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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

content warning, please, Petrie. as we've discussed on a number of previous occasions, Bucky is pantsless.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sorry, i forgot that @preprintculture.bsky.social is on this site - over to you, Phillip

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

one of the most beautiful archival reading rooms in the world - that of Historisch Centrum Limburg & Tracé in Maastricht. very pleased that my energy history students will visit on Friday to hear Joris Roosen (pictured, barely) talk ab/ the region's coal, wind, biofuel, & other energy entanglements.

a magnificent gothic church with high vaulted ceilings, now housing map cabinets, card catalogues, microfiche readers, etc.

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and while you're at it, climb Kijk Uit Attention in the sculpture garden.

looking down from endless stairs in the forest

looking up at endless stairs in the forest

a panoramic view of flat heath from the end of the endless stairs

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NLers - while you have the chance, go to the Kröller-Müller to see *all* their van Goghs at once. Dozens of them, most of which are hardly ever on display. Lots of surprises. E.g., I never knew van Gogh took such an interest in weavers and looms:

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

📣 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

Kubrick: and then you'll shout an order and do an eyes right. Rossiter: a scenery-chewing eyes right? Kubrick: as you wish, Leonard, as you wish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96r...

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Barry Lyndon - The Opening Shots [HD]

YouTube video by Phil Barker

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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 · 28/09/2026

Roger Hart! Interesting. So, a focus on China? Including in the oral histories?

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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

not at all a surprising finding, but perhaps of interest to students of scientific jargon! anyway, looking forward to reading the manuscripts people submit to this special issue & to eventually seeing all of them in print. 7/7

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

each cuprate, tho, goes by several names so I asked Yagmur to plot ngrams for all of their names together to see if it made much difference. which for my purposes it doesn't. but notice that the longer the variant, the less it's used & the earlier it's discarded: 6/x

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

we get similar "froth" (i.e., little bubbles that join up to make one big bubble - I borrow the term from Jonathan Coopersmith) for different cuprate high Tc superconductors: LBCO to LSCO to YBCO to BSCCO: 5/x

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

graphene obviously hasn't peaked yet, but it's not clear to me we would've gotten to graphene as quickly w/o those earlier ups & downs around other carbon allotropes 4/x

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

so, for instance, fullerene research since the '80s has been sustained by rises & (usually) falls in activity around buckminsterfullerene/C60, C70, MWNTs, SWNTs, carbon onions & graphene. 3/x

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

one of the arguments I want to make is that little blips of activity at one scale of research can inflate or sustain the larger-scale research programs that rest on those blips. 2/x

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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 · 28/08/2026

or maybe they mean that the dog was the real brains of the operation and his contributions deserve to be brought to the fore?

the same statue, but this time we see a small floofy dog seated underneath Maxwell, feeding Maxwell a stream of insights into electrodynamics

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this guy? with the hard-to-miss statue in the middle of Edinburgh?

some goofy American tourist getting his picture taken next to the statue of a seated James Clerk Maxwell

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

*engineers or engineeri̲n̲g̲

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

if you don't know the series, do check it out. it's got some great monographs & volumes, including Matt's Engineers for Change and Jessica's Extracting Accountability. if you are writing a book or editing a collection ab/ engineers or engineers, get in touch! 3/3 mitpress.mit.edu/series/engin...

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Engineering Studies

The Engineering Studies Series publishes research in historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering, paying particular atte...

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

a big thanks to Gary for everything he's done for @engrstudies.bsky.social @inesorg.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social & the engineering studies & STS communities more generally. we're proud to continue his tradition of service to the series' authors & readers. 2/x

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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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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I recently found one of my mom's old Cardinals scorecards from a game where she apparently saw Warren Spahn pitch - which reminded me of this classic of the genre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray_fo...

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Pray for Rain (poem) - Wikipedia

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

rather pleased with this recent outing in @patrickmccray.bsky.social & Michael Gordin's Groovy Science volume. might be of interest to business historians (& certainly benefited from your editing of the companion @entandsoc.bsky.social article): muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_edi...

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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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