? watched I Know Where I'm Going recently; that one certainly advances the plot (such as it is), but best I've seen so far has to be Local Hero: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qdV...

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Victor's Song Local Hero

YouTube video by Jeff Miles

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the death of Colette Shulman (accomplished journalist in her own right, but also wife of Marshall Shulman) reminds me of the Kreminology dramedy I'd love to see made, There's a New Marshall in Town. it'd be ab/ the rivalry b/t ... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/b...

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Colette Shulman, Soviet Analyst With On-the-Ground Insights, Dies at 94

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Philly people watching the World Cup! well, mostly @icpetrie.bsky.social - maybe you saw this clip of Croatia fans partying with some newlyweds outside City Hall? but probably you didn't see the spin that the Dutch commentators put on it (translation in the alt text) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZc...

a TV showing a bunch of soccer bros in a bar, no wait - a television studio? on a screen above the bros, some Croatia fans partying in Philly. the subtitles say, in Dutch, "and here once again it's proven that the bride..."

"really is smarter than the groom." close-up of one of the bros grinning wryly, with a couple younger Dutch dudes who will one day have smarter wives in the background.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

in anticipation of Iran v. Egypt tonight (& to help you get your minds off the heat) a little visual explanation of where my daughter & I got our names. anyway, get ready to party like it's 525 BCE!

the epic handshake meme; one arm reads "Persian diaspora," the other "White Midwesterners w one foot in the 19th century"

the Captain Planet meme. the five ringbearers are labeled "Persian disapora," "Italian diaspora," "fans of MTV cartoons," "fans of Olympic sports in which Eastern Europeans do well," and "Cake fans"

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Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My article about wapiti and red deer in 20th cent New Zealand is out with @animalhistory.bsky.social ! 🦌🚁🏔️ It’s a wild story about colonial animals + technology, trophies + pests, the venison + velvet industry, and hybridity doi.org/10.1525/ah.2... #envhist #animalhist #histech

A man in a red jumpsuit stands behind a very large and sedated red deer stag with large antlers. A small helicopter is grounded behind them in the distance. Taken in New Zealand in 1976.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dutch reporters referring to Kansas City as "Kansas" analogous to calling NYC "New York" - yeah, why not? native English-speaking journos based in NL locating Arrowhead Stadium in the state of Kansas - nope nope nope nope, try again. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/06/oran...

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Oranje ready to take on Tunisia as storm clouds gather in Kansas - DutchNews.nl

The Netherlands take on Tunisia in their final World Cup group match in the early hours of Friday morning, but weather forecasters say the match could be disrupted by storms. Thunder, lightning, heavy...

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Peter van Dam @phvandam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Working on the history of environmentalism? Join us in Amsterdam for a workshop next Spring! Environmental Protests in Motion – Reassessing the History of Western European Environmental Movements from the 19th Century to the Present - Amsterdam, 13 May 2027. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Umweltproteste in Bewegung – Neubewertung der Geschichte der Westeuropäische Umweltbewegungen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart

Angesichts neuer Herausforderungen an die Geschichte der Umweltproteste wollen wir mit einem Workshop ansetzen, der sich mit den Vorstellungen, Netzwerken und Praxen von Umweltbewegungen, ihrer Protag...

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

How many guys named Cyrus (or variants thereof) are in the stands at the Iran-Belgium match in LA right now?

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Houston voetbal fans houden van Oranje!

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